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Celebrating Ten Years of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces his issue of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (volume 10, issue 1) marks the beginning of the tenth year of publishing papers in the field of applications-focused applied materials and interfaces. Over the past nine years, the journal has grown remarkably, publishing nearly 20 000 total papers, and receiving more than 3 × 105 total citations. The remarkable growth of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces is highlighted in the plots in Figure 1, which shows the annual
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Figure 2. Left to right: Drs. Oliveira Jr., Chen, Huo, and Tajima.
polyelectrolytes, flexible electronics, sensors and biosensors, plasmonics, nonlinear optics, cell membrane models, drugdelivery systems, optical information storage, and data analysis using machine learning. Dr. Oliveira will be handling papers related to his interests, especially in the areas of films, (bio)sensors, and optical materials. In October, we welcomed Prof. Zhongwei Chen from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Chen’s expertise is in the areas of nanostructured materials, fuel cells, batteries, supercapacitors, electrochemical sensors, membranes, composites, catalysis, graphene, and carbon nanomaterials. Given Dr. Chen’s strong background in energy materials, he will join our team of experts in this field to edit papers related to materials and interfaces for energy storage and conversion. In November, Dr. Fengwei Huo from the Institute of Advanced Materials at Nanjing Tech University in Nanjing, China, joined the team. Dr. Huo’s expertise is in the areas of nanostructured materials, metal−organic frameworks, nanolithography, self-assembly, batteries, supercapacitors, membranes, and graphene and carbon nanomaterials, and he will be handling papers in these areas. Finally, our newest editor is Dr.
Figure 1. Top: Total number of papers published annually in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Bottom: Cumulative number of total citations to papers published in the journal. Data are taken from Web of Science (http://webofknowledge.com/), on Dec 17, 2017.
publishing history and cumulative cites for the journal since its inception. The journal’s Impact Factor has steadily risen (2016 IF = 7.50), and this year it is ranked 8/275 in total citations in Materials Science/Multidisciplinary.1 The growth of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces is reflected by changes in our editorial offices. First, as of January 1, 2018, the journal has a total of 32 editors located in 14 countries. In 2017, we were pleased to add four new Associate Editors to the team (Figure 2). First, we welcome Osvaldo Oliveira Jr. of the University of São Paulo in São Carlos, Brazil. Dr. Oliveira is Professor of Physics at USP and his interests are in nanostructured organic films, conjugated polymers and © 2018 American Chemical Society
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attention. The journal has published approximately 325 highly cited papers.2 Although these papers are distributed among the topical areas of the journal, there is a concentration of highly cited papers in the energy science category. The most cited paper in the journal has received nearly 500 citations and was published in 2011 by Christy L. Haynes, Christopher W. Macosko, and their co-workers from the University of Minnesota: “Cytotoxicity of Graphene Oxide and Graphene in Human Erythrocytes and Skin Fibroblasts”.3 Another highly cited paper was published in the first volume of the journal in 2009 by a consortium of authors.4 Entitled “Cross-Laboratory Experimental Study of Non-Noble-Metal Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction”, the paper focused on benchmarking catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction. These are just examples of the many interesting and impactful articles that have appeared in the journal over the past decade. Finally, we are very excited to announce this years’ launch of two new ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces family journals. The journals are ACS Applied Nano Materials and ACS Applied Energy Materials (Figure 4). The new titles are led by Deputy Editors T. Randall Lee of the University of Houston and Gerald J. Meyer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. These journals were launched to provide authors with venues for publication of their research that is topically focused in the fields of Nano and Energy Materials, respectively. Like ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, ACS Applied Nano Materials and ACS Applied Energy Materials will publish applications-focused research that provide new insights into nano and energy materials. Key aspects will set the new journals apart from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Specifically, although authors will continue to be encouraged to relate their work to applications, there will be less emphasis placed on the need to demonstrate an application in the papers. Authors are asked to clearly address how the reported work is relevant to applications, but practical demonstration of an application will not be required. This broadening of the interpretation of “applied” will allow authors to publish papers that describe new synthesis methods for nano or energy materials and/or to report characterization studies that provide insight into how a material will perform in an application. The full scope statements for the journals can be found at the following links: http://pubs.acs.org/page/aaemcq/about.html and http://pubs.acs.org/page/aanmf6/about.html. ACS Applied Nano Materials and ACS Applied Energy Materials are already accepting papers for consideration via the ACS Paragon Plus Web site, and will publish their first issues on January 26 and January 22 of 2018, respectively. We look forward to working with the community to develop these exciting new titles in the field of applied materials science and engineering in 2018 and beyond. Best wishes for the New Year in 2018.
Keisuke Tajima from the Center for Emergent Matter Science at RIKEN in Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan. Dr. Tajima’s expertise is in organic electronics, conjugated polymers, and organic solar cell applications. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces currently enjoys excellent support from a team of managing and development editors at ACS Publications in Washington, DC (Figure 3). We are
Figure 3. Left to right: Editorial team of Drs. Konda, MacLaughlin, and Jiang.
especially glad to introduce our new team, which includes Dr. Sai Konda as Senior Managing Editor and Dr. Christina MacLaughlin and Dr. Chengmin Jiang as Development Editors. Sai joins ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces after spending time as Managing Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry portfolio. Sai has a Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin. Christina recently joined ACS Publications after a postdoctoral period at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, where she was working in the field of bionanomaterials. She has a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Chemistry from the University of Toronto. Chengmin just joined ACS Publications after working in the field of computer science in Houston. Chengmin has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Rice University, with interest in carbon materials. We are very happy to have these expert scientific editors assisting with the development of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and our new portfolio of Applied Materials journals (vide infra). As ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces matures, we can now look back to some of the content that has received the most
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Kirk S. Schanze, Editor-in-Chief Sai Sriharsha M. Konda, Senior Managing Editor AUTHOR INFORMATION
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Kirk S. Schanze: 0000-0003-3342-4080 Sai Sriharsha M. Konda: 0000-0001-6759-3240 Notes
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the authors and not necessarily the views of the ACS. 2
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Figure 4. Introducing ACS Applied Nano Materials and ACS Applied Energy Materials. Deputy Editors T. Randall Lee and Gerald J. Meyer.
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(1) InCites Journal Citation Reports: https://jcr.incites. thomsonreuters.com/. (2) Web of Science Highly Cited Papers: https://images. webofknowledge.com/images/help/WOS/hp_highly_cited_papers. html. (3) Liao, K.-H.; Lin, Y.-S.; Macosko, C. W.; Haynes, C. L. Cytotoxicity of Graphene Oxide and Graphene in Human Erythrocytes and Skin Fibroblasts. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2011, 3, 2607−2615. (4) Jaouen, F.; Herranz, J.; Lefèvre, M.; Dodelet, J.-P.; Kramm, U. I.; Herrmann, I.; Bogdanoff, P.; Maruyama, J.; Nagaoka, T.; Garsuch, A.; Dahn, J. R.; Olson, T.; Pylypenko, S.; Atanassov, P.; Ustinov, E. A. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2009, 1, 1623−1639.
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