Our understanding of soft matter, and composites that include soft matter, is advancing rapidly. Such materials include nanostructure materials, functional materials, and dielectric, thermal, and structural materials. Applications for these materials have been growing across a wide spectrum, in fields such as biomedical applications, energy storage, transmission, and conversion, lighting, and more. This is due in part to significant advances in characterization, synthesis, processing, and computation. Journal of Materials Research focuses on experimental and computation papers that report on the fundamental relationships between molecular structure and properties, morphology, and properties for both pure and hybrid materials.

Experimental or computational papers are solicited in the following areas:

• New polymers with tailored molecular structure to optimize properties
• Fundamental understanding of the relationship between morphology and properties
• Composite interface properties and behavior
• Materials for structural applications
• Materials for medical applications
• Materials for energy generation and transmission
• Materials for lighting applications

Journal of Materials Research publishes the latest advances about the creation of new materials and materials with novel functionalities, fundamental understanding of processes that control the response of materials, and development of materials with significant performance improvements relative to state of the art materials. JMR welcomes papers that highlight novel processing techniques, the application and development of new analytical tools, and interpretation of fundamental materials science to achieve enhanced materials properties and uses.

Associate Editor for Polymeric Materials

Sarah E. Morgan, University of Southern Mississippi, USA

Editor-in-Chief

Gary L. Messing, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Manuscript Submission

To be considered for the journal, new and previously unpublished results significant to the development of this field should be presented. The manuscripts must be submitted via the JMR electronic submission system. Note our manuscript submission minimum length of 3250 words, excluding figures, captions, and references, with at least 6 and no more than 10 figures and tables combined. Review articles may be longer but must be pre-approved by proposal to the Editor-in-Chief via jmr@mrs.org. The proposal form and author instructions may be found at www.mrs.org/jmr-instructions.