We are delighted to announce that nominations are now OPEN for the prestigious 2024 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship. Do you know an outstanding emerging scientist in the field of materials chemistry who deserves recognition? Nominate them today for a chance to win this respected award! Established in 2010, this international lectureship honours early-career scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of materials chemistry, with previous recipients including Shaojun Guo, Christopher Bettinger, Henry Snaith, Maria Escudero-Escribano and last year’s winner Jovana M ..read more

Interview with Professor Xiaowei Zhan (Peking University, China) Scientific Editor, Journal of Materials Chemistry A What aspect of your research are you most excited about at the moment? A: My group focuses on organic photovoltaics (OPV). The active layer in OPV device consists of electron donor and electron acceptor. Although fullerenes were prevailing acceptor materials in OPV from 1995 to 2015, I doubted if this choice was correct considering their fatal flaws such as weak visible light absorption. In 2006 my group started the non-fullerene OPV research. In 2015 we invented the milestone m ..read more

Journal of Materials Chemistry C and Nanoscale were pleased to sponsor two prizes at the 2024 Innovations in Large Area Electronics Conference (innoLAE), which took place from 20th – 22nd February 2024 in Cambridge, UK. Congratulations to the prize winners! Speaker Prize: Dr Scott Keene (University of Cambridge, UK)     Scott earned his B.S. from the University of Washington (Seattle, WA) in 2015. He earned his Ph.D. in 2020 from Stanford University where he studied organic neuromorphic devices and biosensors. He then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering ..read more

The SupraLife Second School took place from 10 – 15 March 2024 at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, Materials Advances and Biomaterials Science were pleased to sponsor three poster prizes at the event. Congratulations to our poster prize winners! 1st place: Catherine Abild Meyer (Aarhus University, Denmark) Poster title: ‘On the communication between nuclei and mitochondria in a hydrogel environment’   Cathrine Abild Meyer is a PhD student at Aarhus University, Denmark, under the supervision of Prof. Brigitte Städler. She obtained h ..read more

Open call for papers – Materials Chemistry of Fluorescence Bioimaging Submit your work before 15 August 2024   Journal of Materials Chemistry B is pleased to announce an open call for papers to a themed collection on ‘Materials Chemistry of Fluorescence Bioimaging‘. This collection is guest edited by Dr Sijie Chen (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Karolinska Institutet), Prof. Tony D. James (University of Bath), Dr Apurba L. Koner (IISER Bhopal) and Prof. Ben Zhong Tang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). Fluorescence imaging is a predominant method employed in biologic ..read more

Open call for papers – Bioelectronics Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Journal of Materials Chemistry C Guest Editors: Dr Eleonora Macchia (University of Bari, Italy) Dr. Eleonora Macchia (female) is tenure track Assistant Professor at Department of Pharmacy at University of Bari and Head of Research at Åbo Akademi University. She is ERC Starting Grant 2021 grantee, being PI of the project NoOne (GA number 101040383). She has been Senior Researcher, as PI of the project ProSiT, funded by Academy of Finland Research Council (GA#332106). Since March 2019, she has been project researcher at ..read more

Open call for papers – Targeted biomedical applications of nanomaterials Submissions deadline on 7 June 2024 We are delighted to announce our latest open call for submissions to a themed collection on Targeted biomedical applications of nanomaterials to be published across Nanoscale, Nanoscale Advances, Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Materials Advances.   This collection is guest edited by Professor Dhiraj Bhatia (IIT Gandhinagar, India), Professor Mukesh Dhanka (IIT Gandhinagar, India), Dr Anjali Awasthi (University ..read more

Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Materials Advances are delighted to welcome Professor Professor Myung-Han Yoon from the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea, to our Editorial Boards as a new Associate Editor. Professor Myung-Han Yoon Myung-Han Yoon is a professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry (1999) and Master’s degree in Physical Chemistry (2001) at Seoul National Unive ..read more

“Selenium nanoparticles: a review on synthesis and biomedical applications” Materials Advances publishes review articles on topics across materials science, which are open access and free to read. To celebrate our excellent review articles, we asked the authors of some of our most well-received review articles to discuss their work in more detail. In this post, we share insights from our interview with the authors of the recently published Materials Advances review “Selenium nanoparticles: a review on synthesis and biomedical applications“. Insights from the authors of a highly cited Materials ..read more

Celebrating the Lunar New Year with some of our most popular articles Happy Lunar New Year from the materials journals at the Royal Society of Chemistry! To celebrate the Year of the Dragon, we are delighted to highlight some of the most popular articles published in Materials Horizons and the Journal of Materials Chemistry family last year by corresponding authors based in countries celebrating the Lunar New Year. Check out the collections below:  Materials Horizons Journal of Materials Chemistry A  Journal of Materials Chemistry B Journal of Materials Chemistry C All articles in t ..read more