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2019; Wiley; Volume: 29; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/adfm.201808221

1616-3028

Jörn Ritterbusch, Emily Hu, Jos Lenders, Hakim Meskine,

Machine Learning in Materials Science

This past year has been one of remarkable evolution for Advanced Functional Materials. We have seen submissions rise ever higher to over 9 000, surpassing for the first time our bigger sister journal Advanced Materials. This overwhelming response of the community is surely a reflection of the quality of the journal. We have also begun expanding the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal to better reflect the evolution of materials science and the journal. The composition of our new board should better reflect the rise of areas of research such as energy or health applications. In the process of doing this, we made every effort to make the board more diverse, also a reflection of how materials science is evolving. We cordially welcome in alphabetical order Khalil Amine (Argonne National Laboratory), Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University), Jun Chen (Nankai University), Jaephil Cho (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Yi Cui (Stanford University), Ximin He (University of California Los Angeles), Mark Hersam (Northwestern University), Liangbing Hu (University of Maryland), Ernesto Joselevich (Weizmann Institute of Science), Stéphanie Lacour (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Pavel Levkin (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Bin Liu (National University of Singapore), Luis Liz-Marzán (CIC biomaGUNE), Maria Antonietta Loi (Universiteit Groningen), Christine Luscombe (Washington), Nicola Marzari (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Thuc-Quyen Nguyen (University of California Santa Barbara), Huisheng Peng (Fudan University), Lian-Mao Peng (Peking University), Kanyi Pu (Nanyang Technological University), Jennifer Rupp (Massachussetts Institute of Technology), Patrice Simon (Université Toulouse), Natalie Stingelin (Georgia Institute of Technology, Imperial College London), Magdalena Titirici (Queen Mary University London), Nagarajan Valanoor (University of New South Wales), Stefan Wuttke (München), Hua Zhang (Nanyang Technological University), Jin Zhang (Peking University), Qiang Zhang (Tsinghua Umiversity), and Yuliang Zhao (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China) as 31 new members to our Editorial Advisory Board. But perhaps the most remarkable change in the journal is our new transfer policy. In the past, Advanced Materials and Advanced Functional Materials were part of the same continuum, the only difference being that Advanced Materials published Communications and Reviews, whereas Advanced Functional Materials published Full Papers and Feature Articles. It therefore did not make much sense to offer transfers from AM to AFM, as article types were quite different while the scopes were identical. However, over the years, the situation has evolved, with the boundary between Communications and Full Papers progressively blurring. Advanced Functional Materials is now truly a distinct journal. This has led us first to rename the former Feature Article to Review (15 000–20 000 words, 15–20 display items) and in line with the other journals in the Advanced family also to start publishing critical, selective Progress Reports (∼10 000 words, 5–10 display items), which should simplify things considerably. It also made sense to open the door to transfers from Advanced Materials, offering our authors yet more opportunities to be published within the Advanced family. The editors of Advanced Materials will therefore from now on actively offer a direct transfer to AFM for those papers that upon editorial assessment or following peer review narrowly fail to meet the strict selection criteria of the journal, and the editors of AFM will usually send these (revised) transfers out for (further) peer review. We are very curious about the uptake of this change and will assess its effects in the first half of 2019. In terms of impact, the journal continues to be a central publication for materials science, as reflected by its recent inclusion in the Nature Index. The impact factor of the journal also further improved to above 13, a 10% increase from last year's value and the highest result in our longstanding history to date. The authors that contributed most to this success with their heavily cited articles are listed in Table 1. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2016, 26, 2435–2445 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201600109 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2015, 25, 4929–4947 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201501250 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2016, 26, 1678–1698 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201504755 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2016, 26, 4661–4672 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201600566 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2015, 25, 7337–7347 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201503666 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2016, 26, 3314–3323 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201505626 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2015, 25, 6218–6227 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201502340 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2015, 25, 872–882 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201403657 Over the year, we have been lucky to bring many impactful papers to you that have already received lots of attention on Wiley Online Library (see Table 2) and in news outlets and on social media (see Table 3). In addition, AFM has published six special issues on currently hot topics in 2018: “Advanced Functional Materials Solutions to Engineering the Neural Interface”, guest-edited by Manus Biggs and Abhay Pandit (both NUI Galway), “Bio-Materials for Light Management”, guest-edited by Rubén D. Costa (IMDEA Madrid), “Micro- and Nanomachines on the Move”, guest-edited by Joseph Wang (UC San Diego), Peer Fischer (MPI Stuttgart), and Martin Pumera (NTU Singapore), “Functional Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials”, guest-edited by Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky and Bernd Wicklein (both ICMM, CSIC Madrid), “Lithium-Sulfur Batteries”, guest-edited by Qiang Zhang (Tsinghua), Feng Li (IMR, CAS), Jia-Qi Huang (BIT), and Hong Li (IoP, CAS), and “Bioinspired Interfacial Materials and Devices at the School of Chemistry at Beihang University”, guest-edited by Qunfeng Cheng and Lei Jiang (both Beihang). Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1705183 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201705183 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1705553 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201705553 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1704537 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201704537 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1706738 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201706738 Meiying Leng, Ying Yang, Kai Zeng, Zhengwu Chen, Zhifang Tan, Shunran Li, Jinghui Li, Bing Xu, Dengbing Li, Matthew P. Hautzinger, Yongping Fu, Tianyou Zhai, Ling Xu, Guangda Niu,* Song Jin, and Jiang Tang* Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1704446 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201704446 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1705051 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201705051 Rui Xu, Xue-Qiang Zhang, Xin-Bing Cheng, Hong-Jie Peng, Chen-Zi Zhao, Chong Yan, and Jia-Qi Huang* Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1705838 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201705838 Tao Wang, Ying Zhang, Qingchang Liu, Wen Cheng, Xinran Wang, Lijia Pan, Baoxing Xu, and Hangxun Xu* Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1705551 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201705551 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1707415 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201707415 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1707573 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201707573 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1704568 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201704568 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1706793 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201706793 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1705183 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201705183 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1801850 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201801850 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1804057 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201804057 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1707355 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201707355 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1801327 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201801327 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1705917 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201705917 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1804411 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201804411 Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1703716 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201703716 The world of scientific publishing evolves rapidly. As a result of declining publication in print, we have stopped asking authors to contribute to the costs of color figure reproduction in all Advanced journals since last year. In the digital age, online identity security is an important issue and while use of an ORCID identifier is currently recommended but optional, it will soon become compulsory for submissions to the Advanced journals. We therefore recommend that you register for your ORCID now if you have not already done so. With pre-print servers playing an increasingly important role in the early dissemination of unpublished results, all Advanced journals now welcome submissions previously posted on pre-print servers for consideration for publication. While our OnlineOpen services continue to enable our authors to publish their article Open Access in our hybrid subscription-based journals such as Advanced Functional Materials, our premium Open Access journal Advanced Science is quickly gaining ground in terms of submissions and impact (Impact Factor 12.441, +38% from last year), publishing cutting-edge interdisciplinary research covering fundamental and applied research across all scientific disciplines. Our sister journal Global Challenges, in which Open Access publication is at the moment still free of charge, publishes research from materials science and other areas aimed at providing practical solutions to a broad spectrum of current global challenges, thereby making important technologies cheaper, more efficient, and more accessible. Global Challenges reports well-conducted research with conclusions supported by the presented data. This first issue of the new year includes 2 Reviews on metal oxide nanocrystal layers for solar cells by Wallace Choy (HKU) et al. (article number 1804660) and on chirality-based biosensors by Chunlai Xu (article number 1805512). We wish you all the very best for the new year in your scientific endeavours, and already look forward to seeing the results of those among the submissions to Advanced Functional Materials and our sister journals. The editorial team of Advanced Functional Materials