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.
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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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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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*.
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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
We had a great time in Japan in November for the Materials Horizons Symposium on Electronic & Photonic Materials!
Accompanied by Dr Simon Neil (Materials Horizons, Managing Editor) and Hiromitsu Urakami (RSC Manager, Japan), a great line-up of speakers visited Kyoto University and the National Institute for Materials Science to showcase a wide variety of cutting-edge work in and around the areas of electronic and photonic materials. We were delighted to hear some fantastic talks from Professor Yasuhiko Arakawa, Professor Lay-Lay Chua, Professor Maria Antonietta Loi, Materials Horizons Founding Chair Professor Seth Marder, and many more!
This event was also supported by Division of Molecular Electronics and Bioelectronics – The Japan Society of Applied Physics, The Japanese Photochemistry Association, Research Group on Electrical and Electronic Properties of Polymer and Organics – The Japan Society for Polymer Science.
Material designed to get thicker as it bends
Scientists in the Netherlands have designed a material that offers to lengthen the lifetime of hip implants using an unprecedented property: the material gets thicker when compressed and when stretched.
Source: Eline Kolken
The new material could improve implant longevity
The average owner of an artificial hip is no lazy bones. Each year, they take around four million steps. All this movement takes its toll, though. After around 15 years, implants tend to work loose from the femur bone and need replacing.
To read the full article visit Chemistry World.
Rationally designed meta-implants: a combination of auxetic and conventional meta-biomaterials
Helena M. A. Kolken, Shahram Janbaz, Sander M. A. Leeflang, Karel Lietaert, Harrie H. Weinans and Amir A. Zadpoor
Mater. Horiz., 2017, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7MH00699C
Inspired by natural iridescence in fish skin, scientists in Germany have developed a graphene-based coating that changes colour when deformed. It could provide a simple way to warn of hidden damage in buildings, bridges and other structures.
Many materials are coloured by chemical pigments, which absorb light at particular wavelengths and reflect the remaining light, which we see as colour. Other materials, however, are given colour by periodically arranged microscopic surface structures. These cause interference between reflected light waves, amplifying them at specific visible frequencies. This strategy is used in some of nature’s most vibrant materials, from fish scales to peacock feathers, butterfly wings and cephalopod skins.
To read the full article visit Chemistry World.
Variable structural colouration of composite interphases
Yinhu Deng, Shanglin Gao, Jianwen Liu, Uwe Gohs, Edith Mäder and Gert Heinrich
Journal Article Mater. Horiz., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6MH00559D, Communication
Following the success of Peer Review Week in September 2016 (dedicated to reviewer recognition) during which we published a list of our top reviewers, we are delighted to announce that we will continue to recognise the contribution that our reviewers make to the journal by announcing our Outstanding Reviewers each year.
We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Materials Horizons in 2016, 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 Fei Huang, South China University of Technology
Dr Susan Kelleher, University College Dublin
Professor Christine Luscombe, University of Washington
Professor Markus Niederberger, ETH Zurich
Dr Genqiang Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China
We would also like to thank the Materials Horizons board and the materials 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
