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Prof. Dr. Maryam Tabrizian

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Call for Papers Aims & Scope Open Access. What does it really mean?

Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to contribute a research article
or a comprehensive review for consideration
and publication in Materials (ISSN 1996-1944).
Materials is an open access journal of materials
science and engineering.
Manuscripts prepared in Microsoft Word or LaTeX
can be submitted online to the Editorial Office at
www.mdpi.com. Detailed instructions for authors
are also available online:
www.mdpi.com/journal/materials/instructions/
Materials is published in open access format—
research articles, reviews and other contents
are released on the Internet immediately after
acceptance. The scientific community and the
general public have unlimited and free access to
the content as soon as it is published.
As an open access journal, Materials is supported
by the authors or their institutes by payment of
article processing charges (APC) for accepted
papers. More information is available at:
www.mdpi.com/about/apc/
We would be pleased to welcome you as one of
our authors.
Materials provides a forum for publishing papers which advance the
in-depth understanding of the relationship between the structure,
the properties or the functions of all kinds of materials. Chemical
syntheses, chemical structures and mechanical, chemical, electronic,
magnetic and optical properties and various applications will
be considered.
Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and
theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction
on the length of the papers. The full experimental details must be
provided so that the results can be reproduced.
Topics covered:
○ Class of materials include ceramics, glasses, polymers
(plastics), semiconductors, magnetic materials, medical implant
materials and biological materials, silica and carbon materials,
metals and metallic alloys. All kinds of functional materials
including material for dentistry. Composites, coatings and films,
pigments. Classes of materials such as ionic crystals; covalent
crystals; metals; intermetallics.
○ Materials science or materials engineering. Nanoscience and
nanotechnology will be considered also.
○ Characterization techniques such as electron microscopy, x-ray
diffraction, calorimetry, nuclear microscopy (HEFIB), Rutherford
backscattering, neutron diffraction, etc.
Open access is mainly a response to what is known as the serials
crisis: yearly increasing journal subscription prices, which make
subscription-based journals increasingly difficult to afford.
Many university libraries around the world have had to cancel
existing subscriptions, or are unable to keep up with subscribing
to new journals, because the cost of publication has risen
disproportionately to their budgets.
With open access publishing, the cost of peer-review and production
of an article is borne by the institute of the author by payment of a
one-time flat fee. Conversely, readers and their institutes are no
longer charged for accessing the journals they need.
For researchers, open access brings the convenience of immediate
access to the literature that they need — no matter for which
university or company they work, or whether they just want to read
a paper in their spare time at home.
For authors, open access means a much wider circle of readers
due to the easy access to their research papers. The interested
general public is also able to access research works, giving higher
transparency to the outcome of taxpayer money spent on research.

○ Fundamental research: Condensed matter physics and

materials physics. Continuum mechanics and statistics.
Mechanics of materials. Tribology (friction, lubrication and wear).
Solid-state physics.

Professor Maryam Tabrizian Materials regularly publishes special issues on relevant and timely
Editor-in-Chief topics. Be sure to check our website for an updated list of special
issues: www.mdpi.com/journal/materials/
Materials Editorial Office
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In addition, Materials boasts a very quick time to publication: The
average duration from submission to publication is about 47 days.