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Materials Horizons 10th Anniversary Cover

31 Oct 2023

 

As part of the 10th Anniversary celebrations, a special cover image was created based on your votes for the best 10 covers from the last 10 years.

2014

Ultrasonication-switched formation of dice- and cubic-shaped fullerene crystals and their applications as catalyst supports for methanol oxidation
Ying Xu, Xiang Chen, Fupin Liu, Xi Chen, Jianhe Guo and Shangfeng Yang  

2015

Versatile third components for efficient and stable organic solar cells
Pei Cheng and Xiaowei Zhan

2016 

Mechanical meta-materials

Amir A. Zadpoor

2017

A new class of chiral semiconductors: chiral-organic-molecule-incorporating organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites
Jihoon Ahn, Eunsong Lee, Jeiwan Tan, Wooseok Yang, Bokyung Kim and Jooho Moon

2018

PLUS-M: a Porous Liquid-metal enabled Ubiquitous Soft Material

Hongzhang Wang, Bo Yuan, Shuting Liang, Rui Guo, Wei Rao, Xuelin Wang, Hao Chang, Yujie Ding, Jing Liu and Lei Wang

2019

Seamless interconnections of sp2-bonded carbon nanostructures via the crystallization of a bridging amorphous carbon joint
Longze Zhao, Yong Cheng, Qiaobao Zhang and Ming-Sheng Wang

2020

Air-stable means more: designing air-defendable lithium metals for safe and stable batteries
Jingyi Wu, Lixia Yuan, Zhen Li, Xiaolin Xie and Yunhui Huang

2021

Tilt and shift polymorphism in molecular perovskites
Stefan Burger, Shivani Grover, Keith T. Butler, Hanna L. B. Boström, Ricardo Grau-Crespo and Gregor Kieslich

image created by Dr Johannes Richers (Jo Richers Studio)

2022

Semi-paracrystallinity in semi-conducting polymers
Sara Marina, Edgar Gutierrez-Fernandez, Junkal Gutierrez, Marco Gobbi, Nicolás Ramos, Eduardo Solano, Jeromy Rech, Wei You, Luis Hueso, Agnieszka Tercjak, Harald Ade and Jaime Martin

2023

Physical crosslinked hydrogel-derived smart windows: anti-freezing and fast thermal responsive performance
Gang Li, Jiwei Chen, Zhaonan Yan, Shancheng Wang, Yujie Ke, Wei Luo, Huiru Ma, Jianguo Guan and Yi Long

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RSC Publishing visit to Tsinghua University, China

05 Sep 2023

Presentation of a Certificate

Professor Xun Wang, former Scientific Editor of Materials Horizons, was presented with a certificate of appreciation by Publisher Neil Hammond on 30 August (above photo). The certificate was given at a dinner after a visit to Tsinghua University, China. Professor Quanming Wang, the Vice Dean of the Chemistry department, hosted the visit to Tsinghua University and chaired the talks. Nanoscale Horizons Scientific Editor Dirk Guldi presented the scientific talk followed by a joint publishing talk with Publisher Neil Hammond (below photo).

Presentation of a Publishing talk at Tsinghua University

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Outstanding Paper Award 2021

05 May 2022

Celebrating the exceptional work published in Materials Horizons

Our annual Outstanding Paper Award celebrates some of the exceptional work published in Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons, and the authors behind those articles. The winners were chosen by the Editorial and Advisory Boards based on the science presented and the work’s potential future impact, from papers published in 2021.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the 2021 Outstanding Paper Award and we hope that you enjoy reading their outstanding articles as much as we did.

Materials Horizons Outstanding Article 2021

Biohybrid plants with electronic roots via in-vivo polymerization of conjugated oligomers

Daniela Parker, Yohann Daguerre, Gwennaël Dufil, Daniele Mantione, Eduardo Solano, Eric Cloutet, Georges Hadziioannou, Torgny Näsholm, Magnus Berggren, Eleni Pavlopoulou and Eleni Stavrinidou
Mater. Horiz., 2021, 8, 3295-3305

Materials Horizons Outstanding Article Runner-up 2021

Van der Waals solid solution crystals for highly efficient in-air photon upconversion under subsolar irradiance

Riku Enomoto, Megumi Hoshi, Hironaga Oyama, Hideki Agata, Shinichi Kurokawa, Hitoshi Kuma, Hidehiro Uekusa and Yoichi Murakami
Mater. Horiz., 2021, 8, 3449-3456

Materials Horizons Outstanding Review 2021

Catalytic Methods for Chemical Recycling or Upcycling of Commercial Polymers

Sophia C. Kosloski-Oh, Zachary A. Wood, Yvonne Manjarrez, Juan Pablo de los Rios and Megan E. Fieser
Mater. Horiz., 2021, 8, 1084-1129

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Materials Horizons indexed in MEDLINE®

11 Apr 2022

All articles published in Materials Horizons from 2021 onwards will be indexed in the MEDLINE® database, significantly increasing their discoverability. This is a key database for biomedical researchers, so we are very pleased that everyone who publishes with us will get this increased exposure.

In addition to MEDLINE®, Materials Horizons is indexed in the Science Citation Index, EBSCO Essentials and Scopus.

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Issue 1 Focus Articles

07 Apr 2022

We were delighted to include several Materials Horizons Focus articles in Issue 1 of Materials Horizons, a special issue in honor of Professor Seth Marder.

Materials Horizons Focus articles are free to access educational articles that address topic areas which are often misunderstood or require greater explanation. You can read the collection of Focus articles below.

Read the below selection of Materials Horizons Focus articles from the special issue in honor of Professor Seth Marder. All Materials Horizons Focus articles are free to access upon publication.

Electronic properties of metal halide perovskites and their interfaces: the basics

Fengshuo Zu, Dongguen Shin and Norbert Koch

Mater. Horiz., 2022, 9, 17-24 DOI: 10.1039/D1MH01106E

Plasmons: untangling the classical, experimental, and quantum mechanical definitions

Rebecca L. M. Gieseking

Mater. Horiz., 2022, 9, 25-42 DOI: 10.1039/D1MH01163D

Scattering techniques for mixed donor–acceptor characterization in organic photovoltaics

Thomas P. Chaney, Andrew J. Levin, Sebastian A. Schneider and Michael F. Toney

Mater. Horiz., 2022, 9, 43-60 DOI: 10.1039/D1MH01219C

Engineering of flat bands and Dirac bands in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (COFs): relationships among molecular orbital symmetry, lattice symmetry, and electronic-structure characteristics

Xiaojuan Ni, Hong Li, Feng Liu and Jean-Luc Brédas

Mater. Horiz., 2022, 9, 88-98 DOI: 10.1039/D1MH00935D

Organic building blocks at inorganic nanomaterial interfaces

Yunping Huang, Theodore A. Cohen, Breena M. Sperry, Helen Larson, Hao A. Nguyen, Micaela K. Homer, Florence Y. Dou, Laura M. Jacoby, Brandi M. Cossairt, Daniel R. Gamelin and Christine K. Luscombe

Mater. Horiz., 2022, 9, 61-87 DOI: 10.1039/D1MH01294K

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