materials science

Publishing Advanced Materials Science – How to maximize your success!

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Materials science is a multidisciplinary field of research with many different scientists and engineers having various backgrounds active in it. The literature landscape consequently is populated currently by a wide range of journals which greatly differ in purpose, scope, quality, and readership. Jos Lenders, Deputy Editor of Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, and Advanced Optical Materials, will track some of the most important developments and trends in the research field and the Advanced journals program. Last year, Advanced Materials reached an Impact Factor of 21.95 and received over 8,300 submissions – and Advanced Functional Materials over 9,200. Only around 15% of all those papers made it to publication in the journal, and this rate is similar for all other Advanced journals. So, what do editors do to select the very best papers, and what can authors do to optimize their chances of having their manuscripts accepted?

Conducting Fab lessons in a virtual clean room

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A virtual platform makes learning how to fabricate a semiconductor device easier, safer and more interactive.

Breaking records like baking bread

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Researchers have made unparalleled ultrawide-bandgap semiconductors through temperature and timing, just like baking bread.

Making the shift from blue to red for better LEDs

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Pure red-light micrometer-scale emitting devices made from a nitride semiconductor reaches excellent efficiency.

Full color LEDs cut down to size

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Tiny light-emitting devices that can create all the colors in the rainbow are essential for the next generation of phones and screens.

Welcoming composite inks into the fold

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A screen-printing approach to creating foldable circuits could make many functional devices easier and cheaper to mass produce.