Journal of Materials Chemistry B
Materials with applications in biology and medicine.
Editor-in-Chief: Jessica Winter
Open Access: Hybrid

Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C cover high quality studies across all fields of materials chemistry. The journals focus on those theoretical or experimental studies that report new understanding, applications, properties and synthesis of materials.
ISSN: 2050-7518
Indexed in: MEDLINE
Journal Impact factor
5.7 (2024)
First decision time (all)
13 days
First decision time (peer reviewed)
45 days
Scope
The journals have a strong history of publishing quality reports of interest to interdisciplinary communities and providing an efficient and rigorous service through peer review and publication. The journals are led by an international team of Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors who are all active researchers in their fields.
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C are separated by the intended application of the material studied. Broadly, applications in energy and sustainability are of interest to Journal of Materials Chemistry A, applications in biology and medicine are of interest to Journal of Materials Chemistry B, and applications in optical, magnetic and electronic devices are of interest to Journal of Materials Chemistry C. More than one Journal of Materials Chemistry journal may be suitable for certain fields and researchers are encouraged to submit their paper to the journal that they feel best fits for their particular article.
This list is neither exhaustive nor exclusive.
- Antifouling coatings
- Biocompatible materials
- Bioelectronics
- Bioimaging
- Biomimetics
- Biomineralisation
- Bionics
- Biosensors
- Diagnostics
- Drug delivery
- Gene delivery
- Immunobiology
- Nanomedicine
- Regenerative medicine & Tissue engineering
- Scaffolds
- Soft robotics
- Stem cells
- Therapeutic devices
Articles that primarily focus on providing insight into the underlying science and performance of biomaterials within a biological environment are more suited to our companion journal, Biomaterials Science.
Readership
Journal of Materials Chemistry B is a core journal for academic and industrial scientists involved in materials research.
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Meet the team












Danielle Benoit
University of Rochester
Christopher Bettinger
Carnegie Mellon University
João Borges
University of Aveiro
Warren Chan
University of Toronto
Jiang Chang
Shanghai Institute of Ceramics
Jeroen Cornelissen
University of Twente
Tatiana Da Ros
Trieste University
Thomas Davis
Monash University
Tejal Desai
University of California
Xuliang Deng
Peking University
Etienne Duguet
ICMCB
Chunhai Fan
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Ying Fang
NCNST
Ross Forgan
University of Glasgow
Jun Fu
Sun Yat-sen University
Aharon Gedanken
Bar-Ilan University
Melissa Grunlan
Texas A&M University
Yurii Gun'ko
Trinity College Dublin
Jan van Hest
Eindhoven University of Technology
Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli
University of Massachusetts Boston
Brendan Harley
University of Illinois
Akon Higuchi
National Central University
Yoshihiro Ito
RIKEN
Benjamin Keselowsky
University of Florida
Jayant Khandare
MIT WPU Campus
April Kloxin
University of Delaware
Nicholas Kotov
University of Michigan
Elizabeth Lipke
Auburn University
Luis Liz-Marzán
CIC biomaGUNE
David Lynn
University of Wisconsin
Edmond Dik-Lung Ma
Hong Kong Baptist University
George Malliaras
University of Cambridge
Hai-Quan Mao
Johns Hopkins University
Silvia Marchesan
University of Trieste
David Martin
University of Delaware
Kristyn Masters
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ali Miserez
Nanyang Technological University
Rachel O'Reilly
University of Birmingham
Marc in het Panhuis
University of Wollongong
Angela Pannier
University of Nebraska
Ji-Ho Park
KAIST
Sébastien Perrier
University of Warwick
Xiaogang Qu
Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry
Marina Resmini
Queen Mary University of London
Katja Schenke-Layland
University of Tübingen
Christine Schmidt
University of Florida
Laura Segatori
Rice University
Takeshi Serizawa
Institute of Science Tokyo
Youqing Shen
Zhejiang University
Sarah Staniland
University of Sheffield
Nicole Steinmetz
University of California
Molly Stevens
Imperial College London
Sarah Stoll
Georgetown Washington
Laura Suggs
The University of Texas at Austin
Madoka Takai
University of Tokyo
Johnna Temenoff
Georgia Institute of Technology
Patrick Théato
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Rein Ulijn
City University of New York
Chuanlai Xu
Jiangnan University
Jie Zheng
University of Akron
Michaela Mühlberg
Executive Editor
Geraldine Hay
Deputy Editor
Jonathon Watson
Editorial Production Manager
Natalie Cotterell
Development Editor
Rose Wedgbury
Development Editor
Joe Busby
Publishing Editor
Eleanor Griffiths
Publishing Editor
Clara Humann
Publishing Editor
Francesca Jacklin
Publishing Editor
Brian Li
Publishing Editor
Sam Mansell
Publishing Editor
Amy Cook
Editorial Assistant
Jane Paterson
Publishing Assistant
Sam Keltie
Publisher
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