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Call for papers: sustainable catalysis

21 May 2025

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

Guest Editors: Prof. Mario J. Muñoz-Batista (University of Granada, Spain), Prof. Bo Weng (Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Prof. Choe Earn Choong (Kwangwoon University, South Korea), Prof. Asim Bhaumik (School of Materials Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India), Prof. Damien Debecker (University of Louvain, Belgium)

You are welcome to submit an article within the scope before 28 November 2025

Both Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances are happy to receive contributions to this collection.

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

Sustainable catalysis can be defined as a multidisciplinary approach that integrates environmental, economic, and social factors to develop catalytic processes that are viable over the long term. This field focuses on creating and utilizing catalysts that enhance the efficiency and selectivity of chemical reactions while minimizing environmental impact and promoting resource conservation. Key aspects include the development of materials using environmentally friendly synthesis techniques or waste-derived materials, transforming waste into valuable resources, and addressing critical environmental challenges. Additionally, sustainable catalysis emphasizes the synergistic use of energy, optimizing processes to reduce energy consumption and enhance overall efficiency.

This includes, but is not limited to, the use of electro-catalytic, photo-catalytic, piezoelectric, sonocatalytic, mechanochemical, and enzymatic catalysis schemes, as well as combinations of these energy forms to achieve synergistic effects. In this collection, we welcome perspectives, review articles and full papers on any of these topics.

There are no costs associated with publishing in Journal of Materials Chemistry A, unless you wish to publish your work open access. Get in touch if you would like more information.

Publishing open access with RSC journals unlocks the full potential of your research – bringing increased visibility, wider readership and higher citation potential to your work. As a not-for-profit organisation serving the chemical sciences community, we ensure that our article processing charge (APC) remains the most competitive of major publishers. More details can be found here and the APC for Materials Advances is £2100. You can also use our journal finder tool to check if your institution currently has an agreement with the RSC that may entitle you to a discount of the APC.

Get to know the Guest Editors

	Prof. Mario J. Muñoz-Batista University of Granada, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1419-0592 Mario J. Muñoz-Batista is a Professor at the University of Granada. He obtained his PhD in Applied Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Madrid – Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry (CSIC). His research expertise lies in the development of innovative methods for material preparation and the mathematical modelling of energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable chemical processes. His work spans a broad range of applications, from effluent treatment to novel pathways for chemical production, fuel generation, and the development of emerging energy vectors, with a strong emphasis on catalytic processes and waste valorization. He has authored more than 110 SCI-indexed articles (h-index = 37), holds two patents, and has contributed to several books and book chapters. He also serves in editorial roles for various leading journals in his field.
	Prof. Bo Weng Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8337-219X Dr. Bo Weng is currently a professor at the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Fuzhou University, China, in 2018. Following his doctorate, he pursued postdoctoral research at Xiamen University and KU Leuven, supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (Individual Fellowships) and the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO) Postdoctoral Fellowships. His research primarily focuses on photocatalysis and photo-assisted AOPs for environmental remediation. He has published 84 papers, achieving an h-index of 38 and 5556 citation (Google Scholar). As the first author or corresponding author, I have published 46 papers including *Nature Review Clean Technology,* *Nature Communications, Angewandte Chemie – International Edition (x3), Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Chem* et al. I am invited to serve as the Editorial Board Member of NPJ Clean Water (JCR Q1 IF 10.4), Scientific Reports (JCR Q1 IF3.8), Carbon Energy (JCR Q1 IF 19.5), Next-generation advisors of Chem (JCR Q1 IF 19.1), Youth Editorial Board Member of Chinese Chemical Letters (JCR Q1 IF 9.4), EcoMat (JCR Q1 IF 10.4), EcoEnergy, and Guest editor of Chem, Advanced Functional Materials, Carbon Energy, ChemSusChem, RSC Materials Advances et al.
	Prof. Choe Earn Choong Kwangwoon University, South Korea https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3921-778X Choe Earn Choong is a Research Professor in the Environmental Engineering Department Kwangwoon University, South Korea. In 2018, she received the Ph.D in Environmental Engineering from the University Malaya, Malaysia. Her research interests in developing nanomaterials include advanced oxidation catalysts, plasma catalysts, and adsorbents for water and wastewater treatment. She has published more than 50 scientific papers and was granted 10 patents in the nanomaterial’s development for water treatment. In addition, she is one of the editors for Separation and Purification Technology and Journal of Water Process Engineering.
	Prof. Asim Bhaumik School of Materials Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4907-7418 Prof. Asim Bhaumik received his PhD in Chemistry in 1997 from National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. Then he was JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Tokyo during 1997-1999. After that he moved to Toyota Central R & D Labs Nagoya, Japan during 1999-2001 as Associate Researcher. Then he joined Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India where he is currently a Senior Professor. His area of research interest includes designing novel microporous and mesoporous materials for several frontline applications like gas storage (H₂/CO₂), adsorptive removal of heavy metal ions and other pollutants from contaminated water, heterogeneous catalysis for the synthesis of fine chemicals, CO₂ utilization reactions for the synthesis of fuels and chemicals, CO₂ reduction, synthesis of biofuels, electrochemical water splitting and CO₂ photoreduction. He has published over 530 original research articles with citations over 28500. He is in the Associate Editor of Green Chemistry and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).
	Prof. Damien Debecker University of Louvain, Belgium https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6500-2996 Damien Debecker and his team develop innovative catalytic materials for sustainable chemistry applications. They target three main objectives: (i) the upgrading of biomass and bio-based platform chemicals (glycerol, lignocellulose and lignin-derived monomers, ethanol, short carboxylic acids, triglycerides, sugars, etc.) to valuable molecules, (ii) the capture of CO2 and its conversion, and (iii) greener organic synthesis processes using enzymes, hybrid catalysis approaches and process integration. To do so, they implement ad-hoc strategies to immobilize enzymes into/onto catalytically active solid materials. Another important line of research of the Debecker lab is the utilization of (reactive) spray drying techniques to manufacture original catalytic materials.

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Call for papers: Organic transistors and related devices

13 May 2025

We are delighted to announce an open call for papers to our new themed collection in Materials Advances focusing on organic transistors!

Guest Editors: Professor Tsuyoshi Michinobu (Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan), Professor Prashant Sonar (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Dr. Waner He (Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan)

You are welcome to submit an article within the scope before 30 November 2025

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

The Guest Editors aim to highlight recent advances in organic transistors and related devices, with a particular focus on organic field-effect transistors (OFETs), organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs), and organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs). The collection will explore technological and material innovations that are propelling the development of high-performance, flexible, wearable, and environmentally sustainable electronics. Topics of interest include molecular design strategies, materials synthesis, charge transport, and device engineering. The collection also welcomes contributions on emerging applications such as sensing, logic circuits, neuromorphic computing, and biomedical diagnostics. By bridging material innovation with device performance, this issue aims to accelerate the practical implementation of next-generation organic electronics and foster interdisciplinary collaboration across physics, chemistry, and materials science.

We are happy to consider both review articles and primary research work.

Publishing open access with RSC journals unlocks the full potential of your research – bringing increased visibility, wider readership and higher citation potential to your work. As a not-for-profit organisation serving the chemical sciences community, we ensure that our article processing charge (APC) remains the most competitive of major publishers. More details can be found here and the APC for Materials Advances is £2100. You can also use our journal finder tool to check if your institution currently has an agreement with the RSC that may entitle you to a discount of the APC.

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Open call for papers: Supramolecular Peptide and Protein Systems

07 May 2025

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to a new themed collection on Supramolecular Peptide & Protein Systems: from Design to Applications to be published in Materials Advances by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Promotional slide of 'Supramolecular Peptide & Protein Systems' Materials Advances themed collection with photos of Guest Editors and submission deadline (30 Nov 2025).

Materials Advances publishes quality research across the breadth of materials science. The journal is indexed in all major indexes, with an impact factor of 5.2 (2023 Journal Citation Reports, Clarivate Analytics).

We invite a broad range of submissions, including original research articles, reviews, and perspectives. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Rational design strategies for supramolecular peptide/protein systems using computational tools to predict and guide assembly behavior.
Characterization methods for studying self-assembly, stability, and molecular interactions.
Therapeutic applications such as peptide-based drug delivery systems, immunotherapies, and protein mimetics.
Materials science applications include biomaterials, tissue engineering scaffolds, and sensors.
Nanotechnology, including peptide/protein-based nanomaterials, molecular machines, and nanoelectronics.
Diagnostic applications involving biosensors, diagnostic agents, and biomolecule detection.
Sustainability, with an emphasis on biodegradable materials and bio-based production methods.

Submit before 30th November 2025.

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

Publishing open access with RSC journals unlocks the full potential of your research – bringing increased visibility, wider readership and higher citation potential to your work. As a not-for-profit organisation serving the chemical sciences community, we ensure that our article processing charge (APC) remains the most competitive of major publishers. More details can be found here and the standard APC for Materials Advances is £2,100 (+local taxes if applicable). There is a 15% RSC member and RSC open access agreement discount available (applicable to full price only). You can also use our journal finder tool to check if your institution currently has an agreement with the RSC that may entitle you to a discount of the APC.

This themed collection is Guest Edited by:

Dr Daniela Kalafatovic (University of Rijeka)

ORCID: 0000-0002-9685-1162

Dr Ana M. Garcia (University of Castilla La Mancha)

ORCID: 0000-0003-0482-849X

Dr Veronica Dodero (Bielefeld University)

ORCID: 0000-0001-7937-1880

Dr Ivan R. Sasselli (Materials Physics Center (CFM/MPC), CSIC-UPV/EHU)

ORCID: 0000-0001-6062-2440

Dr Jacek Wychowaniec (AO Research Institute Davos)

ORCID: 0000-0002-6597-5242

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Perspective on the technologies of OLEDs – Open Call for Submissions

29 Apr 2025

Submit your research until 23 July 2025

We are delighted to announce this open call for papers to contribute to a themed collection for Journal of Materials Chemistry C entitled Perspective on the technologies of OLEDs, guest edited by Professors Chihaya Adachi (Kyushu University, Japan), Subrata Ghosh (IIT Mandi, India), P. Rajamalli (Indian Institute of Science, India) and Eli Zysman-Colman (University of St Andrews, UK).

Scope

The last two decades have been revolutionary to the OLED industry as its quantum efficiency has increased more than twentyfold thanks to their exclusive properties such as low power consumption, flexibility, color purity, high efficiency, etc. OLEDs are being explored in many sectors, including consumer electronics, automotive, and biomedical applications. Despite several advantages, a few challenges, including short lifetime and production costs, remain a bottleneck for replacing the present display technology in different sectors. The OLED technology bridges various disciplines from material science and device physics to consumer electronics and healthcare applications.

Through this themed collection, Journal of Material Chemistry C provides a unique opportunity to share your research with an interdisciplinary audience and fill the existing knowledge gap to overcome the remaining challenges.

Guest Editors

Professor Chihaya Adachi (Kyushu University, Japan)

Chihaya Adachi is a distinguished professor at Kyushu University and director of Kyushu University’s Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA). He is also director of the Fukuoka i³ center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research. He obtained his doctorate in Materials Science and Technology in 1991 from Kyushu University and held positions as at the Chemical Products R&D Center at Ricoh Co., the Department of Functional Polymer Science at Shinshu University, the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, and Chitose Institute of Science and Technology before returning to Kyushu University as a professor. Adachi’s research combines the areas of chemistry, physics, and electronics to advance the field of organic light-emitting materials and devices from both the materials and device perspectives through the design of new molecules with novel properties, the study of processes occurring in individual materials and complete devices, and the exploration of new device structures, and he has co-authored over 750 research papers. He received the Thomson Reuters Research Front Award in 2016, the Nishina Memorial Prize in 2017, and the Nagoya Silver Medal in 2019. Recently, he has been selected as a Highly Cited Researcher for the period of 2018-2024 and awarded a Purple Ribbon Medal by the Japanese government in 2023 and the SID Jan Rajchman Prize in 2025.

Professor Subrata Ghosh (IIT Mandi, India)

Subrata Ghosh received his doctoral degree from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in the area of organic synthesis. After spending several years in Bar-Ilan University, Case Western Reserve University and University of Leipzig for his postdoctoral studies, he joined Indian Institute of Technology Mandi in 2010 as Assistant Professor. He was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 2008. Currently he is serving IIT Mandi as Professor in the School of Chemical Sciences. Along with his interest in contemporary research, he has a passion for teaching. His research interests include organic synthesis, and functional materials for optoelectronics, surface patterning and imaging applications.

Professor P. Rajamalli (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Dr. P. Rajamalli is an Assistant Professor at MRC, Indian Institute of Science, India. She completed her Ph.D. in 2012, from Indian Institute of Technology Madras on luminescent self-assemblies and their application in various fields. After completing her Ph.D., she did her first post-doc at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. In 2017, she received Marie Curie Fellowship and did her second post-doc at University of St Andrews, UK. Currently, she is working on organic light-emitting diodes, primarily focusing on thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitters, hyperfluorescent devices, and luminescent dendrimers.

Professor Eli Zysman-Colman (University of St Andrews, UK)

Eli Zysman-Colman obtained his Ph.D. from McGill University in 2003 under the supervision of Prof. David N. Harpp as an FCAR scholar, conducting research in physical organic sulfur chemistry. He then completed two postdoctoral fellowships, one in supramolecular chemistry with Prof. Jay Siegel at the Organic Chemistry Institute, University of Zurich as an FQRNT fellow and the other in inorganic materials chemistry with Prof. Stefan Bernhard at Princeton University as a PCCM fellow. He joined the department of chemistry at the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada as an assistant professor in 2007. In 2013, he moved to the University of St Andrews in St Andrews, UK, where he is presently Professor of Optoelectronic Materials, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, holder of an EPSRC open fellowship and the inaugural holder of the St Andrews innovation fellowship. He is a past holder of a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship. His research program focuses on the rational design of: (I) materials for organic light emitting diode (OLED) and light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEEC) device architectures; (II) sensing materials; (III) optical imaging agents; and (III) photocatalyst development for use in organic synthetic reactions.

Submit to Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Please consider contributing to this open call for papers for our upcoming themed collection entitled Perspective on the technologies of OLEDs to be published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

Open for Submissions until 23 July 2025

Submissions to the journal should contain chemistry in a materials context and should fit within the scope of Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Please see the journal’s website for more information on the journal’s scope, standards, article types and author guidelines.

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

Communications
Full papers

If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, you can submit your article directly to the online submission service for Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Please mention that this submission is a contribution to the Perspective on the technologies of OLEDs 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.

Please also note that all submissions will be subject to initial assessment and rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

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In Honor of Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert’s 50th Birthday: Celebrating 25 Years of Shaping Biomaterials in Neuroengineering

07 Apr 2025

In Honor of Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert’s 50th Birthday: Celebrating 25 Years of Shaping Biomaterials in Neuroengineering

Journal of Materials Chemistry B themed collection

We are delighted to open submissions to this special collection honoring the contributions of Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert on the occasion of her 50th Birthday. We will celebrate 25 years of her impact shaping biomaterials in neuroengineering. We welcome articles on all aspects of biomaterials; in particular, those that touch closely on Dr. Sakiyama-Elbert’s scientific interests in spinal cord and peripheral nerve injury. Advances in biomaterials and neural engineering could greatly enhance repair and regeneration efforts. Approaches like biomaterial scaffolds for axonal guidance, supporting stem cell transplants and drug/growth factor delivery to reduce inflammation are promising. Furthermore, bioelectronic devices integrated with regenerating tissue could monitor repair and promote recovery through electrical or optical stimulation. By combining biomaterials, cell therapy, drug delivery, and bioelectronics, future therapies for neural repair and regeneration hold great potential. This special collection aims to highlight cutting-edge research in biomaterials, neural engineering, and regenerative medicine to address these challenges.

Topics that may be covered in the collection may include, but are not limited to:

Biomaterials for biomanufacturing neural stem cells or directing neural stem cell fate
Biomaterials strategies for improving neural organoid engineering
Biomaterials for neuroengineering interfaces (electrodes, BCI, etc.)
Biomaterials for innervating in vitro tissue model
Biomaterials for Nerve Regeneration
Engineering Solutions for Spinal Cord Injuries
Gene Therapy for Nerve Healing
Nerve Guidance Conduits
Materials for supporting cell-based therapies in PNS and CNS repair
Biomaterials for Drug and Growth Factor Delivery in Neuroengineering
Delivery systems for neurotrophic factors (e.g., NGF, BDNF) to promote healing
Electroactive Biomaterials for Nerve Repair
Nanomaterials for Neural Injury Repair
Functionalization of scaffolds with peptides, proteins, or other biomolecules to enhance neural regeneration
Topographical cues in materials to guide nerve regeneration
3D Printed Biomaterials for Nerve Injury
In Vitro Models for Nerve Regeneration Using Biomaterials

Submissions deadline 24 October 2025

How to submit

Submissions to the journal should fit within the scope of Journal of Materials Chemistry B – Please see the journal’s website for more information on the journal’s scope, standards, article types and author guidelines. All manuscripts will undergo the normal initial assessment and peer review processes, if appropriate, in line with the journal’s high standards, managed by the journal editors. Accepted manuscripts will be added to the online collection as soon as they are published and they will be featured in a regular issue of the relevant journal. Please note that peer review or acceptance are not guaranteed.

For this collection, we strongly encourage primary research in the way of Full Papers or Communications. If you are wanting to submit a review-type article, please check with the Editorial Office first for pre-approval and to avoid topic overlap.

If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, please submit your article directly through the journal submissions platform. Please mention that your submission is a contribution to the Biomaterials in Neuroengineering collection in the “Themed issues” section of the submission form and is in response to 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 as such inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed collection is not guaranteed.

If you have any questions about the collection or the submissions process, please do contact the Editorial Office at materialsb-rsc@rsc.org and they will be able to assist.

Your institute may have a Read & Publish agreement in place with the Royal Society of Chemistry. This means that you may be able to publish gold open access for free in all the hybrid journals we publish – maximising the visibility and impact of your article to the broadest possible audience. Your institution’s agreement may already include the article processing charge for publishing as a corresponding author. Check here to find out more and to see if your institution has an R&P deal in place.

Did you know?

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 initial assessment and peer review by our team of in-house Editors and external 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.

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Open call for submissions: Emerging Inorganic Materials for Solar Harvesting

03 Mar 2025

Submit your research until 31 July 2025

We are delighted to announce this open call for papers to contribute to a themed collection for Journal of Materials Chemistry A on Emerging Inorganic Materials for Solar Harvesting in collaboration with ICMAT 2025 Symposium O in Singapore and guest edited by Lydia Helena Wong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Robert Hoye (University of Oxford, UK), Yun Jeong Hwang (Seoul National University, South Korea), Yanwei Lum (National University of Singapore, Singapore) and Frank Osterloh (University of California, Davis, USA).

Scope

In this special themed collection of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, in collaboration with ICMAT 2025 Symposium O in Singapore, we invite submissions of recent emerging inorganic materials for solar energy harvesting devices such as solar cells, solar assisted water splitting and electrochemical CO₂ reduction. Examples include but are not limited to: metal oxides (BiVO₄, Fe₂O₃, FeZrO₂, CuBiO, ZnFe₂O₄, etc, and their derivatives), sulfides (Sb₂S₃, Sb₂Se₃, CuSbS, Se, etc and their derivatives), novel kesterite (CuZnSnS₄ and its novel compounds), metal nitrides (ZnSnN₂, metal oxynitrides (TiON, ZrON, TaON and their derivatives) and other novel materials.

Synthesis, characterizations of emerging inorganic photoabsorbers, charge transporting layers, transparent conductors
Theoretical prediction of novel inorganic materials for solar harvesting.
Nanostructuring strategies for novel inorganic materials
New device structures for photovoltaics, solar water splitting, photocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry, CO₂ reduction and etc.
Novel electrocatalyst design, synthesis, and characterization for solar water splitting, photocatalysis, CO₂ reduction and etc.
High throughput techniques, machine-learning assisted discovery of new materials and etc.
Novel approaches for enhancing light absorption using inorganic materials such as up/down conversion, solar concentrator and etc.
High efficiency solar cells, solar water splitting devices, and photocatalysts

Guest Editors

Lydia Helena Wong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Lydia Wong is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interest is in the structural and chemical modification of semiconductor materials for clean energy and electronic applications, particularly for conversion of solar energy to electricity and fuel. She has published more than 160 publications in international peer reviewed journals and cited more than 10,000 times. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, she serves on editorial boards for leading journals in energy and materials chemistry, including Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

Robert Hoye (University of Oxford, UK)

Robert Hoye is an Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Prof. Hoye obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2014, followed by a postdoc at MIT (2015-2016), and two College research fellowships in Cambridge (2016 – 2020). In 2020, he moved to Imperial College London as a Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer (Aug. 2022 -). In Oct. 2022, he moved to Oxford as Associate Professor. Prof. Hoye’s group focuses on developing inorganic semiconductors for energy applications, particularly focussing on lead-free perovskite-inspired materials.

Yun Jeong Hwang (Seoul National University, South Korea)

Yun Jeong Hwang has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, at Seoul National University since 2021. Her major research topics are electrochemical catalytic reactions for carbon/nitrogen/oxygen utilization such as CO₂, H₂O, N-containing small molecules, Lithium mediated nitrogen reduction reaction, and biomass derivatives upgrading. It also covers in-situ/operando electrochemical Raman and IR analysis to understand the reaction pathways and the catalyst surface. She received a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree from the Chemistry Department of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). She continued her graduate study at the University of California, Berkeley studying charge separation within semiconductor nanowire arrays for photoelectrochemical water splitting. She started her independent research career in the Clean Energy Research Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) before she transferred to Seoul National University. She was one of the pioneer members who initiated the e-chemical (electrochemical CO₂ conversion) project at KIST. She has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances, the Royal Society of Chemistry since 2019. She is a recipient of the 2020 Top 10 Technology Award in Climate Change Response by the Korean Government Ministerial Commendation and the 2020 Top 100 National R&D Award (Project Investigator Yun Jeong Hwang), by the Korean Government. She was selected as a Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST) member in 2022 and Women Scientists at the Forefront of Energy Research by ACS Energy Letters in 2023.

Yanwei Lum (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Yanwei Lum obtained his BEng degree in Materials Science and Engineering at Imperial College London in 2012. He then received his PhD degree in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 2018 under Prof. Joel W. Ager III. This was followed by a PostDoctoral stint at the University of Toronto with Prof. Edward H. Sargent. He joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore as an Assistant Professor in 2021. His research interests include electrocatalysis, CO₂ conversion, electroorganic reactions and hydrogen storage. He has a H-index of 37 and his publications have been cited >9000 times. In his independent career, he has published in top international journals such as Nat. Chem., Nat. Commun., Sci. Adv. and J. Mater. Chem. A as the corresponding author.

Frank Osterloh (University of California, Davis, USA)

Frank Osterloh is a professor of Chemistry at the University of California at Davis, in the United States. His research interests are centered on the chemical and photophysical properties of inorganic materials and their use for solar energy conversion. This includes the development of photocatalysts for overall water splitting (artificial photosynthesis), inorganic photovoltaic cells, and the study of photochemical charge transfer reactions with surface photovoltage spectroscopy.

Submit to Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Please consider contributing to this open call for papers for our upcoming themed collection on Emerging Inorganic Materials for Solar Harvesting to be published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

Submissions to the journal should contain chemistry in a materials context and should fit within the scope of Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Please see the journal’s website for more information on the journal’s 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 July 2025

If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, you can submit your article directly to the online submission service for Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Please mention that this submission is a contribution to the Emerging Inorganic Materials for Solar Harvesting 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.

Please also note that all submissions will be subject to initial assessment and rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

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Functional gel materials – open call for submissions

18 Feb 2025

Submit your work before 21 May 2025

Journal of Materials Chemistry C is pleased to announce an open call for papers for our upcoming themed collection on functional gel materials.

This themed collection centers on the materials chemistry of functional gels, with a particular focus on their applications in optics and electronics. Highlighting advances in ionogels, hydrogels, and related soft materials, the collection explores the chemical design, synthesis, and characterization of these gel materials, and their potential in devices such as actuators, sensors, and stretchable electronics. Emphasis is placed on the molecular interactions and structural properties that enable these materials to exhibit unique optical and electronic functionalities.

JMCC Open Call for Papers - functional gel materials. Submit by 21 May 2025.

Guest Edited by Professors David Mecerreyes (POLYMAT – University of the Basque Country, Spain), Jeong-Yun Sun (Seoul National University, South Korea) and Xiaomin Xu (Tsinghua University, China), this Journal of Materials Chemistry C collection aims to drive forward the development of next-generation technologies that rely on the integration of advanced gel materials.

Submission deadline 21 May 2025

The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of both the journal and the collection, and as such inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed collection is not guaranteed.

How to submit

Submissions to the journal should contain chemistry in a materials context and should fit within the scope of Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Please see the journal’s website for more information on the journal’s scope, standards, article types and author guidelines. This call for papers is open for Communications and Full papers.

When ready, please submit your article directly to the submissions platform for Journal of Materials Chemistry C where our editors will assess your submission. Please add a note in the ‘Comments to the Editor’ and ‘Themed collections’ sections of the submission mentioning this is a manuscript for the themed collection on ‘Functional gel materials’ and that it is in response to the ‘Open Call’.

All submissions will be subject to assessment against the journal’s usual scope and standards criteria and sent for peer review only if appropriate. Accepted articles will be published online as soon as they are ready and added to the web collection.

If you have any questions about the collection or the submissions process, please do contact the Editorial Office at materialsc-rsc@rsc.org and they will be able to assist.

Your institute may have a Read & Publish agreement in place with the Royal Society of Chemistry. This means that you may be able to publish gold open access for free in all the hybrid journals we publish – maximising the visibility and impact of your article to the broadest possible audience. Check here to find out more and to see if your institution has an R&P deal in place.

We look forward to receiving your submission!

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Open call for papers – Materials developments in cancer therapeutics

30 Jan 2025

Open call for papers – Materials developments in cancer therapeutics

Submit your work to this Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Biomaterials Science themed collection

Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Biomaterials Science are pleased to welcome submissions to a themed collection on materials developments of cancer therapeutics to be promoted in Autumn 2025.

Submissions deadline 29 April 2025

Given the widespread occurrence of cancer across the world, many researchers are focusing attention on ways in which we can prevent, treat and control cancer. Developments in using more targeted approaches such as gene therapy and nanomedicines, as well as general approaches such as chemotherapy, photothermal therapy and immunotherapy are all being reported to improve therapeutic response to cancer and to cause minimal side effects to unaffected regions of the body. The use of materials in developing and improving treatments is integral and as such this collection aims to collate some of the latest research developments using materials in cancer therapeutics. The broad scope of this collection across Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Biomaterials Science hopes to capture a range of timely research from the fundamentals of materials chemistry to the applications of biomaterials in diagnosing, controlling and treating cancer.

This collection is being guest edited by:

Prof. Jong Seung Kim (Korea University)

Prof. Tao Sun (Fudan University)

Prof. Qingbing Wang (Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine)

Prof. Jennifer Cha (University of Colorado, Boulder)

The collection will largely involve research related to the design, construction and application of engineered materials for cancer therapy. The collection will be structured around three main themes:

Research focusing on new materials and methods for materials design
Fundamental materials chemistry research
Innovative applications of materials

Topics include, but are not limited to;

Development of cancer drug delivery materials
New materials and applications in PDT/PTT/CDT
Targeted drug delivery (nanomedicine, gene therapy)
Photosensitizers
Fluorescence biosensors
Biomaterials in immunotherapy
Tumour models for developing new cancer therapies

Submissions to the journal should fit within the scope of Journal of Materials Chemistry B or Biomaterials Science – Please see the journals’ webpages for more information on the journals’ scopes, standards, article types and author guidelines. We encourage you to submit your work to the journal you feel is most appropriate.

For this collection, we strongly encourage full primary research in the way of Full Papers or Communications. If you are wanting to submit a review-type article, please check with the Editorial Office first for pre-approval and to avoid topic overlap.

When ready, please submit your article directly to the submissions platform for Journal of Materials Chemistry B or Biomaterials Science where our editors will assess your submission. Please add a note in the ‘Comments to the Editor’ and ‘Themed collections’ sections of the submission mentioning this is a manuscript for the themed collection on ‘Cancer therapeutics’ and that it is in response to the ‘Open Call’.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

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International Women’s Day 2025: Feature your work in our materials and nanoscience collections

28 Jan 2025

Celebrating International Women’s Day 2025

Feature your work in our materials or nanoscience collections

Last year, we celebrated some of the amazing women in materials science and nanoscience with two collections highlighting recent work led by women around the world, published in our materials and nanoscience journal portfolios. These collections showcased the impact these leading individuals have on their fields. We were delighted to feature so much exciting research in the collections and look forward to celebrating again in 2025.

If you have published in any of the journals below in 2024 or so far in 2025, and either the first and/or corresponding author of the article is a woman, we would be pleased to feature your work in our 2025 collections!

Materials Horizons
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Journal of Materials Chemistry B
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Materials Advances
Nanoscale Horizons
Nanoscale
Nanoscale Advances

If you are interested, please email materials-rsc@rsc.org with the title of your article, DOI, journal in which your article is featured and a headshot photo of the eligible author by 17 February 2025. The collection will be promoted this International Women’s Day, 8 March 2024. At the Royal Society of Chemistry, we foster a culture of inclusion of women from all walks of life and look forward to continuing to celebrate all of the wonderful women in materials and nanoscience.

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Newly emerged organic optoelectronics: materials and devices

24 Jan 2025

Open Call for Submissions

We are delighted to announce this open call for papers to contribute to a themed collection for Journal of Materials Chemistry C on Newly emerged organic optoelectronics: materials and devices, guest edited by Professors Hao-Li Zhang (Lanzhou University, China), Wei Ma (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China), Liqiang Li (Tianjin University, China), and Zitong Liu (Lanzhou University, China).

Organic optoelectronics is a fascinating and rapidly evolving field. Recently, there have been significant advancements in both materials and devices, which find application in lighting, displays, photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, neural network computing, bioelectronics, flexible and wearable electronics, among others. Some of the key developments include: organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), organic circularly polarized luminescence (OCPL), organic solar cells (OSCs), organic photodetectors (OPDs), organic field-effect transistors (OFETs), organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs), perovskite optoelectronics, etc. The field is interdisciplinary, involving chemistry, physics, and materials science, and continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible with organic optoelectronic devices. This special issue highlights the newly emerged organic materials, and related electronic devices.

Please consider contributing to this open call for papers for our upcoming themed collection on Newly emerged organic optoelectronics: materials and devices to be published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

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

Communications
Full papers

Open for Submissions until 11 May 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 Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Please mention that this submission is a contribution to the Newly emerged organic optoelectronics: materials and devices 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.

Please also note that all submissions will be subject to initial assessment and rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

Guest Editors

Prof. Hao-Li Zhang received his B.Sc and Ph.D from Lanzhou University. He then worked in the University of Leeds and Oxford University as postdoc. In 2004, he was appointed as a full professor by the State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry (SKLAOC) of Lanzhou University. Prof. Hao-Li Zhang’ research interests mainly include: organic functional materials for optoelectronic applications, ultrafast spectroscopy and nanoscale device. He has published more than 300 research papers on peer reviewed journals, with citation more than 15000. His academic reorganizations includes “Asian Raising Stars”, “National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars”, Fellow of Chinese Chemical Society (FCCS) and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He is currently an associate editor of J. Mater. Chem. C and Mater. Adv., and an editorial board member of Chem. Soc. Rev..

Prof. Wei Ma obtained his Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Pierre Marie Curie (Paris 6, France) in 2010 before moving to the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris), France (2010-1011) and North Carolina State University (NCSU) as Postdoc Fellow. He joined the School of Materials Science Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2014 as a professor. His research interests range from new design principles of organic optoelectronic devices, microstructure morphology characterization and control in organic semiconductors, and novel organic semiconductors with improved performance. Prof. Ma has published more than 400 research papers and reviews, including in Nat. Energy, Nat. Electron., Joule, Adv. Mater., Nat. Commun., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. and other well-known journals in materials and chemistry. All papers have cited more than 38,000 times, enabling a high H factor of 92. Prof. Ma has been selected as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2018-2024). He is a leader of Science and Technology Innovation Team in Shaanxi Province and his research results have won the first prize Natural Science in Shaanxi Province. For details, please see the homepage website: https://gr.xjtu.edu.cn/en/web/msewma/home.

Prof. Liqiang Li, winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Vice Dean of School of Science and Institute of Molecular Aggregation Science, Tianjin University. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Nankai University in 2002 and 2005, and his doctorate degree from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008. In the same year, he joined the Institute of Physics, University of Munster, Germany as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2014, he joined Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a researcher. In 2019, he was transferred to Tianjin University. He has been engaged in organic field-effect transistor materials and devices, focusing on the stability of organic semiconductors, controlled doping and charge transport mechanisms. He published more than 90 articles on Nat. Mater. Adv., Mater. Sci. Adv., Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., etc.

Prof. Zitong Liu received his B.Sc from Jilin University, and Ph.D from Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS). In 2020, he was appointed as a full professor by the State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry (SKLAOC) of Lanzhou University. Prof. Zitong Liu’ research interests mainly include the design and synthesis of conjugated materials and their use in organic electronics. He has published more than 150 research papers on peer reviewed journals.

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