Materials Physics
A section of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944).
Section Information
Materials physics has been long established as one of the most active fields in current materials research that played a pivotal role in shaping and advancing modern materials from both fundamental and applied perspective. Relying on multidisciplinary cutting edge research that provided insight to the materials properties and their functioning down to the nanocale, materials physics has been the leading sector for major advances in diverse application fields ranging from mechanics, electronics and photonics to the materials aspects of solar energy conversion and environmental engineering.
The "Materials Physics" section provides a forum for the rapid publication of original works that significantly advance our current understanding of materials or unveil novel aspects of the physical properties of materials with respect to target applications. The section will comprise, but will be not limited to, contributions on materials growth and processing techniques, microstructural and mechanical engineering, advanced characterization methods, surface and interface engineering of nanostructured and functional materials including metals and alloys, ceramics and coatings, optical and photonic materials, low-dimensional materials, metal oxides and semiconductors for energy and environmental applications, plasmonics and metamaterials, magnetic materials, superconducting and quantum materials, ferroelectrics, multiferroics and magnetoelectrics, thermoelectric materials, polymers, metal-organic materials, and amorphous solids.
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Graphene and Other 2D Layered Nanomaterials and Hybrid Structures: Synthesis, Properties and Applications (Volume II) (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Spin and Orbital Transport in Magnetic Materials (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Nuclear Materials and Their Derivatives: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Thermophysical and Mechanical Properties of Materials (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Fabrication, Characterization, and Application of High-Temperature Materials and Coatings (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Materials Challenges for Advanced Nuclear Energy (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Novel Materials for Sound-Absorbing Applications (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Feature Papers in Materials Physics (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Terahertz Vibrational Spectroscopy in Advanced Materials (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Advances in Multifunctional Materials Obtained at High Temperature and Pressure Conditions (Deadline: 10 April 2025)
- Disorder-Driven Structure-Property Functionality in Materials: From Material Discovery to Device Development (Deadline: 10 April 2025)
- Metamaterials: A Roadmap from the Perspectives of the Fascinating Properties and Applications (Deadline: 10 April 2025)
- Advances in Metamaterials: Structure, Properties and Applications (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Research on Interfaces and Transportation Phenomena in Materials Under Extreme Conditions (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Phase Transformation, Functional Properties, and Crystallography of Advanced Materials (Second Volume) (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Fabrication, Characterization, and Development of Hot-Deformed Magnets (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Key Materials in Nuclear Reactors (Deadline: 20 May 2025)
- Advances in Cuprates and Iron-Based Superconductors: Physics, Properties, and Applications (Deadline: 20 June 2025)
- Preparation, Electromagnetic Absorption and Shielding Properties of Electromagnetic Functional Materials (Deadline: 20 June 2025)
- Microstructure, Mechanical Properties and Behaviour of Advanced Alloys and Materials for Nuclear Applications (Deadline: 20 June 2025)
- Structures, Properties, and Applications of Nanostructured Magnetic Materials (Deadline: 20 July 2025)
- Functional Soft Magnetic Materials and Electromagnetic Shielding Technology (Deadline: 20 July 2025)
- Novel Superconducting Materials and Applications of Superconductivity (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 20 July 2025)
- Advances in Transition Metal and Rare-Earth Metal Based Alloys, Oxides, Chalcogenides, MXenes, and 2D-Materials (Deadline: 20 July 2025)
- Physics and Application of Superconductivity (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 20 August 2025)
- Advanced Materials Structures for Sound and Vibration Damping (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 20 August 2025)
- Design, Control and Applications of Permanent Magnet Materials (Deadline: 20 August 2025)
- Advances in Irradiation Effects of Materials for Current and Future Reactors (Deadline: 10 September 2025)
- Soft Magnetic Materials: Synthesis, Properties and Applications (Deadline: 20 September 2025)
- Fracture and Fatigue of Materials Based on Machine Learning (Deadline: 10 October 2025)
- Advances in Mechanical/Acoustic Metamaterials and Vibration/Noise Reduction Properties (Deadline: 20 October 2025)
- New Materials for Neutron Sources and Instruments (Deadline: 20 November 2025)
- Metamaterials to Metasurfaces: Shaping Light from Theory to Applications (Deadline: 20 January 2026)
Topical Collections
Following topical collections within this section are currently open for submissions:
