Although each regular issue of JMR covers a wide range of materials research topics, special Focus Issues devoted entirely or in part to a single topic are published several times a year. These Focus Issues allow the journal to provide a comprehensive look at the current research in a particular area of interest to JMR readers.
Call for Papers
Focus Issue: The Science and Technology of Vapor Phase Processing and Modification of Surfaces
Submission deadline: August 1, 2019
This JMR Focus Issue solicits papers that report advances in the synthesis, processing, and performance of materials enhanced by vapor phase processes.
Focus Issue on Atomic layer deposition for emerging thin-film materials and applications
Submission deadline: September 1, 2019
This JMR Focus Issue will provide a research forum to exchange the latest outcomes using ALD for emerging thin-film materials and explore the potentials of ALD materials for future applications.
Focus Issue on Heterogeneity in Beyond Graphene 2D Materials
Submission deadline: November 1, 2019
This JMR focus issue serves to report the latest advances in the area of 2D and layered materials.
Focus Issue on Interactions of Shear Transformation Bands: Characteristics of Microstructure and Properties
Submission deadline: December 1, 2019
This Focus Issue serves to report the current understanding of interactions between shear transformation bands in structural materials.
Focus Issue on Additive Manufacturing of Metals: Complex Microstructures and Architecture Design
Submission deadline: January 1, 2020
The goal of this JMR Focus Issue is to highlight research on AM-produced microstructures and their impact on mechanical and physical properties of metallic materials.
Focus Issue: Sandphobic Thermal/Environmental Barrier Coatings for Gas Turbine Engines
Submission deadline: February 1, 2020
This JMR Focus Issue will highlight research on sand ingestion into gas turbine engines and potential mitigation strategies.
Published Focus Issues
The following JMR Focus Issues have been published and are available online to JMR subscribers and subscribing institutions:
2019
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Size Effects in Materials
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 34
- Issue 13
- July 2019
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: (Nano)materials for Biomedical Applications
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 34
- Issue 11
- June 2019
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Plasticity and Fracture at the Nanoscales - Advances in in situ Experimentation Techniques Enabling Novel and Extreme Materials/Nanocomposite Design
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 34
- Issue 9
- May 2019
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Understanding Water-Oxide Interfaces to Harness New Processes and Technologies
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 34
- Issue 3
- February 2019
- Journal Issue
- Annual Issue: Early Career Scholars in Materials Science 2019
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 34
- Issue 1
- January 2019
2018
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Catalytic Engineered Materials for Commercial and Industrial Energy Applications
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 33
- Issue 21
- November 2018
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Fundamental Understanding and Applications of High-Entropy Alloys
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 33
- Issue 19
- October 2018
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Soft Magnetic Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 33
- Issue 15
- August 2018
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: 3D Printing of Biomaterials
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 33
- Issue 14
- July 2018
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Stabilization of Organic Electronic Materials and Devices
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 33
- Issue 13
- July 2018
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Porous Carbon and Carbonaceous Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 33
- Issue 9
- May 2018
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Advanced Atomistic Algorithms in Materials Science
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 33
- Issue 7
- April 2018
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 33
- Issue 5
- March 2018
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Architected Materials
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 33
- Issue 3
- February 2018
- Journal Issue
- Annual Issue: Early Career Scholars in Materials Science 2018
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 33
- Issue 1
- January 2018
2017
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of Advanced Metallic Alloys—in Honor of Prof. Haël Mughrabi PART B
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 32
- Issue 24
- December 2017
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of Advanced Metallic Alloys—in Honor of Prof. Haël Mughrabi PART A
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 32
- Issue 23
- December 2017
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Jan van der Merwe: Epitaxy and the Computer Age
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 32
- Issue 21
- November 2017
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Achieving Superior Ceramics and Coating Properties through Innovative Processing
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 32
- Issue 17
- September 2017
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Biosensors
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 32
- Issue 15
- August 2017
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Microstructural Characterization for Emerging Photovoltaic Materials
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 32
- Issue 10
- May 2017
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Aberration Corrected Transmission Electron Microscopy
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 32
- Issue 5
- March 2017
- Journal Issue
- Annual Issue: Early Career Scholars in Materials Science
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 32
- Issue 1
- January 2017
2016
- Journal Issue
- Focus Section: Reinventing Boron Chemistry for the 21st Century
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 31
- Issue 18
- September 2016
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Advances and Challenges in Carbon-based Tribomaterials
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 31
- Issue 13
- July 2016
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Advanced Materials and Structures for Solar Fuels
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 31
- Issue 11
- June 2016
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Two-Dimensional Heterostructure Materials
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 31
- Issue 7
- April 2016
2015
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Nitrides and Oxynitride Materials
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 30
- Issue 19
- October 2015
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Advances in Thermoelectric Materials II
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 30
- Issue 17
- September 2015
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Characterization and Modeling of Radiation Damage on Materials: State of the Art, Challenges, and Protocols
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 30
- Issue 9
- May 2015
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: In-situ and Operando Characterization of Materials
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 30
- Issue 3
- February 2015
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Soft Nanomaterials
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 30
- Issue 1
- January 2015
2014
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Optical Ceramics Science
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 29
- Issue 19
- October 2014
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: The Materials Science of Additive Manufacturing
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 29
- Issue 17
- September 2014
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Graphene and Beyond
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 29
- Issue 3
- February 2014
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Synthesis of Nanostructured Functional Oxides
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 29
- Issue 1
- January 2014
2013
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Advances in the Synthesis, Characterization, and Properties of Bulk Porous Materials
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 28
- Issue 17
- September 2013
- Journal Issue
- FOCUS ISSUE: Frontiers in Thin-Film Epitaxy and Nanostructured Materials
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 28
- Issue 13
- July 2013
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: De Novo Carbon Nanomaterials: Opportunities and Challenges in a Flat World
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 28
- Issue 7
- April 2013
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Titanium Dioxide Nanomaterials
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 28
- Issue 3
- February 2013
- Journal Issue
- Focus Section: Silicon-based Nanoparticles for Biosensing and Biomedical Applications
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 28
- Issue 2
- January 2013
2012
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Oxide Semiconductors
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 27
- Issue 17
- September 2012
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Advanced Materials for Fuel Cells
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 27
- Issue 15
- August 2012
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Crystallization Processes in Polymer-Based Materials
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 27
- Issue 10
- May 2012
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Plasma and Ion-Beam Assisted Materials Processing
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 27
- Issue 5
- March 2012
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Advances in Mechanics of One-Dimensional Micro/Nanomaterials
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 27
- Issue 3
- February 2012
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Instrumented Indentation
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 27
- Issue 1
- January 2012
2011
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Nanowires: Fundamentals and Applications
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 26
- Issue 17
- September 2011
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Advances in Thermoelectric Materials
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 26
- Issue 15
- August 2011
- Journal Issue
- Focus Issue: Self-Assembly and Directed Assembly of Advanced Materials
- Journal of Materials Research, Volume 26
- Issue 2
- January 2011
