16 October 2025
Crystals | Call for Special Issue Proposals and Recruiting Guest Editors


Crystals (ISSN: 2073-4352) is now accepting Special Issue proposals. Crystals is an open access journal that covers all aspects of crystalline material research in a wide range of Sections. It is indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), Inspec, Ei Compendex, CAPlus / SciFinder, and other databases. For more details, please visit the following website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/crystals/about.

We recommend the following topics for future Special Issues:

  • Crystalline Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage;
  • Properties and Applications of Two-Dimensional Crystals;
  • Crystal Plasticity and Deformation Mechanisms;
  • Metal–Organic Framework Crystals;
  • Crystalline Magnetic Thin Films;
  • Ferroelectric Molecular Crystals;
  • Metalloenzyme Crystallography;
  • Functional Properties of Crystals;
  • Crystallography of Bioactive Complexes;
  • Thermoelectric Crystals and Materials;
  • Artificial Intelligence in Crystal Research;
  • Crystal Engineering for Drug Delivery;
  • Serial Crystallography in Drug Discovery;
  • Protein Purification and Crystallization;
  • Protein Crystals, the New Framework Materials;
  • Electron Diffraction of Molecular Crystals;
  • Single-Molecule Magnets;
  • Quantum Crystallography;
  • Biomineralization Processes;
  • Nonlinear Optical Crystals;
  • Coordination Polymers;
  • Perovskite Materials;
  • Photonic Crystals;
  • Liquid Crystals.

If you would like to propose other Special Issue topics for Crystals, please contact our in-house editor Mars Tan (mars.tan@mdpi.com) or complete and submit the form at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journalproposal/sendproposalspecialissue/crystals.

For further details about Special Issues and being a Guest Editor, please refer to the guidelines here: https://www.mdpi.com/special_issues_guidelines.

If you are passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to join us. We look forward to receiving your proposals.

Crystals Editorial Office

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