The American Chemical Society has announced the launch of a new journal - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Slated for launch in the first-quarter of 2009, the journal will be available both in print and online. Kirk S. Schanze, a chemistry professor at the University of Florida (UF), will serve as editor-in-chief.
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces will be the first ACS materials chemistry publication to focus exclusively on applied science and engineering, as opposed to fundamental science and engineering. The journals editorial content will include a broad range of topics across the advanced materials sciences, and will cater to the interdisciplinary interests of chemists and professionals engaged in active and well-funded areas of applied research and development. Selected issues will include topical 'Forums' - an editorial feature that will group collections of articles as focused reports on cutting-edge developments and novel applications of importance to the journal's intended global readership.
With its focus on applications, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces will complement existing ACS publications such as Chemistry of Materials, Langmuir, Biomacromolecules, Macromolecules and The Journal of Physical Chemistry B and C, which highlight basic research studies reporting on fundamental scientific discoveries.
