Aims & Scope

Aims

Surfaces (ISSN 2571-9637) is a peer-reviewed open access journal of scientific research on the fundamental aspects of chemistry and physics occurring in surfaces, interfaces and thin films. Surfaces provides an advanced forum for studies related to surfaces and interfaces, as well as their applications. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, and communications as well as Special Issues on particular subjects.

The aim of Surfaces is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. Therefore, the journal has no restriction on the maximum length of the papers. Full experimental details should be provided so that the results can be reproduced. 

Scope

Topics include but are not limited to:

• 2D materials and heterostructures
• Adsorption
• Biointerfaces and interfacial phenomena in biology and nanomedicine
• Electrochemistry
• Etching and nanolithography
• Functional coatings
• Heterogeneous catalysis, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis
• Nanoparticles and nanomaterials
• Porous materials
• Surface and interface physics & engineering
• Surface chemistry and reactivity
• Surface corrosion and corrosion resistance
• Surface deposition methods
• Surfactants
• Thin films

Types of Submissions Not Considered:

• Manuscripts in which surfaces are irrelevant;
• Manuscripts in which SEM, TEM, or X-ray diffraction techniques serve as the unique mode of characterization of the materials analyzed, as these are not considered surface tools;
• Manuscripts in which the experimental data are not adequately discussed;
• Manuscripts in which the physico-chemical aspects of surfaces are not addressed, e.g., medical, toxicological, or metallurgical papers.

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

Authors and publishers are encouraged to send review copies of their recent related books to the following address. Received books will be listed as Books Received within the journal's News & Announcements section.

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Surfaces will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

Reprints

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