Aims & Scope

Materials Letters is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to rapid communications on the science, applications, and processing of materials.

Materials Letters is dedicated to publishing novel, cutting edge reports of broad interest to the materials community. The journal provides a forum for materials scientists and engineers, physicists, and chemists to rapidly communicate on the most important topics in the field of materials.

Contributions include, but are not limited to, a variety of topics such as:

    Materials - Metals and alloys, amorphous solids, ceramics, composites, polymers, semiconductors, biomaterials and biological materials, advanced materials, metamaterials, high-entropy alloys, nitrides, and oxides.

    Applications - Structural, opto-electronic, magnetic, biomedical, MEMS, sensors, electronics, smart materials, additive manufacturing, membranes, materials for energy systems, batteries, photocatalysis.

    Characterization - Analytical, microscopy, scanning probes, nanoscopic, optical, electrical, magnetic, acoustic, spectroscopic, diffraction.

    Novel Materials - Micro and nanostructures (nanowires, nanotubes, nanoparticles), nanocomposites, thin films, superlattices, quantum dots.

    Processing - Crystal growth, thin film processing, sol-gel processing, solvo-hydrothermal processing, mechanical processing, assembly, nanocrystalline processing, sustainable/green processing routes.

    Properties - Mechanical, magnetic, optical, electrical, ferroelectric/piezoelectric, thermal, interfacial, transport, thermodynamic, photoelectrochemical, photocatalytic, thermoelectric, biological, electrochemical.

    Synthesis - Quenching, solid state, mechano-chemical, solidification, solution synthesis, vapor deposition, high pressure, explosive, MOVPE and LPE epitaxial processes, single crystal growth.

    Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence - Materials discovery, design of materials and digital materials science.

Special Issue on Multifunctional Ceramics for Green Energy Applications
Submission Date: 2024-12-31

The special issue invites articles in the specialized field of multifunctional ceramics such as oxides, non-oxides (carbides, nitrides, MAX phase, MXenes) and ceramic-matrix composites for applications related to energy and environment protection.

Guest editors:

Mangalaraja Ramalinga Viswanathan, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
Email: mangal@uai.cl

Miguel Angel Gracia Pinilla, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México
Email: miguel.graciapl@uanl.edu.mx

Bai Cui, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Email: bcui3@unl.edu

Special issue information:

The special issue invites articles in the specialized field of multifunctional ceramics such as oxides, non-oxides (carbides, nitrides, MAX phase, MXenes) and ceramic-matrix composites for applications related to energy and environment protection. The emphasis is on ceramics involved in energy generation, conversion and storage, wastewater treatment, sustainable materials and other related technologies for a wide range of applications.

The special issue topics include but are not limited to energy conversion (solar cells, fuel cells, nanogenerators, hydrogen production, nuclear power, electro-mechanical conversion), storage (dielectrics, supercapacitors, batteries), environment, transportation, aerospace, building, and infrastructure. The special issue focuses the experimental (synthesis/processing, fabrication, sintering, characterization, and properties) and simulation approaches (machine learning, deep learning, DFT simulation) aiming at the fundamental and applied research of emergent functional ceramics for green energy and environment-nexus.

Manuscript submission information:

The journal’s submission platform (Editorial Manager®) is available for receiving submissions to this Special Issue. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript, and select the article type of "VSI: Functional Ceramics" when submitting your manuscript online. Both the Guide for Authors and the submission portal could be found on the Journal Homepage here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/materials-letters

All the submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Upon its editorial acceptance, your article will go into production immediately. It will be published in the latest regular issue, while be presented on the specific Special Issue webpage simultaneously. In regular issues, Special Issue articles will be clearly marked and branded.

Submission deadline: 31-Dec-2024

Keywords:

Ceramics, Solar Cells, Fuel Cells, Nanogenerators, Hydrogen Generation, Supercapacitors, Batteries, Environmental Remediation