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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.

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

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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Open Call for Submissions: All-Polymer Solar Cells

21 Nov 2024

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), Professor Chu-Chen Chueh (National Taiwan University) and Professor Ergang Wang (Chalmers University of Technology).

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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Open call for papers – Molecular Crystals: Mechanics and Photonics

04 Nov 2024

Journal of Materials Chemistry C open call for papers

Molecular Crystals: Mechanics and Photonics

Journal of Materials Chemistry C is delighted to announce an open call for papers to a themed collection on ‘Molecular Crystals: Mechanics and Photonics’ guest edited by Prof. Rajadurai Chandrasekar (University of Hyderabad, India), Prof. Panče Naumov (New York University Abu Dhabi), Prof. Xue-Dong Wang (Soochow University) and Prof. Kristin Hutchins (University of Missouri).

This special issue investigates the extraordinary properties of molecular crystals and their essential role in the management of mechanical and optical energy. It showcases their diverse applications in contemporary scientific and technological domains, such as non-linear optics, sensor technologies, switchable devices, and sophisticated photonic components and circuits. Examples of topics suitable for this collection include, but are not limited to:

Flexible crystals (e.g. elastic, plastic, ferroelastic)
Photomechanical crystals
Salient (thermosalient and photosalient) phenomena
Crystal growth techniques (self-assembly, sublimation, etc) relevant to crystal’s mechanical and optical properties
Crystal-based optical waveguides, cavities, lasers, modulators, etc.
Crystal-based photonic integrated circuits
Crystal OLEDs
Emissive dynamic crystals
Electronic properties of dynamic crystals
Crystal/metal hybrid devices (actuators, sensors, etc)
Molecular crystalline robots
Chiral molecular crystals displaying mechanical and/or photonic properties
Mechanophotonics for microscale crystals
Crystal adaptronics
Epitaxial growth of homo and heterocrystals with photonic functions
2D and 3D patterning of optical crystals
NLO (SHG, TPA, THz, etc) properties of molecular crystals
Crystal milling using FIB lithography
Advanced characterization and micromanipulation techniques
Mathematical modeling of dynamic crystals
Mechanical properties of molecular crystals
Thermodynamics of energy conversion by dynamic crystals
Theoretical understanding of the crystal mechanics and photonics
Dynamic processes in crystals resulting from mechanical flexibility or photonics

Open for Submissions until 28 February 2025

How to submit

We strongly encourage authors to submit primary research (Full paper or Communication) to this themed collection. If you would like to submit a Review-type article, please email the Editorial Office at materialsc-rsc.org to provide an outline to be approved by the Editorial Office.

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 ‘Molecular Crystals’ and that it is in response to the ‘Open Call’.

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Open call for papers from newly appointed principal investigators

03 Oct 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Open Call: Protein Cages as Next Generation Biomaterials

11 Sep 2024

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

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

Submit before 28 February 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

Did you know?

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

We hope you will consider contributing to this new collection.

Meet the Guest Editors:

Kanchan Chauhan

Center of Nanosciences and Nanotechnology UNAM, Mexico

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

Rafael Vazquez Duhalt

CNyn-UNAM, Mexico

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

Sierin Lim

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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

Additional submission information

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

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Open Call: Honorary collection in memory of Professor Dr Helmut Ringsdorf

02 Sep 2024

Honorary collection in memory of Professor Dr Helmut Ringsdorf

Open for Submissions until 20 March 2025

We would like to announce this Open Call for our upcoming Journal of Materials Chemistry B and C honorary collection in memory of Professor Dr Helmut Ringsdorf.

Professor Dr Helmut Ringsdorf (30 July 1929 to 20 March 2023) was a prominent German chemist who died last year on 20 March 2023 at the age of 93. During his entire scientific career, Professor Dr Ringsdorf made significant contributions to the scientific community in the scientific domains of supramolecular chemistry, polymer science, materials science, and biocompatible materials. Professor Dr Helmut Ringsdorf’s contributions have had a lasting impact on both fundamental science and practical applications, making him a highly respected figure in the scientific community. In gratitude for his scientific services, we present this special collection.

Focusing on the same scientific domain of Professor Dr Ringsdorf, this honorary themed collection aims to include the following topics:

Strategic design and architectures of new supramolecular systems and their applications in electronics, optoelectronics, robotics, electro-optics and thermotropics
Design, synthesis and characterization of new symmetric and unsymmetric columnar mesogenic systems
Charge transport mechanism in supramolecular systems. This topic will include an advancement in the electric field and temperature dependent charge transport in supramolecular, π-conjugated and polymeric LC systems
Design of new liquid crystalline materials and their dielectric, ferroelectric, and semiconducting behaviour
Polymer chemistry: Design of new polymeric systems as charge transport materials in solar cells, organic field-effect transistors and light-emitting diodes
Liquid crystal polymers (LCPs) and their applications
Design and synthesis of new organic charge transport materials
Biocompatible materials for biomedical and sensing applications; biodegradable polymers
Design of soft matter-based drug delivery systems, macromolecular drugs and polymer-based drug delivery systems

The Guest Editors welcome submissions that are within the scope of Journal of Materials Chemistry B or Journal of Materials Chemistry C and encourages potential contributors to contact the Editorial Office regarding the suitability of manuscripts for the honorary collection.

This collection is guest edited by Dr Dharmendra Pratap Singh (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale (ULCO), France), Professor Dr Matthias Lehmann (University of Würzburg, Germany), Professor A.S. Achalkumar (IIT Guwahati, India), Professor Sandeep Kumar (Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, India).

For this Open Call, we welcome full Papers and Communications. 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.

We sincerely hope that you will be able to contribute your latest research to this themed collection. We look forward to receiving your manuscripts.

Dr Dharmendra Pratap Singh (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale (ULCO), France)

Dr Dharmendra Pratap Singh is an Associate Professor at the University of the Littoral Opale Coast (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale (ULCO)), France. He is a member of the Unité de Dynamique et Structure des Matériaux Moléculaires (UDSMM) laboratory and head of the first-year cycle of Industrial Engineering at the Engineering School of the ULCO. Dr. Singh obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Physics, University of Lucknow, India in 2016. His current research activities are focused on the columnar materials, discotics, ferroelectrics, nematics and ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals along with their nano-dimensional counterparts for studying the charge transport mechanisms and their applications in energy, sensing, thermoelectricity, optoelectronics, photovoltaics and organic electronics. He has received the Young Scientist Award by the Indian Science Congress in 2017. He is the recipient of the best research award by the Indian Liquid Crystal Society in 2012 and an early career award at Cambridge University in 2013. He was also awarded by a Best Research award by the Korean Display Society (KIDS) in 2015 and the prestigious Raman-Charpak fellowship between India and France. He has published more than 100 research articles in esteemed journals and 4 book chapters. He is also the principal investigator of many projects such as PHC Star, Procore, Galilée, Alliance and Samuel de Champlain with South Korea, Hong Kong, Italy, the United Kingdom, Poland, Belgium and Canada, respectively. Presently, he is serving as a reviewer for more than 35 reputed journals from RSC, ACS, APS, Wiley, Elsevier, AIP, IOP, Springer, Nature, etc. He is also life-time member of the International Liquid Crystal Society, Indian Liquid Crystal Society, and affiliate member of RSC. He is also serving as “Guest Editor” for the Journal of Molecular Liquids (Elsevier).

Professor Dr Matthias Lehmann (University of Würzburg, Germany)

Matthias Lehmann is a Professor in Organic Materials – Soft Materials and Liquid Crystals – since 2011 at the University of Würzburg and held before the prestigious Heisenberg fellowship of the German Science Foundation. He studied Chemistry at the University of Mainz, and began his independent career as a Juniorprofessor at the Chemnitz University of Technology after Postdoc positions at the University of Zaragoza and the Free University of Brussels.

His research interest focus on the synthesis, self-assembly and application of complex soft matter with liquid-crystalline properties as new emerging materials. Special emphasis lays in the structural control, which is studied by comprehensive X-ray scattering methods, modelling and simulation.

Professor A.S. Achalkumar (IIT Guwahati, India)

Achalkumar Ammathnadu Sudhakar is working as a full professor at the Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati from 2019, where he leads the Soft Matter Research Group. He is also associated with the Centre for Sustainable Polymers at IIT Guwahati. He received his PhD from Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS) Bengaluru. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Molecular Nano Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK (2007 to 2009) and at RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wakoshi, Japan (2009 to 2011), before joining IIT Guwahati. He has been the recipient of Indian Liquid Crystal Society Silver Medal 2019, CRS Silver Medal 2023, Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and Fellow of Indian Chemical Society for his research achievements. His research interests fall in the broad area of liquid crystals, supramolecular chemistry, functional polymers, organogels and self-assembled organic semiconductors. He has published around 100 papers and 3 patents. So far 7 students have obtained PhD under his guidance and He has several invited articles and hot articles to his credit. Apart from the academic work, he has also served as a Dean of Outreach Education Program at IIT Guwahati from 2021-2024. He is serving as an Associate Editor for prestigious journals – Materials Advances and Journal of Materials Chemistry C of Royal Society of Chemistry from 2023. He is the life member of Indian Liquid Crystal Society, Chemical Research Society, Society for Polymer Science in India and an invited member for American Chemical Society.

Professor Sandeep Kumar (Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, India)

Dr Sandeep Kumar is a Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India. He obtained his Ph.D. from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 1986. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA during 1988-1994. He worked with Professor Ringsdorf at the University of Mainz, Germany during 1994–1995 prior to joining the Centre for Liquid Crystal Research, Bangalore to start a new Chemistry laboratory. In 2002, he moved to the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore from where he superannuated in November 2019 and joined NMIT.

He was a visiting Research Professor at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC during 1999-2000, at the National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan during 2008 and E.T.S. Walton Visiting Professor at the Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland during 2012-2013. He has also visited many other countries like, U.K., France, Switzerland, Japan, China, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Slovenia, Poland, Italy to deliver lectures.

He has published more than 350 research papers in peer reviewed top-rated international journals; 3 Books, 13 book chapters and 10 patents. These papers have received about 12000 citations with h-index of 49 and I-10 Index of 236 (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AI_wSdAAAAAJ&hl=en).

He was awarded the inaugural LG Philips Display Mid-Career Award by the International Liquid Crystal Society in 2008; Indian Liquid Crystal Society Lifetime achievement award 2020 and Professor Shivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar Lecture Award 2023.

Professor Sandeep Kumar has made outstanding contributions in the field of Liquid Crystals with the highest number of publications on Discotic Liquid Crystals in the world. He is in the world’s top 2% scientists list, published by the Stanford-Elsevier, 2021, 2022, 2023. ScholarGPS has placed him at the 29^th position in the Top 0.05% list of all scholars worldwide in liquid crystal field.

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Open call for papers: Advances in Energy Generation and Conversion Technologies

22 Aug 2024

We are delighted to announce an open call for papers to our new themed collection on Advances in Energy Generation and Conversion Technologies, to be published in Materials Advances.

In recent years, there have been significant developments in energy generation and conversion technologies that emphasize eco-friendly, low-cost, and sustainable approaches. This themed collection broadly focuses on energy technologies including (but not limited to):

Advances in microbial fuel cell (MFC) design, operation, and integration with wastewater systems for simultaneous energy generation and pollutant removal.
Latest battery technology innovations, including solid-state and lithium-sulfur batteries.
Development of sustainable energy materials from natural and renewable resources, such as cellulose-derived carbon and biopolymers.
Construction of advanced materials for efficient solar energy conversion, including perovskite cells and solar windows.
Utilization of carbon-based electrocatalysts derived from waste materials in fuel cells and electrolysers.
CO₂ capture technologies for fuel and material production
Exploration of hydrogen fuel cells for clean energy in transport and stationary power applications.
Leveraging graphene, nanomaterials, and metamaterials to enhance energy conversion, storage, and transmission.

Submit before 15 January 2025

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

Materials Advances publishes quality research across the breadth of materials science. It received its 2023 impact factor of 5.2 (Journal Citation Reports 2024, Clarivate Analytics).

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

This themed collection is Guest Edited by:

Shiv Singh

CSIR- Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute, India

ORCID: 0000-0002-4038-5924

Dr Shiv Singh is currently working as Scientist and Assistant Professor at CSIR-AMPRI, Bhopal, India. He received his PhD (2015) in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He has expertise in the synthesis of novel carbon-based nanomaterials (CNF/CNT/CNP/Graphene/C-dot) for biochemical and energy applications. He did a postdoc at the Korea Institute of Materials Science, South Korea. Currently, he is working on electrode materials for bio/electrochemical reduction of CO₂ to value-added products and bio-energy, hydrogen generation and electrochemical sensors. Dr Singh also received Seal of Excellence certificates from Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions call H2020-MSCA-IF-the European Commission and DST INSPIRE faculty award. He is also a community board member of Materials Horizons and early career board member of Nano-Micro Letters.

Bo Weng
Institute of Urban Environment (CAS), China

ORCID: 0000-0001-8337-219X

Dr Bo Weng is currently a Professor at the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He earned his PhD 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)catalytic ozonation for environmental remediation. He has published 72 papers, achieving an h-index of 33 and 4709 citation (Google Scholar). As the first author or corresponding author, he has published 39 papers including Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater., and Nat. Commun. He has been invited to serve as a (Young) Editorial Board Member of NPJ Clean Water (IF 10.4), Chem (IF 19.1), Carbon Energy (IF 19.5)，EcoMat (IF 10.4), Nexus, EcoEnergy et al. He also serves as a reviewer of Nat. Water, Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater. et al.

Pradip Kumar

CSIR- Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute, India

ORCID: 0000-0002-1996-3697

Dr Pradip Kumar is a Senior Scientist at CSIR-AMPRI, and an Assistant Professor at AcSIR, Bhopal, India. He received his PhD from the School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. After postdoctoral research at KAIST and KIST, Seoul, South Korea, he joined BARC, Mumbai and Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, India as DST Inspire Faculty. His research interest focuses on 2D materials and composites for hydrogen energy storage, thermal management and EMI shielding applications.

Neeraj Dwivedi

CSIR- Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute, India

ORCID: 0000-0003-1232-438X

Dr Neeraj Dwivedi is presently a Principal Scientist at CSIR-Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute, and an Associate Professor at AcSIR, Bhopal, India. He obtained his PhD in 2013 from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. He then worked as postdoctoral fellow between 2013 and 2019 at National University of Singapore, Singapore. His research interests include interface engineering, carbon nanocoatings, 2D materials such as graphene-based materials, MXene, metal oxides and nitrides, and polymer-composites for electronic, optoelectronic, energy, sensing and mechanical applications.

Akshay Modi

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India

ORCID: 0000-0002-0885-6837

Dr Akshay Modi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. His academic journey includes earning a B.Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Srinagar, India, in 2013, followed by an M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, in 2015, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, in 2020. With a broad spectrum of research interests, Dr Modi specializes in membrane science and technology, nanostructured materials, energy devices, water reclamation, gas separations, and biomedical engineering. Dr Modi has received several awards for his outstanding contributions to research.

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