Announcements
16 November 2021
Topical Advisory Panel Established to Support Editorial Board
25 October 2021
Open Access Week 2021 | It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity, 25–31 October
Founded in 1996, MDPI was one of the first fully Open Access publisher. Over 25 years MDPI has grown to become the largest Open Access publisher globally, publishing over 160,000 articles across more than 350 journals in 2020. At the core, MDPI was founded in response to a pressing need of fast publication and inclusion. The scholar was set at the centre of the publication process for the first time. Acting as a service provider, rather than a product provider, MDPI exists to help scientists achive their objective to disseminate research results. At MDPI, we believe scientists deserve a better service from the publishing world.
The International Open Access Week (Open Access Week), founded by the SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Alliance and student partners in 2008, has been successfully running for 13 years. As an advocate and pioneer of open access publishing, MDPI actively responds to the call of International Open Access Week. This year’s theme of “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity” highlights the Recommendation’s call for equitable participation from all authors and readers.
For the last 25 years, MDPI has been committed to disseminating open research. Here is a video showing MDPI’s Commitment to Equity, Inclusion and Diversity for More than 25 Years.
International Open Access Week is an important opportunity to catalyze new conversations, create connections across and between communities that can facilitate this co-design, and advance progress in the building of more equitable foundations for opening knowledge—discussions and actions that need to be continued, year in and year out. MDPI has always aimed to provide professional and efficient publishing services to scholars around the world.
Our mission is to make scientific research accessible to everyone; this year, we interview and hold discussions with open science ambassadors on how to build an equal and inclusive environment for open science. Academic editors help us collaborate with more institutions to advocate for open access ideas.
Besides this, our scientific community is a key driver of our success and MDPI’s remarkable growth. Despite the pandemic, we have prepared online conferences and workshops to gather scholars from different communities.
The Basel Sustainable Publishing online forum provides an equal opportunity for stakeholders and researchers from multi-cultural environments to exchange ideas and eliminate barriers to participation.
Conference date: 25 October 2021, online
Conference website: https://bspf2021.sciforum.net/
Main topics: MDPI discusses the current dilemma of open access science from various perspectives such as governments, libraries, and publishers, and related measures on how to change the status quo of discrimination from a global perspective.
We aim to support equality, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in scholarly communications. We collaborate with universities and key laboratories and have scholarly communications with researchers, teachers, and students on open access workshops.
- 25 October 2021
Energies journal and Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 28 October 2021
Machines journal and State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University
- 29 October 2021
Processes journal and Beijing Institute of Technology
- 29 October 2021
Coatings journal and Wuhan University of Technology
MDPI is committed to providing open access and high-quality publishing services for scholars and promoting rapid dissemination of academic achievements. We hope to promote the practices and policies of open access publishing and diversify the dissemination of academic achievements.
22 October 2021
Materials | Top 10 Downloaded Articles in 2020
22 October 2021
Materials | Top 10 Downloaded Articles in 2019
24 September 2021
Meet Us at the 21st Chinese Zeolite Conference (21 CZC) in Qingdao, China, 27–30 September 2021
23 September 2021
2020 MDPI Top Reviewer Award—Winners Announced
22 September 2021
MDPI Joins SDG Publishers Compact
UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. In 2020 the SDG Publishers Compact was launched, aimed to inspire publishers and accelerate progress to achieve the 17 goals by 2030. Members of the programme are committed to support the publication of materials that will promote and inspire actions towards SDGs.
MDPI is an eager advocate of SDGs and has already been supporting the programme by creating Special Issues and publishing a series of books on SDGs prior to joining the Compact in 2021. MDPI's Sustainability Foundation initiated the World Sustainability Awards in 2016. We fully support UN's goals to promote sustainable actions that make the world a better place for all and, as part of its commitment, we will focus our actions on SDG10: Reduced Inequalities whilst promoting all 17 SDGs. For more details, please visit the programme’s website: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sdg-publishers-compact/.
Joining this initiative was a unanimous decision. MDPI has in its core values the dissemination of science for all, breaking the wall between research access and under-represented members of the scientific community and the general population. To support this initiative further and continue to support under-represented scientists, MDPI will take a series of actions that will be announced once ready.
The first action MDPI takes is to nominate Dr. Liliane Auwerter as the coordinator of the programme. Dr. Auwerter studied Environmental Process Technology (UTFPR, Brazil), obtained her MSc degree in Water and Environmental Engineering (University of Surrey, UK) and in 2020 completed her PhD in self-healing low-friction materials for water transport (Imperial College London, UK), always focusing on diverse scientific projects that would potentially bring sustainability to industrial processes. As a student in Brazil, she engaged in volunteering activities focused on environmental education and took part in the Millennial Development Goals meetings held at the university.
For more information, please contact:
Dr. Liliane Auwerter
Scientific Officer
liliane.auwerter@mdpi.com
14 September 2021
Materials 4th Webinar | Functional Nanomaterials for Fuel Cell Electrochemistry, 21 September 2021
Fuel cells represent a unique electrochemical energy technology for a sustainable future. To render the technology viable in practical applications, a critical first step is to develop effective catalysts at both the cathode and anode, to reduce the energy barriers of the electron–transfer reactions involved, and ultimately enhance the current density and power output. Within this context, the understanding of the catalyst structures and the unraveling of the electron–transfer mechanisms play an indispensable role in advancing fuel cell electrocatalysis. This entails a multidisciplinary effort, from materials chemistry in the design and engineering of electrode catalysts to spectroscopic assessments of the electron–transfer kinetics, and to theoretical investigations of the catalytic active sites and reaction energetics.
It is therefore a great pleasure and honor to welcome three world-leading experts to join us at the webinar, who have made seminal contributions in the area of functional nanomaterials and fuel cell electrocatalysis. They will showcase recent progress in their laboratories in tackling the varied hurdles of fuel cell electrocatalysis and highlight significant issues for future research.
Date: 21/09/2021 Tuesday (US time) | 22/09/2021 Wednesday (CEST)
Time: 5:00pm PDT | 2:00am CEST | 8:00pm EDT
Webinar ID: 828 6890 4633
Webinar Website: https://materials-4.sciforum.net/
Register for free here:
Program
The webinar will last a maximum of 2 hours and 10 minutes.
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Speaker/Presentation |
Time in CEST/CET |
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Prof. Dr. Shaowei Chen Chair Introduction |
2:00-2:05 am |
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“Novel Materials and Operando Methods for Fuel Cell Technologies” |
2:05-2:35 am |
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Q&A Session |
2:35-2:45 am |
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“Intermetallic Nanoparticles: Their Synthesis and Enhanced Electrocatalysis” |
2:45-3:15 am |
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Q&A Session |
3:15-3:25 am |
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“Fuel Cells: Present and Future” |
3:25-3:55 am |
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Q&A Session |
3:55-4:05 am |
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Prof. Dr. Shaowei Chen Closing of Webinar |
4:05-4:10 am |
Chair
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Prof. Dr. Shaowei Chen Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz |
Prof. Dr. Shaowei Chen finished his undergraduate studies in China in 1991, with a B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China, and then went to Cornell University, receiving his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 1993 and 1996, respectively. Following a postdoctoral post at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he started his independent career at Southern Illinois University in 1998. In summer 2004, he moved to the University of California in Santa Cruz. He is currently a Professor of Chemistry and the Faculty Director of the UCSC COSMOS program. Prof Dr. Shaowei Chen’s research is focused on functional nanomaterials and their applications in electrochemical energy technologies and antimicrobials. Thus far, he has published 376 articles, with an h-index of 79. |
Speakers
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Prof. Héctor D. Abruña Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University (USA) |
Prof. Hector D. Abruña, Émile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry, is the director of the Center for Alkaline Based Energy Solutions (CABES) and the Energy Materials Center at Cornell (emc2). He completed his graduate studies with Royce W. Murray and Thomas J. Meyer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980 and was a postdoctoral research associate with Allen J. Bard at the University of Texas in Austin from 1980 to 1981. After a brief stay at the University of Puerto Rico, he joined Cornell in 1983. He was Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology from 2004 to 2008. Prof. Abruña has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Presidential Young Investigator Award, A. P. Sloan Fellowship, J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship, and J. W. Fulbright Senior Fellow. He is the recipient of the Electrochemistry Award for the American Chemical Society (2008), and the C. N. Reilley Award in Electrochemistry, 2007. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007, and Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry in 2008. He received the D. C. Grahame Award from the Electrochemical Society in 2009, the Faraday Medal from the Royal Society in 2011, the Brian Conway Prize from the International Society of Electrochemistry in 2013, and he was named Fellow of Electrochemical Society in 2013. In 2017, he was the recipient of the Gold Medal of the International Society of Electrochemistry. He was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (2018) and was awarded the A. J. Bard Award of the Electrochemical Society (2019), the Frumkin Medal of the International Society of Electrochemistry (2019), and the American Chemical Society Award in Analytical Chemistry (2021). Prof. Abruña is the co-author of over 525 publications (h-index = 93) and has given over 650 invited lectures worldwide. He considers his 56 Ph.D. students and 75 post-doctoral associates his most important professional achievement. |
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Prof. Shouheng Sun Department of Chemistry, Brown University (USA) |
Prof. Shouheng Sun received his B.Sc. from Sichuan University (China), M.Sc. from Nanjing University (China), and Ph.D. from Brown University (USA). He joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, New York, USA), first as a postdoctoral fellow (1996–1998), and then as a research staff member (1998–2004). In 2005, he returned to Brown University as a tenured Associate Professor and was promoted to Full Professor in 2007. He is now the Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Engineering. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Royal Society of Chemistry Journals Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His main research interests are in chemical synthesis and self-assembly of nanoparticles for catalytic, magnetic, and biomedical applications (h-index 131). |
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Prof. Vojislav Stamenkovic Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Department of Chemistry, University of California Irvine (USA) |
Prof. Vojislav Stamenkovic is a Professor at the University California, Irvine, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Department of Chemistry, and Staff Scientist, Technical Leader and Principal Investigator at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Illinois. He earned his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the University of Belgrade in 2001, after spending three years as a visiting scientist at the University of California at Berkeley. From 2002 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral and staff scientist within the Materials Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and from 2006, he was a staff scientist in the Materials Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory, where he has conducted multidisciplinary research related to materials for electrochemical systems. Prof. Stamenkovic is an expert in the design and synthesis of functional materials for electrochemical applications, primarily in the fields of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, electrolyzers, and batteries. His research interests include materials for energy conversion and storage, electrocatalysis, and spectroelectrochemistry, as well as functional biomaterials. In 2004, Prof. Stamenkovic received a Recognition Award from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the implementation of fundamental science into nanoscale applications. In 2012, he was awarded the Distinguished Performance Award from the University of Chicago, and in 2014, he received a prestigious US DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to catalysts R&D. He has published over 130 articles and book chapters, for which he has received over 17,000 citations with an h-index of 55. He has authored over 200 presentations and has been an invited plenary and keynote speaker more than 100 times at major conferences, symposia, and seminars. His work has been published in high impact journals, such as Science, Nature Materials, and Angewandte Chemie, and is often featured in the headlines of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory. |
For any questions about the webinar, please send an email to materials.webinar@mdpi.com.
3 August 2021
Announcement on Japanese Consumption Tax (JCT)
21 July 2021
Materials Receives Updated Impact Factor of 3.623
