Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

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

We are delighted to announce a new Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances Editor’s Choice Collection on Organic Photovoltaics.

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Associate Editors for Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances, Renaud Demadrille (Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Grenoble, France) and Yana Vaynzof (Technical University of Dresden, Germany), have selected a few outstanding recent manuscripts on organic photovoltaics for this Editor’s Choice Collection. In order to highlight developments in organic photovoltaics, this online collection includes recent manuscripts from Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances on the topic.

All articles in the collection are free to access until 19^th February. You can read the full collection online.

We are delighted to announce a new Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances Editor’s Choice Collection on Machine Learning for Materials Innovation.

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Associate Editor for Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances, Zhen Zhou (Nankai University, China), has selected a few outstanding recent manuscripts on Machine Learning for Materials for this Editor’s Choice collection. In order to highlight developments in Machine Learning for Materials, this online collection includes recent manuscripts from Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances on the topic.

All articles in the collection are free to access until 12^th February 2021. You can read the full collection online.

We would like to congratulate the following poster award winners at the 2020 International Symposium of Materials on Regenerative Medicine.

1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd poster awards were sponsored by Biomaterials Science.

1^st: Jia-Hua Wang; Establishment of Patient Specific Cancer Cell Lines by Membrane Filtration Method via Nylon Mesh Filter and PLGA-Silk Screen Membranes

2^nd: Lan-Yun Chang; Recombinant Thrombomodulin Lectin-like Domain Attenuates Osteoclastogenesis and Periodontal Bone Resorption

3^rd: Tzu-Chieh Huang; Thrombomodulin Facilitates Peripheral Nerve Regeneration through Regulating M1/M2 Switching

Outstanding poster awards (Sponsored by Journal of Materials Chemistry B):

Chun-Ko Wang; Comparative Study of Biomaterials for hPSC Differentiation into MSCs in Xeno-free Conditions

Shih-Heng Chen; An Electrospun Nerve Wrap Comprising Bletilla Striata Polysaccharide with Dual Function for Nerve Regeneration And Scar Prevention

Yi-Kai Hong; TEM1 Expression Contributes to the Pathological Activation in Keloid Fibroblast

Yu-Yi Wu; Hyaluronic Acid Nanoparticles with Gp91 Peptide Loading for Corneal Neovascularization

We are delighted to announce a new Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances Editor’s Choice Collection on hydrothermal materials synthesis.

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Associate Editor for Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances, Miriam Unterlass (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), has selected a few outstanding recent manuscripts on hydrothermal materials synthesis for this Editor’s Choice Collection. In order to highlight developments in hydrothermal materials synthesis, this online collection includes recent manuscripts from Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances on the topic.

All articles in the collection are free to access until 8^th February. You can read the full collection online

Chemistry World has been exploring the ‘holy grails’ of chemistry, set out almost a quarter of a century ago in Accounts of Chemical Research, as part of a special issue.

For each ‘holy grail’, researchers working in the fields today have offered their insights into where these areas of research have gone since the publication of the original articles in 1995.

Ten relevant publications are highlighted as further reading for each ‘holy grail’, and we wanted to share with you the papers highlighted in four of the grails from the Materials family of journals. Also, don’t forget to click the titles below to link through to each Chemistry World ‘holy grail’ article and read more about the progress of each topic over the last 25 years.

Quantum control

A Szokeet al, Entangled light–matter interactions and spectroscopy, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8, 10732 (DOI: 10.1039/d0tc02300k)

Artificial photosynthesis: solar water splitting

S Assavachin et al, Ferroelectric surface photovoltage enhancement in chromium-doped SrTiO₃ nanocrystal photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution, Mater. Adv., 2020, 1, 1382 (DOI: 10.1039/d0ma00463d)

R Irani et al, The role of ultra-thin MnOx co-catalysts on the photoelectrochemical properties of BiVO₄ photoanodes, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8, 5508 (DOI: 10.1039/d0ta00939c)

Artificial enzymes: catalysis by design

D Wang et al, Origins of the peroxidase mimicking activities of graphene oxide from first principles, J. Mater. Chem. B, 2020, (DOI: 10.1039/d0tb01765e)

Congratulations to the authors of the papers highlighted in the series.

Written by Laura Daly, Development Editor

Outstanding Reviewers for Journal of Materials Chemistry C in 2019

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Journal of Materials Chemistry C in 2019, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

Professor Xueyuan Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, ORCID: 0000-0003-0493-839X

Dr Antonio Di Bartolomeo, Universita degli Studi di Salerno, ORCID: 0000-0002-3629-726X

Professor Chuanbo Gao, Xi’an Jiaotong University, ORCID: 0000-0003-3429-3473

Dr Parameswar Iyer, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Dr Hua Li, Minzu University of China, ORCID: 0000-0002-4222-2846

Dr Xinhui Lu, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr Manoj Kumar Mahata, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen II Physikalisches Institut, ORCID: 0000-0002-6066-2263

Dr Stephan Menzel, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, ORCID: 0000-0002-4258-2673

Dr Haichuan Mu, East China University of Science and Technology, ORCID: 0000-0002-4459-239X

Professor Igor Perepichka, Northwestern Polytechnical University, ORCID: 0000-0001-6672-3103

Professor Anjun Qin, South China University of Technology, ORCID: 0000-0001-7158-1808

Professor Yanlin Song, Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, ORCID: 0000-0002-0267-3917

Professor Ben Zhong Tang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, ORCID: 0000-0002-0293-964X

Dr Kaspars Traskovskis, Rigas Tehniska universitate, ORCID: 0000-0003-1416-7533

Dr Roberto Vadrucci, BASF SE, ORCID: 0000-0003-0283-3033

Dr Feng Wang, City University of Hong Kong

Dr Darshana Wickramaratne, US Naval Research Laboratory, ORCID: 0000-0002-1663-1507

Professor Bryan Wong, University of California Riverside, ORCID: 0000-0002-3477-8043

Dr Mingmei Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University

Professor Zhiguo Xia, University of Science and Technology Beijing, ORCID: 0000-0002-9670-3223

Professor Rong-Jun Xie, Xiamen University

Dr Jian Xu, Kyoto Daigaku

Dr Xing Wang Zhang, Institute of Semiconductors Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professor Han Zhang, Shenzhen University

Professor Zhi Zhou, Hunan Agricultural University

We would also like to thank the Journal of Materials Chemistry C board and the materials chemistry community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé. You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre.

Outstanding Reviewers for Journal of Materials Chemistry B in 2019

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Journal of Materials Chemistry B in 2019, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

Dr Hui Chao, Sun Yat-Sen University, ORCID: 0000-0003-4153-5303

Dr Maling Gou, Sichuan University

Dr Umer Hassan, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

Dr Eva Hemmer, Ottawa University, ORCID: 0000-0002-9222-1219

Dr Naoki Kawazoe, Busshitsu Zairyo Kenkyu Kiko

Dr Jingchao Li, Nanyang Technological University, ORCID: 000-0002-2651-171X

Dr Xiaomeng Li, Zhengzhou University

Dr Kaili Lin, Tongji University

Dr Juewen Liu, University of Waterloo, ORCID: 0000-0001-5918-9336

Dr Wenguang Liu, Tianjin University School of Materials Science and Engineering, ORCID: 0000-0002-4216-2070

Professor Zhiyong Liu, Shihezi University

Professor Jonathan Lovell, University at Buffalo – The State University of New York, ORCID:

Professor Sung Young Park, Korea National University of Transportation

Professor Xiaozhong Qu, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ORCID: 0000-0002-4050-6079

Professor Ming-You Shie, China Medical University, ORCID: 0000-0002-0650-4344

Dr Xiangzhi Song, Central South University

Professor Emmanuel Theodorakis, University of California San Diego

Dr Carole Thomas, Institut Curie

Dr Shouju Wang, Nanjing Medical University, ORCID: 0000-0001-9213-6818

Professor Gang Wei, Qingdao University

Professor Guobao Xu, Chang Chun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, ORCID: 0000-0001-9747-0575

Professor Xian-Zhu Yang, South China University of Technology

Professor Lin Yuan, Soochow University, ORCID: 0000-0001-6966-8584

Dr Yuan-Di Zhao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, ORCID: 0000-0002-4286-4275

Dr Aihua Zou, East China University of Science and Technology, ORCID: 0000-0002-7672-828X

We would also like to thank the Journal of Materials Chemistry B board and the materials chemistry community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé. You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre.