About NPG Asia Materials

A substantial share of the world’s materials research output comes from Asia-Pacific countries, and the region is making rapidly increasing contributions to global scientific research. In response to these developments, the Global Center of Excellence program for Materials Innovation at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, in collaboration with NPG Nature Asia-Pacific, the Asia-Pacific wing of Nature Publishing Group (NPG), launched the NPG Asia Materials website in 2008. With a view to establishing a new research journal devoted to materials research, NPG Asia Materials now publishes quarterly issues presenting high-quality peer-refereed reviews of the most rapidly advancing fields in materials science by world-leading researchers from the Asia-Pacific region. NPG Asia Materials reviews and research highlights are aimed at an audience of materials scientists and engineers, chemists, physicists and nanotechnologists.

Topics

• Engineering materials (metals, alloys, ceramics, composites, porous materials)
• Organic and soft materials (glasses, colloids, liquid crystals, polymers)
• Biomaterials
• Optical, photonic and optoelectronic materials
• Electronic, magnetic and superconducting materials
• Energy conversion, catalytic and separation materials
• Nanoscale materials, processes and functions
• Computation, modeling and materials theory
• Design, synthesis, processing and characterization techniques

Editorial

The publication is managed by an international Editorial Committee led by Editor-in-Chief, professor Hideo Takezoe of the Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and is supported by an Advisory Board composed of scientists and engineers from the Asia-Pacific region.

Reviews

Reviews are commissioned from leaders in the field from the Asia-Pacific region and subjected to peer review and high-quality production. Reviews are published online as part of the quarterly issue. We are currently unable to accept unsolicited manuscripts; however, readers wishing to suggest topics for reviews can do so by contacting NPG Asia Materials at authors@asia-materials.com.

Research highlights

The website presents highlights of research in materials design and synthesis, structure and properties, material processing, and devices and applications. The highlights are written by a team of highly experienced NPG-selected science writers and describe research articles selected by the Editorial Committee based on recommendations of the Advisory Board.

The future of the journal

NPG Asia Materials will be developed in phases. It is currently in its second phase; having established a solid online readership of weekly research highlights, the journal is now published quarterly presenting commissioned peer-reviewed review articles by leading materials scientists from the Asia -Pacific region.

We encourage you to continue to visit and support NPG Asia Materials. You can sign up for a free weekly table of contents email alert and access to downloadable review articles. And, if you know of any research articles from the Asia-Pacific region that you wish to recommend for highlighting, please contact the advisory board at editor@asia-materials.com. Thank you for supporting NPG Asia Materials, with your participation we look forward to creating one of the world’s leading forums for materials research.

Prof. Dr Hideo Takezoe
Editor-in-Chief, NPG Asia Materials
Department of Organic and
Polymeric Materials
Tokyo Institute of Technology

Dr David Swinbanks
Publishing Director
Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
CEO, NPG Nature Asia-Pacific