Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

New region spotlight in Materials Advances

Over the years, Materials Advances has published quality research across the breadth of materials science and our German authors and readers remain a core part of the journal community.

To showcase some of the great research being carried out in the country we have selected some of the most popular articles from authors across Germany. A small selection are highlighted in this blog post, but click the button below to read the full collection. All articles are gold open access so they are free to read.

Redox-active, porous pyrene tetraone dendritic polymers as cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries
Lucas Ueberricke, Felix Mildner, Yuquan Wu, Elisa Thauer, Tom Wickenhäuser, Wen-Shan Zhang, Yana Vaynzof, Sven M. Elbert, Rasmus R. Schröder, Rüdiger Klingeler and Michael Mastalerz
Mater. Adv., 2023, 4, 1604-1611

Research output software for energetic materials based on observational modelling 2.1 (RoseBoom2.1 (c))
Sabrina Wahler and Thomas M. Klapötke
Mater. Adv., 2022, 3, 7976-7986

Stimuli-responsive one-dimensional photonic crystals: design, fabrication and sensing
Marie Däntl, Alberto Jiménez-Solano and Bettina V. Lotsch
Mater. Adv., 2022, 3, 7406-7424

Materials Advances is pleased to have some prominent members of the materials science community acting as Associate Editors and as Advisory Board Members:

• Miriam Unterlass (University of Konstanz)
• Yana Vaynzof (Technical University of Dresden)
• Helmut Cölfen (University of Konstanz)
• Xinliang Feng (Technical University of Dresden)
• Anna Köhler (University of Bayreuth)
• Ulrike Kramm (TU Darmstadt)
• Bettina Lotsch (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart)
• Patrick Théato (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

The Royal Society of Chemistry has arranged Read and Publish agreements with many German institutes. As part of these agreements you may be entitled to publish your research gold open access at no cost. Get in touch to find out more and find out if your institute is covered here.

Thank you again to all for your support and looking forward to the exciting milestones ahead for Materials Advances!

Meet our Associate Editor, Professor Kaushik Chatterjee

We are delighted to announce that for the first time we have Associate Editors from India on all three Journal of Materials Chemistry editorial boards. To celebrate our fantastic Associate Editors and our wider Indian community of authors and readers, we would like to introduce our new Associate Editor for Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Materials Advances, Kaushik Chatterjee.

To celebrate his appointment to our editorial boards, Professor Chatterjee has curated an Editor’s Choice collection. The collection brings together Professor Chatterjee’s favourite papers and reviews that have been published in Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Materials Advances so far in 2023.

Associate Editor Spotlight: Kaushik Chatterjee

Prof. Kaushik Chatterjee obtained a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the Pennsylvania State University. He pursued his postdoctoral fellowship jointly at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), supported by a Research Associateship from the US National Research Council. He joined the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore in 2011 as an Assistant Professor. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering and the Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering.

His research interests lie in developing and processing materials for biomedical applications. Specifically, his group focuses on scaffolds for tissue engineering, engineering organotypic tissue models, metallic biomaterials for medical implants, additive manufacturing, 3D printing, and bioprinting.

A selection of articles included in Professor Chatterjee’s collection can be found below:

Evaluating glioblastoma tumour sphere growth and migration in interaction with astrocytes using 3D collagen-hyaluronic acid hydrogels
Yixiao Cui, Paul Lee, Jesse J. Reardon, Anna Wang, Skylar Lynch, Jose J. Otero, Gina Sizemore and Jessica O. Winter
J. Mater. Chem. B, 2023, 11, 5442-5459 DOI: 10.1039/D3TB00066D

Differentiation of snake venom using Raman spectroscopic analysis
Vera Mozhaeva, Vladislav Starkov, Denis Kudryavtsev, Kirill Prokhorov, Sergey Garnova and Yuri Utkin
J. Mater. Chem. B, 2023, 11, 6435-6442 DOI: 10.1039/D3TB00829K

Functionalization of cellulose nanofibrils to develop novel ROS-sensitive biomaterials
Carlos Palo-Nieto, Anna Blasi-Romero, Corine Sandström, David Balgoma, Mikael Hedeland, Maria Strømmea and Natalia Ferraz
Mater. Adv., 2023, 4, 1555-1565 DOI: 10.1039/D2MA01056A

Meet our Associate Editor, A. S. Achalkumar

We are delighted to announce that for the first time we have Associate Editors from India on all three Journal of Materials Chemistry editorial boards. To celebrate our fantastic Associate Editors and our wider Indian community of authors and readers, we would like to introduce our new Associate Editor for Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances, Professor A. S. Achalkumar.

To celebrate his appointment to our editorial boards, Professor Achalkumar has curated an Editor’s Choice collection focusing on Advances and New Avenues in Liquid Crystal Science. The collection is comprised of papers and reviews published in both journals and features many contributions from Indian authors. This collection presents the progress in several upcoming areas, where liquid crystals play a pivotal role to make a major difference – promising a bright future as they have done since the discovery of twisted nematic liquid crystal display in 1970s.

Associate Editor Spotlight: A. S. Achalkumar

Achalkumar Ammathnadu Sudhakar has been a full professor at the Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati since 2019, where he leads the Soft Matter Research Group. He is also associated with the Centre for Sustainable Polymers at IIT Guwahati. He received his PhD from Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS) Bengaluru. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Molecular Nano Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK (2007 to 2009) and at RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wakoshi, Japan (2009 to 2011), before joining IIT Guwahati. He was the recipient of Indian Liquid Crystal Society Silver Medal in 2019, CRS Silver Medal in 2023 and FRSC for his research achievements.

Prof. Achalkumar’s research interests fall in the broad area of liquid crystals, supramolecular chemistry, functional polymers, organogels and self-assembled organic semiconductors. He has published around 90 papers and 3 patents. He has several invited articles and hot articles to his credit. He is also serving as a Dean of Outreach Education Program at IIT Guwahati where is working to popularise science and maths among school children. He is a life member of Indian Liquid Crystal Society, Chemical Research Society and Society for Polymer Science in India.

‘I am looking forward to working with Editorial Board members of Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances to give my best to enhance reach and impact of these journals. I look forward to receiving more submissions from the Indian science community in these prestigious journals’

A selection of articles included in Professor Achalkumar’s collection can be found below:

Observation of helical self-assembly in cyclic triphosphazene-based columnar liquid crystals bearing chiral mesogenic units
Shruti Rani, Vidhika Punjani, Santosh Prasad Gupta, Madhu Babu Kanakala, C. V. Yelamaggad and Santanu Kumar Pal
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023, 11, 1067–1075, DOI: 10.1039/d2tc03847a

Topological defects stabilized by a soft twist-bend dimer and quantum dots lead to a wide thermal range and ultra-fast electro-optic response in a liquid crystalline amorphous blue phase
Nurjahan Khatun, Vimala Sridurai, Katalin F. Csorbac and Geetha G. Nair
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023, 11, 9686-9694, 10.1039/d3tc00861d

Anisotropic sol–gel transition and morphological aspects of a hierarchical network of nematic gel and a superimposed photopolymer
G. V. Varshini, D. S. Shankar Rao and S. Krishna Prasad
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023, 11, 7682–7696, DOI: 10.1039/d3tc00991b

Study of ferro- and anti-ferroelectric polar order in mesophases exhibited by bent-core mesogens
Susanta Chakraborty, Malay Kumar Das, Christina Keith and Carsten Tschierske
Mater. Adv., 2020, 1, 3545-3555, DOI: 10.1039/d0ma00678e

Fabrication of an anodized nanoporous aluminium (AAO/Al) transparent electrode as an ITO alternative for PDLC smart windows
Rahuldeb Roy, ab Indrajit Mondal and Ashutosh K Singh
Mater. Adv., 2023, 4, 923-931, DOI: 10.1039/d2ma01007k

Contribute to a new themed collection in Materials Advances

We are delighted to announce an open call for papers to our new themed collection focussing on transition metal based 2D layered materials!

We welcome contributions on transition metal based 2D materials in the form of research articles, communications, or reviews in the following categories:

• Surface engineering techniques (novel strategical modifications) for transition metal based layered materials
• Anti-corrosion applications by 2D materials including layer double hydroxides (LDHs)
• Energy applications especially in supercapacitors, batteries, photo and electrochemical-water splitting.

Keywords: Surface engineering; 2D materials; Layered materials; Anti-corrosion; Energy

If you are interested in contributing to this collection, please get in touch with the Editorial Office at materialsadvances-rsc@rsc.org.

Submit your manuscript by 01 November 2023 at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ma

Please note that article processing charges apply to all articles submitted to Materials Advances if, following peer-review, they are accepted for publication. Details of the APC and discounted rates can be found here.

Contribute to a new themed collection in Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Materials Advances

We are delighted to announce an open call for papers to our new themed collection focussing on biomaterials for innate immunity!

This themed collection will focus on the application of biomaterials engineered to study innate immune function or modulate phenotypes of immune cells in regeneration and disease. The collection will cover engineered biomaterials in cancer, regeneration/wound healing, auto-immunity/trained immunity, and vaccines targeting the innate immune system.

We are happy to consider both review articles and primary research work. If you are interested in contributing to this collection, please get in touch with the Editorial Office at materialsadvances-rsc@rsc.org

Submit your manuscript before 30 June 2023

Please note that article processing charges apply to all articles submitted to Materials Advances if, following peer-review, they are accepted for publication. Details of the APC and discounted rates can be found here.

Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances are delighted to welcome Professor A. S. Achalkumar from the Indian Institute of Technology (ITT) Guwahati, India, to our Editorial Boards as a new Associate Editor.

‘I am looking forward to working with Editorial Board members of Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances and to give my best to enhance the reach and impact of these journals.’

Achalkumar Ammathnadu Sudhakar has worked as a full professor at the Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati since 2019, where he leads the Soft Matter Research Group. He is also associated with the Centre for Sustainable Polymers at IIT Guwahati. He received his PhD from the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS) Bengaluru. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Molecular Nano Sciences at the University of Leeds (2007 to 2009) and at RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wakoshi, Japan (2009 to 2011), before joining IIT Guwahati. He has been the recipient of the Indian Liquid Crystal Society Silver Medal 2019 for his research achievements.

His research interests fall in the broad area of liquid crystals, supramolecular chemistry, functional polymers, organogels and self-assembled organic semiconductors. He has published around 90 papers and 3 patents. He has several invited articles and hot articles to his credit. He is also serving as a Dean of Outreach Education Program at IIT Guwahati to popularise science and maths among school children. He is the life member of Indian Liquid Crystal Society, Chemical Research Society and Society for Polymer Science in India.

Check out some of Professor Achalkumar’s publications in Journal of Materials Chemistry C:

Highly stable deep red-to-NIR OLEDs with an external quantum efficiency of 4.9% from room temperature nanostructured columnar fluids based on hetero atom bay-annulated perylene bisimides

Paresh Kumar Behera, Mangey Ram Nagar, Ravindra Kumar Gupta, Sibasankar Pradhan, D. S. Shankar Rao, S. Krishna Prasad, Luke The, Abhijeet Choudhury, Jwo-Huei Jou and Ammathnadu Sudhakar Achalkumar

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2022,10, 18351-18365

Room temperature columnar liquid crystalline self-assembly of acidochromic, luminescent, star-shaped molecules with cyanovinylene chromophores

Ravindra Kumar Gupta, Suraj Kumar Pathak, Joydip De, Santanu Kumar Pal and Ammathnadu S. Achalkumar

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018,6, 1844-1852

Tuning the self-assembly and photophysical properties of bi-1,3,4-thiadiazole derivatives through electron donor–acceptor interactions and their application in OLEDs

Abhay Kumar Yadav, Balaram Pradhan, Hidayath Ulla, Subrata Nath, Joydip De, Santanu Kumar Pal, M. N. Satyanarayanc and Ammathnadu S. Achalkumar

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2017,5, 9345-9358

Join us in welcoming Professor A. S. Achalkumar to our Editorial Boards!

Submit your best work to Professor A. S. Achalkumar and our team of Associate Editors on Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances 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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Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances are delighted to welcome Professor Mingzhu Li from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, to our Editorial Boards as a new Associate Editor.

Mingzhu Li received her PhD degree in Chemistry from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in 2008. She joined the CAS Key Laboratory of Green Printing, ICCAS in 2008 and has been a full Professor since 2016.

Her research interests focus on self-assembly and functionalization of optical materials for photonics and optoelectrics, such as optical sensors, anti-counterfeiting, lasers, photodetectors and solar cells. She has received several awards including the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the first prize of Beijing Science and Technology Award, and the outstanding member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Check out some of Professor Li’s publications in Royal Society of Chemistry journals:

Nacre-inspired crystallization and elastic “brick-and-mortar” structure for a wearable perovskite solar module
Xiaotian Hu, Zengqi Huang, Fengyu Li, Meng Su, Zhandong Huang, Zhipeng Zhao, Zheren Cai, Xia Yang, Xiangchuan Meng, Pengwei Li, Yang Wang, Mingzhu Li, Yiwang Chen and Yanlin Song
Energy Environ. Sci., 2019,12, 979-987 DOI: 10.1039/C8EE01799A

A facile fabrication strategy for anisotropic photonic crystals using deformable spherical nanoparticles
Ke Wang, Chang Li, Zheng Li, Huizeng Li, An Li,a Kaixuan Li, Xintao Lai, Qing Liao, Fang Xie, Mingzhu Li and Yanlin Song
Nanoscale, 2019,11, 14147-14154 DOI: 10.1039/C9NR04735B

A green solvent for operating highly efficient low-power photon upconversion in air
Jinsuo Ma, Shuoran Chen, Changqing Ye, Mingzhu Li, Teng Liu, Xiaomei Wang and Yanlin Song
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019,21, 14516-14520 DOI: 10.1039/C9CP01296F

Join us in welcoming Professor Mingzhu Li to our Editorial Boards!

Submit your best work to Professor Mingzhu Li and our team of Associate Editors on Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances 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.

Keep up to date with our latest articles, reviews, collections & more by following us on Twitter, Facebook or by signing up to our E-Alerts.