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Welcome to the 10th Anniversary Issues!

23 Jun 2023

The Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C 10th Anniversary issues are here!

We are pleased to present our special 10^th Anniversary issues of Journal of Materials Chemistry A,B and C featuring some of the best work from members of the community who have supported the journals over the last 10 years. We would like to thank and celebrate our community for their ongoing support and for sharing their latest discoveries with us.

Journal of Materials Chemistry A anniversary issue

Journal of Materials Chemistry B anniversary issue

Journal of Materials Chemistry C anniversary issue

Past and present Editors-in-Chief, Deputy Editors-in-Chief and Editorial Board Chairs introduce the anniversary issue and reflect on the history of the journal and their experiences in this special Editorial: Introducing the tenth anniversary issues of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C

Read the Editorial

Ten years ago, when Journal of Materials Chemistry split into the three journals, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C, the vision was to provide venues for highly topical research in a broad range of materials chemistry across three distinguished journal scopes. Since the first issues were published at the beginning of 2013, we have continued to host a diverse range of impactful research across the global materials chemistry community and covering the full breadth of our discipline.

Over the past decade, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C owes their success to many dedicated authors, reviewers, editors, and readers. These special issues celebrate and thank those members of our community who have supported the journals over the last ten years, and we are honoured that these authors have shared their latest discoveries with us.

To ensure full access to our anniversary issues, all 3 will be free to read until 4^th August 2023.

Keep an eye on the new additions to the collections over the anniversary year and don’t forget to check out the 10^th Anniversary Statements included in the articles!

Discover more of our activities such as the Community Spotlight, the #MyFirstJMC Collections, the 10^th Anniversary Cover Showcase or the Anniversary Survey Results, in our blogs linked below.

Community Spotlight

We have published a series of blogs featuring interviews with various members of our communities who have supported the journals over recent years. Keep an eye out on our blogs platform and on our socials for our next Community Spotlight feature.

Promotional slide for the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C 10th anniversary community spotlight featuring some outstanding reviewers. Image features photos of each of the reviewers, from left to right; Dr Ady Suwardi, Prof. Jiao Jiao Li, Dr Eva Hemmer, Prof Seung Uk Son, Prof Shinn-Jya Ding and Prof. Martin Bryce

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#MyFirstJMC Collections

We have been showcasing authors who have published for the first time in Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B or C in 2023. Authors can opt-in to be included if it is their first-time publishing with the journal as a corresponding author. Check out the ongoing collections below to meet the next generation of our community and keep an eye on our socials for #MyFirstJMC promotion. We thank these authors for choosing to publish their work with us!

#MyFirstJMCA

#MyFirstJMCB

#MyFirstJMCC

10^th Anniversary Covers

Since the start of 2023, we have encouraged authors to include a 10 in their cover designs to celebrate the 10^th Anniversary of the journals. These covers have been promoted on Twitter using the hashtag #JMCs10Years.

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The results are in – Journal of Materials Chemistry 10 Year Anniversary Survey

To celebrate 10 years of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C we asked you to contribute your thoughts and perspectives about the development of materials chemistry and the future of the field!

Check out the results

Follow us on Twitter (@JMaterChem), WeChat and sign up to our mailings to keep up to date with our latest anniversary activities.

We sincerely hope you enjoy sharing in our celebration of ten excellent years of materials chemistry at the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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An Interview with our 2022 Lectureship Runner-up, Luisa Whittaker-Brooks

15 Jun 2023

With the opening of the 2023 Lectureship nominations we would like to take the opportunity to celebrate our previous Winner and Runner-Ups from the 2022 Lectureship.

To do this, we asked them a few interview questions to gain some retrospective insight into their successes. We also hope that this could serve as advice and guidance to those who would be nominated for the 2023 Lectureship and beyond.

We have included Luisa’s responses below along with links to her past work for you to further explore.

Luisa Whittaker- Brooks, Journal of Materials Chemistry 2022 Lectureship Runner-Up

How did you feel when you were announced as a runner-up of the 2022 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship?

I was very excited when I received the email since I know this is a very competitive application.

In your opinion, what would make for a strong candidate to be considered for the Lectureship?

A strong candidate will be a scientist performing research at the forefront of the materials field. I believe it will also help if candidates publish their work in any of the Journals of Materials Chemistry and Materials Horizons, given that publishing their findings in these top-tier journals will make them gain visibility among potential selection committee members of the Lectureship award.

Which of your JMC publications are you most proud of and why?

I routinely published my best works in JMC and the one that I am most proud of is our paper entitled
“Vertically oriented TiS_2−x nanobelt arrays as binder- and carbon-free intercalation electrodes for Li- and Na-based energy storage devices (J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018,6, 21949-21960)”. It is very special because it was my first publication in JMC as an independent investigator. This paper was also part of the Emerging Investigator themed collection, and it was selected as a cover.

Do you have any advice for Early-Career researchers who wish to be nominated for the Lectureship award?

Start working on publishing your best work in JMC as soon as possible. This will help you gain visibility. Also, have someone nominate you for submitting a manuscript to the Emerging Investigator Themed Collection.

At which upcoming conferences may our community meet you?

My students and I typically attend the MRS, APS, ACS conferences.

You can read a selection of Luisa’s work here:

‘Concepts and principles of self-n-doping in perylene diimide chromophores for applications in biochemistry, energy harvesting, energy storage, and catalysis’

Daniel Powell and Luisa Whittaker-Brooks.

Mater. Horiz., 2022,9, 2026-2052 DOI: 10.1039/D2MH00279E

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/mh/d2mh00279e

‘Steric hindrance dependence on the spin and morphology properties of highly oriented self-doped organic small molecule thin films’

Daniel Powell, Eric V. Campbell, Laura Flannery, Jonathan Ogle, Sarah E. Soss and Luisa Whittaker-Brooks.

Mater. Adv., 2021,2, 356-365 DOI: 10.1039/D0MA00822B

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/ma/d0ma00822b

‘Vertically oriented TiS₂₋_x nanobelt arrays as binder- and carbon-free intercalation electrodes for Li- and Na-based energy storage devices’

Casey G. Hawkins and Luisa Whittaker-Brooks.
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018,6, 21949-21960 DOI: 10.1039/C8TA05645E

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/ta/c8ta05645e

‘Bi₂S₃ nanowire networks as electron acceptor layers in solution-processed hybrid solar cells’

Luisa Whittaker-Brooks, Jia Gao, Anna K. Hailey, Conor R. Thomas, Nan Yao, and Yueh-Lin Loo.
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015,3, 2686-2692. DOI: 10.1039/C4TC02534B

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2015/tc/c4tc02534b

Many congratulations again to Luisa, and don’t forget to take this opportunity to submit your own nomination for the 2023 Lectureship award.

For more information and details on eligibility criteria and how to nominate a candidate, please visit the Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship webpage.

The deadline for nominations is 25 June 2023

Nominate your candidate now!

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An Interview with our 2022 Lectureship Winner, Sahika Inal.

15 Jun 2023

With the opening of the 2023 Lectureship nominations we would like to take the opportunity to celebrate our previous Winner and Runner-Ups from the 2022 Lectureship.

We have included Sahika’s responses below along with links to her past work for you to further explore.

Sahika Inal, Journal of Materials Chemistry 2022 Lectureship Winner

How did you feel when you were announced as the winner/runner-up of the 2022 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship?

I was surprised, happy, grateful, and excited! A healthy balance of feelings which made me appreciate our community.

In your opinion, what would make for a strong candidate to be considered for the Lectureship?

I think service to the community is very important. We often think that academic excellence is the most important factor, but I feel that we are all doing significant scientific work, what probably makes a difference is how one contributes to the others.

Which of your JMC publications are you most proud of and why?

I am proud of all my publications and work my group members have contributed. The publication, Savva et al JMC C, 2018 is however the one I will not forget about as it was the first paper that came out of my independent group.

Do you have any advice for Early-Career researchers who wish to be nominated for the Lectureship award?

I wish them best of luck and suggest them to publish their best work in RSC.

At which upcoming conferences or events may our community meet you?

I will be at FPI in Raleigh, SPIE in San Diego, MRS Fall in Boston

Discover some of Sahika’s work here:

‘Ionic-to-electronic coupling efficiency in PEDOT:PSS films operated in aqueous electrolytes’

Achilleas Savva, Shofarul Wustoni and Sahika Inal.

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018,6, 12023-12030 DOI: 10.1039/C8TC02195C

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/tc/c8tc02195c

‘The effect of the donor moiety of DPP based polymers on the performance of organic electrochemical transistors.’

Yazhou Wang, Amer Hamidi-Sakr, Jokubas Surgailis, Yecheng Zhou, Hailiang Liao, Junxin Chen, Genming Zhu, Zhengke Li, Sahika Inal and Wan Yue.

Mater. Chem. C, 2021,9, 13338-13346 DOI: 10.1039/D1TC02994K

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/tc/d1tc02994k

‘Propylene and butylene glycol: new alternatives to ethylene glycol in conjugated polymers for bioelectronic applications’

Maximilian Moser, Yazhou Wang, Tania Cecilia Hidalgo, Hailiang Liao, Yaping Yu, Junxin Chen, Jiayao Duan, Floriana Moruzzi, Sophie Griggs, Adam Marks, Nicola Gasparini, Andrew Wadsworth, Sahika Inal, Iain McCulloch and Wan Yue.

Mater. Horiz., 2022,9, 973-980 DOI: 10.1039/D1MH01889B

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/mh/d1mh01889b

‘A guide for the characterization of organic electrochemical transistors and channel materials.’

David Ohayon, Victor Druet and Sahika Inal.
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2023,52, 1001-1023. DOI: 10.1039/D2CS00920J

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/cs/d2cs00920j

Many congratulations again to Sahika, and don’t forget to take this opportunity to submit your own nomination for the 2023 Lectureship award.

For more information and details on eligibility criteria and how to nominate a candidate, please visit the Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship webpage.

The deadline for nominations is 25 June 2023

Nominate your candidate now!

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Open call for papers for Journal of Materials Chemistry A themed collection ‘Advancing materials through high-throughput experiments and computation’

13 Jun 2023

Submit your work to this new themed collection, guest edited by Moran Balaish, Helge Soren Stein, Arghya Bhowmik and John Gregoire

Journal of Materials Chemistry A, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, is pleased to announce an open call for papers for our up-and-coming themed collection on

Advancing energy-materials through high-throughput experiments and computation.

The unprecedented need for new and improved energy conversion and storage materials creates an historic imperative to accelerate the research process and proliferate new and improved materials (and interfaces) from guided and serendipitous discovery to commercial application by 5x – 20x. Integrating high-throughput automated ceramic synthesis, data management, data mining, autonomous materials characterization, and robust data analysis with guidance and uncertainty quantification from artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning (ML) can revolutionize how research is conducted. This accelerated way of orchestrating chemistry sparks new avenues in interdisciplinary research across chemistry, physics, material science, computer science, engineering and stimulates breakthroughs in energy materials.

Guest Edited by Dr. Moran Balaish (Technical University of Munich, Germany), Prof. Helge Sören Stein (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Prof. Arghya Bhowmik, and Prof. John Gregoire, this themed collection of Journal of Materials Chemistry A aims to provide a platform for recent developments in the emerging research area of material science and technology accelerated by artificial intelligence, autonomous, and automated methods for discovering, characterizing, understanding and upscaling energy materials and related applications. This themed collection will focus on the 4 major phases of inorganic material’s development cycle for energy materials relating broadly to the field of energy conversion and storage. We welcome contributions relating to orchestrating experiments, integrating simulations and experiment, uncertainty quantification in theory and experiment, going beyond facile property prediction, transfer learning, explainable machine learning models in chemistry, technical papers on new innovative methods for coating and synthesis, advanced automatic data analysis, and data management are welcome.

This call for papers is open for the following article types:

Communications
Full papers

Submission Deadline: 13^th October 2023

Submissions to the journal should fit within the scope of Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Please see the journal website for more information on the journal’s scope, standards, article types and author guidelines.

If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, you can submit your article directly through the journal’s online submission service at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jmchema. Please add a “note to the editor” in the submission form when uploading your files to say that this is a contribution to the themed collection. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection, and inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed collection is not guaranteed.

If you have any questions about the collection, contact the Editorial Office at materialsa-rsc@rsc.org. We look forward to receiving your submissions and featuring your latest work in this exciting collection!

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Journal of Materials Chemistry B 10th anniversary survey – the results are in

30 May 2023

We asked 3 questions to Journals of Materials Chemistry B authors, reviewers, and readers. Below we discuss our findings and share some of the common trends amongst the Journal of Materials Chemistry B community responses.

Question 1:

What development in materials chemistry for biological and medicinal applications do you see as having the biggest impact over the last 10 years?

Clearly research in the development and application of hydrogels has contributed a great deal to advances in biological and medical materials over the past decade, however as you can see from our responses, this was not the only development recognised in our survey. A great deal of responses credited the development of nanomaterials to be impactful on our recent growth in biological and medicinal materials. Therapy and diagnostics, specifically for cancer treatment and detection was widely mentioned in the responses and is a common theme throughout the survey.

The letter 'B' filled with multicoloured words from survey responses. Materials, Nanomaterials, Personalised, Therapy, Electronics, Medicine, Targeted, Cancer, Precision.

Question 2:

Where do you see the direction of materials chemistry research for biological and medicinal applications heading in the next 10 years?

Again we had a wide array of responses to this question and similar themes to above emerge from the responses. Targeted and personalised therapies seem to be at the forefront and we anticipate this will be a major field moving forward. Alongside this, we have further mention of nanomaterials – indeed they hold a great deal of potential for the biomedical materials field, and we hope to see future developments in this topic. The materials field for biological applications certainly has an exciting future ahead of it!

Question 3:

What topic would you like to see more of in Journal of Materials Chemistry B?

The resounding theme for this response was the call for more articles dedicated to specialised biomaterials. There were lots of suggestions for a large variety of materials – polymeric and collagen-based, porous, nano, and bioelectric materials. Sensing devices was also a popular response, as was imaging technology.

The letter 'B' filled with multicoloured words from survey responses. Biomaterials, Materials, Nanomaterials, Imaging, Hydrogels, Devices, Sensing, Microfluidic, Polymeric, Regenerative.

So how did your contribution compare to the rest of the community? We appreciate all of your responses and it has certainly shed some light on our communities’ perspectives in regard to the materials chemistry field – past, present and future.

Discover the results for the Journal of Materials Chemistry A survey and Journal of Materials Chemistry C survey.

Don’t forget to check out all of our special Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C 10-year anniversary celebrations, including our 10-year Anniversary Community spotlight blog, the #myfirstJMC collections showcasing our first-time corresponding authors, monthly 10^th anniversary cover art round-ups and a special anniversary editorial by Editors-in-Chief Anders Hagfeldt, Jeroen Cornelissen and Natalie Stingelin.

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Journal of Materials Chemistry A 10th anniversary survey – the results are in

30 May 2023

We asked 3 questions to Journals of Materials Chemistry A authors, reviewers, and readers. Below we discuss our findings and share some of the common trends amongst the Journal of Materials Chemistry A community responses.

Question 1:

What development in materials chemistry for energy and sustainability do you see as having the biggest impact over the last 10 years?

The past decade has demonstrated our ability to discover and synthesise new materials. Some of the greatest advances you mentioned were development of 2D materials and nanomaterials in particular. Many responses included the development and application of photo- and electro-catalysts. Unsurprisingly, batteries was also a very popular response, although it seems we still have work to do in that regard!

The letter 'A' filled with words from survey responses in different colours. Hydrogen, Cells, Materials, Synthesis, Green, Energy, Solar, Efficient, Nanomaterials.

The letter 'A' filled with words from responses to the survey in different colours. Energy, Solar, Materials, Hydrogen, Battery, Storage, Porous, Lithium, MOFs.

Question 2:

Where do you see the direction of materials chemistry research in the area of energy and sustainability heading in the next 10 years?

The most common responses for future research and direction in energy and sustainability were for hydrogen generation (green hydrogen) and use. New materials for advancing sustainable energy storage and conversion dominated a large proportion of responses, this included frequent mentions of solar cell advances and development.

Question 3:

What topic would you like to see more of in Journal of Materials Chemistry A?

Energy, Energy, Energy! Yes we always want to see more about how we can move towards more efficient, more cost effective and more sustainable forms of energy generation, conversion and storage. We also want to see more drive towards development of renewable energy sources and particularly through the use of novel materials. But it looks like energy won’t be our only focus – many of you also want to see more from the field of sensing and catalysis, so watch this space!

The letter 'A' filled with words from survey responses in different colours. Energy, Storage, Sensing, Catalysts, Renewable, Hydrogen, Specialist, Materials, Conversion.

Discover the results for the Journal of Materials Chemistry B survey and Journal of Materials Chemistry C survey.

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Journal of Materials Chemistry 10-year Anniversary Survey

30 May 2023

We asked 3 questions to our authors, reviewers, and readers across the 3 journals:

What development in materials chemistry do you see as having the biggest impact over the last 10 years?
Where do you see the direction of materials chemistry research heading in the next 10 years?
What topic would you like to see more of in the journal?

Click on the links below to see the individual journal highlights.

Letter 'A' filled with answers from the survey. Energy, Conversion, Specialist, Catalysts, Hydrogen, Renewable, Materials, Storage.

JMCA Survey results

Letter 'B' filled with answers from the survey. Cancer, Therapy, Targeted, Nanomaterials, Biomaterials, Diagnosis, Treatment, Hydrogels.

JMCB Survey results

Letter 'C' filled with answers from the survey. Sustainability, Sensing, Green, Organic, Optical, Energy, Solar, Harvesting, Bioelectronics, Metamaterials.

JMCC Survey results

All the answers were pooled and formed into a word cloud to represent the past, present and future of the Journal of Materials Chemistry family.

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Journal of Materials Chemistry C 10th anniversary survey – the results are in

30 May 2023

To celebrate 10 years of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C, we asked you to contribute your thoughts and perspectives about the development of materials chemistry and the future of the field!

We asked 3 questions to Journals of Materials Chemistry C authors, reviewers, and readers. Below we discuss our findings and share some of the common trends amongst the Journal of Materials Chemistry C community responses.

Question 1:

What development in materials chemistry for optical, magnetic and electronic applications do you see as having the biggest impact over the last 10 years?

Responses to this question seemed to be divided across a few key topics – materials related to solar energy conversion and perovskites were common, as were hybrid and organic materials. As you would expect, there were also many responses related to devices such as optoelectronic devices and electroluminescent devices.

The letter 'C' filled with words from survey responses in different colours. Energy, Sensing, Organic, Materials, Optimisation, Sustainability, Bioelectronics, Green.

Question 2:

Where do you see the direction of materials chemistry research for optical, magnetic and electronic applications heading in the next 10 years?

Responses to this question certainly focussed towards energy research, specifically optimisation of energy harvesting and storage using sustainable sources. New devices and electronics were predicted to be the root of these developments alongside the development and application of organic materials in bioelectronics and technology.

Question 3:

What topic would you like to see more of in Journal of Materials Chemistry C?

Responses to this question illuminates our broad and diverse community, with requests for more research based on devices, sensing and optics (which just so happens to be our specialty!) You would also like to see more on electroluminescent materials, as well as solar energy research and sustainable energy sources. By far my favourite word which appeared in our responses was ‘exploration’. That is truly something to look forward to!

The letter 'C' filled with words from survey responses. Devices, Materials, Soft, Sensing, Optical, Energy, Chemical, Quantum, Molecular, Energy, Electrochemical, Optoelectronic, Photonic, Sustainability, Novel.

Discover the results for the Journal of Materials Chemistry A survey and Journal of Materials Chemistry B survey.

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Welcome to the 10th Anniversary Issues!

An Interview with our 2022 Lectureship Runner-up, Luisa Whittaker-Brooks

With the opening of the 2023 Lectureship nominations we would like to take the opportunity to celebrate our previous Winner and Runner-Ups from the 2022 Lectureship.

Luisa Whittaker- Brooks, Journal of Materials Chemistry 2022 Lectureship Runner-Up

An Interview with our 2022 Lectureship Winner, Sahika Inal.

With the opening of the 2023 Lectureship nominations we would like to take the opportunity to celebrate our previous Winner and Runner-Ups from the 2022 Lectureship.

Sahika Inal, Journal of Materials Chemistry 2022 Lectureship Winner

Open call for papers for Journal of Materials Chemistry A themed collection ‘Advancing materials through high-throughput experiments and computation’

Journal of Materials Chemistry B 10th anniversary survey – the results are in

Journal of Materials Chemistry A 10th anniversary survey – the results are in

Journal of Materials Chemistry 10-year Anniversary Survey

Journal of Materials Chemistry C 10th anniversary survey – the results are in

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