Editorial pubs.acs.org/cm
Hot Materials Chemistry in a Cool Country Open access virtual issue on materials chemistry by Canadian authors, in celebration of the 100th meeting of the Canadian Chemistry Conference
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celebrates the exciting materials chemistry arising from Canada. We congratulate the Canadian chemical community on its proud history and look forward to another 100 years of top quality and energizing chemical research. The American Chemical Society and ACS Publications are top tier Platinum Sponsors of the event and will be hosting a number of activities and events, including an ACS on Campus event on Monday, May 29 at 1 pm,2 immediately followed by a donut-fueled “Meet the Editors of ACS Publications” reception in the exhibition hall. A broad swath of editors of ACS journals will be in attendance at the meeting, and we look forward to meeting up with you in Toronto. Link to the 32 papers of this open access virtual issue is here.
o celebrate the 100th meeting of the Canadian Chemistry Conference, 18 journals of ACS Publications have collaborated to assemble this entirely open access virtual issue by Canadian authors, in the area of materials chemistry (Figure 1). The conference takes place this May 28−June 1 in Toronto and has the theme of “A Celebration of Chemistry” (Figure 2).1 This virtual issue of 32 open access papers
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Jillian M. Buriak, Editor-in-Chief AUTHOR INFORMATION
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Jillian M. Buriak: 0000-0002-9567-4328 Notes
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS.
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(1) http://www.csc2017.ca. (2) http://acsoncampus.acs.org. (3) Wordle created using wordart.com.
Figure 1. Wordle comprising the keywords from the titles of the 32 open access papers within this virtual issue, as well as the titles of the 18 journals, the names of the two chemical societies (the ACS and the CSC), 100 (years of meeting), and the locale, Toronto, Canada.3
Figure 2. Virtual open access issue celebrating the “Celebration of Chemistry”, the 100th Canadian Chemistry Conference.
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b01732 Chem. Mater. XXXX, XXX, XXX−XXX
