Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

We invite you to nominate exceptional materials chemistry researchers for the prestigious 2022 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship. Do you know an outstanding emerging scientist who deserves recognition? Nominate them today for a chance to win this respected award!

Established in 2010, this international lectureship honours early-career scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of materials chemistry, with previous recipients including Serena Corr, Shaojun Guo, Christopher Bettinger, Henry Snaith and last year’s winner Maria Escudero-Escribano.

For more information and details on eligibility criteria and how to nominate a candidate, please visit the Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship webpage.

The deadline for nominations is 13 June 2022

We are delighted to present this Journal of Materials Chemistry B themed issue on Bioinspired Surfaces Engineering for Biomaterials, guest edited by Professor Jian Ji (Zhejiang University), Professor Kazuhiko Ishihara (The University of Tokyo), Professor Shaoyi Jiang (Cornell University), Professor M. Cristina L. Martins (Universidade do Porto) and Professor G. Julius Vancso (University of Twente).

Understanding the sophisticated functionalities offered by objects and processes found in nature will guide the design of materials with desirable properties to meet challenging applications. Zwitterionic and other materials, inspired by biological structures and functions at different levels (e.g. cell membrane, protein, tissues etc.) have shown great potential in diagnostic, drug delivery and tissue regeneration applications.

This themed issue of Journal of Materials Chemistry B is focused on recent rapid development in bioinspired biomaterials. It aims at covering the recent progress on zwitterionic materials specifically and other bioinspired biomaterials broadly, including properties, applications, and synthesis of bioinspired and zwitterionic materials related to biology and medicine, bioinspired surfaces/interfaces, fabrication and functionality of bioinspired nanoparticles, high-throughput methods and applications in nanomedicine, nanodiagnostics, medical devices, sensors, and scaffolds for tissue regeneration.

We are delighted to announce a new Journal of Materials Chemistry C Editor’s Choice Collection on spiro compounds for electronics.

Advisory Board member for Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Cyril Poriel (Université de Rennes and CNRS, France), has selected outstanding recent manuscripts on spiro compounds for electronics for this Editor’s choice collection. In order to highlight developments in spiro compounds, this collection features articles from Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances You can read the full collection online.

We are pleased to announce a Journal of Materials Chemistry C themed issue ‘Materials for molecular electronics and magnetism’, honouring of Professor Jaume Veciana and Professor Concepció Rovira.

Guest edited by Fabio Biscarini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Eugenio Coronado (University of Valencia), Anna Painelli (University of Parma) and Masahiro Yamashita (Tohoku University), this issue aims to illustrate the current relevance of functional molecular materials in electronics and magnetism. This covers from the chemical design and manipulation of novel molecular materials with unprecedented control over their properties, even at the single-molecule level, to the possibilities opened by exploiting the unique features of these molecular systems in emerging fields such as bioelectronics and molecular spintronics.

This issue is a tribute to Jaume Veciana and Concepció Rovira, from the Institut de Ciencia dels Materials de Barcelona (Spain), in occasion of their 70th birthdays. Their intense work as chemists and materials scientists has led to seminal contributions in diverse areas of molecular electronics and magnetism.

A small selection of articles from the issue is provided below, and you can read all of the articles from the issue online.

Editorial

Materials for molecular electronics and magnetism

Fabio Biscarini, Eugenio Coronado, Anna Painelli and Masahiro Yamashita

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021, 9, 10521–10523 DOI: 10.1039/D1TC90161C

Reviews and Perspectives

Solid-solution (alloying) strategies in crystalline molecular conductors

Marc Fourmigué

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021, 9, 10557–10572 DOI: 10.1039/D1TC02160E

Perspectives for polychlorinated trityl radicals

Imma Ratera, Jose Vidal-Gancedo, Daniel Maspoch, Stefan T. Bromley, Núria Crivillers and Marta Mas-Torrent

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021, 9, 10610–10623 DOI: 10.1039/D1TC02196F

Articles

Modulation of the electronic states and magnetic properties of nickel catecholdithiolene complex by oxidation-coupled deprotonation

So Yokomori, Shun Dekura, Akira Ueda, Reiji Kumai, Youichi Murakami and Hatsumi Mori

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021, 9, 10718–10726 DOI: 10.1039/D1TC01111A

Dysprosium–dianthracene framework showing thermo-responsive magnetic and luminescence properties

Qian Zou, Tao Shang, Xin-Da Huang, Qing-Qing Guo, Jia-Ge Jia, Song-Song Bao, Yi-Quan Zhang and Li-Min Zheng

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021, 9, 10749–10758 DOI: 10.1039/ D1TC01027A

Statics and dynamics of ferroelectric domains in molecular multiaxial ferroelectric (Me₃NOH)₂[KCo(CN)₆]

Wei-Jian Xu,  Konstantin Romanyuk, Ying Zeng, Andrei Ushakov, Vladimir Shur, Alexander Tselev, Wei-Xiong Zhang, Xiao-Ming Chen,   Andrei Kholkin and João Rocha

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021, 9, 10741–10748 DOI: 10.1039/D1TC01261D

Journal of Materials Chemistry B is pleased to announce an upcoming themed issue on Bioinspired surfaces engineering of biomaterials, due for publication online in early 2022. The issue is being Guest Edited by Professor Jian Ji (Zhejiang University), Professor Kazuhiko Ishihara (The University of Tokyo), Professor Shaoyi Jiang (Cornell University), Professor M. Cristina L. Martins (Universidade do Porto) and Professor G. Julius Vancso (University of Twente).

Deadline for submission: 25^th October 2021

If you would like to submit a Paper or Communication for this themed issue, you can contribute your article directly through the journal’s online submission service at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jmchemb. Please add a “note to the editor” in the submission form to indicate that your manuscript is a submission for this themed issue.

Submissions to the journal should contain chemistry in a materials context and should fit within the scope of Journal of Materials Chemistry B, materials with applications in biology and medicine. Please see the journal’s website for more information on the journal’s scope, standards, article types and author guidelines. Please be aware that that the Editorial Office will assess submissions for their suitability for the scope of the themed issue and only those within scope will be included in the collection.

Scope of the issue

Understanding the sophisticated functionalities offered by objects and processes found in nature will guide the design of materials with desirable properties to meet challenging applications. Zwitterionic and other materials, inspired by biological structures and functions at different levels (e.g. cell membrane, protein, tissues etc.) have shown great potential in diagnostic, drug delivery and tissue regeneration applications.

In this context, it is pertinent to compile this themed issue focused on recent rapid development in bioinspired biomaterials. This themed issue of Journal of Materials Chemistry B aims at covering the recent progress on zwitterionic materials specifically and other bioinspired biomaterials broadly, including properties, applications, and synthesis of bioinspired and zwitterionic materials related to biology and medicine, bioinspired surfaces/interfaces, fabrication and functionality of bioinspired nanoparticles, high-throughput methods and applications in nanomedicine, nanodiagnostics, medical devices, sensors, scaffolds for tissue regeneration etc.

Professor Jian Ji, Zhejiang University, Associate Editor, Journal of Materials Chemistry B

Professor Kazuhiko Ishihara, The University of Tokyo

Professor Shaoyi Jiang, Cornell University

Professor M. Cristina L. Martins, Universidade do Porto

Professor G. Julius Vancso, University of Twente