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Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Award 2020

26 Jul 2021

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 2020.

Read the Editorial about our winning papers and authors

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the 2020 Outstanding Paper Award and we hope that you enjoy reading their outstanding articles as much as we did.

Materials Horizons Outstanding Article 2020
An ambient-stable and stretchable ionic skin with multimodal sensation Binbin Ying, Qiyang Wu, Jianyu Li and Xinyu Liu *Mater. Horiz*., 2020, 7, 477–488
Materials Horizons Outstanding Article runner-up 2020
Stretchable, self-healing and tissue-adhesive zwitterionic hydrogels as strain sensors for wireless monitoring of organ motions Xinjie Pei, Hua Zhang, Yang Zhou, Linjie Zhou and Jun Fu *Mater. Horiz*., 2020, 7, 1872–1882
Materials Horizons Outstanding Review 2020
Evolution of self-healing elastomers, from extrinsic to combined intrinsic mechanisms: a review Saul Utrera-Barrios, Raquel Verdejo, Miguel A. López-Manchado and Marianella Hernández Santana *Mater. Horiz*., 2020, 7, 2882–2902

Read more about the prize winners and their research in our Editorial. Our sister journal Nanoscale Horizons has also announced its Outstanding Paper Award winners. You can read all of the Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons 2020 Outstanding Papers in our joint themed online collection:

Read the collection

With kind regards,

Dr Michaela Mühlberg
Executive Editor, Materials Horizons

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RSC Desktop Seminar series – Hosted by Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons

13 Nov 2020

By Lynn Murphy, Deputy Editor.

Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons are pleased to announce a free Webinar series featuring scientific talks from Editorial and Community Board Members on a range of topics.

RSC Desktop Seminars are an ongoing initiative from the Royal Society of Chemistry to bring cutting-edge research directly to you! Now, more than ever, there is a crucial need for sharing research, and each seminar in this series will feature presentations from Editorial and Community Board members of Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons.

Each 90 to 120-min webinar will feature scientific talks as well as dedicated time for questions & answers. The schedule for the series will be as follows:

Wednesday, 25 November 2020 (7am GMT; 15:00 CST; 16:00 JST)

Find out more & register

“Machine learning accelerated design of new functional material” – Professor Jinlan Wang (Southeast University, China)

Thursday, 3 December 2020 (08:00 GMT; 13:30 IST; 19:00 AEDT)

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“Soft Gold Elastronics for Connected Healthcare” – Professor Wenlong Cheng (Monash University, Australia)

“Smart Sensors for Environmental Monitoring and Healthcare” – Professor Ritu Gupta (IIT Jodhpur, India)

Thursday, 10 December 2020 (07:00 GMT; 15:00 CST; 17:00 AEST; 18:00 AEDT)

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“The interaction between micelles and cells: Small changes in the nanoparticle shells have big impacts” – Professor Martina Stenzel (University of New South Wales, Australia)

“Emerging trends in oral drug delivery using stimuli responsive nanomedicine” – Dr Amirali Popat (The University of Queensland, Australia)

Thursday, 17 December 2020 (08:00 GMT; 16:00 CST; 17:00 JST)

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“Sub-1nm Ultrathin Nanocrystals” – Professor Xun Wang (Tsinghua University, China)

“Metal-Organic Frameworks for Polymer Recognition and Separation” – Dr Nobuhiko Hosono (University of Tokyo, Japan)

“Stability of Photocatalysts” – Dr Mengye Wang (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

We hope you will be able to join us for some of the events in this Desktop Seminar Series.

Best wishes,

Dr Michaela Mühlberg
Executive Editor, Materials Horizons
Dr Charlotte Marshall
Managing Editor, Nanoscale Horizons

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Outstanding Reviewers for Materials Horizons in 2019

15 Apr 2020

By Michaela Mühlberg.

Outstanding Reviewers for Materials Horizons in 2019

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Materials Horizons 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.

Name	Institution	Orcid ID
Dr Ben Almquist	Imperial College London	0000-0001-9718-777X
Dr Chun Chao Chen	Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Prof. Jonas Croissant	University of New Mexico	0000-0003-0489-9829
Dr Albertus Handoko	Agency for Science Technology and Research	0000-0002-5157-8633
Dr Gregor Kieslich	Technische Universitat Munchen
Dr Xiao-Ke Liu	Linkopings universitet	0000-0001-5661-8174
Dr Maheswaran Shanmugam	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Dr Linqi Shi	Nankai University	0000-0002-9534-795X
Dr Wei Tao	Harvard Medical School	0000-0002-4277-3728
Dr Kai Yu	University of Colorado Denver – Anschutz Medical Campus	0000-0001-9067-1673

We would also like to thank the Materials Horizons 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

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Materials Horizons & Nanoscale Horizons Community Boards

18 Nov 2019

By Lynn Murphy, Deputy Editor.

Call for Nominations

General information

The purpose of the Community Board for both Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons is to provide a channel for communication between the materials and nanoscience student and early career researcher community and the journals’ Executive Editor and Editorial Boards, and also to facilitate student and postdoctoral (or equivalent) engagement with Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons. We are looking for engaged and interested early career researchers who will see this as an opportunity to assist in the development of an innovative journal, from a learned society publisher, in rapidly expanding areas of science. We are inviting nominations for both journals at this time, please do feel free to state a preference of journal in your nomination, however this is not mandatory and each nomination will be assessed for suitability for both Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons Community Boards.

Guidelines for Nominators

We are inviting nominations for both journals at this time, please do feel free to state a preference of journal in your nomination, however this is not mandatory and each nomination will be assessed for suitability for both Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons Community Boards.

Any Principle Investigator can nominate someone for the Community Board of either Materials Horizons or Nanoscale Horizons. Candidates must not nominate themselves.
Nominations are open to PhD candidates and active researchers who received their PhD (or equivalent degree, if applicable) no more than eight years prior to 1 November 2019. Appropriate consideration will be given to candidates from all research backgrounds (academic or industrial) and to those who have taken a career break or followed a different study path.

To make a nomination please provide the information outlined below to materialshorizons-rsc@rsc.org.

The nominator’s name, affiliation, position and contact details
The candidate’s name, affiliation, research group, position and contact details
A supporting statement from the nominator (no more than 750 words) addressing the selection criteria (see below)
A short personal statement from the candidate describing what they will bring to the role in terms of advising and being an advocate for the journal. This must be no longer than 250 words.
An up-to-date CV for the candidate, including publication history (if any)

Selection criteria for Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons Community Boards

The Executive Editor and members of the Editorial Boards will consider the following aspects of all nominations for the Community Boards as appropriate:

Impact of research
Quality of publications and/or patents and/or software
Profile within institute and/or community
Service to the community

Materials and Nanoscale Horizons Community Board_FAQs

The deadline for submission of nominations is 27th January, 2020.

For more information about the journal and for a list of current Community Board members, please visit the journal webpage at: rsc.li/materials-horizons

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11th CIRP Conference on Photonic Technologies [LANE 2020] calls for papers

28 Oct 2019

By Jane Chan, Editorial Assistant.

You have gained interesting research results in the field of laser material processing and want to discuss them with experts from all over the world? If so, submit an abstract for the 11^th CIRP Conference on Photonic Technologies [LANE 2020] until January 24, 2020.

Especially recent developments in the field of

Laser Material Processing

Beam sources & components
Laser beam welding, brazing & soldering
Laser beam cutting & drilling
Surface treatment & forming
Laser assisted processes

including

Experimental results
Simulation & modeling
Sensing & control
Laser safety

and the Emerging Technologies

Additive Manufacturing
Precision processing with ultrashort laser pulses
Fast laser beam manipulation
Laser material processing in the visible wavelength range
E-Mobility/Batteries

are of interest.

In order to give a detailed overview, LANE aims not only at scientific contributions, but integrates the industrial perspective and their relevance for application, as well. It takes place from September 06-10, 2020 in Fürth, Germany. Visit the conference website for more information: https://www.lane-conference.org

Materials Horizons is delighted to support the conference with two prizes for the best talks.

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Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Awards 2018

11 Sep 2019

By Jane Chan, Editorial Assistant.

Outstanding paper – Materials Horizons

Bioinspired hierarchical composite design using machine learning: simulation, additive manufacturing, and experiment

Grace X. Gu, Chun-Teh Chen, Deon J. Richmond and Markus J. Buehler, Mater. Horiz., 2018, 5, 939–945, DOI: 10.1039/CiMH00653A

In this outstanding paper, the authors propose an innovative approach to design hierarchical materials using machine learning trained with a database of hundreds of thousands of structures from finite element analysis, together with a self-learning algorithm for discovering high-performing materials where inferior designs are phased out for superior candidates. They say that their new approach can aid in the discovery and fabrication of new material designs with an orders of magnitude increase in computational eﬃcacy over conventional methods.

Runner-up – Materials Horizons

Unidirectional water delivery on a superhydrophilic surface with two-dimensional asymmetrical wettability barriers

Hui Geng, Haoyu Bai, Yangyang Fan, Shaoyu Wang, Teer Ba, Cunming Yu, Moyuan Cao and Lei Jiang, Mater. Horiz., 2018, 5, 303–308, DOI: 10.1039/C7MH01138E

In this outstanding paper, the authors demonstrate unidirectional liquid transport by incorporating asymmetric 2D water barriers into a flat superhydrophilic surface. Their method simplifies the design and fabrication of functional interface materials, enabling manipulation of fluid delivery on 2D patterned surfaces.

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Reverse gear makes metamaterial stand out

11 Apr 2019

By Kate Bandoo, Publishing Assistant.

Article written by Emma Lockyer

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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Outstanding Reviewers for Materials Horizons in 2018

08 Apr 2019

By Kate Bandoo, Publishing Assistant.

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Materials Horizons in 2018, 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.

Professor Antonio di Bartolomeo, Universita degli Studi di Salerno, ORCID: 0000-0002-3629-726X
Professor Dr Stefan Bon, University of Warwick, ORCID: 0000-0001-5156-3901
Professor Jonas Croissant, University of New Mexico, ORCID: 0000-0003-0489-9829
Professor Lorenzo Di Bari, Universita degli Studi di Pisa, ORCID: 0000-0003-2347-2150
Dr Shaolong Gong, Wuhan University, ORCID: 0000-0002-1166-9047
Professor Weida Hu, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, ORCID: 0000-0001-5278-8969
Dr Ville Jokinen, Aalto-yliopisto, ORCID: 0000-0001-6347-7461
Dr Dominik Konkolewicz, Miami University, ORCID: 0000-0002-3828-5481
Dr Igor Perepichka, Bangor University, ORCID: 0000-0001-6672-3103
Dr Michal Piasecki, Uniwersytet Humanistyczno-Przyrodniczy im Jana Dlugosza w Czestochowie, ORCID: 0000-0003-1040-8811

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.

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Lanthanide macrocycle complexes endow graphene electronics with unprecedented stability

18 Mar 2019

By Kate Bandoo, Publishing Assistant.

Article written by Amy Southall|

Scientists in India have made graphene field-effect transistors that work for over 10 months with some help from discrete inorganic structures. The approach has led them to produce a graphene logic inverter that is stable in ambient conditions.

Conventional electronics tend to be silicon based, due to the ease of doping silicon with either electrons or holes. These two forms of silicon, n- and p-type, are the building blocks of electronic devices. However, it isn’t possible to make silicon electronics on the nanoscale, so many researchers are turning to materials like graphene.

An essential component of digital electronics is a logic inverter – a device for switching between fixed voltage levels. Inverters combine n-type field effect transistors and p-type field effect transistors, so require both n-type and p-type graphene.

Source: © Maheswaran Shanmugam/Indian Institute of Technolgy Bombay
The lanthanide-macrocyclic complexes exhibit strong C-H–π interactions with graphene, leading to a sharp and stable negative shift in the Dirac point

To read the full article visit Chemistry World.

Lanthanide complexes as molecular dopants for realizing air-stable n-type graphene logic inverters with symmetric transconductance
Ashwini S. Gajarushi, Mohd Wasim, Rizwan Nabi, Srinivasu Kancharlapalli, V. Ramgopal Rao, Gopalan Rajaraman, Chandramouli Subramaniam and Maheswaran Shanmugam
Mater. Horiz., 2019, Advance Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8MH01241E

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Congratulations to the winners of POLYMAT Spotlight 2018 prizes!

28 Nov 2018

By Hannah Kerr, Deputy Editor.

POLYMAT Spotlight 2018 was the second edition of a series of meetings that take place in San Sebastian (Northern Spain), which after the success of the first edition in 2016 is now organized on a biannual basis.

POLYMAT Spotlight is organized by Aurelio Mateo-Alonso from POLYMAT, an institution which encompasses two research organisations that focus in fundamental and applied polymer research, respectively. The meeting brings together a small audience of world-wide recognized scientists (~100 participants) in a beautiful location, San Sebastian’s Miramar Palace, with some of the most spectacular views of the bay, which favour interactions between the participants with a social and gastronomical program in the same Palace.

POLYMAT Spotlight 2018 was devoted to 2D and Porous Polymers and had arranged an impressive line-up of plenary and keynote speakers from all over the world:

William Dicthel
Dirk Guldi
Andreas Hirsch
Kiang Ping Loh
Dieter Schlüter
Omar Yaghi
Rahul Banerjee
Thomas Bein
Cinzia Casiraghi

Carlos Martí-Gastaldo
Francesco Paolucci
Diego Peña
Dmitrii Perepichka
Stephanie Schubert
Ronald Smaldone
Arne Thomas
Cafer Yavuz
Felix Zamora

In addition, 19 contributing lectures, 10 flash presentations and 26 posters have been carefully selected to provide a solid research forum.

Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Materials Horizons have supported POLYMAT Spotlight 2018 with the award of two poster prizes that were selected by Plenary Lecturers William Dichtel and Dieter Schlüter in a ceremony conducted by Luis Hueso, associate editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

Awardees:

Journal of Materials Chemistry C Prize

Elisabetta Zuccatti, CIC NanoGUNE, Spain

Ambipolar Vertical Organic Field-Effect Transistors and Inverters

Materials Horizons Prize

Dr. Jose I. Martínez, POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country, Spain

Making it Functional from Trivial Starting Materials: Gaining Processability in 2D Conjugated Microporous Polymers

After this second edition, POLYMAT Spotlight has established itself as reference scientific meeting in macromolecular materials and we are looking forward for the next edition in 2020.

You can find all pictures at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/142817369@N04/albums/72157696916725371

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Materials Horizons Blog

Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Award 2020

Celebrating the exceptional work published in Materials Horizons

Read the Editorial about our winning papers and authors

Materials Horizons Outstanding Article 2020

Materials Horizons Outstanding Article runner-up 2020

Materials Horizons Outstanding Review 2020

Read the collection

RSC Desktop Seminar series – Hosted by Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons

Wednesday, 25 November 2020 (7am GMT; 15:00 CST; 16:00 JST)

Thursday, 3 December 2020 (08:00 GMT; 13:30 IST; 19:00 AEDT)

Thursday, 10 December 2020 (07:00 GMT; 15:00 CST; 17:00 AEST; 18:00 AEDT)

Thursday, 17 December 2020 (08:00 GMT; 16:00 CST; 17:00 JST)

Outstanding Reviewers for Materials Horizons in 2019

Materials Horizons & Nanoscale Horizons Community Boards

11th CIRP Conference on Photonic Technologies [LANE 2020] calls for papers

Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Awards 2018

Outstanding paper – Materials Horizons

Runner-up – Materials Horizons

Reverse gear makes metamaterial stand out

Outstanding Reviewers for Materials Horizons in 2018

Lanthanide macrocycle complexes endow graphene electronics with unprecedented stability

Congratulations to the winners of POLYMAT Spotlight 2018 prizes!

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