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News at Chemistry of Materials: Up-and-Coming Series, A New Editor
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UP-AND-COMING SERIES In mid-2014, we introduced our new Up-and-Coming Series of perspectives, written by researchers who have recently launched their independent research programs, typically pretenure faculty, or industry scientists within their first few years of their career.1 In 2015, we are proud to have featured two such perspectives thus far, from François-Xavier Coudert2 and Jill Millstone,3 both of which are highlighted on the covers of the issues in which they appeared (Figure 1). Coudert’s perspective
Figure 2. New editor Kristin Persson, an expert in energy storage and computational modeling of materials.
Project Center for Functional Electronic Materials Design, is the PI of a Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies (BATT) program, and co-founded a clean-energy startup called Pellion Technologies Inc. (recipient of an ARPA-E award for the development of high-energy rechargeable magnesium batteries). She uses high-performance computing and atomistic computational methods to understand the fundamental properties of materials. Recent publications include: The Coupling between Stability and Ion Pair Formation in Magnesium Electrolytes from First-Principles Quantum Mechanics and Classical Molecular Dynamics Rajput, N. N.; Qu, X.; Sa, N.; Burrell, A. K.; Persson, K. A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 3411. Spinel compounds as multivalent battery cathodes: a systematic evaluation based on ab initio calculations Liu, M.; Rong, Z.; Malik, R.; Canepa, P.; Jain, A.; Ceder, G.; Persson, K. A. Energy Environ. Sci. 2015, 8, 964. Integrated Nano-Domains of Disordered and Ordered Spinel Phases in LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 for Li-Ion Batteries Kim, J.-H.; Huq, A.; Chi, M.; Pieczonka, N. P. W.; Lee, E.; Bridges, C. A.; Tessema, M. M.; Manthiram, A.; Persson, K. A.; Powell, B. R. Chem. Mater. 2014, 26, 4377. As always, you can have the confidence that your manuscripts will be carefully handled and that we will work with you to publish your top quality materials chemistry research in Chemistry of Materials.
Figure 1. Covers corresponding to two Up-and-Coming perspectives by younger faculty, in 2015, from issues 6 and 8, entitled “Responsive Metal−Organic Frameworks and Framework Materials: Under Pressure, Taking the Heat, in the Spotlight, with Friends” and “NMR Techniques for Noble Metal Nanoparticles”, respectively.2,3
describes the often unusual and novel response of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) to external stimuli such as light, mechanical pressure, temperature, guest adsorption, and others. Millstone describes how to apply NMR to analyze nanoparticles of just about any size, morphology, composition, and exterior ligand environment, to complement existing/traditional techniques. Both perspectives are open access and have become two of our top downloads.4
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INTRODUCING KRISTIN PERSSON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR One of the fastest growing areas of research in materials science is energy storage.5 We have seen explosive growth in the areas of batteries, supercapacitors, catalysis related to water splitting and solar fuels, and others. To complement the existing expertise of our editors Mike Ward, Kyoung-Shin Choi, and Ram Seshadri, we are very pleased to introduce a specialist in materials for energy generation and storage applications and materials genomics, Kristin Persson (Figure 2).6 Kristin is a Staff Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and heads The Materials Project, co-founded with Gerbrand Ceder (at MIT), which uses computational materials science to predict properties and provide new directions to experimentalists.7 She also is the Director of the Materials © 2015 American Chemical Society
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Jillian M. Buriak, Editor-in-Chief
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Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS. Published: April 28, 2015 2719
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b01269 Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 2719−2720
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(1) Buriak, J. M. Chem. Mater. 2015, 26, 3027−3027. (2) Coudert, F. X. Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 1905−1916. (3) Marbella, L. E.; Millstone, J. E. Chem. Mater. 2015, DOI: 10.1021/cm504809c. (4) On April 6, 2015, “NMR Techniques...” is the top download for the past 30 days, and “Responsive Metal−Organic Frameworks...” is the fourth highest. (5) Adams, J.; Pendlebury, D. Global Research Reports: Materials Science and Technology, 2011, http://sciencewatch.com/globalresearch-reports. (6) http://perssongroup.lbl.gov. (7) https://www.materialsproject.org.
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b01269 Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 2719−2720
