The RSC Materials journal portfolio was proud to sponsor two oral prizes at Chem4Energy held from 23-26 March 2026 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Congratulations to the winners: Thomas Hill, Cardiff University, UK and Bongeka Ndwandwe, Rhodes University, South Africa! blogs.rsc.org/jm/2026/04/1...

Full plenary speaker line-up announced!!👇 Meet our plenary speakers and submit an oral abstract for your chance to join them in London this November to explore and celebrate the theme of the 2026 Horizons symposium: (Nano)catalysis. www.rsc.org/events/find-...

Check out the front cover of Issue 6 of Materials Horizons "A self-regulating wearable OLED patch for accelerated wound healing via photobiomodulation-triggered drug delivery" from Yongmin Jeon, Chan-Su Park, Daekyung Sung, Kyung Cheol Choi et al. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MH02129D

It seems like just yesterday that we had a great webinar, but we already have another one coming up next Friday, 17 April! This Desktop Seminar will feature nanomaterials pioneer Prof. Yury Gogotsi of Drexel University talking about MXenes. Register here: rsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Have you read this fascinating paper by Haiyan Wang et. al. introducing a novel hybrid metamaterial: Integrating magnetic Co-nanopillars in a NbN-based VAN thin film as a multifunctional hybrid metamaterial Read this Open Access article for #free: doi.org/10.1039/D4MH...

Our next Materials Horizons Emerging Investigator is Dr Gloria Zhang - find out more in our interview 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D6MH... Read her Emerging Investigator article on digital shape-morphing thermo-mechanical metamaterials 👉 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

@materialshorizons.rsc.org and @jmaterchem.rsc.org were proud to sponsor two awards at the Symposium for Layered Materials for Sustainable Energy Conversion and Storage at MATSUS26, which took place from the 23rd to the 27th of March 2026, in Barcelona, Spain. blogs.rsc.org/jm/2026/03/3...

Check out the outside back cover from Issue 5 of Materials Horizons! "Structural dimensionality governing CO2/C2H2 separation in MWW zeolites" from Bingwen Li, Xuzhi Hu, Rongsheng Cai et al., Read more here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Our next @materialshorizons.rsc.org Emerging Investigator is Professor Himchan Cho - find out more in our interview 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D6MH... Read his Emerging Investigator article on high-efficiency perovskite light-emitting diodes👉 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

We are delighted to announce that Elise Dumont (Université Côte d'Azur), German Sastre (Instituto de Tecnología Química UPV-CSIC), Giuseppe Graziano (University of Sannio) and Svein Sunde (NTNU) have been appointed as Associate Editors for PCCP #chemsky Learn more: blogs.rsc.org/cp/2026/03/2...

We are delighted to support the 5th International Conference on Electroluminescence and Optoelectronic Devices! The keynote and invited speakers look fantastic - don't miss out!!👇 icel2026.unamur.be

The @rsc.org Materials portfolio @materialshorizons.rsc.org @jmaterchem.rsc.org and @materialsadvances.rsc.org is proud to sponsor two oral prizes at the Chem4Energy conference in Johannesburg, South Africa starting on 23 March 2026. eps.leeds.ac.uk/events-confe...

New review in @materialshorizons.rsc.org from KIST / Korea University: "Toward self-driving laboratory 2.0 for chemistry and materials discovery", pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Check out the outside front cover of issue 5! "Materials for thermochemical energy storage and conversion: attributes for low-temperature applications" from Hendrik P. Huinink, Donald J. Siegel et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

Have you submitted your abstract yet? We are delighted to be hosting the Horizons Symposium again this year in 2026 - this time with a focus on (nano)catalysis! Join a fantastic line up of plenary speakers in the beautiful Burlington House in London this November. www.rsc.org/events/detai...

Very happy: our paper ‘Magnetic and luminescent lanthanoid (Ln = Tb, Dy) 2D MOFs on functionalized silicon’ published in JMatChemC is featured in the 2026 International Women’s Day: Women in Journal of Materials Chemistry C collection. #WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience #WorkingWomenDay #8M

We are thrilled to celebrate @chouhandivya.bsky.social's recognition in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Women in Materials Science collection in honor of International Women’s Day 2026! for her article in @materialsadvances.rsc.org. Celebrating the effort & dedication of all the women in our group👏

Very happy to be a part of this collection! Happy International Women's Day!

Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons are delighted to showcase the latest developments in nanocatalysis in this special themed collection 👇 Guest Edited by Marcella Lusardi, Tianyi Ma, Wee-Jun Ong, Vivek Polshettiwar, Jennifer Strunk and Huabin Zhang pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2026, the RSC materials portfolio of journals has collated journal-specific collections showcasing a selection of articles published in 2025 led by women scientists around the world. Explore the Materials Horizons collection: pubs.rsc.org/en/Journals/...

Featured on the inside back cover of @materialshorizons.rsc.org issue 4, 'A platform for the formation of uniform DNA condensate droplets using vibration-induced local vortices' by Hiroaki Suzuki et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

We're proud to sponsor awards at the 11th Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Control, Aug. 17-21 in Toronto, with @pccp.rsc.org, @materialshorizons.rsc.org, @materialsadvances.rsc.org and Nanoscale Advances @nanoscale-journals.rsc.org: www.fields.utoronto.ca/activities/2...

Featured on the front cover of @materialshorizons.rsc.org issue 4 is 'High-performance dynamic random access memory capacitor with an equivalent oxide thickness of 0.31 nm via stepwise cycling in Y-doped Hf 0.5Zr 0.5O 2 thin films' by Cheol Seong Hwang et al. Read it here 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

Join us for our next Desktop Seminar on Biodegradable polymers, featuring Prof. Patrizio Raffa of @rug.nl! The webinar is on 10 March 2026 at 4pm GMT. Register for free here: rsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Our next @materialshorizons.rsc.org Emerging Investigator is Ankan Dutta Chowdhury - find out more in our interview 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D6MH... Read his Emerging Investigator article on a rapid Cu3N–Fe nanocube-based electrochemical sensor for cancer metabolites 👉 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

Our @materialshorizons.rsc.org themed collection on #metamaterials is still accepting submissions until 10 April 2026. If you work in the area, consider submitting your next work to this collection - more info here 🔗 www.rsc.org/publishing/j...

Read 'Advancing electrospun nanofiber scaffolds for next-generation tissue engineering: from trend analysis to multifunctionalization and hybrid fabrication' by Xin Wang, Xin Zhao, Jingfeng Li et al featured on the inside back cover of @materialshorizons.rsc.org issue 3 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

Discover our latest @materialshorizons.rsc.org Emerging Investigator Dr Youfu Wang in this Editorial Interview 🔗https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MH90145F And check out his Emerging Investigator article on bimetallic organic changes as theranostic nanoplatforms 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

Check out 'Metabolic-switch macrophage cyborgs reverse atherosclerosis by photoacoustic-directed on-demand phenotype delivery' by Jinfeng Xu, Liqiang Zhou, Yingying Liu et al. featured on the front cover of @materialshorizons.rsc.org issue 3 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH... #OpenAccess

Discover this @rsc.org #WorldCancerDay collection showcasing some of the most popular cancer research-related articles and reviews published in 2025 across RSC journals, including @materialshorizons.rsc.org 🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

Discover "Thermoelectric energy conversion", a new themed collection published in @rsc.org Journal of Materials Chemistry A @jmaterchem.rsc.org and Nanoscale @nanoscale-journals.rsc.org Read the articles for FREE until 2 May 2026: pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

Join us next Thursday for another great Desktop Seminar, this time on Electron Transport in MOFs featuring @mirceadinca.bsky.social @princeton.edu and @profamo.bsky.social @virginiatech.bsky.social . #chemsky #webinar Register here: rsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

You may have heard of microplastics but have you heard of nanoplastics? Check out this recent Focus article published in Materials Horizons by Editorial Board Chair Martina Stenzel on 'The dark matter in water, air and land: from microplastic to invisible nanoplastics' 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

Check out this Review on 'Additive manufacturing of polymers and composites for applications in aerospace and aeronautics' by Francesca Aliberti, Liberata Guadagno et al., featured on the Outside Back Cover of @materialshorizons.rsc.org issue 2 👩‍🚀 👉https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MH01403D

Materials Horizons is delighted to sponsor the multifunctional materials GRC - if you're lucky enough to be attending, make sure you chat to our Deputy Editor Geraldine!👇 If you're not there, consider submitting to our themed collection on Metamaterials instead! www.rsc.org/publishing/j...

Featured on the front cover of @materialshorizons.rsc.org issue 2, 'Generative inverse design for microstructure control in precursors for Li- and Mn-rich layered-oxide cathodes' by Keeyoung Jung, Inchul Park et al. Read the open access article here 🔗https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MH01850A

Send your latest work to @labonachip.rsc.org, @jmaterchem.rsc.org, @materialshorizons.rsc.org, @materialsadvances.rsc.org or @biomatersci.rsc.org before 30 June to feature in our themed collection on emerging bio-fabrication technologies for next-generation healthcare: www.rsc.org/publishing/j...

We are delighted to welcome Professor Stefano Carretta (University of Parma) to the Advisory Board of Materials Horizons. His research mainly focuses on theoretical modelling of quantum behaviour of magnetic molecules. 👏 Read Stefano's latest research in Materials Horizons:

Check out 'Physically programmed vegan leather emulating the mechanical and sensory characteristics of animal leather from once-discarded gluten' by Dongyeop Oh and team featured on the outside back cover of @materialshorizons.rsc.org issue 1 2026 🌾 🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Featured on the inside back cover of @materialshorizons.rsc.org issue 1 of 2026, 'Shape programming of liquid crystal elastomers by two-stage wavelength-selective photopolymerization' by Danqing Liu et al. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MH01907A

Featured on the inside front cover of Materials Horizons issue 1, read 'A water-recyclable, robust, and self-healing sugar-based supramolecular network enabled by Maillard-analogous initialization of polymerization' by Siyang Li, Tuck-Whye Wong, Tiefeng Li et al. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MH01828E

Check out this Review on 'Machine learning pipelines for the design of solid-state electrolytes' by Fengqi You et al. featured on the front cover of Materials Horizons issue 1 🤖 🔗https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MH01525A

New Focus Article out now in Materials Horizons by Martina Stenzel. Read the full article for free here: http://xlink.rsc.org...

Check out our @materialshorizons.rsc.org most popular articles 2025 featuring some of the most cited, downloaded or shared articles and reviews from 2025 - congratulations to all featured authors! 👏 Free to read until 28 February 2026 📅 🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

Send your latest work to @jmaterchem.rsc.org, @materialshorizons.rsc.org, @materialsadvances.rsc.org, @biomatersci.rsc.org or @labonachip.rsc.org before 30 June to feature in our themed collection on emerging bio-fabrication technologies for next-generation healthcare www.rsc.org/publishing/j...

Check out our latest @materialshorizons.rsc.org Community Board Pick written by @kostasparkatzidis.bsky.social summarising the recent method advance by Danqing Liu and team on shape programming of liquid crystal elastomers 🔗 blogs.rsc.org/mh/2025/12/1...

Have you seen this exciting and innovative @materialshorizons.rsc.org HOT article by Chaoji Chen, Hongbing Deng et al. on 'A zero-wastewater-discharge noncontact solar desalter for saline–alkali soil remediation and grain yield increase using brackish water'? Read it here👉 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

Take a look at this recent Review article by Slawomir Boncel and colleagues. Read the Review here: http://xlink.rsc.org...

Showcased on the Back Cover of Materials Horizons Issue 24 is Janus metal-enabled tunable Schottky barriers in van der Waals contacts via interfacial polarization modulations by Liujian Qi, Shaojuan Li et al. Read their #OpenAccess Communication for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

On the Inside Back cover of @materialshorizons.rsc.org Issue 24 is Physics-informed neural networks for programmable origami metamaterials with controlled deployment by Jinkyu Yang, Seunghwa Ryu et al. Read their Communication here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...