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Honouring Professor Thom Palstra on the occasion of his retirement

08 Oct 2024

It is with respect and admiration that we introduce this special collection published across the Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances to honor Professor Thom Palstra on the occasion of his retirement. This virtual collection serves as a testament to Thom’s exceptional contributions to the field of materials science and his profound impact as a mentor and colleague.

Guest Edited by Yoshihiro Iwasa (RIKEN, Japan), Gabriela Maris (University of Twente, Netherlands), Beatriz Noheda (University of Groningen, Netherlands), Harold J. W. Zandvliet (University of Twente, Netherlands) and Oana D. Jurchescu (Wake Forest University, USA)

Read the collection here

A message from the Guest Editors: “This special collection showcases the breadth and depth of Prof. Palstra’s scientific legacy. The contributions, authored by colleagues, collaborators and former students, highlight the profound impact of Thom’s work on diverse areas of materials research. From fundamental discoveries to technological advancements, these articles exemplify the spirit of innovation and intellectual rigor that Thom has instilled in his students and collaborators.”

Open call for papers from newly appointed principal investigators

03 Oct 2024

We are delighted to announce a special collection designed to feature members of our community who are just starting out as principal investigators.

Did you start your position as a new group leader within the last three years?*

We know it can be tough setting up a new lab, training students for the first time, teaching undergraduates, as well as growing your own profile in the community.

We want to help. If you submit to this collection, and if your paper is accepted, we will offer extra promotion and visibility through our journal networks to raise your profile with an interview-style blog discussing your vision for your group’s research.

This collection will be hosted by the Advances family of journals at the Royal Society of Chemistry, which publish interdisciplinary, robust, quality science. As Gold Open Access journals, the Advances family means maximum visibility for your work, to both subject specialists and a general audience.

Submit any time during the eligible period. Articles will be promoted and added to an online collection as soon as they are accepted.

Choose one of our Advances journals below** and quote “New Principal Investigator Collection” in the submission form when it asks you if you are contributing to a themed collection.

RSC Advances – At the heart of open access for the global chemistry community	Submit now
Energy Advances – Cutting-edge science at the forefront of energy technology with particular focus on emerging materials and methods	Submit now
Environmental Science: Advances – Research from any discipline that will contribute to the understanding of the environment, and to the advancement of UN Sustainable Development Goals	Submit now
Materials Advances – New understanding, applications, properties and synthesis of materials	Submit now
Nanoscale Advances – Publishing across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology	Submit now

We hope to receive a submission from you soon, and please get in touch if you have any questions at materialsadvances-rsc@rsc.org .

*To be eligible you must be a new group leader and have started in your role within the last 3 years. Eligibility is flexible to allow for career breaks to be accounted for.

**Please note that accepted manuscripts will be subject to an article-processing charge (APC) unless your institute has an existing agreement with the RSC that covers publications in our gold open access journals. More information about charges, discounts, and waivers are available here. Corresponding authors who are not already members of the Royal Society of Chemistry are entitled to one year’s Affiliate membership as part of their APC. Find out more about our member benefits.

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Open Call: Protein Cages as Next Generation Biomaterials

11 Sep 2024

We are delighted to announce an open call for papers to our new themed collection focusing on protein cages!

Guest Editors: Kanchan Chauhan (Center of Nanosciences and Nanotechnology UNAM, Mexico), Rafael Vazquez Duhalt (CNyn-UNAM, Mexico), Sierin Lim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Submit before 28 February 2025

If you are interested in contributing to this collection, please get in touch with the Editorial Office by email.

This collection is run in connection with Symposium E8 that took place at 32^nd International Material Research Congress (IMRC) in 18-23 August 2024.

The Guest Editors hope to present recent advances in the development of the proteinaceous compartments as diverse biomaterials for various applications including:

Design, structure, and surface chemistry
Catalysis
Drug delivery
Bioimaging
Immunotherapies
Biosensors
Multimodal nanoplatform
Vaccines
Environmental remediation
Agricultural applications
Cosmetics
Wound healing
Symbiosis with other materials

We are happy to consider both review articles and primary research work. You may also be interested in this recently completed collection in Journal of Materials Chemistry B: Protein Cages.

Please note that article processing charges apply to all articles submitted to Materials Advances if, following peer-review, they are accepted for publication. Exceptions include researchers at Research4Life Group A and B countries, and those whose institutes have an existing deal that covers publication in our gold open access journals. Details of the APC and discounted rates can be found here.

Did you know?

At Materials Advances, our themed collections are built by collaboration between our Guest Editors and expert Associate Editors. Our Guest Editors guide the scope and curate the contributions in our collections but all submissions are handled through peer review by our team of resident Associate Editors. This means that as an author you receive a consistent experience, and as a reader you can trust the quality of the science being presented.

We hope you will consider contributing to this new collection.

Meet the Guest Editors:

Kanchan Chauhan

Center of Nanosciences and Nanotechnology UNAM, Mexico

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5021-3392

Rafael Vazquez Duhalt

CNyn-UNAM, Mexico

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1612-2996

Sierin Lim

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7455-6771

Additional submission information

Please add a “note to the editor” in the submission form when you submit your manuscript to say that this is a submission for the themed collection. The Editorial Office and Guest Editors reserve the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed. All manuscripts will be subject to the journal’s usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be added to the online collection as soon as they are online, and they will be published in a regular issue of Materials Advances.

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Materials Advances 2024 Paper Prize runner-up

01 Aug 2024

Meet some of the authors

Fabrication of low-cost and flexible perovskite solar cells by slot-die coating for indoor applications

Cristina Teixeira, Rosinda Fuentes-Pineda, Luísa Andrade, Adélio Mendes and Dávid Forgács

Cristina’s research goal is to advance the lab-to-fab transition of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). During her PhD (2018-2023) at the company SAULE Technologies (Poland), in collaboration with the University of Porto (Portugal), she helped launch the world’s first pilot line for PSCs and achieved a world-record 25.4% efficiency for a flexible PSC with a graphitic back-contact under indoor lighting. In 2024, she won an MSCA postdoc fellowship and continues her work at CENIMAT|i3N at NOVA University of Lisbon. She holds one patent, three trade secrets, and five high-impact articles as 1st author.

David’s career started at Fraunhofer-ISE during his Master’s, where he researched organic photovoltaics. After authoring some high-impact research articles during his PhD in Valencia and getting hands-on experience on upscaling techniques at Opvius, he joined Saule – a back then 15 people start-up – to commercialize printed perovskite photovoltaics. He was leading the intellectual property and the indoor PV business development at the company. In early 2024 he started Nexunite Ltd. as the CEO and founder, helping to secure European grant funding for research entities, start-ups and SMEs.

What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment?

Dávid Forgács: Indoor PV has a huge potential yet to be unlocked. It’s also exciting, as many aspects to consider are different from traditional PV, making the topic rather unique.

How do you feel about Materials Advances as a place to publish research on this topic?

Dávid Forgács: The experience has been great so far, and it seems the audience is adequate for our research

Can you share one piece of career-related advice for early career scientists?

Dávid Forgács: Make sure you research and understand the IP policy of the institution you are working for, and that you have a basic understanding of patenting. One successful application may set you up for life, and bring a lot of opportunities.

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Materials Advances 2024 Paper Prize runner-up

01 Aug 2024

Meet some of the authors of the runner-up paper

Evaluation of techniques used for visualisation of hydrogel morphology and determination of pore size distributions

Imanda Jayawardena, Petri Turunen, Bruna Cambraia Garms, Alan Rowan, Simon Corrie and Lisbeth Grøndahl

	Imanda is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Science Foundation Ireland Research Fellow at the Irish Photonics Integration Centre (IPIC). Her current research focuses on developing a bone-on-a-chip device for longitudinal osteogenesis monitoring using non-invasive, label-free, non-ionising spectroscopic techniques. Imanda’s areas of research interests include, biomaterials, biophotonics, biophysics, physical chemistry, biomedical engineering, medical devices and the broader field of health and medicine. She has prior research experience in immunochemistry, microscopic techniques, mass spectroscopy assisted proteomics, and working with hydroxyapatite nanoparticles. Imanda is also a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) owing to her contributions towards university-level teaching.
	Dr. Bruna Cambraia Garms is a biomaterial scientist specializing in polymeric platforms for drug release systems, medical device design, and cell-material interactions. She completed her PhD at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, where she investigated new hydrogels for cancer research. Currently, as a Research Fellow in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University, Australia, Dr. Garms works on a device for cardiac solutions. Dr Garms’ research interests lie in biomaterials engineering with projects aimed at addressing critical medical challenges.
	Simon Corrie completed his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering and PhD in Physical Chemistry at the University of Queensland, before undertaking postdoctoral studies at the HPV Research Laboratory at the University of Washington, Seattle (Merck Company Foundation Fellowship). After returning to Australia to develop microneedle arrays for wearable immunoassays (Smart Futures Fellowship; ARC DECRA), he joined the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at Monash University in 2016 to establish the Nanosensor Engineering Lab. His research interests lie in developing nano-particles and proteins for applications in bio-sensing and bio-assays with application in biomedicine and agriculture.
	Lisbeth Grøndahl obtained her PhD in chemistry from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and now holds a position as Professor in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering and works in the interdisciplinary field of biomaterials science with a focus on development of approaches to create and comprehensively characterise functional polymeric biomaterials in the form of membranes, scaffolds, hydrogels, and nanoparticles. In 2018 she was highlighted as one of 16 women at the forefront of biointerface science research by the international journal Biointerphases.

What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment?

Petri Turunen: I am excited of working with array of advanced microscopy techniques at my disposal to support research on biomolecular and synthetic systems.

Lisbeth Grøndahl: Providing detailed guidance on material characterisation, since that allows reproducible and impactful work to be generated, not just by my research team, but more broadly.

How do you feel about Materials Advances as a place to publish research on this topic?

Petri Turunen: I think Materials Advances is a great journal to publish materials research.

Lisbeth Grøndahl: Materials Advances provides an excellent forum for publication of research into material characterisation and setting standards and communicating sound protocols.

Can you share one piece of career-related advice for early career scientists?

Petri Turunen: My advice would be not to be afraid to do lateral career moves and there are more and more alternative career paths in science for example in core facilities.

Lisbeth Grøndahl: It is through detailed evaluation of material properties that you will make ground-breaking discoveries that will have a long-lasting legacy.

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Materials Advances 2024 Paper Prize winner

01 Aug 2024

Meet some of the authors of the winning paper

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

	Lucas Ueberricke studied chemistry at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany and at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. After obtaining his B. Sc. (2013) and M.Sc. (2017), he continued with his PhD studies under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Michael Mastalerz in Heidelberg, where he graduated with summa cum laude in 2021. He then joined the group of Prof. Dr. Atsushi Wakamiya at Kyoto University, Japan, for postdoctoral research on self-assembled hole-extracting monolayers for perovskite solar cells. Since 2022 he is working as senior researcher at Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd. (NEG) in Otsu, Japan, where he is investigating crystallization phenomena in glasses.
	Felix graduated from the University Heidelberg in 2019 with an BSc in Chemistry and from Imperial College London in 2020 with an MRes in Nanomaterials. During his masters project he investigated silver spill-over at electrified solid state interfaces in the context of Memristors using ab initio methods. For his PhD, Felix is working with Prof Nicholas Harrison at Imperial College to study the design principles of high efficiency photocathode materials using ab initio methods and the quantum mechanical modelling of photoemission processes. Novel photocathode materials are necessary for the operation of next generational light sources and free electron lasers (FELs).
	Yana Vaynzof is the Chair for Emerging Electronic Technologies at the Technical University Dresden (TUD) and the director of the Institute for Emerging Electronic Technologies at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW). Yana Vaynzof is the recipient of a number of fellowships and awards, including the ERC Starting and Consolidator Grants. Her research interests lie in the field of emerging photovoltaics focusing on the study of material and device physics of organic, quantum dot and perovskite solar cells by integrating device fabrication with the application and development of advanced spectroscopic methods.
	Professor Klingeler is a Professor of experimental physics at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. His research group focuses on correlated quantum materials, applying fundamental studies on thermodynamic response functions down to MilliKelvin temperatures and up to high magnetic fields. Their work on unconventional superconductivity, electronic nemantic order and quantum magnetism challenge standard theories, extending our understanding of quantum many-body systems.
	Professor Mastalerz has been based in the Organic Chemistry Institute at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg since 2013. His research interests cover organic porous materials, crystal engineering and self-assembly, supramolecular chemistry, and non-planar extended aromatic molecules.

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Congratulations to the prize winners from SNAIA CRISTMAS 2023

16 Jul 2024

Materials Advances was delighted to sponsor 3 prizes for Poster Presentations at the SNAIA CRISTMAS 2023 event which took place in the Chimie Paris Tech on 13-15 December 2023.

It was difficult for the organisers to pick the prize winners due to the exceptional quality of all the posters presented at the event – the prize winners below were “truly outstanding”!

Victor Filatov, SkyLab AG, Switzerland

Poster Presentation: “Towards a restoration of cotton fabrics: the research of a novel combination based on sucrose and malic acid for cross-linking fibres and colour retention during laundry washing cycles”

Anastasia Novikova, Ben-Grunion University on the Negev, Israel

Poster Presentation: “Hollow-Micro pillared Glass Fabricated on Hollow Joe Pye Weed-Inspired Tubes for Detecting Molecular Signatures”

Abigail Bond, University of Leeds, UK

Poster Presentation: “Towards the Liquid Crystal Chemical Sensor via Confinement Within a Stripe Pattern”

Congratulations to the winners from the Materials Advances team!

If you would like to attend the next edition of the event then visit the 2024 webpage here: https://cristmas.org/

SNAIA – CRISTMAS – Most Recent Innovations in Materials Science and Advanced Characterisation Methods

The 2024 event will provide a unique platform to meet, share knowledge and establish links between experts from academia and industry covering the most exciting emerging applications within fields of Photonics, (Opto)Electronics, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Engineering, Quantum Computing, and Art.

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Announcing the 2024 Materials Advances Paper Prize winners!

21 Jun 2024

We are delighted to announce this years annual Materials Advances Paper Prize, celebrating the most significant articles published in the journal in the previous calendar year.

This year we recognise 3 outstanding papers that were published in 2023. Find the winner and runner-up papers below.

Materials Advances 2024 Paper Prize winner:

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

Materials Advances 2024 Paper Prize runner-up:

Fabrication of low-cost and flexible perovskite solar cells by slot-die coating for indoor applications†

Cristina Teixeira, Rosinda Fuentes-Pineda, Luísa Andrade, Adélio Mendes and Dávid Forgács

Materials Advances 2024 Paper Prize runner-up:

Evaluation of techniques used for visualisation of hydrogel morphology and determination of pore size distributions

Imanda Jayawardena, Petri Turunen, Bruna Cambraia Garms, Alan Rowan, Simon Corrie and Lisbeth Grøndahl

If you want to be in with a chance of winning the Materials Advances Paper Prize in a future year then submit your next high quality materials science research to the journal here.

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Materials Advances 2022 Paper Prize winner

11 Sep 2023

Find out more about the winning paper in this infographic

Facet-dependent carrier dynamics of cuprous oxide regulating the photocatalytic hydrogen generation
Cui Ying Toe, Marlene Lamers, Thomas Dittrich, Hassan A. Tahini, Sean C. Smith, Jason Scott, Rose Amal, Roel van de Krol, Fatwa F. Abdi and Yun Hau Ng

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Materials Advances 2022 Paper Prize runner-up 2

11 Sep 2023

Find out more about the winning paper in this infographic

Metal-free polypeptide redox flow batteries
Zhiming Liang, Tan P. Nguyen, N. Harsha Attanayake, Alexandra D. Easley, Jodie L. Lutkenhaus, Karen L. Wooley and Susan A. Odom

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Author Archive

Honouring Professor Thom Palstra on the occasion of his retirement

Read the collection here

Open call for papers from newly appointed principal investigators

Did you start your position as a new group leader within the last three years?*

We want to help. If you submit to this collection, and if your paper is accepted, we will offer extra promotion and visibility through our journal networks to raise your profile with an interview-style blog discussing your vision for your group’s research.

Open Call: Protein Cages as Next Generation Biomaterials

Submit before 28 February 2025

Meet the Guest Editors:

Materials Advances 2024 Paper Prize runner-up

Meet some of the authors

What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment?

How do you feel about Materials Advances as a place to publish research on this topic?

Can you share one piece of career-related advice for early career scientists?

Materials Advances 2024 Paper Prize runner-up

Meet some of the authors of the runner-up paper

What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment?

How do you feel about Materials Advances as a place to publish research on this topic?

Can you share one piece of career-related advice for early career scientists?

Materials Advances 2024 Paper Prize winner

Meet some of the authors of the winning paper

Congratulations to the prize winners from SNAIA CRISTMAS 2023

Announcing the 2024 Materials Advances Paper Prize winners!

Materials Advances 2024 Paper Prize winner:

Materials Advances 2024 Paper Prize runner-up:

Materials Advances 2024 Paper Prize runner-up:

Materials Advances 2022 Paper Prize winner

Find out more about the winning paper in this infographic

Materials Advances 2022 Paper Prize runner-up 2

Find out more about the winning paper in this infographic

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