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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.

18/09/2025

Presenting .rsc.org Issue 18 Emerging Investigator Professor Dr Teng Fu (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ubRZDWEAAAAJ&hl=en). Read the editorial here: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MH90097B

16/09/2025

We are delighted to share this Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons cross-journal themed collection on Soft Wearable Sensors, guest edited by Professors John Rogers (Northwestern University, USA), wenlong cheng (University of Sydney, Australia), Alina Rwei (TU Delft, Netherlands), Dae-Hyeong Kim (Seoul National University, South Korea) and Nanshu Lu (University of Texas at Austin, USA

Explore the collection for free until 15 November 2025 🔗https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/articlecollectionlanding?sercode=mh&themeid=c7a8322a-13b5-4b3f-ad9f-38b7164db1fe

This collection aims to provide a platform to showcase the recent progress and challenges in the field of soft wearable sensors addressing the exciting current challenges in biosensors, bioelectronics, medicine, healthcare, AR/VR and soft robotics. Congratulations to all researchers for having their excellent work featured and we encourage you to browse the latest developments in the collection.

The guest editors have written an Editorial to introduce the collection and you can read it here 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MH90105G

Congratulations to Zuowan Zhou et al. for having their artwork featured on the front cover of Materials Horizons issue 16 and on the background of our promotional slide! Read their article, 'Visible light-initiated rapid self-healing of PDMS elastomers engineered through dual dynamic bonding networks for smart sensors' 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MH00655D

We hope you enjoy browsing the collection!

15/09/2025

Just published in Materials Horizons 📢

Check out this Reflection article by Eric Breynaert, Christine Kirschhock et al. looking back at their inaugural Materials Horizons publication on 'Flexibility versus rigidity: what determines the stability of zeolite frameworks'.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MH90103K

The team discuss how research around stability of zeolite frameworks has changed since this 2014 publication, how their work impacted the field and how advancements over the past decade have led to increased understanding of the field.

And if you want to check out our other Reflection articles in celebration of the Materials Horizons 10th anniversary, discover the collection here 👉https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/articlecollectionlanding?sercode=mh&themeid=0d2e010e-7842-4b1b-ac87-f82869e4517e

21/08/2025

RSC journals were pleased to sponsor the Best Short Oral Presentation prizes at the 21st International Zeolite Conference held in Dalian, China from July 13 - 18 2025. Join us in congratulating our winners and find out more about them in our blog post 🔗https://blogs.rsc.org/jm/2025/08/15/congratulations-to-the-winners-of-the-best-short-oral-presentation-prizes-at-the-21st-international-zeolite-conference/

14/08/2025

We are excited to announce an open call for papers to a themed collection on metamaterials to be published in Materials Horizons 📢

This themed collection is being guest edited by Grace X. Gu, Amir A Zadpoor, Mohammad J. Mirzaali and Wei Zhai with a submissions deadline of 10 April 2026 📅

Metamaterials are synthetic composites that exhibit properties not usually found in natural materials. The artificial design of these materials enables properties to be fine-tuned to advance research developments in various fields. They have a diverse range of uses related to, electromagnetics, acoustics, mechanics and thermal materials. This themed collection in Materials Horizons looks to explore the recent developments in this growing field of research. We invite researchers working in this exciting field to contribute some of their latest work to the collection and we hope the collection will provide a platform to collect some of the latest impactful developments, as well as a platform to inspire new research.

Find out more on how to submit your quality research to this collection

🔗https://lnkd.in/eRTfzmhq

07/07/2025

Humility and grit: how can PhD students deal with eco-inadequacy?
This new Materials Horizons Editorial contains a vital message for PhD students and their mentors and supervisors.
Written by Christian Müller, Helen Moffett and Frida Ben-Ami
Read it here: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/mh/d5mh90074c

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!

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

20/05/2025

Presenting Issue 10 Emerging Investigator Professor Milad Kamkar (Milad Kamkar, http://linkedin.com/in/milad-kamkar, https://kamkarlab.ca). Read the editorial here: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MH90050F

07/05/2025

Presenting Materials Horizons Issue 9 Emerging Investigators Dr Boran Ma & Professor Zhe Qiang (https://linkedin.com/in/boran-ma-nu and ). Read the editorial here: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MH90043C

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

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

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