Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

The Feature Article on the outside front cover was Graphene: learning from carbon nanotubes.  Liping Huang, Bin Wu, Gui Yu and Yunqi Liu, J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 919-929.

The outside back cover highlighted the Feature Article Physical gels based on supramolecular gelators, including host–guest complexes and pseudorotaxanes by Yuji Suzaki, Toshiaki Taira and Kohtaro Osakada (J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 930-938).

 You can read the whole of issue 4 here.  Issue 4, 2011 also feature 3 Hot Articles and a Hot Highlight:

Highlight: Gold–iron oxide nanoparticle chains scaffolded on DNA as potential magnetic resonance imaging agents

Hot Articles

• Fluorination deposition on carbon nanofibers by PTFE decomposition as a facile method to enhance dispersion and interaction in PVDF composites
• Effect of the alkyl chain length of C70-PCBX acceptors on the device performance of P3HT : C70-PCBX polymer solar cells
• Silica-supported aminoxyls as reactive materials for NOx removal

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I would like to introduce myself as the new Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry. In my previous role as Deputy Editor of this journal, I have had the opportunity to meet many researchers in the field and I look forward to meeting more of the community at various conferences this year. I am also the Editor of Soft Matter and Managing Editor of Polymer Chemistry.

Dr Liz Davies

Professor Seth Marder

Seth and I are both anticipating an exciting time ahead for Journal of Materials Chemistry. Seth says “I am delighted to be working more closely with the editorial team of Journal of Materials Chemistry in my capacity as Chairman of the Editorial Board. As Chairman of the Editorial Board, my goals are to continue to improve an already excellent journal by a variety of approaches including defining some very clear standards to streamline and standardize the review process and attempting to increase the number of Communications of particularly new and exciting work.” 
 
I would like to say thank you to both of our predecessors, Dr Jamie Humphrey and Professor George Malliaras. Let me know if you have any queries or comments about Journal of Materials Chemistry – it would be great to hear from you!

Finally, I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year!