Materials Futures

Materials Futures is a multidisciplinary gold open access journal published by IOP Publishing in partnership with the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, established in 2022 and covering basic and applied materials science, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 12.3.（Materials Futures）是由（IOP Publishing）与（Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory）合作出版的跨学科金色开放获取期刊，2022 年创刊，涵盖基础与应用材料科学，2025 年影响因子为 12.3。

Scope

• It is an international multidisciplinary gold open access journal covering all areas of basic and applied materials science and technology.该刊是国际跨学科金色开放获取期刊，涵盖基础与应用材料科学与技术的所有领域。
• Structural materials cover metals and ceramics, alloys such as high entropy and shape memory alloys, non-crystalline materials and glasses, composites, and materials in the extreme.结构材料涵盖金属与陶瓷、高熵合金与形状记忆合金等合金、非晶材料与玻璃、复合材料以及极端条件下的材料。
• Energy materials cover photovoltaics, artificial photosynthesis, energy harvesting, thermoelectrics, batteries and supercapacitors, flow batteries, fuel cells and electrolysis materials.能源材料涵盖光伏、人工光合作用、能量收集、热电、电池与超级电容器、液流电池、燃料电池与电解相关材料。
• Other areas include nanomaterials, biomaterials, quantum materials, information materials, and materials theory and computation.其他领域包括纳米材料、生物材料、量子材料、信息材料以及材料理论与计算。
• Article types include Letters, Research Articles, Topical Reviews, Perspectives, Commentary, News and Highlights, and Roadmaps.文章类型包括快报、研究论文、专题综述、观点、评论、新闻与亮点以及路线图。
• Every manuscript must include a Future Perspectives section, around 600 words for reviews and 200 words for original research.每篇稿件均须包含“未来展望”部分，综述约 600 词、原创研究约 200 词。
• Frequently cited papers address machine learning potentials, self-assembled monolayers for perovskite solar cells, and high-entropy oxide cathodes.被高频引用的论文涉及机器学习势、钙钛矿太阳能电池自组装单分子层与高熵氧化物正极。^[1][2][3]

History

• It was launched by IOP Publishing with the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory and the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.该刊由（IOP Publishing）联合（Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory）与（Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences）创办。
• Its first issue appeared in March 2022, and it is co-published with the Dongguan Institute of Materials Science and Technology.其首期于 2022 年 3 月出版，并与（Dongguan Institute of Materials Science and Technology）共同出版。
• It publishes four issues per year and is fully open access under a CC BY licence, funded by the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory.该刊每年出版四期，采用（CC BY）许可的完全开放获取模式，由（Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory）资助。
• Publication costs were covered by the laboratory from 2022 to 2024, with no article publication charge during that period.2022 年至 2024 年的出版费用由该实验室承担，其间不收取文章处理费。
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 10.8 in 2024 and 12.3 in 2025.其影响因子 2024 年为 10.8、2025 年为 12.3。
• It is indexed in ESCI, Ei Compendex, Scopus, DOAJ and Inspec, and joined China's high-level new journal programme in 2022.该刊被（ESCI）、（Ei Compendex）、（Scopus）、（DOAJ）与（Inspec）收录，并于 2022 年入选中国科技期刊卓越行动计划高起点新刊。

Editors

• It is led by three Editors-in-Chief: Weihua Wang, Jinkui Zhao and Torsten Brezesinski.该刊由（Weihua Wang）、（Jinkui Zhao）与（Torsten Brezesinski）三位主编共同主持。
• Weihua Wang is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory.（Weihua Wang）为中国科学院院士，任（Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory）主任。
• Jinkui Zhao is chief scientist at the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory.（Jinkui Zhao）为（Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory）首席科学家。
• Torsten Brezesinski is a researcher at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.（Torsten Brezesinski）为德国（Karlsruhe Institute of Technology）的研究员。
• Its international editorial team comprises three editors-in-chief, eight associate editors and around forty editorial board members.其国际编委团队由三位主编、八位副主编与约四十位编委成员构成。
• An advisory board of eighteen members includes eight academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering.顾问委员会由十八位成员组成，其中八位为中国科学院或中国工程院院士。