Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

We are pleased to introduce a new Associate Editor joining Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Professor Zhigang Shuai (Tsinghua University, China).

Journal of Materials Chemistry A Associate Editor Zhigang Shuai

Professor Zhigang Shuai received his Ph.D. from Fudan University in 1989 and is currently the Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor in the department of chemistry at Tsinghua University, China. Prior to this he worked as a postdoctoral and research associate in the University of Mons, Belgium, for 11 years before he became a Hundred-Talent research professor at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2002.

His research interests focus on the development of computational methodologies for modeling functional materials and he extended the density matrix renormalization group theory for the excited state structures, light-emitting property, and nonlinear optical responses for conjugated polymers. Zhigang has devised computational schemes for

the luminescence spectra and quantum efficiency, carrier mobility, thermoelectric conversion, and photovoltaic processes in organic/polymeric and layered nanomaterials and has published over 310 paper in peer-reviewed journals and supervised 18 PhD theses.

Zhigang was elected to the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea and the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium and he serves as a member of the Executive Council of the Chinese Chemical Society. He was the recipient of the National Outstanding Young Investigator‘s Fund (2004), National Talent Program of the Ministry of Personnel (2006), the Chinese Chemical Society – AkzoNobel Chemical Sciences Award (2012), and the Special Allowance from the People’s Republic of China State Council (2013).

A selection of recent papers include:

Nuclear quantum tunnelling and carrier delocalization effects to bridge the gap between hopping and bandlike behaviors in organic semiconductors
Yuqian Jiang, Xinxin Zhong, Wen Shi, Qian Peng, Hua Geng, Yi Zhao and Zhigang Shuai
Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, 1, 53-59

Thin film field-effect transistors of 2,6-diphenyl anthracene (DPA)
Jie Liu, Huanli Dong, Zongrui Wang, Deyang Ji, Changli Cheng, Hua Geng, Hantang Zhang, Yonggang Zhen, Lang Jiang, Hongbing Fu, Zhishan Bo, Wei Chen, Zhigang Shuai and Wenping Hu
Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 11777-11779

Enhancement of the p-channel performance of sulfur-bridged annulene through a donor–acceptor co-crystal approach
Jing Zhang, Guangyao Zhao, Yunke Qin, Jiahui Tan, Hua Geng, Wei Xu, Wenping Hu, Zhigang Shuai and Daoben Zhu
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2014, 2, 8886-8891

On behalf of the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C Editorial Offices I would like to congratulate Dr David Lou, Nanyang Technological University, on his recent promotion to full professor, making him the youngest full professor at NTU Singapore.

Dr David Lou received his B.Eng (2002) and M.Eng. (2004) degrees from the National University of Singapore. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University in 2008. Right after graduation, he joined Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as an Assistant Professor, and he was promoted to Associate Professor in September 2013. He has published about 210 papers with a total citation of >21,000, and an H-index of 83. His main research interest is on designed synthesis of nanostructured materials for energy and environmental applications.

Dr Lou is currently an Associate Editor for Journal of Materials Chemistry A and last year co-Guest Edited a themed issue for Journal of Materials Chemistry A on flexible energy storage and conversion.

Congratulations Professor Lou on this highly impressive achievement!

We are delighted to introduce the new Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C, Professor Nazario Martin.

Professor Martin completed his doctorate at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, where he is a full professor of Organic Chemistry and vice-director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Nanoscience of Madrid (IMDEA-Nanoscience). Recently he has been appointed as Dr. h.c. by La Havana University.  He is a member of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain and a fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry and in 2006-2012 he was the President of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry.

He was the recipient of the “Dupont Prize of Science” in 2007 and of the “Gold Medal and Research Award” in 2012, the highest distinction given by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry and he was appointed with the national “Jaime I Award for basic research” 2012. He is the last chemist distinguished with the “EuCheMS Lecture Award” in 2012. More recently, he has received two prestigious international prizes, namely the Alexander von Humboldt Award (Germany) and the Richard E. Smalley Award de la Electrochemical Society (USA)

Electron-deficient fullerenes in triple-channel photosystems
Javier López-Andarias, Altan Bolag, Christoph Nançoz, Eric Vauthey, Carmen Atienza, Naomi Sakai, Nazario Martín and Stefan Matile
Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 7543-7545

We are delighted to introduce the international scientists that are our Advisory Board Members!

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

From left to right: Amparo Fuertes, Saiful Islam, Paul Mulvaney, Linda Nazar, Markus Niederberger, Cheng-Yong Su and George (X S) Zhao.

Journal of Materials Chemistry B

From left to right: Etienne Duguet, Luis Liz-Marzan, George Malliaras and Jan van Hest

Journal of Materials Chemistry C

From left to right: From left to right: Top row: David Evans, Mark Green, Tomiki Ikeda, Takashi Kato, Kuang-Lieh Lu; Bottom row: Seth Marder, Paolo Samori, Ram Seshadri and Christoph Weder.

Stephen Skinner is a Reader in Materials Chemistry in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London with research interests in new materials for energy generation/storage technologies. He is primarily interested in the development of materials for solid oxide fuel cells and in understanding their transport properties, utilising a combination of diffraction and spectroscopic techniques. In-situ structural and electrical characterisation of oxides and the determination of the oxygen transport kinetics are key areas of interest. He is a member of the ISIS neutron source facility access panel, Diamond I20 working group and the Materials Chemistry Division Council of the RSC.

His recent papers include:

In situ compatibility studies of lanthanum nickelate with a ceria-based electrolyte for SOFC composite cathodes
R. Sayers, J. E. Parker, C. C. Tang and S. J. Skinner
J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 3536-3543

Evidence for the catalytic oxidation of La₂NiO_4+δ
R. Sayers and S. J. Skinner
J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 414-419

Structural properties of Ce-doped strontium titanate for fuel cell applications
Denis J. Cumming, John A. Kilner and Stephen Skinner
J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 5021-5026

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Jeroen Cornelissen is Professor in Biomolecular Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands. He studied chemistry in The Netherlands with a minor in polymer chemistry carried out at the Eindhoven University of Technology with Prof. E.W. Meijer and a major in Supramolecular Chemistry and Catalysis at the University of Nijmegen with Prof. R.J.M. Nolte. He received his PhD (cum laude) from the latter university in 2001 for research carried out under the supervision of Prof. R.J.M. Nolte. After post-doctoral work at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, U.S.A. he returned to Nijmegen, where he was appointed as an Assistant Professor until 2009. His current research interests are in well-defined polymer architectures, hybrid systems of synthetic macromolecules and biopolymers and the use of viruses as building blocks in functional materials.

His recent papers include:

Time-programmed helix inversion in phototunable liquid crystals
Sarah J. Aßhoff, Supitchaya Iamsaard, Alessandro Bosco, Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen, Ben L. Feringa and Nathalie Katsonis
Chem. Commun., 2013, Advance Article

Relative size selection of a conjugated polyelectrolyte in virus-like protein structures
Melanie Brasch and Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen
Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 1446-1448

Solution scattering studies on a virus capsid protein as a building block for nanoscale assemblies
Marta Comellas-Aragonès, Friso D. Sikkema, Guillaume Delaittre, Ann E. Terry, Stephen M. King, Dirk Visser, Richard K. Heenan, Roeland J. M. Nolte, Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen and Martin C. Feiters
Soft Matter, 2011,7, 11380-11391

Hydrogen bonding and chemical shift assignments in carbazole functionalized isocyanides from solid-state NMR and first-principles calculations
Chandrakala M. Gowda, Filipe Vasconcelos, Erik Schwartz, Ernst R. H. van Eck, Martijn Marsman, Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen, Alan E. Rowan, Gilles A. de Wijs and Arno P. M. Kentgens
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011,13, 13082-13095

Electrostatic self-assembly of virus–polymer complexes
Mauri A. Kostiainen, Panu Hiekkataipale, Jose Á. de la Torre, Roeland J. M. Nolte and Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen
J. Mater. Chem., 2011,21, 2112-2117

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