About ChemRxiv

ChemRxiv (pronounced 'chem-archive') is a free submission, distribution, and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas.

ChemRxiv gives researchers across a broad range of fields related to the chemical sciences the opportunity to share early results with colleagues and receive recommendations for improvement, ahead of formal peer review and publication.

Researchers can use ChemRxiv to:

Gather feedback and context from fellow scientists
Rapidly disseminate work to a wide audience
Establish the priority and precedence of a discovery
Boost the visibility of research findings
Make research work more discoverable
Find potential collaborators and hold interdisciplinary discussions
Document research results for grant reviewers in advance of publication
Facilitate rapid evaluation of results
Spot trends and encourage a broad range of constructive feedback

All of these features can ultimately improve the reliability of the final research.

ChemRxiv preprints are created directly from the author's original files and are not modified before posting. We conduct a basic screening for plagiarism, offensive language, non-scientific, and inappropriate content, and we will exclude materials that may pose a health or security risk if identified. Beyond this screening, the files are unedited and are not peer reviewed. Please see our Policies for more information.

Scope

If your preprint covers any aspect of the chemical sciences, it can be included in ChemRxiv. You will be asked to select from one of the following categories during submission:

Agriculture and food chemistry
Analytical chemistry
Biological and medicinal chemistry
Catalysis
Chemical education
Chemical engineering and industrial chemistry
Earth, space, and environmental chemistry
Energy
Inorganic chemistry
Materials science
Nanoscience
Organic chemistry
Organometallic chemistry
Physical chemistry
Polymer science
Theoretical and computational chemistry

Complementary preprint services, such as those offered by arXiv and bioRxiv, are available for preprints that do not cover a relevant area of the chemical sciences.

The ChemRxiv partnership

ChemRxiv is co-owned and collaboratively managed by the American Chemical Society (ACS) [opens in a new tab], Chinese Chemical Society (CCS) [opens in a new tab], Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) [opens in a new tab], German Chemical Society (GDCh) [opens in a new tab], and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) [opens in a new tab].

With five of the world's largest chemical societies driving its development, ChemRxiv enables efficient and timely dissemination of chemistry knowledge, helps authors and researchers around the world communicate their work across disciplines, and provides a forum through which to share and discover the very latest findings.

Scientific Advisory Board

The ChemRxiv Scientific Advisory Board consists of a group of experts across diverse subject areas who advise the management of ChemRxiv on the types of content that fit as preprints and the standards to which preprints should be held to. The Board acts as liaisons for their peers in the scientific community and can bring new ideas, concerns, and feedback to grow the service in accordance with the needs and desires of the chemistry community. The current members of the Scientific Advisory Board are as follows:

Andrea Ferrari
University of Cambridge
Nanotechnology, nanomaterials, spectroscopy

Braulio Rodríguez-Molina
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Crystalline organic and organometallic materials, organic chemistry, physical organic chemistry, materials science

Christoph Steinbeck
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Cheminformatics, analytical chemistry, research data management

Chunhai Fan
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Analytical chemistry, biochemistry

Donna Blackmond
Scripps
Physical Chemistry, kinetics, reaction mechanisms

Evamarie Hey-Hawkins
University of Leipzig
Inorganic chemistry, homogenous catalysis; biological and medicinal chemistry with inorganic compounds; materials

Felipe Herrera
University of Santiago, Chile
Chemical physics, light-matter interaction, quantum optics, molecular spectroscopy

FX Coudert
Chimie ParisTech
Computational chemistry, properties prediction and modeling, computational materials chemistry

Gianluca Farinola
University of Bari
Organic chemistry

Hideki Yorimitsu
Kyoto University
Organic synthesis and methodology, organo main group and organometallic chemistry, homogeneous catalysis

Hye Ryung Byon
KAIST
Analytical chemistry, electrochemistry

Jan Jensen
University of Copenhagen
Computational chemistry, computational methods, modeling

Jihong Yu
Jilin University
Inorganic chemistry

Jinghong Li
Tsinghua University
Physical chemistry, electrochemistry

Kounosuke Oisaki
University of Tokyo
Organic chemistry, molecular synthesis, catalysis

Laura Kiessling
MIT
Chemical biology, carbohydrates, biosynthesis

Lizhu Wu
Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Organic chemistry, photochemistry, physical chemistry

Masakazu Nambo
Nagoya University
Organic chemistry, catalysis

Miheala Florea
National Institute of Materials Physics and University of Bucharest
Heterogenous catalysis, photocatalysis, fuel cells

Naresh Patwari
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
Physical chemistry, intermolecular interactions

Nobutaka Fujieda
Osaka Prefecture University
Organic chemistry

Nuno Maulide
University of Vienna
Organic chemistry, organic synthesis

Oliver Renn
ETH Zurich
Chemical education, chemical education, scientific information and writing

Penny Brothers
Australian National University
Inorganic, organometallic chemistry, organometallic complexes, materials science

Shu-Li You
Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
Organic chemistry, homogeneous catalysis, asymmetric synthesis

Ulrich Pöschl
MPI for Chemistry; Johannes Gutenberg University
Physical chemistry, environmental chemistry, multiphase chemistry in Earth system, climate, public health

Xiaohong Fang
Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Analytical chemistry

Yoichi Hoshimoto
Osaka University
Organometallic chemistry, main-group chemistry, catalysis