STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of a new journal - Extreme Mechanics Letters.
The launch of Extreme Mechanics Letters is driven primarily by the rapid advances at the forefront of applied sciences such as micro and nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, soft materials, smart sensing/actuation, manufacturing, device fabrication, many of them depend heavily on mechanics tools.
The journal will seek to serve as a forum for novel research featuring the important role of mechanics in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary areas across materials science, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine and engineering.
Despite the availability and success of letter journals in other disciplines, within the mechanics community the availability of this publication type has been limited. The journal will follow the article based publishing model, which allows for immediate publication of the final version of a paper without waiting for other articles to be compiled into a full issue.
Extreme Mechanics Letters will be edited by three distinguished scientists who will jointly share the role of Editor-in-Chief: Dr. K. Jimmy Hsia, Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering, and of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Dr. John A. Rogers is Swanlund Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, with affiliate appointments in Chemistry, Bioengineering, Mechanical Science and Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; and Dr. Zhigang Suo is Allen E. and Marilyn M. Puckett Professor of Mechanics and Materials in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, USA.
First articles published are now available for free on ScienceDirect at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/aip/23524316.
