To highlight recent work related to laboratory design issues, the journal ACS Chemical Health & Safety has decided to publish a Virtual Special Issue (VSI) titled “Laboratory Design to Enable Safe, Secure, and Sustainable Research.”

The guest editors for this issue, listed below, wish to invite you or someone you suggest to participate as an author of a manuscript. If you choose to accept this invitation, please let us know  so that we may send an invite from ACS Paragon Plus with Author’s  instructions.

The manuscript submission deadline has been set for August 1, 2020, with a projected issue date of December 2020. Manuscripts may include scholarly discussions, original research, critical examinations of safety incidents, or reviews on topics and methodologies that advance chemical health and safety knowledge. More information about the journal can be found online at pubs.acs.org/ACSCHAS.

What is a Virtual Special Issue? Each paper will first be published in a regular issue shortly after it is accepted for publication. Once all papers have been accepted, they will be collected on a single webpage, giving additional exposure to each author’s work. This website will be announced in another regular issue that includes an editorial coordinated by the guest editors.

We hope that you will be able to contribute to what promises to be a very stimulating and valuable Virtual Special Issue. Please reach out to any of us with any questions.

Thank you,

Ralph Stuart <ralph@rstuartcih.org>, Ellen Sweet <ems325@cornell.edu>, and Michael Labosky <mlabosky@mit.edu>