ACS Applied Optical Materials

ACS Applied Optical Materials is the monthly electronic title that the American Chemical Society launched in 2023 within its applied materials portfolio, and it reports chemistry, materials, engineering and physics research in optical and photonic materials together with their applications. The citation report of the library places it in the second quartile of the optics category of the emerging sources citation index, where it ranks forty fifth of one hundred and twenty nine titles, and the impact factor for 2025 stands at 3.4.《ACS 应用光学材料》是美国化学会于 2023 年在其应用材料系列中创办的月刊电子刊，报道光学与光子材料及其应用方面的化学，材料，工程与物理研究。馆内引证报告把它列入新兴来源引文索引光学类目的第二区，在该类目 129 种期刊中排第 45 位，2025 年影响因子为 3.4。

Scope

• The publisher states on the journal page that the title reports chemistry, materials, engineering and physics research in optical and photonic materials and applications.出版方在刊页上说明，该刊报道光学与光子材料及其应用方面的化学，材料，工程与物理研究。

• The aims and scope describe it as an international and interdisciplinary forum to publish original experimental and theoretical research, including simulation and modeling, in optical materials, and they say it complements the applied materials portfolio of the society.宗旨与范围把它定位为发表光学材料原创实验与理论研究的国际跨学科论坛，其中包括模拟与建模研究，并说明它与该会的应用材料系列互补。

• The scope is said to include high quality research of an applied nature that integrates knowledge in materials science, chemistry, physics, optical science and engineering.该范围被界定为涵盖应用性质的高质量研究，整合材料科学，化学，物理，光学与工程方面的知识。

• Among the materials named for the journal are photonic crystals, disordered and amorphous photonic materials, structured coloured materials, phosphors, fluorophores and light emitting and absorbing materials, metamaterials and semiconductors with heterostructures.出版方为该刊列出的材料包括光子晶体，无序与非晶光子材料，结构化显色材料，荧光粉，发光与吸光材料，超材料以及异质结构半导体。

• The list continues with light manipulating micro and nanostructures, two dimensional materials, carbon materials and organic functional materials, plasmonic materials, photochromes and electrochromes, up conversion and down conversion materials, frameworks as optical materials, perovskites, solar absorbers and solar concentrators.清单还包括光操控微纳结构，二维材料，碳材料与有机功能材料，等离激元材料，光致变色与电致变色材料，上转换与下转换材料，作为光学材料的框架化合物，钙钛矿，太阳能吸收体与聚光器。

• The applications named for the journal include light emitting diodes, organic light emitting diodes, organic light emitting transistors, optically switchable organic light emitting diodes, lasers and nonlinear optics.出版方为该刊列出的应用包括发光二极管，有机发光二极管，有机发光晶体管，光开关型有机发光二极管，激光器与非线性光学。

• Further applications are confinement and waveguiding, quantum photonic applications, photochromics and electrochromics, bio inspired optical materials and devices, imaging and bioimaging, detectors, switches and sensors.其他应用有光约束与导波，量子光子应用，光致变色与电致变色，仿生光学材料与器件，成像与生物成像，探测器，开关与传感器。

• The publisher lists optoelectronics and terahertz optoelectronics, optical computing and data storage, stealth and chameleon materials, optical encryption and security, optical communications, holography, anti forgery work and physically unclonable functions among the applications as well.出版方还把光电子学与太赫兹光电子学，光计算与数据存储，隐身与变色材料，光加密与光安全，光通信，全息，防伪与物理不可克隆功能列入应用范围。

• Quantum dot electroluminescence, photoluminescent materials and devices, optics in augmented reality, virtual reality and extended reality systems and colour science complete the stated range.量子点电致发光，光致发光材料与器件，增强现实，虚拟现实与扩展现实系统中的光学以及色彩科学构成了完整的范围表述。

• Manuscripts that are essentially reporting data or applications of data are held to be unsuitable for publication in the title.实质上只是报告数据或数据应用的稿件被认为不适合在本刊发表。

• All manuscripts are said to be subject to critical, anonymous peer review, and the publisher makes it clear that the final decision on the suitability of a manuscript rests solely with the editor.出版方说明所有稿件都经过严格的匿名评审，并明确指出稿件是否适合发表的最终决定完全由编辑作出。

• The peer review model named on the author information page is single anonymous peer review, in which the authors do not know the identity of the reviewers while the reviewers know the identity of the authors.作者信息页列出的审稿模型是单匿名审稿，作者不知道审稿人身份，审稿人则知道作者身份。

• The identity of both the authors and the reviewers is known to the handling editor under that model.在该模型下，责任编辑知道作者与审稿人的身份。

• Authors must include a graphical summary for the table of contents, and the publisher screens submitted manuscripts for similarity with an iThenticate tool.作者须为目录提供图文摘要，出版方用 iThenticate 工具对投稿做相似度检测。

• The publisher states that research articles can be made fully open access in the hybrid journals of the society under a creative commons attribution licence or under a creative commons attribution noncommercial no derivatives licence.出版方说明，该会的混合期刊中的研究论文可采用知识共享署名许可，或知识共享署名非商业性使用不允许演绎许可，实现完全开放获取。

• Institutions and funders are pointed to the read and publish agreements that the publisher holds with the Brazilian consortium, and readers are offered the alternative of the open access options and their pricing.出版方提示所属机构与资助方去查该社与巴西联盟签署的阅读与发表协议，并向读者提供开放获取选项及其定价作为替代路径。

• Authors of new crystal structures are required to deposit the crystallographic information files, the structure factor tables and the check reports with the crystallographic data centre before submission.新晶体结构的作者须在投稿前把晶体学信息文件，结构因子表与检查报告提交给晶体学数据中心。

• The journal page reports two hundred and eighty seven thousand article downloads, a two year impact factor of 3.4, a five year figure of 3.3, one thousand eight hundred and eighty eight total citations and a CiteScore of 3.9.刊页报告该刊的文章下载量为 287093 篇，二年影响因子 3.4，五年期数值 3.3，总引用量 1888 次，CiteScore 为 3.9。

• The same page gives a median of twenty eight point nine days to the first peer review decision, fifty eight point eight days to acceptance and eight point one days from acceptance to online publication.同一页面给出首次同行评审决定的中位时间为 28.9 天，从投稿到录用的中位时间为 58.8 天，从录用到在线发表为 8.1 天。

History

• The catalogue of the national medical library of the United States gives the publication first year as 2023 and the imprint as Washington with the American Chemical Society from that year.美国国家医学图书馆的目录把出版首年记作 2023 年，出版地记作华盛顿，出版方为美国化学会，起于该年。

• The registration agency describes the title with a first volume and a first number in January 2023, and the catalogue adds a library control number for the same year.注册机构把该刊记为 2023 年 1 月出版第一卷第一期，目录另给出同一年的馆藏控制号。

• The registry of citations holds the first volume of the title with twelve numbered issues in 2023, and it holds twelve numbered issues in each of the volumes of 2024 and 2025 as well.引文注册机构收录的第一卷在 2023 年有十二个编号期次，2024 年与 2025 年的各卷同样各有十二个编号期次。

• The current volume is volume four of 2026, and the issue shown on the journal page is the tenth number of that volume, dated the twenty third of October 2026.现行卷为 2026 年的第四卷，刊页显示的当期是该卷第十期，日期为 2026 年 10 月 23 日。

• The catalogue records the frequency of the title as monthly, which agrees with the twelve numbered issues that the registry holds in each of the first three volumes.目录把该刊的频次记作月刊，这与注册机构在前三卷各收录十二个编号期次相吻合。

• The title is registered with an electronic number alone, and the registration agency records its medium as online with no print carrier attached to it.该刊只登记了电子号，注册机构把它的载体记作在线，没有附加印本载体。

• The national medical library likewise carries one number for the title and gives it as electronic, so the print edition of the journal never existed in the registry.国家医学图书馆同样只给该刊一个号并标为电子号，注册记录里并不存在该刊的印本版。

• The registration agency lists the country of the record as the United States, and the publisher gives its address in the catalogue as the American Chemical Society in Washington.注册机构把该记录的国别列为美国，目录给出的出版方署名是美国化学会，出版地在华盛顿。

• The foot of the journal page carries the street address of the society in Washington and a copyright line for the American Chemical Society.刊页页脚印有该会在华盛顿的街道地址与美国化学会的版权行。

• The catalogue gives a second title form for the title as the applied optical materials of the American Chemical Society, and the registration agency lists further short forms built on the same initials.目录给出该刊的另一个题名形式，即美国化学会的应用光学材料，注册机构还列出若干基于同一缩写的简短形式。

• The catalogue page gives the abbreviation of the title in the form used by the medical library, while the registration agency keeps the key title in sentence case.目录页给出医学图书馆所用的该刊缩写，注册机构则把关键题名保留为句首大写形式。

• The catalogue places the title in the public database with the coverage limited to selected citations, and it adds that the title is not indexed in the medical literature index, the citations being those for articles whose manuscripts were deposited in the central archive in compliance with public access policies.目录把该刊收录进公共数据库，覆盖范围限定为挑选的文献，并注明该刊未被医学文献索引收录，其中引用来自按公共获取政策存入中央库的手稿文章。

• A search of that database returns eighty eight records for the title, and the same number of records appears in the central archive, the most recent of them belonging to the ninth number of volume four.对公共数据库的检索为该刊返回 88 条记录，中央库中的记录数与之相同，其中最新一条属于第四卷第九期。

• Every article that the citation registry holds for the title is stamped with the society as publisher and carries a document prefix that abbreviates the short name of the journal.引文注册机构收录的该刊全部论文都标注该会为出版方，所带的文献前缀取自该刊简称的缩写。

• The publisher brings the title out as part of a wider applied materials portfolio and asks that portfolio to nominate early career board members for the coming year.出版方把该刊作为更宽的应用材料系列的一部分推出，并请该系列提名下一届早期职业编委成员。

• Articles are published online as soon as they are accepted, ahead of the issue in which they will appear, and the journal page keeps a separate list of them.文章在被接受后即在线发表，先于其所属期次，刊页为此另设一个清单。

• The journal also runs collections and special issues, and it has an open call for papers on light emitting and sensing materials that work beyond the near infrared range of seventeen hundred nanometres.该刊还组织专辑与专刊，并就工作在 1700 纳米以上波段的发光与传感材料公开征稿。

• The citation report of the library gives the title an impact factor of 3.4 for 2025 with a five year figure of 3.3, and it records one thousand eight hundred and eighty eight citations and two hundred and sixty four articles for the year.馆内引证报告给出该刊 2025 年影响因子 3.4，五年期数值 3.3，并记录该年引用 1888 次与文章 264 篇。

• The same report notes that seventeen point eight eight per cent of the articles of the journal were published as gold open access in 2025.同一报告指出该刊 2025 年有 17.88% 的文章以金色开放获取方式发表。

• The sixth number of the first volume of 2023 carried a report on the luminescent half Heusler quantum dots of nanoscale zinc lithium nitride.2023 年第一卷第六期刊有关于纳米级氮化锌锂发光半 Heusler 量子点的报道。^[1]

• The fifth number of volume two of 2024 carried a study of the enhanced spontaneous light emission of zinc oxide nanowire based gratings.2024 年第二卷第五期刊有关于氧化锌纳米线光栅增强自发辐射的研究。^[2]

• The first number of volume four of 2026 carried an account of the ellipsometric identification of the transition from a layered metal dielectric film to a hyperbolic metamaterial.2026 年第四卷第一期刊有关于用椭偏方法识别多层金属介质薄膜向双曲超材料转变的论述。^[3]

Editors

• The journal is led by an editor in chief, (Xing Yi Ling) of the School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.该刊由主编（Xing Yi Ling）主持，来自新加坡南洋理工大学化学，化学工程与生物技术学院。

• Her research interests are the synthesis, functionalization and self assembly of shape controlled metallic nanoparticles into superlattices, surface enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy, the manipulation of chemical interactions for sensing and the use of machine learning in nanoparticle studies.她的研究兴趣是形貌可控金属纳米粒子的合成，功能化与自组装成超晶格，表面增强拉曼光谱学，调控化学相互作用以实现传感，以及在纳米粒子研究中运用机器学习。

• The profile page records that she took a doctoral degree in chemistry from the University of Twente in 2009 and held a postdoctoral position at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the university in Singapore in 2011, where she was promoted to professor in 2021.简介页记录她 2009 年在特温特大学取得化学博士学位，其后在加州大学伯克利分校从事博士后研究，2011 年加入新加坡的该大学，并于 2021 年晋升为教授。

• The same page notes that she holds a investigatorship from the national research foundation of Singapore, a fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry, an industry award in materials and nano chemistry, an innovation award of the university and a national fellowship for women in science.同一页面注明她拥有新加坡国家研究基金会的研究员资格，英国皇家化学学会会士资格，材料与纳米化学产业奖，学校创新奖以及女性科学国家奖学金。

• The editor in chief sits on the editorial boards of Angewandte Chemie, Chemistry of Materials, Nanoscale Horizons, Cell Reports Physical Science and ChemPlusChem.这位主编还担任 Angewandte Chemie，Chemistry of Materials，Nanoscale Horizons，Cell Reports Physical Science 与 ChemPlusChem 的编委。

• A deputy editor, (Elena Galoppini) of Rutgers University in the United States, works beside the editor in chief.副主编（Elena Galoppini）位于主编之侧，来自美国罗格斯大学。

• Her own research centres on the synthesis of chromophore bridge anchor compounds and dyes for the sensitization of nanostructured semiconductors, on organic and inorganic interfaces for dye sensitized solar cells and sensors, and on host guest chemistry and dipole effects at interfaces.她本人的研究集中于为敏化纳米结构半导体合成发色团桥连锚化合物与染料，面向染料敏化太阳能电池与传感器的有机与无机界面，以及界面上的主客体化学与偶极效应。

• Her biography records a degree in chemistry from the University of Pisa in 1989, a doctoral degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1994, a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Texas and an independent career at Rutgers from 1996.她的履历记录 1989 年在比萨大学取得化学学位，1994 年在芝加哥大学取得化学博士学位，随后在得克萨斯大学从事博士后研究，1996 年起在罗格斯大学独立开展研究。

• The board of the title lists five associate editors, (Vivian E. Ferry) of the University of Minnesota, (Pedro David García Fernández) of the materials science institute of the Spanish research council in Madrid, (Zhen Li) of Wuhan University, (Ru-Shi Liu) of National Taiwan University and (Jang-Kun Song) of Sungkyunkwan University.该刊编委列出五位副编辑，明尼苏达大学的（Vivian E. Ferry），西班牙研究理事会马德里材料科学研究所的（Pedro David García Fernández），武汉大学的（Zhen Li），国立台湾大学的（Ru-Shi Liu）与成均馆大学的（Jang-Kun Song）。

• A managing editor, (Chengmei Zhong), works for the American Chemical Society itself.责任编辑（Chengmei Zhong）供职于美国化学会本部。

• The editorial advisory board brings together (Maria Abrahamsson) of Chalmers University of Technology, (Esther Alarcon Llado) of the Amsterdam research institute, (Mark Chen) of Lehigh University and (Xueyuan Chen) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.顾问编委把查尔默斯理工大学的（Maria Abrahamsson），阿姆斯特丹研究所的（Esther Alarcon Llado），利哈伊大学的（Mark Chen）与中国科学院的（Xueyuan Chen）聚在一起。

• Further advisory members include (Lars Gundlach) of the University of Delaware, (Mahesh Hariharan) of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research at Thiruvananthapuram, (James Hutchison) of the University of Melbourne and (Won Bin Im) of Hanyang University.其他顾问编委成员有特拉华大学的（Lars Gundlach），印度科学教育与研究学院蒂鲁瓦纳塔普拉姆校区的（Mahesh Hariharan），墨尔本大学的（James Hutchison）与汉阳大学的（Won Bin Im）。

• The advisory list also takes in (Kwang-Un Jeong) of Jeonbuk National University, (Magnus Jonsson) of Linköping University, (Rajesh Kumar) of the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, (Jun Yeob Lee) of Sungkyunkwan University, (David J. Norris) of the Zurich federal institute of technology and (Shin-Tson Wu) of the University of Central Florida.顾问名单还包括全北大学的（Kwang-Un Jeong），林雪平大学的（Magnus Jonsson），印度理工学院印多尔校区的（Rajesh Kumar），成均馆大学的（Jun Yeob Lee），苏黎世联邦理工学院的（David J. Norris）与中佛罗里达大学的（Shin-Tson Wu）。

• An early career board of the title lists (Dongmei Dong) of Rowan University, (Alisa Javadi) of the University of Oklahoma, (Seokhyoung Kim) of Michigan State University, (Hongyu Tang) of Fudan University and (Jiandong Yao) of Sun Yat-sen University.该刊的早期职业编委列出罗文大学的（Dongmei Dong），俄克拉荷马大学的（Alisa Javadi），密歇根州立大学的（Seokhyoung Kim），复旦大学的（Hongyu Tang）与中山大学的（Jiandong Yao）。

• The manuscript workflow runs through the publishing centre of the society, and the guidelines set out the acceptable software, the preparation of graphics and the handling of files in the submission system.稿件流程经该会的出版中心运行，指南规定了可接受的软件，图件的准备以及投稿系统中的文件处理方式。

• Authors are encouraged to submit images for the journal cover and for the supplementary covers at the time they submit a revised manuscript, and an image chosen for the cover is published without charge to the author.出版方鼓励作者在提交修改稿时一并递交可用于封面与补充封面的图件，入选封面的图件不向作者收取费用。