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New People, New Directions in 2014 s you may have noticed, Chemistry of Materials has a new look that we hope properly reflects upon the excitement of the science published within. The contributions of our authors, readers, editors, editorial advisory board members, and staff the people working behind the new logoare what gives the journal its identity. We strive to be a personable, outgoing, and communicative place for you to proudly publish your work in materials chemistry. In order to help us achieve this goal, we will be bringing onboard several new Associate Editors in 2014, and I am very excited to introduce our first two (shown in Figure 1): Brian Korgel (Chemical Engineering, University of
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our most fundamental, chemists imagine, discover, and synthesize new and previously unknown materials, and from a more applied angle, we assist with the optimization, the integration, and the development of materials for technology. Chemistry of Materials endeavors to be the ideal place for top caliber papers that emphasize the chemistry aspects of materialswe are ideally placed and are growing with new Associate Editors and Editorial Advisory Board members. Most importantly, all the editors and EAB members are scientists, researchers, and educators, carrying out research in the trenches of materials chemistry. We take our job extremely seriously and want to be known as a fair, conscientious, and responsive venue for your work in materials chemistry. Please let us know your thoughtswe are listening.
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Jillian Buriak, Editor-in-Chief AUTHOR INFORMATION
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Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS. Figure 1. New Associate Editors online at Chemistry of Materials as of January 1, 2014. BAK: Brian Korgel (functional nanomaterials). KPL: Kian Ping Loh (carbon/graphene materials).
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Texas, Austin) will help to complement our expertise in the area of functional nanomaterials, and Kian Ping Loh (Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore) will enable us to build strength in the newer area of carbon-based materials. We plan to further expand our editorial expertise and build additional strength in the areas of materials integration (using chemistry to build more complex higher order materials, devices, structures, and the integration of hard and soft materials), the relationship of chemical structure with materials (and device) performance, interdisciplinary uses of materials, and others. To help guide us at a higher level and provide expert advice, we have brought on 8 new Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) members, including Hua Zhang (Nanyang Technological University), Shu-Hong Yu (University of Science and Technology of China), Sara Skrabalak (Indiana University), Amy Prieto (Colorado State University), David Lynn (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Stephen Maldonado (University of Michigan), Curtis Berlinguette (University of British Columbia), and Will Dichtel (Cornell University). On its Careers in Chemistry Web site, the American Chemical Society provides a reason for the popularity of materials science, saying that “it unites applications from many scientific disciplines that contribute to the development of new materials”.1 We agreewe believe we that sit at an incredibly exciting nexus of cross-disciplinary thinking. From applied biology and nanomedicine, to physics, to mechanical engineering, the chemistry of materials is central to materials science; at
Published: January 28, 2014
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(1) http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/careers/whatchemistsdo/ careers/materials-science.html.
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dx.doi.org/10.1021/cm500003h | Chem. Mater. 2014, 26, 871−871
