Editorial pubs.acs.org/cm
Growth at Chemistry of Materials
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t would be no surprise to anyone working in the field of materials chemistry to read that we are experiencing a period
as rapidly as possible. In order to keep up with the increasing numbers, thanks to the continued support of ACS Publications, we have been able to bring on several new associate editors this year. Professor Stacey Bent (Figure 1) is our fourth new editor to come onboard in 2014. She is the Jagdeep and Roshni Singh Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and, to reflect her vast diversity of expertise and experience, has courtesy appointments in the Departments of Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering. Stacey is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the Director of the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy at Stanford, and a Senior Fellow in the Precourt Institute for Energy. Her research encompasses the design and synthesis of nanomaterials, atomic layer deposition, semiconductor surface chemistry, plasmonics, solar energy conversion, and many others. We are absolutely thrilled to have Stacey join us.
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Jillian M. Buriak, Editor-in-Chief AUTHOR INFORMATION
Notes
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS.
Figure 1. New associate editor, Prof. Stacey F. Bent.
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of rapid, continued growth. As the area continues to evolve, boundaries between traditional domains of science are becoming blurred; fundamental discoveries related to new structures and compositions of materials, the growth of research in nanomaterials, and technologies that include diverse applications such as energy generation and storage, in vivo sensing, flexible electronics, and new computing architectures, to name a few, are erasing the divisions between chemistry, physics, engineering, and biology. As one would expect, the number of researchers in materials-related areas continues to rise, and the accompanying research output as measured by the sheer number of publications is also growing. ThomsonReuters, the corporation that runs Web of Science, has published a series of reports under the heading of Science Watch; one area covered is materials science.1 According to their data, of all the physical sciences, materials science has grown the fastest over the last 3 decades.1 They also note that the world share of papers indexed by Web of Science in materials has grown from just under 3% to 5% from 1981 to 2011, and yet the total number of papers handled during this time has more than doubled to 1.1 million per annum.1 At Chemistry of Materials, we have also been witnessing an ongoing increase in submissions; our 2014 numbers have been following a trajectory that will most likely result in at least a 20% increase over the total count for 2013. We are anticipating a total of 4500 to 5000 submissions by December 31, 2014. Chemistry of Materials has a very dedicated team of editors working to take great care of every manuscript submitted to us, © 2014 American Chemical Society
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(1) http://sciencewatch.com/global-research-reports. Adams, J.; Pendlebury, D. Global Research Reports: Materials Science and Technology; 2011.
Published: October 14, 2014 5421
dx.doi.org/10.1021/cm5033767 | Chem. Mater. 2014, 26, 5421−5421
