Call for Papers
The Materials Research Society (MRS) and Cambridge University Press proudly announce MRS Communications, a new full-color, high-impact journal focused on groundbreaking work across the broad spectrum of materials research.
MRS Communications offers a rapid but rigorous peer-review process and time to publication. Leveraging its access to the far-reaching technical expertise of MRS members and leading materials researchers from around the world, the journal builds its foundation of excellence on an experienced and highly respected board of Principal Editors and reviewers. Hosted on the cutting-edge Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) platform, the journal features a robust suite of author and reader services, as well as an aggressive production schedule that will bring your article to online publication and a global audience within a target 14-day process from acceptance. MRS Communications launches with an immediate reader/subscriber base including almost 16,000 MRS members and over 2,500 academic, industrial and government libraries worldwide.
Major article types for MRS Communications include:
- research letters
- ultra-rapid communications
- prospectives articles
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- editorials
- commentaries
- correspondence
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Prospectives are a unique feature of this journal, offering succinct and forward-looking reviews of topics of interest to a broad materials research readership.
Manuscripts are solicited in the following topical areas, although submissions that succinctly describe groundbreaking work across the broad field of materials research are encouraged.
- Biomaterials and biomimetic materials
- Carbon-based materials
- Complex oxides and their interfaces
- Materials for energy storage, conversion and environmental remediation
- Materials for nanophotonics and plasmonic devices
- Theory and simulation of materials
- Mechanical behavior at the nanoscale
- Nanocrystal growth, structures and properties, including nanowires and nanotubes
- Nanoscale semiconductors for new electronic and photonic applications
- New materials synthesis, templating and assembly methods
- New topics in metals, alloys and transformations
- Novel and in-situ characterization methods
- Novel catalysts and sensor materials
- Organic and hybrid functional materials
- Quantum matter
- Surface, interface and length-scale effects on materials properties
MRS Communications Founding Editorial Board
- Luca Dal Negro, Boston University
- Horacio Espinosa, Northwestern University
- Supratik Guha, IBM
- Dan Hancu, General Electric
- Kristi Kiick, University of Delaware
- Nicola Marzari, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Alberto Salleo, Stanford University
- Alec Talin, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Nagarajan (Nagy) Valanoor, The University of New South Wales, Australia
For manuscript submission instructions, please visit www.mrs.org/mrc-instructions.
For more information on MRS Communications, please visit www.mrs.org/mrc or e-mail mrc@mrs.org.
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