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...
Horizons symposium 2026: (Nano)catalysis. 12-13 November 2026. Oral abstract deadline 26 May 2026.
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.
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Purple polyhedra, green/yellow-emitting crystals, black background
Take a look at this inside front cover from Issue 6 of Materials Horizons
"Isomeric organic–inorganic indium bromide single crystals with delayed and dual colour emission" from Vasudevanpillai Biju et al.
Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...
Skin layers with red/yellow illuminated layered patch, pink/yellow ROS
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
RSC Desktop Seminar on MXenes on Friday 17 April 2026 at 11am EDT / 4pm BST
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.
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A large blue porous zeolite structure floating in a dark cosmic-style background. The structure has numerous circular openings, with purple and red gas-like molecules moving through and around it.
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...
An R-S-C promotional graphic introducing P-C-C-P's four new Associate Editors: Elise Dumont, German Sastre, Giuseppe Graziano, and Svein Sunde.
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:
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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!!👇
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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.
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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...
Transparent dragonfly with internal organs visible, green background
Take a look at the inside front cover of issue 5 from Jiu-an Lv et al.
"Electro-driven fibrous soft actuators towards flapping-wing control for insect-scale robots"
Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...
Red/blue swirl around large molecular cluster, red/white small molecules, black background
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...
Horizons symposium 2026: Nanocatalysis. Oral abstract deadline 26 May, event held 12-13 November 2026 in London, UK.
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!
Work on (nano)catalysis and want to join the conversation? Submit an oral or poster abstract to join us in November at the Horizons Symposium: www.rsc.org/events/detai...
Nanocatalysis collection promo graphic
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
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We welcome any women corresponding authors and/or first authors who have published work in 2025 in Materials Horizons, J Mater Chem family or Materials Advances to get in touch at materials-rsc@rsc.org and have your work featured in the collections. ✨
Discover the other collections across the Materials journals portfolio:
J Mater Chem A: pubs.rsc.org/en/Journals/...
J Mater Chem B: pubs.rsc.org/en/Journals/...
J Mater Chem C:
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Materials Advances: pubs.rsc.org/en/Journals/...
All free to read until 8 April 2026
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/...
Materials Horizons back cover text reads Showcasing research from Professor Chia-Yun Chen’s group at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan High-entropy layered double hydroxides enabled wide-bandwidth near-infrared photodetection with viable environmental resistance High-entropy layered double hydroxides (HE–LDHs) based photodetectors display ultrafast photoresponse with exceptional environmental resistance and noise suppression, permitting the practicality and functionality of next-generation near-infrared optoelectronics.
Check out 'High-entropy layered double hydroxides enabled
wide-bandwidth near-infrared photodetection with
viable environmental resistance' by Chia-Yun Chen et al. featured on the outside back cover of @materialshorizons.rsc.org issue 4
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...
Materials Horizons inside back cover text reads: Highlighting work from Prof. H. Suzuki and co-workers at Chuo University, Japan A platform for the formation of uniform DNA condensate droplets using vibration-induced local vortices We introduce a novel microfluidic approach using vibration-induced local vortices to generate uniform DNA condensate droplets, formed by interactions between sticky ends of multi-arm DNA nanostructures, which serve as programmable smart materials. VILV creates semi-closed microvortices that confine DNA, promoting rapid, uniform droplet formation. Real-time tracking and systematic control of size are achieved by tuning DNA concentration and micropillar geometry. The platform also enables construction of multicomponent “patchy” condensates with consistent morphology. This scalable method provides a powerful tool for studying liquid–liquid phase separation and constructing condensed molecular systems.
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...
Materials Horizons cover image shows a circular structure with square structures on interface. A zoomed in cross-section shows molecular structures in red and gray
Check out 'Suppression of interfacial layers in ZrO 2/TiN capacitors by atomic layer deposition using ligand-engineered Zr precursors for scalable DRAM' by
Woongkyu Lee et al. featured on the inside front cover of issue 4
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...
Materials Horizons cover artwork shows two cubic structures, one of which has lightning sparks going through, above a rectangular structure depicting a R-A-M capacitor
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...