JMR Focus Issues

Although each issue of JMR covers a wide range of materials research topics, special focus issues entirely or partly devoted to a single topic are occasionally published. These focus issues allow the journal to provide a comprehensive look at the current research in a particular area of interest to JMR readers.

We invite you to send suggestions for future focus issue topics, or to find out more about advertising in a JMR Focus Issue.

Below is a list of both past and upcoming Focus Issues.

Calls For Papers

The following upcoming JMR Focus Issues are currently accepting manuscripts:

February 2014 - Graphene and Beyond

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2013

Guest Editors: Joshua A. Robinson, Pennsylvania State University, Mauricio Terrones, Pennsylvania State University, John Boeckl, Air Force Research Laboratory, Joshua E. Goldberger, The Ohio State University, Chakrapani Varanasi, U.S. Army Research Office

Advertising Space and Materials Deadline: January 1, 2014

Upcoming Focus Issues

The manuscript submission period has ended for these upcoming JMR Focus Issues:

January 2014 - The Synthesis of Nanostructured Functional Oxide Materials

Guest Editors: Edson Roberto Leite, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil; Markus Niederberger, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Sanjay Mathur, University of Cologne, Germany

Advertising Space and Materials Deadline: December 1, 2013
September 2013 - Advances in the Synthesis, Characterization and Properties of Bulk Porous Materials

Guest Editors: Paolo Colombo, University of Padova, Italy, and The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; David C. Dunand, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Vipin Kumar, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Advertising Space and Materials Deadline: August 1, 2013
July 2013 - Frontiers in Thin-Film Epitaxy and Nanostructured Materials
Guest Editors: Jagdish (Jay) Narayan, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; Amit Goyal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN; Sungho Jin, University of California, San Diego, CA; Haiyan Wang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; Justin Schwartz, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; Xiaozhou Liao, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Advertising Space and Materials Deadline: June 1, 2013

Published Focus Issues

The following JMR Focus Issues have been published and are available online to JMR subscribers and subscribing institutions.

April 2013 - De Novo Carbon Nanomaterials

Guest Editors: Cengiz Ozcan, Univ. of California, Riverside, Markus Buehler, MIT, Kang Wang, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Nicola Pugno, Politecnico di Torino

February 2013 - Titanium Dioxide Nanomaterials

Guest Editors: Xiaobo Chen, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, Can Li, Dalian Inst. Of Chemical Physics, CAS, China, Tijana Rajh, Argonne National Laboratory, Gregory Kimmel, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

January 2013 Focus Section - Silicon-Based Nanoparticles for Biosensing and Biomedical Applications

Guest Editors: Raúl J. Martín-Palma, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, and The Pennsylvania State University, USA and Michael J. Sailor, University of California, San Diego, USA

January 2013 - Silicon Carbide – Materials, Processing and Devices

Guest Editors: Stephen Saddow, Univ. of South Florida, Edward Sanchez, Dow Corning Compound Semiconductor, Feng Zhao, Washington State Univ., Hidekazu Tsuchida, Central Research Inst. of Electric Power Industry, Roland Rupp, Infineon Technologies AG

September 2012 - Oxide Semiconductors

Guest Editors: Steve Durbin, University at Buffalo, USA, Tim Veal, University of Warwick, UK, Marius Grundmann, Universität Leipzig, Germany, Jamie Phillips, University of Michigan, USA

August 2012 - Advanced Materials for Fuel Cells

Guest Editors: Joshua L. Hertz, Maria Luisa Di Vona, Philippe Knauth, Harry L. Tuller

May 2012 - Focus Issue on Crystallization Processes in Polymer-Based Materials

Guest Editors: Mircea Chipara, The University of Texas Pan American, USA Principal Editors: Pulickel M. Ajayan, Rice University, USA, Hendrik Meyer, Institute Charles Sadron, France, Sanat K. Kumar, Columbia University, USA, Lei Zhu, Case Western University, USA

March 2012 - Plasma and Ion-Beam Assisted Materials Processing

Guest Editors: José Luis Endrino, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Spain, André Anders, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, Joakim Andersson, Uppsala University, Angstrom Laboratory, Sweden, David Horwat, Institut Jean Lamour, France, Mykola Vinnichenko, Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany

February 2012 -- One-Dimensional Micro/Nano Materials

Guest Editors: Katerina E. Aifantis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, Michigan Technological University, USA; Seung Min Han, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

January 2012 -- Instrumented Indentation

Guest Editors: Dongil Kwon, Seoul National University, Korea; M. Munawar Chaudhri , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Yang-Tse Cheng, University of Kentucky, USA; Oliver Kraft, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

September 2011 -- Nanowires: Fundamentals and Applications

Guest Editors: Paul C. McIntyre, Stanford University, USA; Volker Schmidt, Max Planck Institute, Halle, Germany
Principal Editors: Tom Picraux, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; Prof. Nathaniel Quitoriano, McGill University, Canada; Dr. Heike Riel, IBM Research, Switzerland; Prof. Claes Thelander, Lund University, Sweden; Carl Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

August 2011 -- Advances in Thermoelectric Materials

Guest Editors: Terry M. Tritt, Clemson University, USA; Harald Böttner, Fraunhofer Institut für Physikalische Messtechnik IPM

January 2011 -- Self-Assembly and Directed Assembly of Advanced Materials

Guest Editors: Amit Goyal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Jay Narayan, North Carolina State University; Qinghuang Lin, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Principal Editors: David Gracias, Johns Hopkins University; Yanfei Gao, University of Tennessee; James J. Watkins, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Alberto Saiani, University of Manchester, United Kingdom; Zhiqun Lin, Iowa State University

August 2010 -- Materials for Electrical Energy Storage

Guest Editors:Yury Gogotsi, Drexel University; M. Stanley Whittingham, Binghamton University
Principal Editors: John R. Miller, JME, Inc.; Katsuhiko Naoi, Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology; Yang Shao-Horn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Bruno Scrosati, University of Rome, Italy

January 2010 –Photocatalysis for Energy and Environmental Sustainability

Guest Editors: Jan Augustynski, Warsaw University, Poland; Artur Braun, EMPA, Switzerland; Elaine A. Chandler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Samuel S. Mao, University of California at Berkeley; Eric Miller, University of Hawaii; John Turner, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Jinhua Ye, NIMS, Japan

March 2009 - Indentation Methods in Advanced Materials Research

Guest Editors: George Pharr, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory; G. Sundararajan, ARCI, Hyderabad India; Ian M. Hutchings, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Mototsugu Sakai, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan; Yang-T. Cheng, General Motors R&D Center; Neville R. Moody, Sandia National Laboratories; Michael V. Swain, University of Sydney, Australia

December 2008 - Biomimetic and Bio-Enabled Materials Science and Engineering

Guest Editors: Rajesh Naik, Air Force Research Laboratory; Ken Sandhage, Georgia Tech; Hugh DeLong, Air Force of Office of Scientific Research, Adrian Mann, Rutgers University

August 2007 - Multiferroics

Guest Editors: Mohammed Es-Souni, Coordinating Editor, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, S. Pamir Alpay, U. Connecticut, Thirumany Sritharan, Nanyang Technological University, Wilfrid Prellier, Laboratoir CNRS UMR, Umesh V. Waghmare, J. Nehru Centre for Adv. Sci. Res.

February 2007 - Mechanical Properties of Metallic Glasses and Applications

Guest Editors: Mo Li, Georgia Institute of Technology, Jürgen Eckert, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, Laszlo Kecskes, the United States Army Research Laboratory

November 2006 - Nanotubes and Nanowires

Guest Editors:Reshef Tenne, Weizmann Inst. of Science (Israel), Pulickel Ajayan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (USA), Yadong Li, Tsinghua Univ. (China), Zhong L. Wang, Georgia Inst. Technology (USA), and Peidong Yang, Univ. California, Berkeley (USA).

August 2006 - Mechanics of Biological and Biomimetic Materials at Small Length-Scales

Guest Editors: Michelle L. Oyen, University of Virginia, Andrew J. Bushby, Queen Mary, University of London, Adrian Mann, Rutgers University, Christine Ortiz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

December 2005 - Energy and the Environment

Guest Editors: David Ginley, Anne Dillon, Ahsan Habib, Sulay Jhaveri, Mike McGehee

**July 2005 - In Situ TEM**

Focus IssueCo-Editors: Ian Robertson of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Judith Yang of the University of Pittsburgh, Robert Hull of the University of Virginia, Mark Kirk of Argonne National Laboratory, and Ulrich Messerschmidt of Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik