Materials - Open Access Journal

Materials (ISSN 1996-1944; CODEN: MATEG9), an open access journal of materials science and engineering, is published by MDPI online monthly.

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Forthcoming Special Issues

Advanced Biointerface for Controlled Cell-Material Interactions (Guest Editor: Maryam Tabrizian)
Advances in Biomaterials 2011 (Guest Editor: François Berthod)
Advances in Bulk Metallic Glasses (Guest Editors: Alain Yavari, Konstantinos Georgarakis)
Advances in Dyes and Pigments (Guest Editor: Rainer Beckert)
Advances in Ferroelectric & Piezoelectric Materials (Guest Editors: Hiroshi Funakubo, Sergei Kalinin)
Advances in GaN-based Materials
Advances in Optical Materials (Guest Editors: Bruno Bureau, Akira Yoshikawa)
Advances in Porous Inorganic Materials (Guest Editor: Bénédicte Lebeau)
Advances in the Dynamics of Granular Materials (Guest Editor: Hayley Shen)
Amorphous Alloys (Guest Editors: Alain Yavari, Konstantinos Georgarakis)
Biocompatibility of Materials 2011 (Guest Editor: Amyl Ghanem)
Biodegradability of Materials 2011 (Guest Editors: Aldo Boccaccini, Showan N. Nazhat)
Carbohydrate Polymers (Guest Editor: Joel Bumgardner)
Chitins (Guest Editor: Hitoshi Sashiwa)
Conjugated Polymers (Guest Editor: Geoffrey Spinks)
Construction Materials (Guest Editor: Christian Paglia)
Creep and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures (Guest Editor: Bill Plumbrige)
Dental Biomaterials (Guest Editor: Kunio Ishikawa)
Dental Materials (Guest Editor: Jorge Perdigão)
Diffusion in Micropores (Guest Editors: Siegfried Fritzsche, Sergey Vasenkov)
Fibre-Reinforced Composites (Guest Editor: Volker Altstädt)
Fibrous Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering (Guest Editors: Heike Hall)
Green Materials and Construction (Guest Editors: Luciano Feo, Ayman Mosallam)
Hard Materials (Guest Editor: Natalia Dubrovinskaia)
High Field Magnetic Resonance Methods and Materials (Guest Editor: Oliver Speck)
Innovative Materials in Civil Constructions (Guest Editor: Luciano Feo)
Laser Materials (Guest Editors: John McInerney, Alexander Biriukov)
Liquid Crystals 2011 (Guest Editor: W. Haase)
Luminescent Materials 2011 (Guest Editors: Magnus Willander, Dirk Poelman)
Magnetic Nanoparticles (Guest Editor: Jon Dobson)
Materials for Ophthalmic Drug Delivery (Guest Editor: Anuj Chauhan)
Metal Organic Frameworks (Guest Editor: Silvia Bordiga)
Molecular Biomimetics and Materials Design (Guest Editors: Lyle Isaacs, Kwang Kim)
Molecular Magnets (Guest Editor: Annie Powell)
Multiferroics (Guest Editor: Shin-ichi Ohkoshi)
Nanocomposites of Polymers and Inorganic Particles 2011 (Guest Editors: Claudio Nicolini, Laïla Raki)
Nanomaterials (Guest Editors: Mingdong Dong, Kislon Voïtchovsky)
Next Wave of Metamaterials (Guest Editor: Alexandra Boltasseva)
Orthopaedic Biomaterials (Guest Editors: I. Ward, Thomas Webster)
Photovoltaic Materials (Guest Editor: Stéphane Guillerez)
Porous Materials 2011 (Guest Editors: Stephen Gray, Helmut Föll)
Recent Advances in Hydrogen Storage Materials (Guest Editor: Andrew Goudy)
Recent Advances in Stimuli-Responsive Materials (Guest Editor: Dirk Kuckling)
Recognition, Imaging, and Physics of Defects in Semiconductors (Guest Editor: Jens W. Tomm)
Sol-Gel Technique (Guest Editor: Jay Benziger)
Solar Energy Materials (Guest Editor: Claes-Göran Granqvist)
Superplasticity and Superplastic Forming (Guest Editor: Thomas H. Hyde)
Supported Lipid Membrane Surface Modifications and Applications (Guest Editor: Erik Reimhult)
Surface Modification and Assembly of Magnetic Nanoparticle Materials (Guest Editor: Erik Reimhult)
The Rise of Graphene (Guest Editor: Valeri Kotov)
Tissue Engineering Scaffolds (Guest Editor: Aldo Boccaccini)
Titanium Materials for Biomedical Application (Guest Editor: Barbara Boyan)
X-ray Imaging in Materials Science (Guest Editor: Jung Ho Je)

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