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Journal Impact factor: 6.4*
Time to first decision (all decisions): 9.0 days**
Time to first decision (peer reviewed only): 35.0 days***
CiteScore: 12.0****
Editor-in-Chief: Shu-Hong Yu
Open access publishing options available
Call for papers
Materials Chemistry Frontiers is pleased to announce a call for papers for Emerging Investigator Series. This on-going series will highlight the very best work from outstanding early-career chemists, who have been identified as having the potential to influence future directions in the field.
Check the current articles in the Emerging Investigator Series.
Journal scope
Materials Chemistry Frontiers focuses on the synthesis and chemistry of exciting new materials, and the development of improved fabrication techniques. Characterisation and fundamental studies that are of broad appeal are also welcome.
This is the ideal home for studies of a significant nature that further the development of organic, inorganic, composite and nano-materials.
Key features:
- Rapid publication times
- No submission charges or page limits, and free colour
- Open access publishing options
- Free electronic reprints of own paper
- Simple and user-friendly online submission process
See who's on the team
Meet our Chair and all other board members for the Materials Chemistry Frontiers journal.
Editor in chief
Shu-Hong Yu, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Associate editor
Shu Seki, Kyoto University, Japan
Dan Wang, Shenzhen University, China
Guillaume Wantz, University of Bordeaux, France
Huanghao Yang, Fuzhou University, China
Editorial board members
Feihe Huang, Zhejiang University, China
Zhen Li, Wuhan University, China
Marina A. Petrukhina, University at Albany, New York, USA
Kazuo Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan
Takuzo Aida, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Paul Attfield, University of Edinburgh, UK
Guillermo C Bazan, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Liming Ding, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China
Xinliang Feng, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Jiaxing Huang, Northwestern University, USA
Parameswar K. Iyer, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
Samson Jenekhe, University of Washington, USA
Hua Kuang, Jiangnan University, China
Mario Leclerc, Université Laval, Canada
Xingjie Liang, National Center for Nanoscience and Techonolgy, China
Bin Liu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dongsheng Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Shaoqin Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Xian Jun Loh, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore
Mark J MacLachlan, University of British Columbia, Canada
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Klause Müllen, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
Thuc Quyen Nguyen, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Kyoko Nozaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Anjun Qin, South China University of Technology, China
Olof Ramström, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
John Reynolds, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Ullrich Scherf, University of Wuppertal, Germany
Patrick Théato, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Christoph Weder, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Karen L. Wooley, Texas A&M University, USA
James Wuest, Université de Montréal, Canada
Dongsheng Xu, Peking University, China
Jiannian Yao, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Juyoung Yoon, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Jihong Yu, Jilin University, China
Deqing Zhang, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Hua Zhang, City University of Hong Kong, China
Qichun Zhang, City University of Hong Kong, China
Tierui Zhang, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, China
Xi Zhang, Tsinghua University, China
Yuliang Zhao, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
Weihong Zhu, East China University of Science & Technology, China
Wenjun Liu, Executive Editor
Kailin Deng, Deputy Editor
Yongxu Hu, Development Editor
Helen Saxton, Editorial Manager, ORCID 0000-0002-1560-7396
Jason Woolford, Associate Editorial Manager
Kirstine Anderson, Publishing Editor
Matthew Bown, Publishing Editor
Laura Cooper, Publishing Editor
Hannah Fielding, Publishing Editor
Claire Harding, Publishing Editor
Alan Holder, Publishing Editor, ORCID 0000-0001-5228-877X
Charlie Palmer, Publishing Editor
Rosie Rothwell, Publishing Editor
Donna Smith, Publishing Editor, ORCID 0000-0002-1337-2327
Laura Smith, Publishing Editor, ORCID 0000-0002-2976-8529
Shengnan Sha, Assistant Editor
Coleen Wu, Assistant Editor
Neil Hammond, Publisher, ORCID 0000-0001-6390-8874
Journal guidelines
For guidance on preparing your article please visit our Prepare your article, Resources for authors and Experimental data guidelines pages, the content of which is relevant to all of our journals. Please note the updated guidelines for electrophoretic gels and blots.
Submitting review-type articles
If you are interested in submitting review-type articles, including reviews and Chemistry frontiers, please contact the editorial office in advance with a brief proposal. Synopses for all proposed articles are considered by the board before a decision on the commissioning of the full article is taken.
Submitting your proposal to Materials Chemistry Frontiers
Bibliographic references
We encourage the citation of primary research over review articles, where appropriate, in order to give credit to those who first reported a finding. Find out more about our commitments to the principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).
These should be listed at the end of the manuscript in numerical order as they appear in the manuscript. Article titles of bibliographic references are requested at the time the manuscript is submitted to the journal. Bibliographic details should be cited in the order: authors, title, journal, year, volume, and page. For example M. Zhang, C. Hou, A. Halder, H. Wang, Q. Chi, Graphene papers: smart architecture and specific functionalization for biomimetics, electrocatalytic sensing and energy storage, Mater. Chem. Front., 2017, 1, 37.
Transparent peer review
As part of our commitment to transparency and open science, Materials Chemistry Frontiers is now offering authors the option of transparent peer review, where the editor’s decision letter, reviewers’ comments and authors’ response for all versions of the manuscript will be published alongside the article under an Open Access Creative Commons licence (CC-BY).
Reviewers will remain anonymous unless they choose to sign their report.
Open access publishing options
Materials Chemistry Frontiers is a hybrid journal and gives authors the choice of publishing their research either via the traditional subscription-based model or instead by choosing our gold open access option.
Gold open access
For authors who want to publish their article gold open access, Materials Chemistry Frontiers charges an article processing charge (APC) of £3,000 (+ any applicable tax). Our APC is all-inclusive and makes your article freely available online immediately, permanently, and includes your choice of Creative Commons licence (CC BY or CC BY-NC) at no extra cost. It is not a submission charge, so you only pay if your article is accepted for publication.
Learn more about publishing open access.
Open access agreements
If your institution has an RSC open access agreement or APCs for gold open access, publishing in this journal may already be covered.
Use our journal finder to check if your institution has an open access agreement with us.
Please use your official institutional email address to submit your manuscript and check you are assigned as the corresponding author; this helps us to identify if you are eligible under an open access agreement or other APC discounts.
Traditional subscription model
Authors can also publish in Materials Chemistry Frontiers via the traditional subscription model without needing to pay an APC. Articles published via this route are available to institutions and individuals who subscribe to the journal. Our standard licence allows you to make the accepted manuscript of your article freely available after a 12-month embargo period. This is known as the green route to open access.
Partnership information
Materials Chemistry Frontiers belongs to Frontiers Journal portfolio, an enterprising collaboration between the Chinese Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The Frontiers project aims to publish a series of high impact, quality chemistry journals that showcase the very best research from China, Asia and the rest of the world to an international audience.
For each journal title, the intention is to collaborate with a leading Chinese institute in the relevant field. For Materials Chemistry Frontiers, this is the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The key benefits
- It is wholly society and institute owned.
- The journal is truly international, and China-led.
- The highest ethical standards are upheld.
Readership information
Materials Chemistry Frontiers appeals to academic and industrial scientists involved in materials research.
Subscription information
Online only 2025: ISSN: 2052-1537, £1,556 / $2,555
*2023 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2024)
**The median time from submission to first decision including manuscripts rejected without peer review from the previous calendar year
***The median time from submission to first decision for peer-reviewed manuscripts from the previous calendar year
****CiteScore™ 2023 available at www.scopus.com/sources
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