The peer review process of submitted manuscripts are overviewed by Materials Futures editors who are selected from an international pool of researchers with high levels of achievement and recognition in their fields.
Energy Materials
Torsten Brezesinski Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Materials design, mesoporous materials, nanotechnology, lithium batteries, solid-state batteries
Xuejie Huang Institute of Physics, CAS & Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, China
Energy storage, Li-ion batteries
Chunyi Zhi City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Flexible energy storage, zinc-based batteries & aqueous electrolyte batteries, catalysts for oxygen and nitrogen reduction reaction
Ruiyong Chen University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Redox flow batteries, Li-cathode materials, Solid-state electrolytes
Wei Chen Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Perovskite solar cells, quantum dot solar cells, organic solar cells and new concept of solar cells
Shulei Chou University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
Li/Na-ion and metal-air batteries, supercapacitor, nanomaterials, composite materials
Jinsong Hu Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Hydrogen energy, electrocatalysis, electrosynthesis, fuel cells, water splitting, solar cells, functional materials for energy conversion and storage
Ting He Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, USA
Hydrogen and fuel cells, renewable energy, electrochemical manufacturing
Fengwang Li The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Electrochemical energy conversion; electrochemical CO2 capture and utilization, electrocatalysis, energy materials
Lifeng Liu International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal
Electrocatalysis, hydrogen production, fuel cell catalysts, photo-electrochemistry, energy storage materials
Yaohua Mai Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
Materials for photovoltaic and opto-electronic devices application, lithium battery materials
Yabing Qi Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan
Surface/interface science, energy materials and devices
Yu Qiao Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Electrochemistry, in-situ spectroscopy characterization (GC-MS, Raman, FT-IR), Rechargeable batteries (Li/Na/K/Zn-ion battery, Electrolyte, Li-O2/air battery, Li-metal battery, O2 reduction/evolution, CO2 reduction, etc.)
Magda Titirici Imperial College London, London, UK
Sustainable materials, carbon and carbon hybrids, renewable energy, carbon-based O2 electrocatalysis, CO2 capture and conversion, nanocarbons
Lianzhou Wang Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology & The University of Queensland, Australia
Semiconductor nanomaterials, photocatalysts for solar fuel productions, rechargeable lithium batteries, new generation solar cells
Nianjun Yang University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany
Materials science and technology, electrochemical energy storage and conversion, sensors
Xiangdong Yao Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Electrocatalysis, hydrogen storage materials, solar-assisted hydrogen production and hydrogen utilization
Minghao Yu Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Carbon materials, 2D materials, electrocatalysis, supercapacitors, dual-ion batteries, multivalent metal batteries
Qiang Zhang Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Lithium metal batteries and energy chemistry, lithium metal anodes, lithium—sulfur batteries, energy and electrocatalysis, machine-learning assisted functional material design
Minshen Zhu Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden (Leibniz IFW Dresden), Germany
Energy materials, catalytic materials, aqueous batteries, microscale devices, micro- and nanofabrication
Biomaterials
Yuanjin Zhao Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Biomaterial, hydrogel; tissue engineering, microfluidics, organs-on-chips, biosensor
Boris N. Chichkov Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Laser physics and laser applications, laser nanotechnologies, nanophotonics, biomedical implants and devices, microfluidics, additive manufacturing and biofabrication, tissue engineering, and laser printing
Wenguo Cui Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Electrospinning, biomaterials, tissue regeneration, drug delivery, nanomedicine
Huajian Gao Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Microelectronic and optoelectronic devices, nanotechnology, nanomechanical devices, smart and active structures and materials, nano- and hierarchical materials engineering, adhesion, bio-inspired robotics, biomimetics, biomaterials, nanotoxicology, bio-sensing, and gene/drug delivery systems
Helder A. Santos University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Nanomaterials, biomaterials, nanomedicine, controlled drug delivery
Luoran Shang Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Microfluidics, colloidal self-assembly, microcarriers, biomaterials
Yu Shrike Zhang Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
3D Bioprinting, biomaterials, regenerative engineering, organ-on-a-chip, bioanalysis
Hongbo Zhang Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
Nanomedicine, biomedical engineering, microfluidics
Chao Zhong Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
Materials synthetic biology, engineered living materials (ELMs), bio-inspired materials, biomaterials
Nanomaterials
Sheng Dai University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Nanomaterials, mesoporous materials, ionic liquids
Guangyu Zhang Institute of Physics, CAS & Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, China
Nanoscale physics and devices, graphene nanostructures, 2D semiconductors
Sotirios Baskoutas University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Excitons, semiconductor nanomaterials, optical properties, electronic properties, modelling, characterization, synthesis with physical methods of amorphous and nanocrystalline materials
Mads Brandbyge Technology University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Theoretical nanoelectronics, 2D materials, molecular electronics, nano-scale transport, computer simulation
Qiaoliang Bao Formerly at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Photonics and optoelectronics of 2D materials, optical materials, plasmonics and polaritons
P. Davide Cozzoli University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Inorganic nanomaterials, colloidal nanocrystals, nanoscale properties of solid-state matter, nanomagnetism, photocatalysis, photovoltaics, optoelectronics
Alessandro De Giacomo University of Bari, Bari, Italy
Materials under extreme condition, thin films and nanotechnology, nanoparticls, optics and photonics
Marco Fanciulli University of Milano—Bicocca, Milano, Italy
Semiconductors, nanotechnology, nanoelectronics, spintronics
Dimitrios Gournis University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
Chemistry of layered (2D) materials, carbon nanostructures, hybrid organic-inorganic nanocomposites, mesoporous materials, metallic nanoparticles and biocatalysts
Jie He University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
Responsive polymers, bio-inspired catalysts of polymers/metals, programmable self-assembly of nanostructured materials at all scales, porous materials, nanocatalysis
Seokwoo Jeon Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Daejeon, Korea
2D materials, nanostructures, nanomaterials, Low Dimensional materials, 3D nanostructures, 3D Nanopatterning, Graphene
Weiguo Song Institute of Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Micro-Nano structured materials, porous materials, catalysis, adsorption
Andrew Thye Shen Wee National University of Singapore, Singapore
Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and synchrotron radiation studies of the molecule-substrate interface, on-surface synthesis of 2D carbon networks, molecular self-assembly on surfaces, graphene and 2D materials
Hyo Jae Yoon Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Molecular electronics, surface chemistry, energy conversion, nanomaterials, liquid metal-based materials
Materials Theories and Computation
David J. Srolovitz The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
2D materials, metals and alloys, microstructure, defects, film growth & aqueous electrolyte batteries, catalysts for oxygen and nitrogen reduction reaction
Leihan Tang Hong Kong Buptist University, Hong Kong, China
Statistical physics, biological physics, computational physics, systems biology, quantitative modeling
Jinkui Zhao Institute of Physics, CAS & Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, China
Neutron scattering and techniques, structure biology, computation
Liang Dai City University of Hong Kong, Hongkong, China
Polymer physics, computational biophysics, molecular dynamics simulation, Monte Carlo simulations, DNA structures, protein structures
Pengfei Guan Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing, China
Glass and glass transition, amorphous materials, high-throughput calculation & materials design
Yan Jiao The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Energy materials computation, density functional theory, molecular dynamics
Mo Li Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
Computational materials science, materials theory, mechanical properties, nonequilibrium phenomena, phase transition size effect
Xingjun Liu Harbin Institute of Technology-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
Machine learning and data mining, material design theory, material Genome, metals, composite materials
Sheng Meng Institute of Physics CAS, Beijing, China
Excited state dynamics, energy conversion, nano mechanics, molecules at surfaces
Alan Needleman Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
Mechanics of materials, solid mechanics
Quntum Materials
Jason S. Gardner Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA
Magnetic materials, single crystal growth, neutron scattering, slow spin dynamics
Ryotaro Arita University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Correlated electron systems, high Tc superconductors including hydrides under high pressures topological materials
Kui Jin Institute of Physics CAS, Beijing, China
High-temperature superconductor, single-crystaline thin film, material genome
Kirrily Rule ANSTO, Sydney, Australia
Quantum magnets, electronic and information materials and low dimensional magnetic materials
Yusuke Nambu Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan
Neutron scattering, magnetism, superconductivity cells
Richard Mole ANSTO, Sydney, Australia
Cobalt(II)-based magnetic materials
Yogesh Singh Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India
Strongly correlated electron systems, quantum magnetism, quantum spin liquids, Kitaev materials, superconductivity, crystal growth
Yixi Su Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Topological quantum materials
Kehui Wu Institute of Physics CAS, Beijing, China
Surface physics, low-dimensional quantum materials, scanning tunneling microscopy
Shin-ichiro Yano National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center and ANSTO, Australia
Magnetic excitation from magnetic materials, neutron scattering with triple axis spectrometers, crystal structural and magnetic structural analyses, polarized neutron scattering techniques
Structural Materials
Weihua Wang Amorphous materials, nanomaterials, materials formation and properties under extreme conditions
Andrea Ehrmann Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld, Germany
Electrospinning, 3D printing, textile technologies, magnetic materials, magnetic nanostructures, magneto-optics
Jürgen Eckert Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences & University of Leoben, Leoben, Austria
Materials physics, metastable materials, structure and property correlations
Zhaoping Lu University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China
Amorphous alloys, high entropy alloys, bulk metallic glasses, high-temperature alloys, Porous metals
En Ma Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
High-entropy alloys, metallic glasses, phase-change memory and neuro-inspired computing, plasticity mechanisms of nanostructured metals
Jiang Ma Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
Amorphous alloy, forming & shaping of amorphous alloy, functional applications of amorphous alloy, nano µ forming
John Philip HBNI & Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, India
Magnetic nanomaterials, smart magnetic materials, SHP and composite materials, magnetic soft matter, physics and chemistry of magnetic materials
Junbiao Peng South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
Polymers for optoelectronic devices
Jianguo Wang Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan, China
Metallic glass, glass transition, magnetism, molecular dynamics simulation, machine learning, artificial neural network, cybernation, fuzzy system
