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Preface: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces in China Forum his ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Forum is dedicated to the journal’s authors, reviewers, and editorial board members in China, and is intended to express the gratitude of the journal’s editors for the number and quality of submissions that we are receiving from China. The success of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces in China is underscored by the fact that in 2015, 42% of the articles published in the journal list authors based in China, and these articles have been cited 15% more than the journal average. These numbers are also borne out qualitatively, by looking at the depth and quality of the articles published by authors from China in every issue. The degree of interest in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces in China was also manifest by the response that we received to the dedicated journal symposium that was held at the Institute of Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Science (ICCAS) in Beijing in April of 2015, which attracted some of the leading materials science researchers from around China1 (see Figures 1 and 2).
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Each paper in the Forum is authored by a leading Chinese research group working in the multidisciplinary materials research arena. The collection includes seven focused research articles that highlight the development of new polymer materials that are useful for sensing, cell imaging, gene delivery, and anticancer applications (by Linqi Shi, Dahui Zhao, Huaping Xu, Fude Feng, Chunyan Tan, Changfeng Wu, and Zhihui Dai). Four articles emphasize the design of organic−inorganic composite materials for energy and catalysis applications, including photoelectrochemical water splitting, lithium−sulfur batteries, electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution, and supercapacitors (by Limin Qi, Yu-Guo Guo, Tianxi Liu, and Ping Xu). Three articles detail facile supromolecular strategy toward functional materials and applications, such as pillar[6]arene-containing multilayer films, bioinspired water repellent-materials, and pHregulated optical micellar nanoparticles (by Xi Zhang, Lei Jiang, and Shiyong Liu). Another five research articles describe the design of organic/polymer electronic materials for devices including organic transistors, photovoltaics, and sensors (by Jian Pei, Jianhui Hou, Zhishan Bo, Xiaozhang Zhu and Deqing Zhang). In addition, the Forum also contains one Review article which overviews photonic applications of metal-dielectric heterostructured nanomaterials (by Yongsheng Zhao). Taken together, we believe that this Forum provides a glimpse of some of the best materials and interfaces research from the Chinese science and engineering community. The articles reflect the applications focus of research in Chinese laboratories, coupled with an emphasis on important regional and global problems, including renewable energy, the environment, and human health and medicine. We thank all of the authors and reviewers who contributed to the Symposium and Forum, and look forward to future events and Forums that seek to highlight applied materials and interfaces research around the globe.
Figure 1. Delegates of the ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces China Symposium assembled outside the main building at the ICCAS.
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Shu Wang, Associate Editor Chunhai Fan, Associate Editor Jonathan Mallett, Managing Editor Kirk S. Schanze, 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.
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Figure 2. From left to right: Professors Deqing Zhang, Xi Zhang, and David Whitten give lectures at the ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces China Symposium, held at ICCAS April 13, 2015.
(1) Mallett, J. Applied Materials Feast in China. Chem. Eng. News 2015, 93 (19), 38.
This Forum is an extension of the ICCAS symposium, and through it we have attempted to capture a representative crosssection of the excellent research reported there. The Forum also serves to commemorate Qing Huang (a young scientist of the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics CAS), who was an invited speaker but sadly passed away suddenly during work before the symposium. © 2016 American Chemical Society
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Special Issue: Applied Materials and Interfaces in China 3557
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b12836 ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2016, 8, 3557−3557
