Materials Chemistry Frontiers
The international, high quality journal for topical and multi-disciplinary research on all aspects of materials chemistry.
Editor-in-Chief: Shu-Hong Yu
Open Access: Hybrid

Materials Chemistry Frontiers is part of 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.
ISSN: 2052-1537
Indexed in: Scopus, Web of Science: Science Citation Index Expanded, CAS
Journal Impact factor
6.4 (2024)
First decision time (all)
9 days
First decision time (peer reviewed)
35 days
Scope
Materials Chemistry Frontiers is a multi- and inter- disciplinary journal for all aspects of materials chemistry. The journal publishes research that contributes to the synthesis of novel materials, exploration of exciting application potentials and understanding of the relations between material structure, properties and functions at all length scale.
Readership
Materials Chemistry Frontiers appeals to academic and industrial scientists involved in materials research.
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Meet the team









Takuzo Aida
The University of Tokyo
Paul Attfield
University of Edinburgh
Guillermo C Bazan
University of California Santa Barbara
Liming Ding
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST)
Xinliang Feng
TU Dresden
Jiaxing Huang
Northwestern University
Parameswar K. Iyer
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Professor Samson Jenekhe
University of Washington
Hua Kuang
Jiangnan University
Mario Leclerc
Université Laval
Xingjie Liang
National Center for Nanoscience and Techonolgy
Bin Liu
National University of Singapore
Dongsheng Liu
Tsinghua University
Xian Jun Loh
Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
Mark J MacLachlan
University of British Columbia
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Carnegie Mellon University
Klause Müllen
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Thuc Quyen Nguyen
University of California
Kyoko Nozaki
The University of Tokyo
Anjun Qin
South China University of Technology
Olof Ramström,
University of Massachusetts Lowell
John Reynolds
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ullrich Scherf
University of Wuppertal
Patrick Théato
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Christoph Weder
University of Fribourg
Karen L. Wooley
Texas A&M University
James Wuest
Université de Montréal
Dongsheng Xu
Peking University
Jiannian Yao
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Juyoung Yoon
Ewha Womans University
Jihong Yu
Jilin University
Deqing Zhang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hua Zhang
City University of Hong Kong
Qichun Zhang
City University of Hong Kong
Xi Zhang
Tsinghua University
Yuliang Zhao
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST)
Weihong Zhu
East China University of Science and Technology
Herdeline Ann M. Ardoña
University of California Irvine
Maxx Q. Arguilla
University of California Irvine
Jinhye Bae
University of California San Diego
Rongrong Cheacharoen
Chulalongkorn University
Hui Chen
Jilin University
Haiyun Dong
Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dr Nicola Gasparini
Imperial College London
Sai Gautam Gopalakrishnan
Indian Institute of Science
Masayuki Gon
Kyoto University
Baolin Guo
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Amelie Heuer-Jungemann
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Satoshi Honda
The University of Tokyo
Jue Hou
RMIT University
Yusuke Ishigaki
Hokkaido University
Lang Jiang
Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Feng Jiao
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Haegyum Kim
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Benoît H. Lessard
University of Ottawa
Lin Li
Wenzhou University
Xinrong Lin
Duke Kunshan University
Junzhi Liu
University of Hong Kong
Ming Liu
Zhejiang University
Pengxin Liu
ShanghaiTech University
Xiaogang Liu
National University of Singapore
Zihang Liu
Harbin Institute of Technology
Haipeng Lu
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Wei Lu
Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE
Xuefeng Lu
Fuzhou University
Eleonora Macchia
University of Bari
Jianwei Nai
Zhejiang University of Technology
Tung Nguyen-Dang
VinUniversity
Wenhui Niu
Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
Zijie Qiu
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Vishal Govind Rao
IIT Kanpur
Subinoy Rana
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
Michael Ross
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Pralay K. Santra
Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences
Qi Shao
Soochow University
Uk Sim
Korea Institute of Energy Technology
Daniel Tabor
Texas A&M University
Jiawei Wan
Institute of Process Engineering
Feng Wang
University of Science and Technology of China
Ying Wang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Zhongshai Wu
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Jie Yang
Tianjin University
Seung-Ho Yu Seung-Ho Yu
Korea University
Tao Yu
Northwestern Polytechnical University
Fei Zhang
Tianjin University
Haoke Zhang
Zhejiang University
Yuanbin Zhang
Zhejiang Normal University
Wenjun Liu
Executive Editor
Kailin Deng
Deputy Editor
Yongxu Hu
Development Editor
Helen Saxton
Editorial Manager
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
Charlie Palmer
Publishing Editor
Rosie Rothwell
Publishing Editor
Donna Smith
Publishing Editor
Laura Smith
Publishing Editor
Shengnan Sha
Assistant Editor
Coleen Wu
Assistant Editor
Neil Hammond
Publisher
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