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More than 2017 Reasons We Appreciate Our Authors, Reviewers, and Readers

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took place in August 2017 at the ACS Meeting in Washington, DC, where Kai Zhu (PI) and Zhen Li (post-doc) of NREL won for their paper on tuning metal-halide perovskites (Figure 2).12

ssue 24, the last issue of 2017, is upon us. On behalf of all the editors and staff at Chemistry of Materials, I would like to thank all of our authors, reviewers, and readers for a very productive 2017. We are very grateful for your continued trust in us. The focus of our journal is to serve the materials chemistry community around the globe by publishing top quality papers that are creative and interesting, with impact in both the near- and long-term. For the entire calendar year of 2017, we will have published 1200

For the entire calendar year of 2017, we will have published 1200 articles, written by just over 6200 authors, and reviewed by almost 4500 reviewerswe have far more than 2017 reasons to thank all of you for your time and effort to keep standards very high. articles, written by just over 6200 authors, reviewed by almost 4500 reviewerswe have far more than 2017 reasons to thank all of you for your time and effort to keep standards very high. This year has been a very exciting year for Chemistry of Materials, and to help serve the community better, here are a few items from 2017: (i) Launch of the new “methods/protocols” manuscript type, with the goal of assisting with reproducibility, and providing the community with helpful and useful new techniques and approaches (Figure 1).1 Methods/protocols are an answer to this

Figure 2. Speakers, organizers, and award winners at the inaugural Chemistry of Materials Best Paper Lectureship. From left to right, Yanfa Yan (speaker), Jillian Buriak (editor-in-chief), Zhen Li (award winner), Kai Zhu (award winner), Prashant Kamat (speaker), Carlos Toro (managing editor), Nitin Padture (speaker), and Matt Beard (speaker). Reprinted from ref 11.

(iii) Publishing of special issues in new and interesting areas of materials chemistry. These invitation-only special issues require enormous effort on behalf of authors, but represent a critical contribution of great utility to both established scientists in the area, and newcomers. The two special issues of 2017 were the following (Figure 3): (i) Special Issue on Computational Design of Functional Materials (26 papers, overseen by editors Seshadri, Persson, Brédas)13 and (ii) Special Issue on Methods and Protocols in Materials Chemistry (33 papers, overseen by editors Buriak and Toro).14 (iv) Up & Coming perspectives from early career rising stars in materials chemistry. These perspectives are all extremely well written, passionate accounts of the research areas that these early career researchers have chosen as the platforms on which they are launching their careers. They are an interesting and motivating overview of some of the latest emerging areas of materials chemistry.15−27 (v) More members of the 1k Club. The 1k Club is our ongoing series of interviews with authors of papers published in Chemistry of Materials with 1000+ citations. We ask them about their motivations for doing the research at the time of writing, and for advice they may have for early career researchers. We caught up with 3 of our newest 1k Club members, in 2017, who described their highly cited papers on graphene/polyaniline supercapacitors,28 n-conjugated polymers for organic electronics,29 and graphene-wrapped magnetite anodes for batteries.30

Figure 1. Please consider submitting a methods/protocols article on a new process, or a detailed clarification of a difficult-to-reproduce but important method.

valuable manuscript type available in more biology-focused areas. The methods/protocols manuscripts typically include more information than regular experimental sections, such as videos, photographs of apparatus and processes, and detailed descriptions. We have thus far published 9 papers since launching this new manuscript type in January of 2017.2−10 (ii) The new Chemistry of Materials Best Paper Lectureship, which emphasizes the collaborative nature of all high quality science. Typically, the principle investigator (PI) receives all the glory of an award, but for our lectureship, the award nomination includes a section written by the co-authors on the contributions of the team, and the first author, typically a post-doc or graduate student, shares in the award and also has the opportunity to deliver a lecture at the award symposium.11 Our inaugural lectureship © 2017 American Chemical Society

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Figure 3. Cover images from our two special issues of 2017.

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(vi) Collaboration with sister ACS journals on virtual issues. Virtual issues group together publications that are otherwise separated in different issues across different journals into a single place. Virtual issues are intended to draw attention to the latest trends and emerging areas. Virtual issues assembled and published in 2017 ranged from lead-free and nanocrystalline perovskites,31,32 to synchrotron techniques,33 to redox flow batteries,34 and others.35,36 We are about to embark on our 30th volume of the journal, which represents 30 years of proud history within the materials chemistry community that started with the founding editor-in-chief, Len Interrante. We hope to hear from you regarding possible new initiatives, editorials you may wish to write, early career rising stars we should watch, and new emerging areas. Best wishes for a productive and healthy 2018, from all the editors and staff of Chemistry of Materials.

AUTHOR INFORMATION

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Jillian M. Buriak: 0000-0002-9567-4328 Notes

Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS.

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