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Welcome to our new Editorial Board Chair, Martina Stenzel
Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Award 2020
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.
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| 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 |
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Materials Horizons Outstanding Article runner-up 2020 |
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| 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 |
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Materials Horizons Outstanding Review 2020 |
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| 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 |
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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
RSC Desktop Seminar series – Hosted by Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons
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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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
Outstanding Reviewers for Materials Horizons in 2019
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
Materials Horizons & Nanoscale Horizons Community Boards
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
11th CIRP Conference on Photonic Technologies [LANE 2020] calls for papers
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 11th 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.
Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Awards 2018
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.
Reverse gear makes metamaterial stand out
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.
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
Outstanding Reviewers for Materials Horizons in 2018
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.
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 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.
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
Lanthanide macrocycle complexes endow graphene electronics with unprecedented stability
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