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Scientific Engineering is an international, peer-reviewed and open-access engineering academic journal. Adopt the method of soliciting manuscripts combined with manuscripts and submissions and the instant publishing mode of dynamic rolling publication. This journal is positioned to become a top academic journal in the first district of engineering SCi. In terms of the composition of the editorial committee, the review method, the author's academic ethics, and the ethics of academic publication, the highest standards in international academic publishing precedents are all taken as the operating This journal focuses on publishing academic achievements in engineering science and technology innovation in the fields of new generation information technology, artificial intelligence, quantum technology, biotechnology, new energy, new materials and so on. Relevant theoretical research, practical cases, research notes, newsletters and comments can be published in this journal, and there is no minimum or maximum length limit. In particular, we welcome practical cases of scientific and technological achievements applied to the field of production practice and scientific and technological achievements transformed into productivity. We look forward to the academic results published by us, which can play a role in promoting the sustainable development of human society, large or small, timely or lasting.
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