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Open call: themed issue “New era in advanced functional materials emerging from molecular imprinting and related techniques”

11 Jan 2022

Journal of Materials Chemistry B is delighted to announce a call for papers for its latest themed issue on “New era in advanced functional materials emerging from molecular imprinting and related techniques” to be published in 2022. Guest Edited by: Toshifumi Takeuchi (Kobe University, Japan), Karsten Haupt (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France), and Guoping Chen (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)

Recent developments in molecular imprinting and related technologies have attracted a great deal of attention in the field of materials science. Many scientists and engineers in academia and industry, in the analytical, biomedical, environmental and materials sciences are interested in molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs). Unfortunately, the 11^th International Conference on molecular imprinting (MIP2020), due to be held in Hiroshima (Japan), has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even under such circumstances, work has continued to develop new MIPs.

Therefore, this themed issue of Journal of Materials Chemistry B aims to collect the latest information on MIP research, act as the most relevant venue for sharing new ideas and recent advances, and accelerate future developments in molecular imprinting and related techniques, in place of the MIP2020 conference.

The scope of this themed collection ranges from new concepts and principles to advanced preparation techniques and industrial applications, including design, synthesis and characterization, affinity separation, sensing, and biological applications.

This call for papers is open for the following article types:
• Communications
• Full papers

Submission Deadline: 7 February 2022

If you would like to contribute to this themed issue, you can submit your article directly through the journal’s online submission service at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jmchemb. Please add a “note to the editor” in the submission form when uploading your files to say that this is a contribution to the themed issue. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection, and inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed issue is not guaranteed.

Submissions to the journal should contain chemistry in a materials context and should fit within the scope of Journal of Materials Chemistry B. Please see the journal’s website for more information on the journal’s scope, standards, article types and author guidelines.

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Journal of Materials Chemistry C call for papers: Materials for thermally activated delayed fluorescence and/or triplet fusion upconversion

10 Sep 2021

Journal of Materials Chemistry C is delighted to announce a call for papers for its latest themed collection on “Materials for thermally activated delayed fluorescence and/or triplet fusion upconversion” to be published in early 2022. Guest Edited by: Eli Zysman-Colman (University of St Andrews), Malika Jeffries-EL (Boston University), and Nobuhiro Yanai (Kyushu University)

This issue aims to highlight the recent advances in the design of new materials that exhibit the thermally triggered phenomena of delayed fluorescence and/or the triplet-triplet annihilation-based photon upconversion. This includes topics on the theoretical and physical design of new materials and the opportunities created by exploiting the unique features of these molecular systems in the field of organic light-emitting diodes and sunlight-powered devices.

This call for papers is open for the following article types:
• Communications
• Full papers

Submission Deadline: 14^th October 2021

If you would like to contribute to this themed issue, you can submit your article directly through the journal’s online submission service at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jmchemc. Please add a “note to the editor” in the submission form when uploading your files to say that this is a contribution to the themed issue. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection, and inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed issue is not guaranteed.

Submissions to the journal should contain chemistry in a materials context and should fit within the scope of Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Please see the journal’s website for more information on the journal’s scope, standards, article types and author guidelines.

With best wishes,

Professor Eli Zysman-Colman
University of St Andrews, UK

Professor Malika Jeffries-EL
Boston University, USA
Journal of Materials Chemistry C Associate Editor

Professor Nobuhiro Yanai
Kyushu University, Japan

Lynn Murphy
Deputy Editor, Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Royal Society of Chemistry

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Journal of Materials Chemistry A call for papers: Single-Atom Catalysis

08 Sep 2021

Journal of Materials Chemistry A is delighted to announce a call for papers for its latest themed collection on “Single-Atom Catalysis” Guest Edited by: Zhiqun Lin (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) , Maria Escudero Escribano (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), and Jun Li (Tsinghua University, China)

Single-atom catalysts (SACs) with isolated metal atoms dispersed on solid supports have emerged as a new frontier in catalysis science owing to their great potential to bridge the gap between heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis. The active centers of this new class of materials possess unique electronic structure and unsaturated coordination environments, which have been proven to improve catalytic activity in a variety of reactions. Moreover, the homogeneity in the active sites and geometric structure of SACs, which show similarities to their homogeneous catalyst analogs, afford them a great potential to enhance selectivity because of similar spatial and electronic interactions to substrates.

In this context, it is pertinent to compile this themed issue centering on recent rapid development in the field of SACs. To this end, this themed collection of Journal of Materials Chemistry A aims at providing a platform for recent developments in this rapidly evolving field of SACs including synthetic strategies, selectivity regulation, theoretical understanding of the catalytic activity and stability, single-atom alloy, support effect, and novel applications in electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, photoelectrocatalysis, selective hydrogenation, and other fields. We hope that readers find this themed collection informative and useful.

This call for papers is open for the following article types:
• Communications
• Full papers

Submission Deadline: 27th September 2021

If you would like to contribute to this themed issue, you can submit your article directly through the journal’s online submission service at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jmchema. Please add a “note to the editor” in the submission form when uploading your files to say that this is a contribution to the themed issue. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection, and inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed issue is not guaranteed.

With best wishes,

Professor Zhiqun Lin
Associate Editor, Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Professor Maria Escudero Escribano
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Professor Jun Li
Tsinghua University, China

Lynn Murphy
Deputy Editor, Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Royal Society of Chemistry

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Welcome to our new Associate Editor Veronica Augustyn

05 Aug 2021

We are delighted to welcome our new Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances Associate Editor to the journals: Veronica Augustyn of North Carolina State University, USA (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-2882).

“It is an exciting time to be a researcher in materials electrochemistry: synthetic methods, in situ and operando characterization, and simulation and modeling are coming together to advance our understanding of electrochemical mechanisms. I look forward to serving the materials chemistry community as an Associate Editor during this time.”

Veronica Augustyn is an Associate Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and a University Faculty Scholar at North Carolina State University. From 2013 – 2015, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin with Prof. Arumugam Manthiram. She received her Ph.D. (2013) from the University of California, Los Angeles working with Prof. Bruce Dunn. Her research group focuses on the design, synthesis, and characterization of materials for electrochemical energy technologies including batteries, electrochemical capacitors, electrolyzers, and fuel cells. In particular, she is interested in the relationships between material structure, composition, and morphology, and the resulting electrochemical mechanisms. She also leads an award-winning international project at NC State, SciBridge, which develops renewable energy research and education collaborations between universities in Africa and the U.S. Her research group has been recognized with a 2019 Sloan Fellowship in Chemistry, a 2019 DOE Early Career Award, and a 2017 NSF CAREER Award. In 2021, she was recognized by NC State as a Goodnight Early Career Innovator and received the George H. Blessis Advising Award for her mentorship of undergraduate students.

Read some of Veronica’s recent articles:

Understanding electrochemical cation insertion into prussian blue from electrode deformation and mass changes
Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 6744-6747

Interlayer separation in hydrogen titanates enables electrochemical proton intercalation
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8, 412-421

Charge storage mechanism and degradation of P2-type sodium transition metal oxides in aqueous electrolytes
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018, 6, 22266-22276

Submit your best work to Veronica and our team of Associate Editors now! Check out our author guidelines for information on our article types or find out more about the advantages of publishing in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.

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Editor’s Choice Collection: Organic Photovoltaics

26 Jan 2021

We are delighted to announce a new Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances Editor’s Choice Collection on Organic Photovoltaics.

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Associate Editors for Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances, Renaud Demadrille (Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Grenoble, France) and Yana Vaynzof (Technical University of Dresden, Germany), have selected a few outstanding recent manuscripts on organic photovoltaics for this Editor’s Choice Collection. In order to highlight developments in organic photovoltaics, this online collection includes recent manuscripts from Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances on the topic.

All articles in the collection are free to access until 19^th February. You can read the full collection online.

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Editor’s Choice Collection: Machine Learning for Materials Innovation

15 Jan 2021

We are delighted to announce a new Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances Editor’s Choice Collection on Machine Learning for Materials Innovation.

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Associate Editor for Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances, Zhen Zhou (Nankai University, China), has selected a few outstanding recent manuscripts on Machine Learning for Materials for this Editor’s Choice collection. In order to highlight developments in Machine Learning for Materials, this online collection includes recent manuscripts from Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances on the topic.

All articles in the collection are free to access until 12^th February 2021. You can read the full collection online.

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Congratulations to the poster award winners at ISOMRM2020!

08 Jan 2021

We would like to congratulate the following poster award winners at the 2020 International Symposium of Materials on Regenerative Medicine.

1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd poster awards were sponsored by Biomaterials Science.

1^st: Jia-Hua Wang; Establishment of Patient Specific Cancer Cell Lines by Membrane Filtration Method via Nylon Mesh Filter and PLGA-Silk Screen Membranes

2^nd: Lan-Yun Chang; Recombinant Thrombomodulin Lectin-like Domain Attenuates Osteoclastogenesis and Periodontal Bone Resorption

3^rd: Tzu-Chieh Huang; Thrombomodulin Facilitates Peripheral Nerve Regeneration through Regulating M1/M2 Switching

Outstanding poster awards (Sponsored by Journal of Materials Chemistry B):

Chun-Ko Wang; Comparative Study of Biomaterials for hPSC Differentiation into MSCs in Xeno-free Conditions

Shih-Heng Chen; An Electrospun Nerve Wrap Comprising Bletilla Striata Polysaccharide with Dual Function for Nerve Regeneration And Scar Prevention

Yi-Kai Hong; TEM1 Expression Contributes to the Pathological Activation in Keloid Fibroblast

Yu-Yi Wu; Hyaluronic Acid Nanoparticles with Gp91 Peptide Loading for Corneal Neovascularization

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Editor’s Choice Collection: Hydrothermal Materials Synthesis

08 Jan 2021

We are delighted to announce a new Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances Editor’s Choice Collection on hydrothermal materials synthesis.

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Associate Editor for Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances, Miriam Unterlass (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), has selected a few outstanding recent manuscripts on hydrothermal materials synthesis for this Editor’s Choice Collection. In order to highlight developments in hydrothermal materials synthesis, this online collection includes recent manuscripts from Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances on the topic.

All articles in the collection are free to access until 8^th February. You can read the full collection online

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2020 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship winner: Giulia Grancini

19 Oct 2020

We are delighted to announce that Professor Giulia Grancini has been selected as the winner of the Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship 2020. To celebrate, we have put together a collection of her publications in Royal Society of Chemistry journals:

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The Journal of Materials Chemistry annual lectureship, established in 2010, honours early-career scientists who have made a significant contribution to the field of materials chemistry.

The Lectureship recipient receives expenses to cover travel and accommodation costs to attend and present at a leading international meeting. The recipient is also invited to contribute an article to one of the Journal of Materials Chemistry journals and to receive a complimentary back cover for the issue in which the article appears.

Giulia is Associate Professor of Chemistry at University of Pavia, Italy, leading the PVsquared2 team and Principal Investigator of the European Project “HYNANO” (ERC H2020 StG 2018), aiming at the development of novel hybrid perovskites materials and innovative functional interfaces for efficient, cheap and stable photovoltaics. Within this field, Giulia contributed to develop new functional interfaces with low dimensional perovskite, as a way to boost device stability.

She is the author of 92 peer-reviewed scientific papers (h-index=46, >15,000 citations). In 2019 she received the USERN prize in Physical Science, the Swiss Physical Society Award in 2018 for Young Researcher and the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics. She is currently USERN Ambassador for Italy and board member of the Young Academy of Europe. In 2019 she was listed among the highly cited scientists from Web-of-Science. In 2020 she was listed in the “100 experts against stereotypes project” which identified top-italian women scientists. She is also part of the “1MWIS campaign”, a global effort to promote the role of women in STEM disciplines. More can be found at https://pvsquared2.unipv.it

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Materials journal family articles featured in the Chemistry World ‘Holy Grails’ series

06 Oct 2020

Chemistry World has been exploring the ‘holy grails’ of chemistry, set out almost a quarter of a century ago in Accounts of Chemical Research, as part of a special issue.

For each ‘holy grail’, researchers working in the fields today have offered their insights into where these areas of research have gone since the publication of the original articles in 1995.

Ten relevant publications are highlighted as further reading for each ‘holy grail’, and we wanted to share with you the papers highlighted in four of the grails from the Materials family of journals. Also, don’t forget to click the titles below to link through to each Chemistry World ‘holy grail’ article and read more about the progress of each topic over the last 25 years.

Quantum control

A Szokeet al, Entangled light–matter interactions and spectroscopy, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8, 10732 (DOI: 10.1039/d0tc02300k)

Artificial photosynthesis: solar water splitting

S Assavachin et al, Ferroelectric surface photovoltage enhancement in chromium-doped SrTiO₃ nanocrystal photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution, Mater. Adv., 2020, 1, 1382 (DOI: 10.1039/d0ma00463d)

R Irani et al, The role of ultra-thin MnOx co-catalysts on the photoelectrochemical properties of BiVO₄ photoanodes, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8, 5508 (DOI: 10.1039/d0ta00939c)

Artificial enzymes: catalysis by design

D Wang et al, Origins of the peroxidase mimicking activities of graphene oxide from first principles, J. Mater. Chem. B, 2020, (DOI: 10.1039/d0tb01765e)

Congratulations to the authors of the papers highlighted in the series.

Written by Laura Daly, Development Editor

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Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

Author Archive

Open call: themed issue “New era in advanced functional materials emerging from molecular imprinting and related techniques”

Journal of Materials Chemistry C call for papers: Materials for thermally activated delayed fluorescence and/or triplet fusion upconversion

Journal of Materials Chemistry A call for papers: Single-Atom Catalysis

Welcome to our new Associate Editor Veronica Augustyn

Editor’s Choice Collection: Organic Photovoltaics

Editor’s Choice Collection: Machine Learning for Materials Innovation

Congratulations to the poster award winners at ISOMRM2020!

Editor’s Choice Collection: Hydrothermal Materials Synthesis

2020 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship winner: Giulia Grancini

Materials journal family articles featured in the Chemistry World ‘Holy Grails’ series

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