About Journal of Physics: Materials

JPhys Materials is an interdisciplinary journal connecting researchers across all areas of materials science. The journal is dedicated to publishing novel, significant advances, as well as topical reviews, perspectives and tutorials, on the modelling, simulation, growth, characterization, and application of materials.

Submissions in the following areas are particularly welcome:

Computational materials science

Including machine learning and AI approaches, materials discovery, self-driving labs, multiscale modelling, DFT simulations.

Low-dimensional and nanoscale materials

Including quantum dots, nanoparticles, nanowires, nanofibres, nanotubes, thin films, nanostructures.

Magnetic and quantum materials and spintronics

Including topological insulators and semimetals, van der Waal materials, ferromagnetism, multiferroics and antiferromagnetic materials, skyrmionics, materials for quantum technologies including spin and superconducting qubits.

Energy materials 

Including materials for next-generation batteries and supercapacitors; photovoltaics including halide perovskites, organic solar cells, and other emerging thin film materials; piezoelectrics and nanogenerators; thermoelectrics; materials for photo- and electrocatalytic energy conversion.

Electronic and photonic materials 

Including semiconductors, materials for unconventional computing, memristive devices, flexible and wearable electronics, ferroelectrics, optoelectronics, light-emitting materials.

Soft matter

Including colloids, sustainable polymers, soft robotics, biopolymers.

Functional intelligent materials and structures with broad potential applications 

Including smart membranes, high entropy materials, self-assembling materials, metal-organic frameworks, nanocomposites, complex oxides, metamaterials, porous materials, biomimetic materials.

• High standards: JPhys Materials selects the most significant and cutting-edge research being undertaken in the field of materials science. Articles are rigorously peer reviewed by IOP Publishing’s global network of expert reviewers, supported by our top-level editorial board.
• Fast publication: we are committed to providing you with a fast, professional service to ensure rapid first decision, acceptance and publication. Once accepted, your article will be accessible to readers within 24 hours and will include a citable DOI.
• Open access: immediate and perpetual open access to your research under a CC BY licence so that it can be accessed and shared by anyone without restriction.
• Inclusive: with a scope covering interdisciplinary studies and multidisciplinary collaborations as well as traditional disciplines, JPhys Materials brings together materials researchers from across physics, chemistry, materials science and engineering.
• Transfer opportunities: as well as accepting direct submissions, the journal also offers you a quick and easy solution to transfer your manuscript from another IOP Publishing journal if it does not fit JPhys Materials’ scope or significance criteria. Articles are transferred along with peer review reports to save time and avoid duplication of work for reviewers.
• Society owned: IOP Publishing is a leading society publisher of advanced physics research. Any profits generated by IOP Publishing are invested in the Institute of Physics, helping to support research, education and outreach around the world.

• Research papers: articles of unlimited length that report new research.
• Letters: short research articles that report new research. As a guide, Letters should not generally be more than eight journal pages (or around 4500 words) in length.
• Topical reviews: articles presenting a snapshot of recent progress in a particular field.
• Perspectives: commentaries on the impact of previously published work, or authoritative discussions on the future direction of a field, that are of notable interest to the community.
• Technical notes: brief, methods-based articles of a more technical nature, which make a useful and novel addition to the literature.

This journal publishes Focus Issues which are guest-edited collections centred around an emerging and highly topical field.

We work with our authors to make help their work as easy to discover as possible. JPhys Materials is currently included in the following abstracting and discovery services:

• Baidu Scholar
• Chemical Abstracts Service
• CNKI
• DOAJ
• Ei Compendex
• Inspec
• J-Gate
• JST
• MyScienceWork
• NASA Astrophysics Data System
• Naver Academic
• ProQuest Central
• ProQuest Materials Science Collection
• ProQuest Materials Science Database
• ProQuest SciTech Premium Collection
• ProQuest Technology Collection
• R Discovery
• Scilit
• Scite
• Scopus
• Semantic Scholar
• Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded, Current Contents Engineering, Computing & Technology, Essential Science Indicators)
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