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Materials Horizons’ New Community Board Members

Join us in welcoming our new Materials Horizons Community Board members

The Materials Horizons Community Board provide an invaluable link between the editorial office and emerging chemistry, they are our eyes and ears on the ground, allowing us to better connect with other early-career researchers. Since its inception in 2014, we have enjoyed working together with these board members to facilitate student, postdoctoral and early-career researcher engagement, through symposia support, journal clubs, webinars, special article collections and many other activities.

Over the summer, we requested nominations from the materials chemistry academic community and were thrilled with the high calibre of candidates nominated. We are delighted to share our 30 new appointees with you who, together with continuing members, make up a Materials Horizons Community Board of 50 international researchers at different stages of their early careers, ranging from PhD candidates to Professors.

From Left to right: Minah Lee, Korea Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea. • Subhajit Pal, University of California, Berkeley, United States. • Fang-Chen Liang, National University of Singapore, Singapore. • Kostas Parkatzidis, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. • Kelsey DeFrates, University of California, Berkeley, United States. • Haegyum Kim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States. • Jing Xie, Sichuan University, China • Raul Marquez-Montes, The University of Texas, United States. • Wen Shi, Sun Yat-sen University, China. • Valerio Piazza, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland. • Shaohua Zhang, Radboud University, Netherlands • Olga Guselnikova, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan. • Qiaobao Zhang, Xiamen University, China. • Shiv Singh, CSIR - Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute, India. • Anna Stejekalova, Harvard University, United States. • Sahid Zaman, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada. • Felix Utama Kosasih, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. • Xiaojuan Ni, The University of Arizona, United States. • Danila Merino, Polymat Institute, UPV/EHU, Spain. • Yunmao Zhang, Xiamen University, China. • Xianbiao Fu, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark. • Ruijuan Xu, North Carolina State University, United States. • Shyamapada Nandi, Vellore Institute of Technology Chennai, India. • Edison Ang Huixiang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. • Hassan Abdellatif, Cairo University, Egypt. • Guanjie He, University College London, United Kingdom • Josh Bailey, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. • Jieun Yang, Kyung Hee University, South Korea. • Raffaello Mazzaro, University of Bologna, Italy. • Ivana Qiangi Lin, University of Twente, Netherlands.

Please join us in welcoming our 30 new Community Board members:

Discover the full Community Board

You can keep up to date with the activities of our Community Board members on our blog. Our companion journal Nanoscale Horizons has also welcomed new members to their community board, and you can find out more about their new members on their blog. We will be highlighting the members of our Community Board over the coming months in a series of interviews and look forward to sharing these with you soon.

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Horizons Symposium 2023: Round-up

Did you attend the 2023 Horizons Symposium on electronic and energy materials in Berlin? Don’t worry if you missed out, catch up on all the excitement below!

In late September this year, the first annual Horizons Symposium finally took place at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Featuring exciting talks from our invited speakers and an engaging poster session, the breadth and quality of science presented was truly outstanding!

Hosted by Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons, the two-day symposium was rounded off with a ‘meet the editor’ session led by Editorial Board Chair of Materials Horizons, Martina Stenzel. Overall, the symposium offered a unique opportunity for plenty of networking and discussing the future of materials for electronic and energy applications! We very much look forward to the 2024 event!

 

Meet our poster prize winners!

Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons were delighted to award two poster prizes – congratulations to Vaidehi Lapalikar and Thorsten Schultz!!
Thorsten receives his poster prize certificate from Executive Editor Michaela Dr. Thorsten Schultz
Scientist, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie.

Poster prize awarded for poster entitled: “Work function and energy level alignment tuning at Ti₃C₂Tx MXene surfaces and interfaces using (metal-)organic donor/acceptor molecules”Thorsten Schultz graduated from the University of Leipzig (Germany) in 2014 and obtained his PhD degree in physics in 2018 from the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Germany), working in the group of professor Norbert Koch on energy level alignment mechanisms at inorganic-organic semiconductor interfaces investigated with photoelectron spectroscopy. In 2019, he joined the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie as a Postdoc, deepening his experience in the field of photoelectron spectroscopy. He continued working on the energy level alignment manipulation at organic/inorganic semiconductor interfaces, culminating in a universal method to adjust the energy level alignment at such interfaces over a wide range by the insertion of thin molecular donor/acceptor interlayers, the so-called interlayer method.  He is now permanently employed as a beamline scientist at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and will be responsible for the ENERGIZE beamline after its completion, which will be dedicated to research on hybrid materials and energy efficient technologies.

Vaidehi Lapalikar
Doctoral researcher, Technische Universität Dresden.

Poster prize awarded for poster entitled: “Solution-processed electronics based on BiOI”“The RSC Horizons Symposium on electronic and energy materials gave me a particularly exciting opportunity to interact with a diverse spectrum of professionals associated with this field, ranging from doctoral students to established researchers, publishing editors, and experts doing pioneering work towards open science. The event left me thoroughly inspired and full of fresh ideas for the future!”

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Vaidehi Lapalikar receives her poster prize

Congrats to our best student question winners!

The Royal Society of Chemistry was also delighted to award two special prizes for the best question asked by a student – we were overwhelmed by the many insightful questions from all attendees but were delighted to award Emily Albert and Anton Dzhong with a pair of colour changing RSC mugs for their excellent and engaging questions!

 

Emily Albert poses with her colour changing mug mid-transition Emily Albert
Master student, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. 

Emily Albert is a Masters student in the group Supramolecular Systems led by Prof. Dr. Norbert Koch at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

“The Horizon Symposium provided  a familiar and open-minded environment, perfect for asking questions as a student!”

Anton Dzhong
Master student, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. 

Anton Dzhong is currently working on his Masters Thesis in Eva Unger’s Research Group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin on Perovskite Solar Cell Materials.

“The Symposium posed a great opportunity to explore the field of energy materials and it was fun having fruitful discussions with so many dedicated researchers!”

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Anton poses with his poster

 

Thanks to all attendees, speakers and the organising committee for a truly engaging and enjoyable symposium – we look forward to meeting more of our community next year! Sign up to our journal email alerts to make sure you are the first to hear when registration opens!
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RSC Publishing visit to Tsinghua University, China

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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Materials Horizons indexed in MEDLINE®

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

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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Reverse gear makes metamaterial stand out

Engineers have made a metamaterial that can change its shape and properties, then fully return to its original configuration on demand.

Metamaterials have properties that do not occur in natural materials. However, these properties are typically fixed.

An image showing 4D-printed metamaterials

Source: © Chen Yang/Rutgers University-New Brunswick

The material returns to its original shape when heated

Now, Howen Lee from the State University of New Jersey, US, and his colleagues have used 3D printing to make a shape memory polymer lattice out of acrylic acid crosslinked with bisphenol A ethoxylate dimethacrylate that is both geometrically reconfigurable and mechanically tunable.

To read the full article visit Chemistry World.

4D printing reconfigurable, deployable and mechanically tunable metamaterials
Chen Yang, Manish Boorugu, Andrew Dopp, Jie Ren, Raymond Martin, Daehoon Han, Wonjoon Choi and Howon Lee
Mater. Horiz., 2019, Advance Article

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Electrochromic devices reinvented with hydrogel layer

Scientists in China have made a rewritable electrochromic display using a hydrogel for the first time.

Typical electrochromic devices contain upwards of five layers, their complicated structures contributing to high production costs and hindered performance. Now, a team led by Hong Wang of Xi’an Jiaontong University has devised a much simpler structure.

Source: © Royal Society of Chemistry
A lithium chloride electrolyte endows the hydrogel electrode with high ionic conductivity

Their system contains a multifunctional hydrogel deposited directly on a tungsten oxide film on top of an F-doped SnO2 (FTO) layer. To make this possible, the researchers embedded the hydrogel with aqueous lithium chloride, allowing it to simultaneously act as a transparent electrode, electrolyte and ion storage layer. By reducing the number of interfaces present in the device, the team were able to improve the performance of the device for display applications, compared to other electrochromic systems, while also reducing production costs.

To read the full article visit Chemistry World.

Multifunctional hydrogel enables extremely simplified electrochromic devices for smart windows and ionic writing boards
Huajing Fang, Pengyue Zheng, Rong Ma, Chen Xu, Gaiying Yang, Qing Wange and Hong Wang
Mater. Horiz., 2018,5, 1000-1007

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Materials Horizons new Impact Factor is 13.183*

Materials Horizons is delighted to announce its latest Impact Factor is 13.183*.

We are delighted to see the continued support from the community to help us maintain our extremely high standards and focus so that we only publish reports of new concepts of exceptional significance to the materials science readership – thank you!

To celebrate we have selected a few recent articles and made these free to access until the end of August – we hope you enjoy reading them.

 

Human ability to discriminate surface chemistry by touch by Cody W. Carpenter, Charles Dhong, Nicholas B. Root, Daniel Rodriquez, Emily E. Abdo, Kyle Skelil, Mohammad A. Alkhadra, Julian Ramírez, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Darren J. Lipomi

 

Searching for promising new perovskite-based photovoltaic absorbers: the importance of electronic dimensionality by Zewen Xiao, Weiwei Meng, Jianbo Wang, David B. Mitzi and Yanfa Yan

 

Optimal sound-absorbing structures by Min Yang, Shuyu Chen, Caixing Fu and Ping Sheng

 

PLUS-M: a Porous Liquid-metal enabled Ubiquitous Soft Material by Hongzhang Wang, Bo Yuan, Shuting Liang, Rui Guo, Wei Rao, Xuelin Wang, Hao Chang, Yujie Ding, Jing Liu and Lei Wang

 

Highly flexible, freestanding tandem sulfur cathodes for foldable Li–S batteries with a high areal capacity by Chi-Hao Chang, Sheng-Heng Chung and Arumugam Manthiram

 

Read more of our latest articles here.

 


At Materials Horizons, our reviewing standards are set extremely high to ensure we only publish first reports of new concepts across the breadth of materials research. Our Impact Factor of 13.183* is testament to the exceptionally significant work of our community.

 

Contact us: materialshorizons-rsc@rsc.org

 

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Click here to read recent articles describing new concepts in nanoscience & nanotechnology in our sister-journal Nanoscale Horizons, impact factor 9.391*.

*2017 Journal Citation Reports (June 2018) © Clarivate Analytics.

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Highlights from Materials Horizons so far in 2018

 

 

 

 

We are delighted to see the support from the community as you continue to contribute outstanding articles showcasing new concepts of exceptional significance to the materials science readership.

To celebrate the materials science community’s excellent work, we have picked out some content highlights for 2018 so far, which we would like to share with you. All articles are free to access until the end of June – we hope you enjoy reading them.

 

Reviews

Photocatalytic fixation of nitrogen to ammonia: state-of-the-art advancements and future prospects

Xingzhu Chen, Neng Li, Zhouzhou Kong, Wee-Jun Ong and Xiujian Zhao

Materials Horiz., 2018, 5, 9-27

 

Metal–organic framework-derived one-dimensional porous or hollow carbon-based nanofibers for energy storage and conversion

Chaohai Wang, Yusuf Valentino Kaneti, Yoshio Bando, Jianjian Lin, Chao Liu, Jiansheng Li and Yusuke Yamauchi

Materials Horiz., 2018, 5, 394-407

 

 

Communications

 

Photoelectrochemical response of carbon dots (CDs) derived from chitosan and their use in electrochemical imaging

De-Wen Zhang, Nikolaos Papaioannou, Naomi Michelle David, Hui Luo, Hui Gao, Liviu Cristian Tanase, Thibault Degousée, Paolo Samorì, Andrei Sapelkin, Oliver Fenwick, Maria-Magdalena Titirici and Steffi Krause

Materials Horiz., 2018, 5, 423-428

 

An alternative route to single ion conductivity using multi-ionic salts

Sumanth Chereddy, Parameswara Rao Chinnam, Vijay Chatare, Stephen Patrick diLuzio, Mallory P. Gobet, Steven G. Greenbaum and Stephanie L. Wunder

Materials Horiz., 2018, 5, 461-473

 

Translation of protein charge and hydrophilicity to materials surface properties using thermal treatment in fluorous media

Li-Sheng Wang, Sanjana Gopalakrishnan, Yi-Wei Lee, Jiaxin Zhu, Stephen S. Nonnenmann and Vincent M. Rotello

Materials Horiz., 2018, 5, 268-274

 

Band engineering in Mg3Sb2 by alloying with Mg3Bi2 for enhanced thermoelectric performance

Kazuki Imasato, Stephen Dongmin Kang, Saneyuki Ohno and G. Jeffrey Snyder

Materials Horiz., 2018, 5, 59-64

 

Janus DNA orthogonal adsorption of graphene oxide and metal oxide nanoparticles enabling stable sensing in serum

Biwu Liu, Lingzi Ma, Zhicheng Huang, Hao Hu, Peng Wu and Juewen Liu

Materials Horiz., 2018, 5, 65-69

 

 

At Materials Horizons, our reviewing standards are set extremely high to ensure we only publish first reports of new concepts across the breadth of materials research. Our impact factor of 10.706* is testament to the exceptionally significant work of our community.

Contact us: materialshorizons-rsc@rsc.org

Follow us: Homepage | Twitter | Facebook | Blog | RSS

 

Click here for 2018 Highlights in our sister-journal Nanoscale Horizons or sign up to our newsletters for more regular journal-specific updates.

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Outstanding Reviewers for MATERIALS HORIZONS in 2017

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for MATERIALS HORIZONS in 2017, 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 Annette Andrieu-Brunsen, Technical University Darmstadt, ORCID: 0000-0002-3850-3047
Dr Chu-Chen Chueh, National Taiwan University, ORCID: 0000-0003-1203-4227
Professor Jonas Croissant, University of New Mexico, ORCID: 0000-0003-0489-9829
Dr Jan Dhont, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Complex Systems, ORCID: 0000-0003-3122-0586
Dr Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, RMIT University, ORCID: 0000-0001-6109-132X
Dr Ying Liu, North Carolina State University, ORCID: 0000-0003-3687-1337
Dr Edmond Ma, Hong Kong Baptist University, ORCID: 0000-0002-1259-2205
Dr Valerio Voliani, Italian Institute of Technology, ORCID: 0000-0003-1311-3349
Dr Zhanhua Wang, Sichuan University, ORCID: 0000-0003-0493-1905
Dr Chao Xie, Hefei University of Technology, ORCID: 0000-0003-4451-767X

We would also like to thank the MATERIALS HORIZONS board and the materials science 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

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