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Web collection on molecular materials with the 5th Molecular Materials Meeting @ Singapore 2015

We are delighted to announce a cross journal web collection on molecular materials in conjunction with the 5th Molecular Materials Meeting @ Singapore 2015 conference, which will cover the latest developments in molecular materials.

Ten Royal Society of Chemistry journals are encouraging submissions for the collection:

Biomaterials Science
An international, high impact journal bringing together the molecular and mesoscopic interactions of biomaterials and their potential applications
Chemical Communications
Urgent high quality communications from across the chemical sciences.
Green Chemistry
The home of cutting-edge research on the development of alternative sustainable technologies
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
High impact applications, properties and synthesis of exciting new materials for energy and sustainability
Journal of Materials Chemistry B
High impact applications, properties and synthesis of exciting new materials for biology and medicine
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
High impact applications, properties and synthesis of exciting new materials for optical, magnetic and electronic devices
Nanoscale
A high impact peer reviewed journal publishing experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology
Polymer Chemistry
Encompassing all aspects of synthetic and biological macromolecules, and related emerging areas
RSC Advances
An international journal to further the chemical sciences
Soft Matter
Where physics meets chemistry meets biology for fundamental soft matter research.

The overall theme of the conference is “The Next 50 Years in Materials Research”, and this conference will focus on the latest developments and discuss the future of the most promising areas in molecular materials. It will cover a wide range of topics:

  • Metamaterials and Plasmonics
  • Hybrid Materials and Nanocomposites
  • 2D Materials and Devices
  • Biomimetic, Biosynthetic, and Bioinspired Materials
  • Materials for Sustainability
  • Materials for Bioapplications and Sensing
  • Materials for Consumer Care and Healthcare
  • Materials for Food Nanotechnology

Submissions are welcome to the relevant journal across the themes of the conference.

Articles can be submitted from now until the 1st of May 2015 and the collection will receive promotion at the conference in August. Please indicate in your submission that your manuscript is for consideration for the cross-journal MMM3 2015 web collection. Please note all submissions will be handled following each specific journal’s standard procedures and in that respect articles submitted for the web collection will be treated as regular submissions.

If you have any queries or for more information, please contact the relevant journal Editorial Office: biomaterialsscience-rsc@rsc.org, chemcomm-rsc@rsc.org, green-rsc@rsc.org, materialsa-rsc@rsc.org, materialsb-rsc@rsc.org, materialsc-rsc@rsc.org, nanoscale-rsc@rsc.org, polymers-rsc@rsc.org, advances-rsc@rsc.org or softmatter-rsc@rsc.org.

For your information, Conference abstract submission templates can be found here and you may submit the abstract here: http://bit.ly/1AuY7wU.

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Journal of Materials Chemistry Impact Factor increases to 6.626

We are delighted to announce that the 2013 Impact Factor* for Journal of Materials Chemistry is 6.626! Journal of Materials Chemistry is the parent journal of the Journal of Materials Chemistry family, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C. These three new journals will receive their first individual Impact Factors next summer in the 2014 Journal Citation Reports®.

Journal of Materials Chemistry has again recorded its highest ever value of Impact Factor, which represents a continued increase over previous years. We would like to thank our authors, referees, readers and Editorial and Advisory Board members for all your contributions to the success of the Journal of Materials Chemistry family.

We are also delighted to announce the 2013 Immediacy Indexes# for the Journal of Materials Chemistry family of journals:

Journal of Materials Chemistry A
– 1.238
Journal of Materials Chemistry B – 0.889
Journal of Materials Chemistry C – 0.951

We envision these successes to continue with the three new journals. Submit your next high impact paper to Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B or C and enjoy all the benefits of being a Royal Society of Chemistry author!

Find out how other Royal Society of Chemistry journals are ranked in the latest Impact Factor release.

Top cited Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C articles:

Feature Articles
LiMnPO4 – A next generation cathode material for lithium-ion batteries
Vanchiappan Aravindan, Joe Gnanaraj, Yun-Sung Lee and Srinivasan Madhavi
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013,1, 3518-3539
Carbon “quantum” dots for optical bioimaging
Pengju G. Luo, Sushant Sahu, Sheng-Tao Yang, Sumit K. Sonkar, Jinping Wang, Haifang Wang, Gregory E. LeCroy, Li Cao and Ya-Ping Sun
J. Mater. Chem. B, 2013,1, 2116-2127
Development of high performance OLEDs for general lighting
Hisahiro Sasabe and Junji Kido
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013,1, 1699-1707

Full Papers
Synthesis and crystal chemistry of the hybrid perovskite (CH3NH3) PbI3 for solid-state sensitised solar cell applications
Tom Baikie, Yanan Fang, Jeannette M. Kadro, Martin Schreyer, Fengxia Wei, Subodh G. Mhaisalkar, Michael Graetzel and Tim J. White
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013,1, 5628-5641
Biopolymer functionalized reduced graphene oxide with enhanced biocompatibility via mussel inspired coatings/anchors
Chong Cheng, Shengqiang Nie, Shuang Li, Hong Peng, Hang Yang, Lang Ma, Shudong Sun and Changsheng Zhao
J. Mater. Chem. B, 2013,1, 265-275
Laminated magnetic graphene with enhanced electromagnetic wave absorption properties
Xin Sun, Jianping He, Guoxian Li, Jing Tang, Tao Wang, Yunxia Guo and Hairong Xue
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013,1, 765-777

*The Impact Factor provides an indication of the average number of citations per paper.  Produced annually, Impact Factors are calculated by dividing the number of citations in a year by the number of citeable articles published in the preceding two years.  Data based on 2013 Journal Citation Reports®, (Thomson Reuters, 2014). There will be an impact factor for either Journal of Materials Chemistry, or Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C, every year. The 2014 Journal Citation Reports® will include the last impact factor for Journal of Materials Chemistry, and the first impact factors for the three new journals.
#Immediacy Index is the numbers of citations in a given year to papers published in that year.

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Henry Snaith wins the 2014 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship

On behalf of the Journal of Materials Chemistry Executive Editorial Board we are delighted to announce Professor Henry Snaith is the winner of the Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship 2014.

Professor Snaith is the fifth winner of the Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship. The Journal of Materials Chemistry Executive Editorial Board chose Professor Snaith in recognition of the remarkable contribution he has made to the materials chemistry field.

This annual lectureship honours a younger scientist who has made a significant contribution to the field of materials chemistry.  Further details of the Lectureship, including the lecture location, will be announced in due course.

Also of interest: You can now read all three of the 2014 Emerging Investigators Issues of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C, which highlight the work of emerging investigators across the field of materials chemistry. There are a mix of review-type articles, Communications and Full Papers, as well as Profile articles showcasing the authors.

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Oxide Thin Films for Advanced Energy and Information Applications Conference

Register now to save $140

Early Bird Deadline: 27th January 2014
Talk Deadline: 31st January 2014

It is the purpose of this meeting to foster an exchange of ideas between the relevant energy and information themes with the overall aim of provoking extensive discussion of the advances that materials chemistry can make in thin film applications

For further information and to register for the conference please follow the link below:
http://www.fusion-conferences.com/conference5.php

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Rising Stars and Young Nanoarchitects in Materials Science web collection published

We’re delighted to announce that the Rising Stars and Young Nanoarchitects in Materials Science web collection has now been published!

Guest Edited by Katsuhiko Ariga (MANA National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan) and Martin Pumera (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), the collection highlights the activities of rising stars in nanomaterials chemistry. All the articles in the collection have been made free to access for a short time. The collection can be found here.

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Journal of Materials Chemistry Impact Factor increases to 6.101

We are delighted to announce that the 2012 Impact Factor* for Journal of Materials Chemistry is 6.101!

This is the journal’s highest ever value and a continued increase over previous years. This shows the high quality and impact that work published in the journal represents. We would like to thank our authors, referees, readers and Editorial and Advisory Board members for all your contributions to the success of Journal of Materials Chemistry.

We are also delighted to announce that the 2012 Immediacy Index# for Journal of Materials Chemistry is 1.130!

We envision this success to continue with the three new journals: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C. Submit your next high impact paper to Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B or C and enjoy all the benefits of being an RSC author!

The 2012 Impact Factor* for Journal of Materials Chemistry is currently missing from the 2012 Journal Citation Reports®, (Thomson Reuters, 2013) due to a technical error by Thomson Reuters. The 2012 Journal Citation Reports® Notice files contains the 2012 Journal of Materials Chemistry date, which can be found here.

Find out how other Royal Society of Chemistry journals are ranked in the latest Impact Factor release.

Top cited Journal of Materials Chemistry articles:

Feature Articles
A review of chemical vapour deposition of graphene on copper
Cecilia Mattevi, Hokwon Kim and Manish Chhowall
Mesoporous silica nanoparticle based nano drug delivery systems: synthesis, controlled drug release and delivery, pharmacokinetics and biocompatibility
Qianjun He and Jianlin Shi
Chemical doping of graphene
Hongtao Liu, Yunqi Liu and Daoben Zhu

Full Papers
Superparamagnetic Fe3O4 nanocrystals@graphene composites for energy storage devices
Baojun Li, Huaqiang Cao, Jin Shao, Meizhen Qu and Jamie H. Warner
Reduction of graphite oxide using alcohols
Daniel R. Dreyer, Shanthi Murali, Yanwu Zhu, Rodney S. Ruoff and Christopher W. Bielawski
Graphene modified LiFePO4 cathode materials for high power lithium ion batteries
Xufeng Zhou, Feng Wang, Yimei Zhu and Zhaoping Liu

Communications
ZnO@graphene composite with enhanced performance for the removal of dye from water
Baojun Li and Huaqiang Cao

*The Impact Factor provides an indication of the average number of citations per paper.  Produced annually, Impact Factors are calculated by dividing the number of citations in a year by the number of citeable articles published in the preceding two years.  Data based on 2012 Journal Citation Reports®, (Thomson Reuters, 2013). There will be an impact factor for either Journal of Materials Chemistry, or Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C, every year. The 2014 Journal Citation Reports® will include the last impact factor for Journal of Materials Chemistry, and the first impact factors for the three new journals.

#Immediacy Index is the numbers of citations in a given year to papers published in that year.

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Impact Factor* for Journal of Materials Chemistry
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Themed Issue on Nanotechnology of Multifunctional Materials

Journal of Materials Chemistry C is planning to produce a themed issue on Nanotechnology of Multifunctional Materials in 2013. Please e-mail the editorial office at materialsC-rsc@rsc.org, if you are interested in contributing an article.

The Guest Editors of the issue will be Professor Fabio Biscarini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) and Dr Massimiliano Cavallini (Institute of Nanostructured Materials, CNR Bologna, Italy).

Molecular and polymeric multifunctional materials are relevant to many fields of technology, from optoelectronics, spintronics, information storage, magnetism, biosensing and energy production. They are designed to combine multiple properties and functional groups to control their self-organisation into a variety of supramolecular architectures. The technological control should not be limited to either the molecular level or in bulk, instead should span the different length scales. Devices require the control of size and position, and the integration of different materials.

The deadline for the receipt of manuscripts for this themed issue is 1 July 2013

Manuscripts can be submitted using the RSC’s online submissions service. Please clearly mark that the manuscript is submitted for the themed issue on ‘Nanotechnology of Multifunctional Materials’.

Please would you inform the editorial office by e-mail at materialsC-rsc@rsc.org as soon as possible if you plan to submit to the issue and whether your contribution will be original research or a review-type article. We would like to have a list of authors who intend to contribute as soon as possible.

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Xinliang Feng wins the 2013 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship

We are delighted to announce Professor Xinliang Feng has won the 2013 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship.

Professor Feng is the fourth winner of the Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship. The Journal of Materials Chemistry Executive Editorial Board chose Professor Feng in recognition of the contribution he has made to the materials chemistry field.

Professor Feng will present the lectureship at ICMAT 2013 later this year and will be presented with the award by the Managing Editor of the journals Dr Liz Dunn.

Profesor Feng received his Bachelor’s degree in analytic chemistry from the China University of Geosciences in 2001. Then he obtained his Master’s degree in organic chemistry from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in March 2004, where he worked on the synthesis of fluorinated ion-exchange resins and polymer-supported organic catalysts. Later on he moved to Professor Herbert Mayr’s group at the University of Munich in April 2004 for a short period to conduct research on the nucelofugality and electrofugality in organic solvolysis. In September 2004, he joined the group of Professor Klaus Mullen at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research for a PhD thesis on the synthesis and supramolecular chemistry of novel polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, where he obtained his PhD degree in April 2008.

In December 2007, he was appointed as project leader at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. And since 2011, he became an adjunct distinguished professor at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University and was appointed as the director for the Institute of Advanced Organic Materials.

His current scientific interests include the synthesis and self-organization of extended graphene molecules, novel conjugated oligomers and polymers, and testing for applications in organic electronic devices, processable graphene sheets for transparent electrodes and organic electronics, functional organic nanomaterials for energy oriented application, graphene-based 2D nanomaterials and low-dimensional nanostructured functional carbon-rich as well as hybrid materials for energy storage and conversion, 2D conjugated and supramolecular polymers for opto-electronic applications.

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11th International Conference on Materials Chemistry (MC11) deadlines approaching soon

Deadline dates for the 11th International Conference on Materials Chemistry (MC11) are fast approaching:

Poster abstract submission – 10 May
Early bird registration – 24 May

Act now to:

Submit your poster abstract
Secure an Early bird discount – £50 saving on the standard fee

Calling academic and industrial scientists working on the chemistry, physics and materials science of functional materials – come and take part in this exciting conference.

Hear the best in the field and take advantage of many opportunities for discussion with other researchers in materials chemistry

For more information visit: http://rsc.li/mc11

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DNA as a flame retardant material – J Mater. Chem. A article featured on Wired.com

An article in Journal of Materials Chemistry A has been featured on Wired.com and in Chemistry World. The article describes a novel approach to creating flame-retardant materials by a team of scientists from Italy, who have used DNA to protect textiles against fire.  Using herring sperm as their DNA source, the researchers have created samples of cotton that can withstand direct application of a flame and an irradiative heat flux without ignition of the material. DNA has all of the desirable characteristics of a flame-retardant chemical, without the environmentally unfriendly drawbacks of many of the materials currently in use. Using DNA as a bulk chemical is becoming more viable option as new industrial processes are discovered.

DNA: a novel, green, natural flame retardant and suppressant for cotton
Jenny Alongi, Riccardo Andrea Carletto, Alessandro Di Blasio, Federico Carosio, Francesca Bosco and Giulio Malucelli
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/C3TA00107E.

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J Mater. Chem. A articles featured on Wired.com

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