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  • Technologies for augmented and virtual reality

    Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) use digital information either overlaid onto elements from the physical world or to create a complete virtual immersive environment. This collection of papers aims to bring together diverse fields of research to advance these extended reality technologies and their applications.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 December 2024
    • Research to address the global sanitation crisis

      This collection welcomes submissions of articles that can help further our understanding and/or offer solutions to address the global sanitation crisis.
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 December 2024
      • Industry Showcase

        From spinouts to multinationals, here we celebrate the industrial innovation and industry-academia collaborations that enrich the pages of Communications Engineering. Research presented here has at least one author with their primary affiliation as a commercial enterprise. We are now formally welcoming contributions which satisfy this criteria in an official call for papers.
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 December 2024
        • Optical computing

          This joint collection by Communications Physics and Communications Engineering covers from the fundamental to the most applied aspects of Optical Computing. We welcome original research Articles, Reviews, and Perspectives from academics and industry.
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 November 2024
          • Smart Manufacturing

            This collection aims to foster the integration of artificial intelligence and data science with manufacturing for enhanced productivity, sustainability, and economic performance.
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              Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 May 2025
            • Cleaner Flight

              This joint collection from Communications Engineering, Communications Earth and Environment and Scientific Reports aims to offer insights into the environmental impacts of aviation, along with technological design, operational and infrastructure solutions to mitigate aviation’s future environmental footprint.
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                Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 April 2025
              • Engineering and Technology for Sustainable Space

                This collection focuses on directions of research for the optimal design, use and management of space based technologies, and their delivery and deployment vehicles, to maintain a productive and sustainable space environment.
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                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 March 2025
                • Endoscopy

                  This cross journal collection on endoscopy brings together technological advances to improve capability, with clinical research exploring procedures and applications.
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                    Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 November 2024
                  • Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals

                    The year 2023 marks the mid-point of the 15-year period envisaged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, targets for global development adopted in September 2015 by all United Nations Member States.
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                      Submission status: Open
                    • The 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake Sequence

                      In this Collection we bring together and invite research and opinion ranging from the seismological characteristics of the earthquakes to lessons and strategies for resilience and the human response.
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                        Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 June 2025