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Materials Horizons The new home for rapid reports of exceptional significance on innovative materials Our 2016 impact factor* is 10.706.

Materials Horizons is a premier journal publishing first reports of exceptional significance across the breadth of materials research. It is an innovative, community-focused, dynamic journal guided by world-renowned Editorial Board members. The journal features research at the cutting-edge interface of materials science with chemistry, physics, biology and engineering.

Materials Horizons is delighted to announce our 2024 Outstanding Paper Award winners! 🎉In order to recognize some of the...
12/06/2025

Materials Horizons is delighted to announce our 2024 Outstanding Paper Award winners! 🎉

In order to recognize some of the outstanding work published in the journal, as well as the authors behind those articles, we annually award a Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Award. The prizes recognise the contributions of all authors and celebrate these exceptional publications.

Each year, we look back at the exceptionally high quality and innovative materials science published during the previous calendar year and put together a shortlist of articles based on a variety of metrics including article downloads, Altmetric score, citations and reviewer comments. The shortlist is reviewed by the journal's Editorial and Advisory Board members based on the science presented and its potential future impact.

We are pleased to announce our 2024 Outstanding Communication winners, Outstanding Communication Runners-up and our Outstanding Review winners below 👇

Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Award – Communication winner:

Fully bio-based water-resistant wood coatings derived from tree bark

Fengyang Wang, Mohammad Morsali, Jānis Rižikovs, Ievgen Pylypchuk, Aji P. Mathew and Mika Sipponen

https://doi.org/10.1039/D4MH01010H

Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Award – Communication runner-up:

High-performance one-dimensional halide perovskite crossbar memristors and synapses for neuromorphic computing

Sujaya Kumar Vishwanath, Benny Febriansyah, Si En Ng, Tisita Das, Jyotibdha Acharya, Rohit Abraham John, Divyam Sharma, Putu Andhita Dananjaya, Metikoti Jagadeeswararao, Naveen Tiwari, Mohit Ramesh Chandra Kulkarni, Wen Siang Lew, Sudip Chakraborty, Arindam Basuf and Nripan Mathews

https://doi.org/10.1039/D3MH02055J

Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Award - Review winner:

Two decades of ceria nanoparticle research: structure, properties and emerging applications

Ali Othman, Akshay Gowda, Daniel Andreescu, Mohamed H. Hassan, S. V. Babu, Jihoon Seo and Silvana Andreescu

https://doi.org/10.1039/D4MH00055B

Find out more about our winners in our Editorial:

https://pubs.rsc.org/doi/D5MH90051D

Our companion journal Nanoscale Horizons has also announced their Outstanding Paper Awards – remember to check them out!

https://pubs.rsc.org/doi/D5NH90025E

Please join us in congratulating all our fantastic winners!

The Royal Society of Chemistry’s materials and nanoscience portfolios are delighted to showcase this cross-journal colle...
10/06/2025

The Royal Society of Chemistry’s materials and nanoscience portfolios are delighted to showcase this cross-journal collection on the plethora of research fields centred on light–(nano)matter interactions, in line with the inaugural Light-nanoMatter Interaction Summer School held in 2024.

Guest Edited by Riccardo Marin (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) and Erving Ximendes (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain), the collection features thought-provoking Opinion pieces and tutorial-style Focus articles from plenary speakers at the summer school.

Alongside these accessible and engaging pieces, we hope you enjoy exploring a range of primary research from across the Royal Society of Chemistry within this exciting field, selected by the Guest Editors to showcase cutting edge developments. All articles are free to read until 16 July 2025.

Discover the full collection: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/articlecollectionlanding?sercode=mh&themeid=d1bdd092-8cbd-4819-96ec-aacd98bda2cc

Read the Editorial: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/mh/d5mh90066b

Read this latest Materials Horizons Community Board pick written by Materials Horizons Community Board member Shahid Zam...
10/04/2025

Read this latest Materials Horizons Community Board pick written by Materials Horizons Community Board member Shahid Zaman on 'Turning Plastic Waste into Hydrogen: Clean and Green'

🔗 https://blogs.rsc.org/mh/2025/04/07/turning-plastic-waste-into-hydrogen-clean-and-green/?doing_wp_cron=1744274716.9365439414978027343750

This blog post summarises the recent and innovative work by Yizhi Xiang, Zhe Qiang et al published in Materials Horizons on using mixed polyolefin wastes for electrification of heating to enable industrial decarbonization

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1039/D4MH01755B

We are pleased to welcome our new Materials Horizons Advisory Board member John Rogers 👏Professor John A Rogers is base...
08/04/2025

We are pleased to welcome our new Materials Horizons Advisory Board member John Rogers 👏

Professor John A Rogers is based at Northwestern University, USA where he is Director of the Querrey-Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics. He has co-authored nearly 1000 papers and he is co-inventor on more than 100 patents, more than 70 or which are licensed to large companies or to startups that have emerged from his labs. John’s research seeks to understand and exploit interesting characteristics of ‘soft’ materials, such as polymers, liquid crystals, and biological tissues as well as hybrid combinations of them with unusual classes of micro/nanomaterials, in the form of ribbons, wires, membranes, tubes or related.

Find out more about John and read some of his recent Royal Society of Chemistry publications on our blog 🔗 https://blogs.rsc.org/mh/2025/04/07/welcoming-john-a-rogers-to-the-materials-horizons-advisory-board/?doing_wp_cron=1744099661.5009279251098632812500

Have you heard of the Computational Energy Materials Design Infrastructure (CEMDI)? 🤔 They are currently offering FREE m...
01/04/2025

Have you heard of the Computational Energy Materials Design Infrastructure (CEMDI)? 🤔 They are currently offering FREE membership, granting you access to workshops, seminars and symposia as well as networking opportunities! 🤝

Materials Horizons are also delighted to support the 3rd annual CEMDI symposium, alongside Digital Discovery and MSDE! 🎖

Registration is still open - discover the line up of excellent speakers and learn more about CEMDI membership at https://cemdi.inrs.ca/2025symposium/

Presenting Issue 7 Emerging Investigators Dr Dibyajyoti Ghosh and Dr Satyaprasad P. Senanayak (, and ). Read the edito...
01/04/2025

Presenting Issue 7 Emerging Investigators Dr Dibyajyoti Ghosh and Dr Satyaprasad P. Senanayak (, and ). Read the editorial here: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MH90027A

Discover the articles in this Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons Community Board collection on 'Emerging Horizons...
31/03/2025

Discover the articles in this Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons Community Board collection on 'Emerging Horizons in Polymer Applications' selected for by Kostas Parkatzidis and Calum Ferguson

🔗https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/articlecollectionlanding?sercode=mh&themeid=f3e590ff-50ee-4b6c-98b9-3bce116de9a7

Materials Horizons Community Board member, Kostas Parkatzidis and Nanoscale Horizons Community Board member, Calum Ferguson have collated some recent and impactful articles and reviews related to polymer science with applications in four areas of critical and timely research; catalytic polymer materials, polymers in additive manufacturing, self-healing polymeric materials and recyclable/sustainable polymers. This Community Board collection emphasises the importance and breadth of polymer materials in many areas of materials science research and showcases just some of the latest advancements using polymers across Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons.

All articles in the collection are free to read until 12 May 2025.

Kostas and Calum have written an Editorial introducing the collection and the four main areas of polymer science applications. We encourage you to read this here:

🔗https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/mh/d5mh90026c

If you work in polymer science and are demonstrating a new concept or breakthrough advance, consider sending your work to Materials Horizons or Nanoscale Horizons!

Do you work on (nano)catalysis related research? We would be delighted to consider your very best quality work to Materi...
24/03/2025

Do you work on (nano)catalysis related research? We would be delighted to consider your very best quality work to Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons for this exciting new collection!

Guest Edited by Marcella Lusardi, Tianyi Ma, Wee-Jun Ong, Vivek Polshettiwar, Jennifer Strunk and Huabin Zhang, this special-themed collection aims to provide a comprehensive platform for showcasing the latest breakthroughs and emerging trends in catalysis, with a focus on the interface at materials and nanoscience.

Find out more at https://blogs.rsc.org/mh/2025/03/24/nanocatalysis-themed-collection/

Last year marked the 10th anniversary of Materials Horizons and to celebrate, we invited some of our very first authors ...
12/03/2025

Last year marked the 10th anniversary of Materials Horizons and to celebrate, we invited some of our very first authors to write Reflection articles looking back at their work published in the journal a decade ago. We asked our authors how their work may have influenced theirs and other’s research in the field, how the field may have changed since their first publication, and how they might have approached the work differently had they the hindsight of today.

We invite you to discover these interesting and insightful articles in the collection

🔗 https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/articlecollectionlanding?sercode=mh&themeid=0d2e010e-7842-4b1b-ac87-f82869e4517e

Featuring articles by Martin Heeney and John de Mello, Yingfeng Tu, Bin Liu, Gordon Wallace AO, Richard Kaner, Anthony Cheetham, Shu-Hong Yu and Vincent Rotello

We hope you enjoy reading about some of our first publications in the journal a decade ago and about how our authors reflect on their research journeys.

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