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Materials Horizons, leading journal for the publication of exceptionally high quality, innovative materials science.

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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
January 15, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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
January 15, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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 📅
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January 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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...
January 6, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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...
December 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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...
December 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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...
December 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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...
December 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Signal propagation in reversible digital mechanics by Hilary A. Johnson et al. features on the front cover of @materialshorizons.rsc.org issue 24.
Read their #OpenAccess communication for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...
December 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
We are pleased to be accepting submissions to our Materials Horizons themed collection on #metamaterials with a deadline of 10 April 2026 - find out more and submit your latest research 👉https://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/calls-for-papers/materials-horizons-metamaterials
December 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Check out this insightful @rsc.org interview to learn more about Materials Horizons Scientific Editor @echemratcliff.bsky.social's career to date and how her love of collaborative science has shaped her research today 💫
🔗 www.rsc.org/news/in-conv...
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Find out more about our latest Emerging Investigator @julliannapanidi.bsky.social in this Editorial
🔗https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/mh/d5mh90135a and read her Emerging Investigators publication 🔗https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/mh/d5mh01486g
December 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Inside Front Cover of @materialshorizons.rsc.org Issue 23 features Communication by Youn Soo Kim et al., titled Preserved elastic modulus and enhanced adhesion in long-term and thermally stable glycol gels via affine shrinkage upon water evaporation

Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Artwork-like multicolor structural coloration via spatially patterned anodic aluminum oxide with uniform-cavity design by Soo-Hwan Jeong, Yun Seon Do et al. features on the Front Cover of @materialshorizons.rsc.org Issue 23.

Read this #OpenAccess Communication for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...
November 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
@materialshorizons.rsc.org and @jmaterchem.rsc.org are delighted to support Symposium D5: 2D Layered Materials for Sustainable Energy Conversion and Storage at MatSus Spring Meeting 2026. The abstracts submission deadline for oral presentations is today! www.nanoge.org/MATSUSSpring...
November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
In Issue 23, @materialshorizons.rsc.org Emerging Investigator Series features Professor Xiangyu Jiang, Beihang University, China
Read our interview: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...
Read his article on ionic membranes: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...
Find out about the series: pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
📢Nominations for the @rsc.org 2026 Prizes are now open and close on 14 January 2026 - consider making a nomination to our Horizon Prizes, Inclusion and Diversity Prize, Research & Innovation Prizes and Volunteer Recognition Prizes 💫
🔗https://www.rsc.org/standards-and-recognition/prizes/
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Have you seen this Review on Engineering biomimetic bacteria membrane-coated nanoparticles: an emerging anti-infection platform by Raymond J. Turner, Gorka Orive, Aziz Maleki et al.? It features on the inside front cover of @materialshorizons.rsc.org Issue 22. Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Discover the Communication by Takuji Hatakeyama et al.
Improving the TADF properties of deep-blue multiple-resonance emitters by strategic oxygen–sulfur replacement
featured on the Front Cover of @materialshorizons.rsc.org Issue 22. Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...
November 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Welcoming Prof. Erin Ratcliff to the Materials Horizons Editorial Board 📢 Erin joins us as a Scientific Editor, helping to assess and advise on manuscripts at the initial assessment stage to maintain the high-quality standards of the journal. Find out more about Erin: www.rsc.org/people/erin-...
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Presenting @materialshorizons.rsc.org
Issue 21 Emerging Investigator Dr Hua Bing Tao (chem.xmu.edu.cn/info/1265/10... or www.researchgate.net/scientific-c...). Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...
October 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Presenting @materialshorizons.rsc.org Issue 19 Emerging Investigator Professor Chris Bartel (www.linkedin.com/in/chris-bar...). Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...
September 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Presenting @materialshorizons.rsc.org Issue 18 Emerging Investigator Professor Dr Teng Fu (scholar.google.com/c...). Read the editorial here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...
September 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Discover our MaterHoriz and NanoHoriz themed collection on soft wearable sensors for free until 15 November 2025
🔗https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/articlecollectionlanding?sercode=mh&themeid=c7a8322a-13b5-4b3f-ad9f-38b7164db1fe
Why not read the introductory Editorial?
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...
September 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Just published in Materials Horizons - Check out this Reflection article by Eric Breynaert, Christine Kirschhock et al. looking back at their inaugural Materials Horizons publication on 'Flexibility versus rigidity: what determines the stability of zeolite frameworks'
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...
September 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM