IOP Publishing has announced the launch of Multifunctional MaterialsTM, a new, high-impact journal uniquely designed to serve an emerging field that now connects the materials science, physics, chemistry, bioscience and engineering communities, as well as industry.
The design and manufacture of materials capable of multiple functions – so called 'multifunctional' materials – has emerged as a rapidly growing direction within materials science. It is characterised by multidisciplinary research activity, and the significant potential for wide-ranging technological innovation extending to energy, environmental sustainability, healthcare, aerospace, nanoelectronics, soft robotics and semiconductors.
Integrating almost independent functions which typically do not occur at the same time (or which may even seem contradictive) within a single material system is the fundamental scientific challenge. The new journal is in response to these developments, and specific demand from the community.
The journal is led by Andreas Lendlein, Director of the Institute of Biomaterial Science at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research and Professor for Materials in Life Sciences at Potsdam University, and Richard Trask, Professor of Advanced Materials at the University of Bath, as the two founding Editors-in-Chief. Together with IOP's publishing team and the journal's expanding international Editorial Board they will shape the early direction and characteristics of Multifunctional Materials, and oversee the editorial process.
Multifunctional Materials is now open for submissions and will be free to read for individual users, universities, and academic research institutes throughout 2017 and 2018.
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