Aims
Advanced Materials and Devices (AMD) is a gold open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing fundamental and applied research on advanced materials and devices, with an emphasis on functional and high-performance materials and their applications in emerging technologies. The journal seeks to advance understanding of how composition, structure, processing, and interfaces shape material properties and functions, emphasizing structure–property relationships, mechanisms underlying material behavior and functionality, and approaches to tailoring properties and realizing functions in components and devices.
AMD welcomes experimental, theoretical, and computational studies encompassing materials discovery, design, synthesis, processing, characterization, and modeling, as well as device architectures, fabrication, integration, operating mechanisms, performance, stability, and reliability. Contributions may advance fundamental understanding of materials, introduce new materials or processing methods, or demonstrate materials-enabled innovations in components and devices.
Scope
The journal publishes original research articles, reviews, short communications, and perspectives. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following interconnected areas of materials research and device innovation:
1. Energy Materials and Devices
Materials and devices for energy storage and conversion, including batteries, electrochemical capacitors, photovoltaics, hydrogen production and utilization, and fuel cells; electrode and electrolyte materials, charge-storage mechanisms, ion transport, and electrochemical interfaces; photocatalytic and electrocatalytic energy conversion; thermoelectric, piezoelectric, pyroelectric, and triboelectric materials and devices for energy harvesting; and materials and devices for thermal management.
2. Optoelectronic Materials and Devices
Luminescent materials and phosphors; luminescence mechanisms and light–matter interactions; materials and devices for lighting and displays, including inorganic, organic, and quantum-dot light-emitting diodes, light-emitting transistors, and laser lighting devices; materials and devices for optical sensing and photodetection; and optical and photonic materials and devices for light generation, modulation, and communication.
3. Electronic Materials, Interfaces and Device Integration
Electronic ceramics; dielectric and ferroelectric materials; inorganic, organic, and hybrid semiconductors; magnetic and quantum materials; charge and spin transport; surface and interface engineering, thin films, and heterostructures; flexible and stretchable electronics; materials and devices for physical and chemical sensing, actuation, memory, and spintronics; and materials, interfaces, and processes for advanced packaging, device fabrication, and integration.
4. AI for Materials and Materials for AI
Materials informatics and artificial intelligence (AI) for materials discovery, property prediction, synthesis optimization, and design; data-driven materials modeling and simulation, mechanistic analysis, inverse design, and autonomous research workflows; and materials and devices for AI hardware, including neuromorphic computing and the integration of sensing, memory, and computing.
5. Biomaterials and Bioengineering Applications
Biomaterials for tissue engineering, repair and regeneration, drug delivery and controlled release, antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory applications, and biomedical imaging, diagnosis, and therapy; natural and synthetic biomedical polymers, hydrogels, and bioinspired and stimuli-responsive biomaterials; biointerfaces and interactions between materials and biological systems; and materials and devices for biosensing, bioelectronics, and in vitro tissue models.
6. Ceramics, Polymers, Metals and Composites
Functional and high-performance ceramics, ceramic fibers, and ceramic-matrix composites; functional polymers, soft and porous materials, and organic–inorganic hybrids; metals and alloys, glasses, advanced fibers and composites, and functional coatings; molecular and macromolecular design, polymerization and functionalization, materials synthesis and processing, and microstructure and interface engineering; structure–property–function relationships, mechanical performance, environmental durability, and structural–functional integration in advanced materials and components.
Research on nanomaterials, multifunctional materials, sustainable materials and processing, and materials recycling and resource recovery is also welcome across these areas when it addresses materials-related scientific questions or materials-enabled technologies.
