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University of New South Wales, Australia
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University of Arizona, USA
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National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Scientific editor:
Link枚ping University, Sweden
Scientific editor:
Tianjin University, China
Scientific editor: Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
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Hanyang University, South Korea
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Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Scientific editor:
University of Cambridge, UK
Athina Anastasaki, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Markus Antonietti, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
David Beljonne, University of Mons, Belgium
Chris Bettinger, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kanishka Biswas, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
Paul Blom, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
Mischa Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
Markus Buehler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Jillian Buriak, University of Alberta, Canada
Moyuan Cao, Nankai University, China
Yong Cao, South China University of Technology, China
Rachel Caruso, University of Melbourne, Australia
Bruno Chaudret, INSA Toulouse, France
Anthony Cheetham, University of Cambridge, UK
Hong Chen, Soochow University, China
Paulette Clancy, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Brandi Cossairt, University of Washington, USA
Dibyendu Das, IISER Kolkata, India
Luisa De Cola, University of Strasbourg, France
Ulrike Diebold, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Mircea Dinca, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Gitti Frey, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Richard Friend, University of Cambridge, UK
Rebecca Gieseking, Brandeis University, USA
Jian Ping Gong, Hokkaido University, Japan
Grace Gu, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Ritu Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Subi George, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
David Haddleton, University of Warwick, UK
Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan, IISER Pune, India
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Hiroshi Imahori, Kyoto University, Japan
Lei Jiang, Beihang University, China
Antoine Kahn, Princeton University, USA
Richard Kaner, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Kisuk Kang, Seoul National University, South Korea
Anna Koehler, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Susumu Kitagawa, Kyoto University, Japan
Frederik Krebs, Elite Science, Denmark
Katharina Landfester, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
Guglielmo Lanzani, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Neng Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Yan Li, Peking University, China
Darren Lipomi, University of Rochester, New York, USA
Bin Liu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Lynn Yueh Lin Loo, Princeton University, USA
Bettina Lotsch, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany
HongYee Low, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Eva Malmström Jonsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Uttam Manna, Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati, India
Seth Marder, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Richard Martel, University of Montreal, Canada
Hedi Mattoussi, Florida State University, USA
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K S Narayan, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Markus Niederberger, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Teri Odom, Northwestern University, USA
Wee-Jun Ong, Xiamen University, Malaysia
Moon Jeong Park, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea
Marie-Paule Pileni, Pierre and Marie Curie University, France
Vivek Polshettiwar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India
C N R Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India
Erin Ratcliff, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
John Rogers, Northwestern University, USA
Vince Rotello, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
David Scanlon, University College London, UK
Bernd M. Schmidt, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Christine Schmidt, University of Florida, USA
Gregory D Scholes, Princeton University, USA
Rachel Segalman, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
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Mengye Wang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Shu Wang, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Xun Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Tanja Weil, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
Emily Weiss, Northwestern University, USA
David Weitz, Harvard University, USA
Chris Wolverton, Northwestern University, USA
Yi Xie, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Vivian Wing-Wah Yam, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Shannon Yee, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Jihong Yu, Jilin University, China
Shu-Hong Yu, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Aldo J. G. Zarbin, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
Xiaowei Zhan, Peking University, China
Nan Zhang, Hunan University, China
Dongyuan Zhao, Fudan University, China
Ye Zhou, Shenzhen University, China
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Pei Cheng, Sichuan University, China
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Xianbiao Fu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Xia Guo, Soochow University, China
Olga Guselnikova, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
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Edison Ang Huixiang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Yanyan Jiang, Shandong University, China
Haegyum Kim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Aneeya Kumar Samantara, National Institute of Science Education and Research, India
Audrey Laventure, Université de Montréal, Canada
Minah Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea
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Kostas Parkatzidis, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Valerio Piazza, EPFL, Switzerland
Yun Qian, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Li Na Quan, Virginia Tech, USA
Alexandra Ramadan, University of Sheffield, UK
Vincent Blay Roger, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Hao Shao, Deakin University, Australia
Wen Shi, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Shiv Singh, CSIR-Advanced Materials and Process Research Institute, India
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Ruijuan Xu, North Carolina State University, USA
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Article types
Materials Horizons publishes:
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Communications
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Materials Horizons Communications must include a separate "new concepts" statement. This statement should be a paragraph of no more than 200 words and should address 乐天堂app下载 following questions:
- What new concept or breakthrough development has been demonstrated?
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- What additional insight does your work and 乐天堂app下载 underlying concept bring to materials science?
This statement will be seen by editors and reviewers and will help ascertain 乐天堂app下载 significance of 乐天堂app下载 research. 乐天堂app下载 statement should not be a summary of 乐天堂app下载 work reported, as in 乐天堂app下载 article abstract. If 乐天堂app下载 paper is accepted, this statement will also be published. Please note that papers cannot be peer-reviewed without this statement.
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