Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

Journal of Materials Chemistry is publishing a themed issue in celebration of the 70th birthday of Professor Fred Wudl later this year; however as there’s a symposium in honor of Fred Wudl’s 70th birthday starting on the 7th January I thought I’d give you a sneak preview of the articles.

• Fred Wudl. Discovering new science through making new molecules
• The thiophene/phenylene co-oligomers: exotic molecular semiconductors integrating high-performance electronic and optical functionalities
• Materials chemistry of fullerene C₆₀ derivatives 
• A review of powder modifications in conventional glass-ionomer dental cements
• Chalcogenoarene semiconductors: new ideas from old materials
• Alkoxy-substituted poly(arylene-ethynylene)-alt-poly(arylene-vinylene)s: synthesis, electroluminescence and photovoltaic applications
• Exotic materials for bio-organic electronics
• Unexpected and selective formation of an (e,e,e,e)-tetrakis-[60]fullerene derivative via electrolytic retro-cyclopropanation of a D_2h-hexakis-[60]fullerene adduct
• Polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells: function and utility of inserting a hole transport and electron blocking layer into the device structure
• Tuning of electronic properties and rigidity in PEDOT analogs
• Carbon nanotubes from short hydrocarbon templates. Energy analysis of the Diels–Alder cycloaddition/rearomatization growth strategy
• Polymer solar cells based on diphenylmethanofullerenes with reduced sidechain length
• Efficient oxide phosphors for light upconversion; green emission from Yb³⁺ and Ho³⁺ co-doped Ln₂BaZnO₅ (Ln = Y, Gd)
• Charge and energy transfer processes in ruthenium(II) phthalocyanine based electron donor–acceptor materials—implications for solar cell performance
• Synthesis and properties of a triphenylene–butadiynylene macrocycle
• Probing magnetic interactions in columnar phases of a paramagnetic gold dithiolene complex
• Preparation, characterization, and photoswitching/light-emitting behaviors of coronene nanowires
• Varied nanostructures from a single multifunctional molecular material
• The return of photoelastic stress measurements: utilizing birefringence to monitor damage and repair in healable materials
• Diffusion of Al, O, Pt, Hf, and Y atoms on α-Al₂O₃(0001): implications for the role of alloying elements in thermal barrier coatings
• Glutathione S-transferase as a general and reversible tag for surface immobilization of proteins
• Electronic, redox and charge transport properties of an unusual hybrid structure: a bis(septithiophene) bridged by a fused tetrathiafulvalene (TTF)
• New stable donor–acceptor dyads for molecular electronics
• A comparative theoretical study of exciton-dissociation and charge-recombination processes in oligothiophene/fullerene and oligothiophene/perylenediimide complexes for organic solar cells
• A solid-state switch containing an electrochemically switchable bistable poly[n]rotaxane
• Preparation, magnetism and electronic structures of cadmium technetates
• Computational assessment of 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions to graphene
• C₆₀ dimers connected through pleiadene bridges: fullerenes talking to each other
• Dual [proton]/[hole] mixed valence in a molecular metal: balancing chemical activity in the solid state by tapping into a molecular hole reservoir
• Magnetostructural studies of palladium(II) and platinum(II) complexes of verdazyl radicals
• Liquid crystalline phthalocyanine–fullerene dyads
• Side chain engineering of fused aromatic thienopyrazine based low band-gap polymers for enhanced charge carrier mobility
• Optimizing reaction conditions for synthesis of electron donor-[60]fullerene interlocked multiring systems
• Mixed selenium-sulfur fused ring systems as building blocks for novel polymers used in field effect transistors
• Photoinduced electron transfer in a clicked fullerene–porphyrin conjugate
• Synthesis, crystallization, electrochemistry and single crystal X-ray analysis of a methoxy-substituted-tris-phenalenyl based neutral radical
• Using bis(pinacolato)diboron to improve the quality of regioregular conjugated co-polymers
• Protection of lithium metal surfaces using tetraethoxysilane
• Small band gap copolymers based on furan and diketopyrrolopyrrole for field-effect transistors and photovoltaic cells

Don’t forget Journal of Materials Chemistry is publishing a themed issue on Chemical Transformations of Nanoparticles with Professor Dmitri Talapin (University of Chicago, USA) and Professor Yadong Yin (University of California, Riverside, USA) as the Guest Editors.

The deadline for the receipt of manuscripts for this themed issue is 25^th January 2011.

Manuscripts can be submitted using our online submission service. Please indicate on you submission letter that your manuscript is submitted in response to the call for papers for the Chemical Transformations of Nanoparticles themed issue.

Journal of Materials Chemistry issue 46 is a themed issue on Modelling of Materials with guest editors Julian D. Gale and Mark Wilson.  They indroduce the topic in thier editorial which you can read here. 

The paper featured on the front cover is ‘Titania-water interactions: a review of theoretical studies’ by Chenghua Sun, Li-Min Liu, Annabella Selloni, Gao Qing (Max) Lu and Sean C. Smith which reviews major theoretical outcomes regarding the interaction of water with TiO₂ surfaces.

The paper featured on the inside cover is ‘Linear aggregation and liquid-crystalline order: comparison of Monte Carlo simulation and analytic theory’ by Tatiana Kuriabova, M. D. Betterton and Matthew A. Glaser in which the team studies coupled linear aggregation and liquid crystal ordering with a new coarse-grained sticky cylinder model.

Journal of Materials Chemistry issue 42 is now online.  This themed issue showcases some of the latest research in the field of hybrid materials. Articles in this issue discuss the exciting new developments around the synthesis and applications of these materials. Guest editors Pierre Rabu and Andreas Taubert introduce the issue in their editorial which you can read here.

The paper featured on the front cover is ‘Algae–silica systems as functional hybrid materials’ by Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky and colleagues in Spain from the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid and the Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona.

Journal of Materials Chemistry issue 40 was part of a themed issue on tissue engineering.  This themed issue, published simultaneously with one in Soft Matter on the same topic, showcases some of the recent advances in the area of biomaterials engineering for tissue fabrication and regenerative medicine. Guest editors Molly M. Stevens and Ali Khademhosseini introduce the issue in their editorial which can be read here.

The paper featured on the outside front cover is ‘Mussel-inspired functionalization of carbon nanotubes for hydroxyapatite mineralization’ by Chan Beum Park and colleagues from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejon, Korea.

The inside front cover features  ‘Unique electrochemically synthesized polypyrrole:poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) blends for biomedical applications’  by Leandro Forciniti, Christine E. Schmidt and colleagues at the The University of Texas at Austin, USA.

The papers published in Soft Matter (Issue 20, 2010) as part of the joint themed issue are available here.

Submit your best work to this high profile themed issue with Guest Editor Christoph Weder.

Journal of Materials Chemistry is delighted to announce a high-profile themed issue on Mechanoresponsive Materials to be published in 2011. The guest editor of the issue will be Professor Christoph Weder (Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland). The key aim is to highlight the most important areas and directions in this field within a high quality and high impact issue.

The deadline for the receipt of manuscripts for this themed issue is: 30th October 2010.

Submissions, either communications or full papers, should be high-quality manuscripts of original, unpublished research, containing important new insight. All submissions will be subject to rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of Journal of Materials Chemistry.

Manuscripts can be submitted using our online submission service. Please indicate on your submission letter that your manuscript is submitted in response to the call for papers for the Mechanoresponsive Materials themed issue.