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Virtual Issue: Methods and Protocols Series in Materials Science2018 n early 2017, the ACS journals Chemistry of Materials and ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering initiated a new flavor of manuscript, called Methods/Protocols.1,2 The goals of this manuscript type are to enable facile duplication of exciting and useful new techniques by researchers who are new to the field, and to promote high standards. These Methods/Protocols articles include “insider advice”, with a more recipe-like or “how to” format that contains details that go beyond what is typically included in an experimental section. Authors are encouraged to include videos,3 which can be directly linked from the main text for easy access, and photographs of experimental apparatus and key steps of the experimental procedures. Ideally, the first draft of a Methods/Protocols paper would be written by those in the lab, with the intimate knowledge of the techniques, pitfalls, and critical details that will allow others to successfully reproduce their experiments. These papers will enhance the ability of others to “do what you do”,4 hence increasing the impact of your work on the community. The greatest compliment anyone can give your work is to reproduce it and build upon it as the foundation of their successful research project.4 Since January of 2017, we have published 18 Methods/ Protocols papers that extend over a range of topics in materials science, and they are encapsulated within this virtual issue (Figure 1). As can be seen below, the methods and protocols describe a diverse array of materials and their applications ranging from metal-halide perovskites, to cell culturing within hydrogel matrices, to atomic layer deposition, and others, to name a few that have been covered thus far. We have noted that many of these papers are highly downloaded (>1000 times in a short period of time), and thus they have been noticed and are being used. Please carefully think about your area of expertise and consider what methods and protocols you might want to share with the community. We welcome new methods and protocols, as well as clarification and standardization of popular but difficult-to-reproduce techniques and characterization. We hope that this virtual issue is useful to you and your research groups, and that it inspires you to submit a Methods/Protocols paper in your own area. We will be publishing another virtual issue in a year from now, and your Methods/Protocols paper could be a part of our next one, in 2019. Perovskite-Inspired Photovoltaic Materials: Toward Best Practices in Materials Characterization and Calculations5 Robert L. Z. Hoye, Philip Schulz, Laura T. Schelhas, Aaron M. Holder, Kevin H. Stone, John D. Perkins, Derek VigilFowler, Sebastian Siol, David O. Scanlon, Andriy Zakutayev, Aron Walsh, Ian C. Smith, Brent C. Melot, Rachel C. Kurchin, Yiping Wang, Jian Shi, Francisco C. Marques, Joseph J. Berry, William Tumas, Stephan Lany, Vladan Stevanović, Michael F. Toney, and Tonio Buonassisi Hard X-ray Photon-in Photon-out Spectroscopy as a Probe of the Temperature-Induced Delocalization of Electrons in Nanoscale Semiconductors6 Ofer Hirsch, Kristina Kvashnina, Christoph Willa, and Dorota Koziej
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Measuring the Glass Transition Temperature of Conjugated Polymer Films with Ultraviolet−Visible Spectroscopy7 Samuel E. Root, Mohammad A. Alkhadra, Daniel Rodriquez, Adam D. Printz, and Darren J. Lipomi Phase-Matching in Nonlinear Optical Compounds: A Materials Perspective8 Weiguo Zhang, Hongwei Yu, Hongping Wu, and P. Shiv Halasyamani Surface Analysis of Nanocomplexes by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)9 Efrat Korin, Natalya Froumin, and Smadar Cohen Self-Referenced Method for Estimating Refractive Index and Absolute Absorption of Loose Semiconductor Powders10 Huafeng Huang, Diane M. Colabello, Elizabeth C. Sklute, Timothy D. Glotch, and Peter G. Khalifah Useful X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy-Based Chemical Tool: Differential Charging Studies of Complex Composite Materials11 Susanna L. Bergman, Girija S. Sahasrabudhe, Huiwen Ji, Robert J. Cava, and Steven L. Bernasek Predicting Silk Fiber Mechanical Properties through Multiscale Simulation and Protein Design12 Nae-Gyune Rim, Erin G. Roberts, Davoud Ebrahimi, Nina ́ Dinjaski, Matthew M. Jacobsen, Zaira Martin-Moldes, Markus J. Buehler, David L. Kaplan, and Joyce Y. Wong Hands-on Guide to the Synthesis of Mesoporous Hollow Graphitic Spheres and Core−Shell Materials13 Johannes Knossalla, Daniel Jalalpoor, and Ferdi Schüth Tutorials for Electrophysiological Recordings in Neuronal Tissue Engineering14 Chuang Du, Will Collins, Will Cantley, Disha Sood, and David L. Kaplan Guidelines for Synthesis and Processing of Two-Dimensional Titanium Carbide (Ti3C2Tx MXene)15 Mohamed Alhabeb, Kathleen Maleski, Babak Anasori, Pavel Lelyukh, Leah Clark, Saleesha Sin, and Yury Gogotsi Versatile Interpenetrating Polymer Network Approach to Robust Stretchable Electronic Devices16 Guoyan Zhang, Michael McBride, Nils Persson, Savannah Lee, Tim J. Dunn, Michael F. Toney, Zhibo Yuan, Yo-Han Kwon, Ping-Hsun Chu, Bailey Risteen, and Elsa Reichmanis Direct Measurements of Half-Cycle Reaction Heats during Atomic Layer Deposition by Calorimetry17 James M. Lownsbury, James A. Gladden, Charles T. Campbell, In Soo Kim, and Alex B. F. Martinson Methods To Assess Shear-Thinning Hydrogels for Application As Injectable Biomaterials18 Minna H. Chen, Leo L. Wang, Jennifer J. Chung, Young-Hun Kim, Pavan Atluri, and Jason A. Burdick Published: March 13, 2018 1443
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Figure 1. Four examples of the 18 Methods/Protocols papers published in the past year. These images are the Table of Contents images from references 19, 18, 14, and 16. Reproduced with permission from American Chemical Society.
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Electrochemistry and Spectroelectrochemistry of Lead Halide Perovskite Films: Materials Science Aspects and Boundary Conditions19 Gergely F. Samu, Rebecca A. Scheidt, Prashant V. Kamat, and Csaba Janáky Determination of the Molecular Weight of Conjugated Polymers with Diffusion-Ordered NMR Spectroscopy20 Kaichen Gu, Jonathan Onorato, Steven Shuyong Xiao, Christine K. Luscombe, and Yueh-Lin Loo Isolation and Identification of Proteins Secreted by Cells Cultured within Synthetic Hydrogel-Based Matrices21 Lisa Sawicki, Leila Choe, Katherine Wiley, Kelvin H. Lee, and April M. Kloxin A Method for the Fabrication of Elastomeric Polyester Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering and Minimally Invasive Delivery22 Miles Montgomery, Locke Davenport Huyer, Dawn Bannerman, Mohammad Hossein Mohammadi, Genevieve Conant, and Milica Radisic
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the authors and not necessarily the views of the ACS. This editorial also appeared in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering with DOI 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.8b00229.
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Jillian M. Buriak, Editor-in-Chief, Chemistry of Materials David L. Kaplan, Editor-in-Chief, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering Carlos Toro, Managing Editor, Chemistry of Materials Paulomi Majumder, Managing Editor, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
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(9) Korin, E.; Froumin, N.; Cohen, S. Surface Analysis of Nanocomplexes by X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS). ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2017, 3 (6), 882−889. (10) Huang, H.; Colabello, D. M.; Sklute, E. C.; Glotch, T. D.; Khalifah, P. G. Self-Referenced Method for Estimating Refractive Index and Absolute Absorption of Loose Semiconductor Powders. Chem. Mater. 2017, 29 (11), 4632−4640. (11) Bergman, S. L.; Sahasrabudhe, G. S.; Ji, H.; Cava, R. J.; Bernasek, S. L. Useful X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy-Based Chemical Tool: Differential Charging Studies of Complex Composite Materials. Chem. Mater. 2017, 29 (10), 4162−4166. (12) Rim, N.-G.; Roberts, E. G.; Ebrahimi, D.; Dinjaski, N.; Jacobsen, M. M.; Martín-Moldes, Z.; Buehler, M. J.; Kaplan, D. L.; Wong, J. Y. Predicting Silk Fiber Mechanical Properties through Multiscale Simulation and Protein Design. ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2017, 3 (8), 1542−1556. (13) Knossalla, J.; Jalalpoor, D.; Schüth, F. Hands-on Guide to the Synthesis of Mesoporous Hollow Graphitic Spheres and Core−Shell Materials. Chem. Mater. 2017, 29 (17), 7062−7072. (14) Du, C.; Collins, W.; Cantley, W.; Sood, D.; Kaplan, D. L. Tutorials for Electrophysiological Recordings in Neuronal Tissue Engineering. ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2017, 3 (10), 2235−2246. (15) Alhabeb, M.; Maleski, K.; Anasori, B.; Lelyukh, P.; Clark, L.; Sin, S.; Gogotsi, Y. Guidelines for Synthesis and Processing of TwoDimensional Titanium Carbide (Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene). Chem. Mater. 2017, 29 (18), 7633−7644. (16) Zhang, G.; McBride, M.; Persson, N.; Lee, S.; Dunn, T. J.; Toney, M. F.; Yuan, Z.; Kwon, Y.-H.; Chu, P.-H.; Risteen, B.; Reichmanis, E. Versatile Interpenetrating Polymer Network Approach to Robust Stretchable Electronic Devices. Chem. Mater. 2017, 29 (18), 7645−7652. (17) Lownsbury, J. M.; Gladden, J. A.; Campbell, C. T.; Kim, I. S.; Martinson, A. B. F. Direct Measurements of Half-Cycle Reaction Heats during Atomic Layer Deposition by Calorimetry. Chem. Mater. 2017, 29 (20), 8566−8577. (18) Chen, M. H.; Wang, L. L.; Chung, J. J.; Kim, Y.-H.; Atluri, P.; Burdick, J. A. Methods To Assess Shear-Thinning Hydrogels for Application As Injectable Biomaterials. ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2017, 3 (12), 3146−3160. (19) Samu, G. F.; Scheidt, R. A.; Kamat, P. V.; Janáky, C. Electrochemistry and Spectroelectrochemistry of Lead Halide Perovskite Films: Materials Science Aspects and Boundary Conditions. Chem. Mater. 2018, 30 (3), 561−569. (20) Gu, K.; Onorato, J.; Xiao, S. S.; Luscombe, C. K.; Loo, Y.-L. Determination of the Molecular Weight of Conjugated Polymers with Diffusion-Ordered NMR Spectroscopy. Chem. Mater. 2018, 30 (3), 570−576. (21) Sawicki, L.; Choe, L.; Wiley, K.; Lee, K. H.; Kloxin, A. M. Isolation and Identification of Proteins Secreted by Cells Cultured within Synthetic Hydrogel-Based Matrices. ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.7b00647. (22) Montgomery, M.; Huyer, L. D.; Bannerman, D.; Mohammadi, M. H.; Conant, G.; Radisic, M. A Method for the Fabrication of Elastomeric Polyester Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering and Minimally Invasive Delivery. ACS Biomaterials 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.7b01017.
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