Materials Physics
A section of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944).
Section Information
Materials physics has been long established as one of the most active fields in current materials research that played a pivotal role in shaping and advancing modern materials from both fundamental and applied perspective. Relying on multidisciplinary cutting edge research that provided insight to the materials properties and their functioning down to the nanocale, materials physics has been the leading sector for major advances in diverse application fields ranging from mechanics, electronics and photonics to the materials aspects of solar energy conversion and environmental engineering.
The "Materials Physics" section provides a forum for the rapid publication of original works that significantly advance our current understanding of materials or unveil novel aspects of the physical properties of materials with respect to target applications. The section will comprise, but will be not limited to, contributions on materials growth and processing techniques, microstructural and mechanical engineering, advanced characterization methods, surface and interface engineering of nanostructured and functional materials including metals and alloys, ceramics and coatings, optical and photonic materials, low-dimensional materials, metal oxides and semiconductors for energy and environmental applications, plasmonics and metamaterials, magnetic materials, superconducting and quantum materials, ferroelectrics, multiferroics and magnetoelectrics, thermoelectric materials, polymers, metal-organic materials, and amorphous solids.
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Functional Soft Magnetic Materials and Electromagnetic Shielding Technology (Deadline: 20 January 2026)
- Metamaterials to Metasurfaces: Shaping Light from Theory to Applications (Deadline: 20 January 2026)
- Advances in Metamaterials: Structure, Properties and Applications—Second Edition (Deadline: 20 January 2026)
- Advanced Materials for Noise and Vibration Control (Deadline: 20 January 2026)
- Advances in Phase Change Materials: Characterization, Design and Applications—Second Edition (Deadline: 10 February 2026)
- Nuclear Materials and Their Derivatives: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties, Second Edition (Deadline: 20 February 2026)
- Selected Papers from the 25th Conference on Applied Crystallography (CAC2025) (Deadline: 28 February 2026)
- Materials Challenges for Advanced Nuclear Energy (Deadline: 20 March 2026)
- Materials Under Extreme Conditions: Design, Characterization and Applications (Deadline: 20 March 2026)
- Advances in High-Temperature Materials: Fabrication, Characterization, and Protection (Deadline: 20 March 2026)
- Spin and Orbital Transport in Magnetic Materials (Deadline: 20 March 2026)
- Advances in Irradiation Effects of Materials for Current and Future Reactors (Deadline: 20 March 2026)
- Materials Physics in Thermoelectric Materials, Second Edition (Deadline: 20 April 2026)
- Advances in Mechanical/Acoustic Metamaterials and Vibration/Noise Reduction Properties (Deadline: 20 April 2026)
- Fracture and Fatigue of Materials Based on Machine Learning (Deadline: 30 April 2026)
- Optical, Thermal, Elastic, and Spectral Properties of Crystals (Deadline: 20 May 2026)
- Advances in Magnetic Materials and Applications (Deadline: 20 May 2026)
- Copper- and Iron-Based Superconductors: Preparation, Properties, and Functionalization Applications (Deadline: 10 June 2026)
- Properties, Processing and Applications of Diamond and Related Superhard Materials (Deadline: 20 June 2026)
- Advances in Characterization, Modeling and Design of Magnetic Materials (Deadline: 20 June 2026)
- Advanced Materials in Acoustics and Vibration (Deadline: 20 June 2026)
- Novel Materials for Sound-Absorbing Applications—Second Edition (Deadline: 20 June 2026)
- Innovations in Metasurfaces and Metamaterials Design (Deadline: 20 June 2026)
- Metamaterials Through the Prism of Biology (Deadline: 20 June 2026)
- Advanced Materials Structures for Sound and Vibration Damping (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
- Recent Advances in Multiferroics and Magnetoelectric Materials (Deadline: 20 July 2026)
- Trojan Materials in Science, Technology and Biomedicine: Invisibility Leading to Success (Deadline: 20 July 2026)
- Radiation Damage and Microstructural Evolution in Materials for Nuclear Energy (Deadline: 20 July 2026)
- Electromagnetic Wave Absorbing and Shielding Materials: Mechanism, Design, Performance and Application (Deadline: 20 July 2026)
- Deformation and Energy Absorption of Auxetic Materials and Structures (Deadline: 20 July 2026)
- Radiation Damage and Radiation Defects of Materials (Deadline: 20 August 2026)
- 2D Materials: Fundamentals and Applications (Deadline: 20 August 2026)
Topical Collections
Following topical collections within this section are currently open for submissions:
