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Nano-accordions stretch the boundaries for flexible electronics

01 Jul 2015

Written by Suzanne Howson for Chemistry World

Scientists in the US have unveiled a conductive and transparent material that also stretches, thanks to its corrugated design. The material’s nano-accordion arrangement demonstrates how microstructure can significantly affect macroproperties, and could find use in flexible electronics, stretchable displays and wearable technologies.

Flexible products are becoming more desirable as smart technologies improve and develop. Many previously discovered conductive materials are opaque and cannot be stretched due to their planar structures. Finding materials that are conductive, stretchable and transparent is therefore of utmost importance to allow these technologies to advance.

Interested? Read the full story at Chemistry World.

Aluminium-doped zinc oxide is conductive, transparent and bendy when it has a corrugated structure

The original article can be read below:

Multifunctional nano-accordion structures for stretchable transparent conductors
Abhijeet Bagal, Erinn C. Dandley, Junjie Zhao, Xu A. Zhang, Christopher J. Oldham, Gregory N. Parsons and Chih-Hao Chang
Mater. Horiz., 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5MH00070J

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Materials Horizons First Immediacy Index

19 Jun 2015

By Fiona McKenzie, Executive Editor.

Materials Horizons, the new home for rapid reports of exceptional significance on innovative materials, has received its first immediacy index from Thomson Reuters’ Journal Citation Reports® (JCR).

Immediacy Index – 3.324

This puts Materials Horizons straight into the top 5 immediacy-indexed journals publishing primary research in the Materials Science, Multidisciplinary JCR category.

We are delighted that our authors’ work is being received and cited so well by the community and would like to thank all of our authors, referees and Board members for their support of this new journal.

Submit your next high impact paper to Materials Horizons and enjoy all of the benefits of being a Royal Society of Chemistry author!

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Poster prize winner at the US-Japan Workshop on Advances in Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials 2015

04 Jun 2015

By Aliya Anwar.

Prof. Kensuke Naka (Kyoto Institute of Technology / workshop committee co-chair), Mr. Yasuyuki Irie (Kyoto Institute of Technology) & Hiromitsu Urakami

From left: Professor Kensuke Naka (Kyoto Institute of Technology / workshop committee co-chair), Mr. Yasuyuki Irie (Kyoto Institute of Technology) & Hiromitsu Urakami (Royal Society of Chemistry)

Materials Horizons would like to give a hearty congratulations to PhD student Mr. Yasuyuki Irie for his poster titled: ‘Single component self-standing films based on carbazole terminated polyhedral octasilicate-core dendrimers’ which was awarded a prize at the US-Japan Workshop on Advances in Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials 2015 which took place in Himeji, Japan from the 18^th– 22^ndMay 2015.

The purpose of the workshop was to showcase new research and application directions in the area of organic/inorganic hybrids, inorganic polymers, and nanocomposite materials and provide an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation of new and unpublished results in the area as well as providing a special opportunity to exchange ideas and information between leading US and Japanese researchers in the field.

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Our new Editorial Board Member Anna Balazs

20 May 2015

By Sarah Thirkell, Development Editor.

Materials Horizons is delighted to welcome Anna Balazs as our new Editorial Board Member.

Anna is the Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Robert von der Luft Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her B.A. in physics at Bryn Mawr College and her Ph.D. in Materials Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After postdoctoral work in the Polymer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, she joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in 1987. Her research involves developing theoretical and computational models to capture the behavior of polymeric materials, nanocomposites and multi-component fluids in confined geometries. Balazs served as the Chair of the Division of Polymer Physics of the APS (2000-2001), Co-Chair of the Spring MRS meeting (2000) and served on the APS Public Policy Committee. In addition, she is a Fellow of the APS.

Before joining Materials Horizons, Anna was a member of the Advisory Board for Soft Matter.

Her recent papers include:

Self-assembly of microcapsules regulated via the repressilator signaling network
Henry Shum, Victor V. Yashin and Anna C. Balazs
Soft Matter, 2015, 11, 3542-3549

Forming self-rotating pinwheels from assemblies of oscillating polymer gels
Debabrata Deb, Olga Kuksenok, Pratyush Dayal and Anna C. Balazs
Mater. Horiz, 2014, 1, 125-132

Chemo-responsive, self-oscillating gels that undergo biomimetic communication
Olga Kuksenok, Pratyush Dayal, Amitabh Bhattacharya, Victor V. Yashin, Debabrata Deb, Irene C. Chen, Krystyn J. Van Vliet and Anna C. Balazs
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42, 7257-7277

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Congratulations Professor Marder

08 Apr 2015

By Sarah Thirkell, Development Editor.

Recipient of the 2015 MRS Mid-Career Researcher Award

On behalf of the Materials Horizons Editorial Office I would like to congratulate Professor Seth Marder, Chair of Materials Horizons, on his receipt of the MRS Mid-Career Researcher Award.

The Mid-Career Researcher Award is awarded for exceptional achievements and notable leadership in the materials field. Seth Marder was awarded this honour for:

“For establishing fundamental relationships between the chemical structure of organic molecules and their optical and electronic properties, thereby profoundly impacting how the scientific community designs optimized molecular structures for use in nonlinear optical applications”

Seth Marder is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology with over 400 peer reviewed publications, the recipient of the ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award and is a fellow of multiple scientific communities, including the Royal Society of Chemistry.

More information about this award can be found here.

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Materials Horizons poster prize winners

26 Mar 2015

By Aliya Anwar.

Materials Horizons would like to congratulate the following poster prize winners at the recent MCARE 2015 (Materials Challenges in Alternative & Renewable Energy) conference which took place in Jeju, Korea on the 24^th– 27^thFebruary.

Bit Na Choi receiving her first place prize certificate

First place poster prize was presented to Bit Na Choi, (Sungkyunkwan University) for her poster titled: ‘Metal-conducting polymer hybrid electrode for an electrochemical pseudo-capacitor’ and Runner up prizes were awarded to Yongwoo Kwon, (KAIST) and HongJoon Yoon, (Sungkyunkwan University) for their posters titled: ‘Shape effect and metal oxide coating of Cu₂O particles on stability in water and photocatalytic water splitting’ and ‘Highly effective piezoelectric nanogenrator and self-powered pressure sensor using micro-structured film’.

The conference is hosted by the Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers and aims to bring together global experts from academia, industry and government agencies, allowing for a unique opportunity for discussion and collaboration essential to propelling multi-disciplinary, innovative and sustainable solutions in the field of alternative and renewable energy. Further information about the conference can be found on the website.

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Our new Scientific Editor Martina Stenzel

29 Aug 2014

By Aliya Anwar.

Materials Horizons is delighted to welcome Martina Stenzel as our new Scientific Editor.

Martina studied chemistry at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, before completing her PhD in 1999 at the Institute of Applied Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Germany. She currently holds the position of full professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia where she originally started working as a DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research interests encompass the synthesis of functional polymers with complex architectures such as glycopolymers and other polymers for biomedical applications, especially polymers with in-build metal complexes for the delivery of metal-based anti-cancer drugs.

She has also published more than 200 peer reviewed papers and 8 book chapters and has attracted more than 9000 citations so far. To find out more about Martina, please do have a read of her interview in our sister publication, Chemical Communications below:

Interview with Martina Stenzel
Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 8626-8627
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC90201G

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Issue 4 of Materials Horizons is now online!

17 Jun 2014

By Sarah Thirkell, Development Editor.

We are delighted to announce that the fourth issue of Materials Horizons has been published online! Showcasing some of the most exciting research across the breadth of the materials field, issue 4 includes articles such as:

A gentle introduction to the noble art of flow chemistry
James H. Bannock, Siva H. Krishnadasan, Martin Heeney and John C. de Mello
Mater. Horiz., 2014, 1, 373-378 DOI: 10.1039/C4MH00054D
Recent progress on graphene-based hybrid electrocatalysts
BaoYu Xia, Ya Yan, Xin Wang and Xiong Wen (David) Lou
Mater. Horiz., 2014, 1, 379-399 DOI: 10.1039/C4MH00040D
Growth of polythiophene nano-walls and their unique electrochemical and optical properties
Bartlomiej Kolodziejczyk, Orawan Winther-Jensen, Chun Hin Ng, Shenghuang Lin, Qiaoliang Bao and Bjorn Winther-Jensen
Mater. Horiz., 2014, 1, 452-460 DOI: 10.1039/C4MH00016A
Organic semiconductor core-shell nanoparticles designed through successive solvent displacements
Sylvain Chambon, Christophe Schatz, Vivien Sebire, Bertrand Pavageau, Guillaume Wantz and Lionel Hirsch
Mater. Horiz., 2014, 1, 431-438DOI: 10.1039/C4MH00021H

Find the full issue here. We hope you enjoy reading it!

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Congratulations Seth & Zhenan!

23 May 2014

By Sarah Thirkell, Development Editor.

Professor Seth Marder, Chair of the Materials Horizons Editorial Board, has been internationally recognised by the Materials Research Society as an outstanding member with sustained and distinguished contributions to the field of materials science. They have recognised his work by honouring him as a Fellow of the Materials Research Society. Established in 2008, MRS Fellows are expected to demonstrate a dedication to the advancement of materials research and is a lifetime appointment.

Professor Marder (Georgia Institute of Technology) was selected “For seminal contributions to fundamental understanding of the relationships between the chemical structure of organic molecules and their electronic and optical, including nonlinear optical, properties.” He is currently working on research into organic materials, optical materials, electronics materials and surface modification.

The Materials Horizons Editorial Office would like to extend our personal congratulations to Professor Marder on this outstanding honour and take the opportunity to thank him for the work he does as the Chair of the Materials Horizons Editorial Board.

For more information on Professor Marder, please visit his home page.

We would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Professor Zhenan Bao, Chemical Science Associate Editor and Materials Horizons Advisory Board member, who has also been honoured as a MRS Fellow this year. They join the long list of people honoured by the Materials Research Society for their work in materials science.

Congratulations Seth & Zhenan!

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Mat4Energy

09 May 2014

By Sarah Thirkell, Development Editor.

MAT4ENERGY, international Workshop on Materials for Energy Applications, Grenoble, France, 16-18 June 2014

This workshop aims at giving an up-to-date description and review of the different materials and technologies currently being implemented for various energy applications, with a special focus on renewables. It will be organized in three main blocks: materials for energy conversion, materials for energy storage, materials for an efficient use of energy. The 5 Plenary sessions will cover the fundamentals of each thematic axis. Related topics such as modeling and characterization will be tackled both through the plenary talks and the lectures.

In addition, the symposium will also provide an overview of the most promising materials being investigated at present.

All participants are invited to present their work in a poster session. The best posters of the conference, regardless of the field, will be awarded by APL Materials, the Royal Society of Chemistry and their new journal Materials Horizons http://bit.ly/1noj1K8

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Materials Horizons Blog

Nano-accordions stretch the boundaries for flexible electronics

Materials Horizons First Immediacy Index

Poster prize winner at the US-Japan Workshop on Advances in Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials 2015

Our new Editorial Board Member Anna Balazs

Congratulations Professor Marder

Materials Horizons poster prize winners

Our new Scientific Editor Martina Stenzel

Issue 4 of Materials Horizons is now online!

Congratulations Seth & Zhenan!

Mat4Energy

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