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Open Call for Submissions: All-Polymer Solar Cells

We would like to announce this Open Call for our upcoming themed collection on All-Polymer Solar Cells to be published in Chemical Communications, Journal of Materials Chemistry A or Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

This collection is guest edited by Professor Tsuyoshi Michinobu (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Professor Chu-Chen Chueh (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) and Professor Ergang Wang (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden).

All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) offer a promising alternative to conventional small molecule-based organic solar cells due to their many superior properties such as mechanical flexibility/stretchability and higher device stability. Recent significant successes are based on the development of high-performance polymer donors and acceptors that exhibit tunable light absorption, nanoscale bulk-heterojunction morphology, large-area fabrication capability, and long-term stability against external environmental and mechanical stresses. All these properties have greatly improved the photovoltaic performance of all-PSCs and are now in discussion for commercial applications.

Please consider contributing to this open call for papers for our upcoming themed collection on All-Polymer Solar Cells to be published in Chemical Communications, Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

Submissions to the journal should contain chemistry in a materials context and should fit within the scope of the submitting journal. Please see the journal websites for more information on the scope, standards, article types and author guidelines.

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

  • Communications
  • Full papers

Open for Submissions until 31 March 2025

How to submit

If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, you can submit your article directly to the online submission service for Chemical Communications, Journal of Materials Chemistry A or Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Please mention that this submission is a contribution to the All-Polymer Solar Cells collection in the “Themed issues” section of the submission form and add a “Note to the Editor” that this is from the Open Call. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of both the journal and the collection, and inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed issue is not guaranteed.

Guest Editors

Tsuyoshi Michinobu is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Institute of Science Tokyo. His research focuses on the synthesis and electronic device applications of semiconducting polymers. He developed a series of high-mobility organic semiconducting polymers based on benzobisthiadiazole and its heteroatom-substituted analogues as a potent acceptor unit. These polymers were applied to high-performance transistors and photovoltaic devices. Recently, near-infrared light-emitting properties of these polymers were also studied. He has published more than 220 papers with H-index of 50 (Google scholar). He received SPSJ Showa Denko Materials Award (2020) and the Award of The Society of Fiber Science and Technology, Japan (2024).

Professor Chueh’s research team focuses on solution-processable semiconductors, including organic small molecules, conjugated polymers, and organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites, and focusing on their applications in memories, light-emitting diodes, transistors, and solar cells. Dr. Chueh received Young Faculty Awards from Taiwanese Institute of Chemical Engineers and from the Polymer Society, Taipei (2020), Ta-You Wu Memorial Award from National Science Council, Taiwan (2022) and Outstanding Asian Researcher and Engineer Award from the Society of Chemical Engineers (SCEJ), Japan (2024). He has coauthored over 245 scientific papers in the area of organic/hybrid optoelectronics with citation > 23000 and H-index of 78 (recorded by Google scholar). Dr. Chueh has been recognized by Clarivate Analytics as 2018, 2019 Highly Cited Researcher and by I&EC Research as 2020 Class of Influential Researchers.

Dr Ergang Wang is a full professor at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. He was promoted to full professor in 2023, after having been a professor since 2019. His academic path at Chalmers includes previous roles as an Associate Professor (2016-2019) and Assistant Professor (2012-2016), as well as a postdoctoral fellowship in the same department from 2008 to 2011. He holds a PhD in Materials Science, awarded in 2008, and completed his Docentship in 2015. Professor Wang has been recognized with a Wallenberg Academy Fellowship in 2017, which was prolongated in 2022. His academic journey has also included enriching experiences as a visiting researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2016-2017), and MIT (2024).

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Congratulations to our shortlisted candidates for the 2024 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship

Congratulations to our shortlisted candidates for the 2024 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship

The Journal of Materials Chemistry annual lectureship, established in 2010, honours early-career scientists who have made a significant contribution to the field of materials chemistry. We were delighted to have awarded Dr Raphaële Clément (University of California, Santa Barbara, United States) the 2024 Lectureship.

This year we received numerous high-quality nominations from across the world and we wanted to recognise our shortlisted candidates for their contributions to materials chemistry and as emerging leaders in their fields. We have listed the names of the shortlisted candidates below and have put together a collection featuring some of their recent work published in Royal Society of Chemistry journals.

 

Please note that we have only included candidates who have consented to recognition of their name in this way.

Runners-up

Dr Maxx Arguilla (University of California, Irvine, United States)

Dr Phillip Milner (Cornell University, United States)

 

Shortlisted Candidates

Professor Milad Abolhasani (North Carolina State University, United States)

Professor Giuseppe Cavallaro (University of Palermo, Italy)

Professor Jinxing Chen (Soochow University, China)

Professor Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)

Professor Antoni Forner-Cuenca (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Dr Chun Ann Huang (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)

Dr Haegyum Kim (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States)

Professor Ayala Lampel (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Professor Eleonora Macchia (University of Bari, Italy)

Dr Libu Manjakkal (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom)

Professor Lukasz Marciniak (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

Dr Beatriz Martín-García (CIC nanoGUNE BRTA, Spain)

Professor Lisa Poulikakos (University of California, San Diego, United States)

Dr Alex Ramadan (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)

Professor Daniel Tordera (University of Valencia, Spain)

Dr Junpeng Wang (University of Akron, United States)

Professor Weiwei Xie (Michigan State University, United States)

Dr Aleksandr V. Zhukhovitskiy (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States)

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2024 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship runners-up: Maxx Arguilla and Phillip Milner

Congratulations to our 2024 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship runners-up, Dr Maxx Arguilla and Dr Phillip Milner

This year, Dr Raphaële Clément from University of California, Santa Barbara, United States was selected as the recipient of the 2024 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship. While we can only award one winner, we wanted to recognise two runners-up for their impressive contributions to materials chemistry and as emerging leaders in the field.

Congratulations to Dr Maxx Arguilla (University of California, Irvine, United States) and Dr Phillip Milner (Cornell University, United States) for being selected as the runners-up of the 2024 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship.

Maxx Q. Arguilla originates from the Philippines. He obtained his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of the Philippines Diliman, cum Laude, in 2011. After a one-year junior instructor position at UPD, he moved to the US and completed his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from The Ohio State University with Professor Joshua Goldberger in 2017. His dissertation centered on the electronic, optical, and magnetic properties and applications of new two-dimensional solid state lattices in the bulk and at the nanoscale. He then moved to MIT as postdoctoral fellow in Professor Mircea Dinca’s group, where he focused on the growth of one-dimensional van der Waals crystals and the evolution of their physical properties as they transform into ultrathin nanowires and on establishing the fundamental anisotropic physical properties of two-dimensional metal-organic frameworks. In July 2020, Professor Arguilla joined the UC Irvine Department of Chemistry as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. His research is focused on the discovery and chemical understanding of several classes of crystalline solid state materials comprising of sub-nanometer-thick inorganic chains that are held together by weak van der Waals (vdW) or ionic interactions. Such functional 1D and quasi-1D structures could be thought of as freestanding “edge states” or “all-inorganic polymers” and could bridge the underexplored chemical and physical knowledge gap that exists between atomically precise 2D and 0D solids. He is an affiliate faculty of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Solutions that Scale Initiative. He also serves as a member of the advisory board of both the Eddleman Quantum Institute and the American Chemical Society’s Chemical & Engineering News. Professor Arguilla is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and a finalist (grand winner to be announced) for the 2024 Dream Chemistry Award of the Polish and Czech Academy of Sciences. He was also named as one of Chemical & Engineering News’ Talented Twelve honorees in 2023 and as Matter’s 35 PIs under 35 in Materials Science in 2024.

 

Phillip Milner (Phill) was born a stone’s throw from Ithaca in Towanda, PA and grew up near Rochester, NY. Phill attended Hamilton College near Utica, NY, where his love of synthetic organic chemistry was born while working on radical cyclizations with Prof. Ian Rosenstein.

 

Phill graduated from Hamilton College in 2010 with B.A.s in Chemistry and Mathematics, and went on to pursue his Ph.D. in Chemistry with Prof. Stephen Buchwald at MIT. There, Phill developed Pd-catalyzed fluorination and 11C-cyanation reactions of (hetero)aryl halides. Upon graduating from MIT in 2015, Phill joined the group of Prof. Jeffrey Long at the University of California, Berkeley, where he designed amine-functionalized metal–organic frameworks for CO2 capture.

 

In 2018, Phill joined the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University, where his research is focused broadly at the intersection of organic, inorganic, and materials chemistry.  Phill is a member of the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) and the Cornell Energy Systems Institute (CESI), a Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability Faculty Fellow, and a field member in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Phill was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2024.

 

Phill’s independent awards and honors include: Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2023), NSF CAREER Award (2021), Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Award for Excellence in Advising (2021), Scialog Fellowship (2020), Department of Energy Early Career Award (2020), and NIH Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award (2020).

 

 

Check out our interview with Maxx and Phillip below:

How did you feel when you were announced as a runner-up of the 2024 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship?

MA: Being a runner-up for the 2024 JMC is a great honor for me as it recognizes our contributions in understanding the chemistry and physics of emergent 1D and quasi-1D solids that approach the sub-nanometer-thick regime that many have thought would be very challenging and almost impossible. It is, personally, special since this recognition is coming from one of the family of materials chemistry journals that I have followed consistently since my formative years. The previous awardees and runners-up are also materials scientists that I look up to and aspire to emulate. Most importantly, this award is a recognition of the tremendous collective effort of the members of my group and our network of collaborators who have dedicated their time, effort, and creativity in exploring an unusual and understudied class of low-dimensional solids.

PM: I feel truly honored to be recognized as a runner-up for this lectureship. Having been trained classically as an organic chemist during my PhD, I came to the world of materials relatively late. Our research group tries to blend the two worlds together in (what we hope are) new and innovative ways. Being recognized with this prestigious lectureship highlights how supportive the materials community has been of our work over the last 6 years.

Which of your Journal of Materials Chemistry publications are you most proud of and why?

MA: I am most proud of my first paper in JMCC (J. Mater. Chem. C, 2017, 5, 11259-11266) where I demonstrated how micro-Raman spectroscopy can be used a probe to study the composition- and stacking-dependence of the Raman-active phonon modes in layered honeycomb Zintl phase tetrelides and their 2D van der Waals deintercalation products. This is a paper that I wrote when I was in graduate school but the approach that I have taken in this work has shaped how we use micro-Raman spectroscopy in my group as an enabling tool to probe the structure, lattice dynamics, and stimulus-sensitive response of various classes of low-dimensional solids, especially approaching atomic scale thicknesses.

PM: I am going to cheat a little bit and pick a paper from each JMC-A and JMC-C! In a paper we published in JMC-A last year (J. Mater. Chem. A, 2023, 11, 17159–17166) we built upon some previous work to try to identify general conditions for the solvent-free synthesis of conjugated microporous polymers. We tested over 30 different Lewis/Bronsted acids and found just one (ZnBr2) that can be used generally to make many different porous materials from simple poly(ketone) monomers. Really a user-friendly way to make porous materials, which is something our lab is excited about. This year in JMC-C, we published a paper looking carefully at a really difficult problem – nitrous oxide (N2O) activation using MOFs. We looked carefully at a number of different materials to try to understand what enables N2O cleavage by metal sites in MOFs to make N2 and reactive metal oxos. This work also sparked a collaboration with Heather Kulik at MIT, which continues to this day!

At which upcoming conferences may our community meet you?

MA: My group and I will be attending the American Chemical Society Spring 2025 meeting in San Diego and the North American Solid State Chemistry Conference in Ames, Iowa in Summer 2025.

PM: I am currently planning to attend EuroMOF 2025!

What do you like to do in your free time?

MA: In a recent feature in C&EN magazine (https://cen.acs.org/materials/inorganic-chemistry/Maxx-Arguilla/101/i16), I talked about how the 1D materials that my group works on resemble many forms of pasta of various thicknesses, dimensionalities (spaghetti vs. lasagna), tubular forms (penne and rigatoni), or even complex chiral structures (fusilli and rotini). This comparison was intentionally by design since I am a foodie—I spend my free time either trying out new hole-in-the-wall restaurants or cooking (often times, homemade pasta dishes) in my home kitchen.

PM: Since it is basically just “applied chemistry,” brewing beer is something I like to do for fun. I also like to listen to (admittedly terrible) music.

Do you have any advice for Early-Career researchers who wish to be nominated for the 2025 JMC Lectureship award?

MA: While many of our projects are hypothesis-driven, the most unusual results that we found in our materials systems arose from curiosity-driven research. In classes of materials where our chemical intuition is limited, there is a large, untapped opportunity to explore ideas that do not necessarily conform to the scientific norms in various fields. Thus, if there is an advice that I can give to early-career researchers, it would be to follow their scientific curiosities as these could lead to surprising discoveries that can accelerate (or change) the course of the field!

PM: One piece of advice I got (from one of my colleagues) is “there is no silver bullet.” I interpreted this as, don’t just do whatever everyone else is doing – work on what you find interesting and think could be impactful! It is good to think outside the box about what new ideas you can bring to long-standing challenges in the field.

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2024 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship winner: Raphaële Clément

Congratulations to Dr Raphaële Clément, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States for being selected as the recipient of the 2024 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship

The Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship is an annual award, established in 2010, which honours early-career scientists who have made a significant contribution to the fields of materials chemistry. This year we received numerous high-quality nominations from across the world. With help from our Advisory and Editorial Boards, each nomination was assessed and considered for the award. The final selection was made by our Editors-in-Chief and Executive Editor.

“This is a wonderful recognition of the group’s hard work over the years.”

Dr Raphaële Clément

University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

2024 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship

Dr Raphaële Clément is an Associate Professor in the Materials Department at UC Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2016 from the University of Cambridge, working under the supervision of Prof. Dame Clare Grey. She then joined the group of Prof. Gerbrand Ceder as a postdoc at UC Berkeley. Since 2018, the Clément group at UC Santa Barbara is interested in establishing materials design rules, and in optimizing materials processing approaches to advance electrochemical energy storage. The group’s expertise lies in the development and deployment of magnetic resonance and magnetometry techniques (experimental and computational) for the study of battery materials and beyond, with an emphasis on real-time, operando analysis. Raphaële’s recent awards include an NSF CAREER Award, a 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the IBA Early Career Researcher Award from the International Battery Association, as well as the Battery Division Early Career Award from the Electrochemical Society. She is a Topical Editor for ACS Energy Letters.

You can keep up to date with Raphaële’s research on her website: https://clement.materials.ucsb.edu/

Discover Raphaële’s RSC publications in this web collection to find out more about her research

Check out our interview with Raphaële below:

How did you feel when you were announced as the winner of the 2024 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship?

I was thrilled. This is a wonderful recognition of the group’s hard work over the years. I have been fortunate to work with talented students and postdocs, so this award goes to them too.

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

This paper (J. Mater. Chem. A, 2022, 10, 21565-21578) lead by a former student, Elias, is a textbook example of the impact of materials synthesis and processing on structure and properties. This is a study of a new class of Na-ion solid conductors, where solid-state NMR was key to understanding their complex defect and polymorphic landscape, and ion transport processes. I am proud of it because this was a complicated puzzle and we solved it!

At which upcoming conferences may our community meet you?

I am often at the MRS, ECS, and ACS conferences, as well as more specialized battery and NMR conferences.

What do you like to do in your free time?

I like to spend time in nature (hiking, backpacking, or on a road trip), exercising (yoga, running), exploring new parts of the world, listening to podcasts, going to concerts, and cooking.

Do you have any advice for Early-Career researchers who wish to be nominated for the 2025 JMC Lectureship award?

Don’t give up! There are many talented Early Career researchers out there, and only one receives the Lectureship every year. I applied several times and this paid off.

Please join us in congratulating Raphaële!

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Welcoming Professor Ricardo Grau-Crespo to the Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances Editorial Boards

We are delighted to welcome Professor Ricardo Grau-Crespo from University of Reading, UK to the Editorial Board of Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances as an Associate Editor.

I’m excited to join the Editorial Board of Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances to contribute to the outstanding work these journals are doing in publishing cutting-edge research with real-world impact in renewable energy and sustainable technologies.

 

I look forward to encouraging and handling submissions related to computational and machine-learning techniques in materials chemistry, especially at a time when AI is driving a remarkable acceleration in the predictive capabilities of computational chemistry. As Associate Editor, I’m keen to help build a diverse and vibrant platform for researchers from around the world, and foster a community that brings together novel ideas, interdisciplinary approaches, and new voices in materials chemistry.

Ricardo Grau-Crespo is an Associate Professor of Materials Theory at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Reading, where he leads a research group focused on the computer modelling of energy materials.

His research uses a combination of density functional theory and machine learning techniques to understand and predict the behaviour of materials in thermoelectric, photocatalytic, and other applications. He is also interested in the theory of site-disordered materials and the development of computational tools for calculating their properties. Dr Grau-Crespo earned a BSc and MSc in Physics at the University of Havana, Cuba.

After working for a few years researching zeolite-based catalysts for the Cuban oil industry, Ricardo moved to the UK with an Overseas Research Studentship award to pursue a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London. He then held a postdoctoral position and a subsequent four-year lectureship at University College London, before joining the University of Reading in 2013 where he is currently Research Division Leader for Chemical Sciences. He has published over 110 articles in the field of computational materials science and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).

Read Ricardo’s latest publications in RSC journals below:

Spinel ferrites MFe2O4 (M = Co, Cu, Zn) for photocatalysis: theoretical and experimental insights

Charlotte A. Hall, Pilar Ferrer, David C. Grinter, Santosh Kumar, Ivan da Silva, Juan Rubio-Zuazo, Peter Bencok, Frank de Groot, Georg Held and Ricardo Grau-Crespo

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, Advanced Article

Ultralow thermal conductivity in defect pyrochlores: balancing mass fluctuation scattering and rattling modes

Natasha Ormerod, Anthony V. Powell, Ricardo Grau-Crespo, Richard K. B. Gover and Christina J. Cox

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024,12, 22668-22678

Thank you for joining us in welcoming Ricardo Grau-Crespo to the Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances Editorial Boards.

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Photofunctional materials and transformations Guest edited by Professor Li-Zhu Wu

A collaborative themed collection from Chemical communications, Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

Royal Society of Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Chemical Communications, are delighted to announce the completion of our latest cross journal themed collection on Photofunctional Materials and Transformations.

Photofunctional Materials and Transformations. Guest edited by Li-Zhu Wu, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, CAS, China. Free to read until 20th July 2023.

This collaborative collection was guest edited by Professor Li-Zhu Wu, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, CAS, China.

Photofunctional materials and transformations are lively fields dedicated to the utilization and transduction of photons for fundamental understanding and diverse applications. It arouses interdisciplinary interests in physics, chemistry, material science, biology, photonics and engineering, which stimulates breakthroughs in photovoltaics, photolithography, photoelectronics, photocatalysis, photobiology and phototherapy. The charm of photofunctional materials and transformations attracts a growing number of researchers that push forward this field with inspiration and endeavor. We hope the themed issue will present the landscape of photochemistry in diverse and burgeoning branches.

All articles are free to access until 20th July 2023 You can find a selection of our articles featured in this collection below.

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Chemical Communications

 

Have an idea for our next themed collection? Suggest a topic using our online form.

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

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.

 

Banner with photos of Guest editors: Dr. Moran Balaish, Prof. Helge Sören Stein, Prof. Arghya Bhowmik, Prof. John Gregoire Background: Journal of Materials Chemistry A background image (Earth with 3D modelled molecules linking around the globe)

 

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: 13th 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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