Submit your work before 21 May 2025
Journal of Materials Chemistry C is pleased to announce an open call for papers for our upcoming themed collection on functional gel materials.
This themed collection centers on the materials chemistry of functional gels, with a particular focus on their applications in optics and electronics. Highlighting advances in ionogels, hydrogels, and related soft materials, the collection explores the chemical design, synthesis, and characterization of these gel materials, and their potential in devices such as actuators, sensors, and stretchable electronics. Emphasis is placed on the molecular interactions and structural properties that enable these materials to exhibit unique optical and electronic functionalities.
Guest Edited by Professors David Mecerreyes (POLYMAT – University of the Basque Country, Spain), Jeong-Yun Sun (Seoul National University, South Korea) and Xiaomin Xu (Tsinghua University, China), this Journal of Materials Chemistry C collection aims to drive forward the development of next-generation technologies that rely on the integration of advanced gel materials.
Submission deadline 21 May 2025
The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of both the journal and the collection, and as such inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed collection is not guaranteed.
How to submit
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. This call for papers is open for Communications and Full papers.
When ready, please submit your article directly to the submissions platform for Journal of Materials Chemistry C where our editors will assess your submission. Please add a note in the ‘Comments to the Editor’ and ‘Themed collections’ sections of the submission mentioning this is a manuscript for the themed collection on ‘Functional gel materials’ and that it is in response to the ‘Open Call’.
All submissions will be subject to assessment against the journal’s usual scope and standards criteria and sent for peer review only if appropriate. Accepted articles will be published online as soon as they are ready and added to the web collection.
If you have any questions about the collection or the submissions process, please do contact the Editorial Office at materialsc-rsc@rsc.org and they will be able to assist.
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We look forward to receiving your submission!
