Surface Innovations

Surface Innovations is a peer-reviewed journal from ICE Publishing, an imprint of Emerald Publishing, that has covered the science and engineering of surfaces, interfaces and functional coatings since 2013. Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor stands at 1.9, against a five-year figure of 2.0.《表面创新》由 ICE Publishing（Emerald Publishing 旗下出版品牌）出版，2013 年创刊，专注表面、界面与功能涂层的科学与工程，属同行评审期刊。2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9，五年影响因子为 2.0。

Scope

• Wetting behaviour sits at the centre of the remit, from static contact angles and hysteresis to the Cassie and Wenzel states that decide how a droplet leaves a textured solid.润湿行为处于收录范围的核心，涵盖静态接触角与接触角滞后，也涵盖决定液滴如何脱离织构化固体的 Cassie 态与 Wenzel 态。

• Superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic surfaces are treated as engineering targets, with attention to durability under abrasion, ultraviolet exposure and repeated condensation.超疏水与超亲水表面被视作工程目标处理，关注其在磨损、紫外辐照与反复冷凝条件下的耐久性。

• Self-cleaning and self-healing coatings form a standing theme, including the microvascular and encapsulated chemistries that restore barrier function after a scratch.自清洁与自修复涂层是常设主题，包含在划伤后恢复阻隔功能的微血管式与微胶囊式化学体系。

• Antifouling and antibacterial surfaces are in scope for marine, medical and food-contact settings, covering biofilm formation, protein adsorption and the leaching of active agents.防污与抗菌表面面向海洋、医疗与食品接触场景，涉及生物膜形成、蛋白吸附以及活性剂的释放。

• Surface chemistry papers deal with silanisation, self-assembled monolayers, polymer grafting and plasma activation, together with the grafting density that governs final performance.表面化学论文讨论硅烷化与自组装单分子层，也讨论聚合物接枝、等离子体活化，以及决定最终性能的接枝密度。

• Fabrication routes include chemical and physical vapour deposition, atomic layer deposition, electrodeposition, thermal spray, sol-gel processing and laser texturing.制备路线涵盖化学气相沉积与物理气相沉积，原子层沉积与电沉积同样在列，热喷涂、溶胶凝胶工艺及激光织构也常被采用。

• Characterisation is expected at the depth a claim demands, with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy treated as routine, alongside electron microscopy, ellipsometry and secondary ion mass spectrometry.表征深度需与结论相称，X 射线光电子能谱与原子力显微镜被视作常规手段，电子显微镜、椭偏仪与二次离子质谱同样在列。

• Adhesion and interfacial mechanics are covered, from peel and lap-shear testing to the molecular bridges that hold a coating onto a metal substrate.黏附与界面力学在列，从剥离试验与搭接剪切试验，到把涂层锚定于金属基体的分子桥接。

• Tribology and wear resistance appear through friction coefficients, scratch hardness and the lubrication that a textured or low-energy surface can sustain.摩擦学与耐磨性通过摩擦系数与划痕硬度呈现，也通过织构化或低表面能表面所能维持的润滑状态呈现。

• Biomimetic design draws on lotus leaves, pitcher plants, gecko feet and shark skin, and papers are asked to show which natural mechanism they actually reproduce.仿生设计借鉴荷叶与猪笼草，也借鉴壁虎脚掌与鲨鱼皮，论文须说明自身究竟复现了哪一种自然机制。

• Biomedical surfaces cover implant osseointegration, antibacterial catheters, tissue scaffolds and the protein corona that forms within seconds of contact with blood.生物医学表面涉及植入体骨整合与抗菌导管，组织支架亦在其中，还包括接触血液后数秒内形成的蛋白冠。

• Energy applications include dropwise condensation, anti-icing, solar-driven evaporation and radiative cooling, as well as the water-harvesting surfaces that pull potable water from fog.能源应用含滴状冷凝与防结冰，太阳能驱动蒸发及辐射制冷也在其中，还包括从雾中取水的集水表面。

• Liquid manipulation is another strand, spanning droplet transport, microfluidic channel coatings, oil-water separation meshes and the capillary valves built into paper-based assays.液体操控是另一条线索，涵盖液滴输运与微流控通道涂层，油水分离网及纸基检测中的毛细阀亦属此类。

• Corrosion protection and barrier performance are judged over service life, so salt-spray hours and impedance spectra carry as much weight as an initial contact angle.防腐蚀与阻隔性能按服役寿命衡量，评判时盐雾时长和阻抗谱的分量不亚于初始接触角。

• Modelling runs alongside experiment, with molecular dynamics, density functional theory and finite-element treatment of wetting and stress fields accepted as evidence in their own right.建模与实验并行，分子动力学与密度泛函理论对润湿场及应力场的处理，本身即可作为证据。

• Manuscript categories are fixed by the publisher, and beyond original research and invited feature articles they include innovation letters, expert opinion and guest-edited themed issues.稿件类型由出版方设定，原创研究与受邀专题综述之外，还有创新快报、专家观点与主题刊等形式。

History

• The title was launched in 2013 by ICE Publishing, the publishing house of the Institution of Civil Engineers, under the Thomas Telford imprint that carries the society's engineering list.该刊 2013 年由 ICE Publishing 创办，这家出版机构隶属英国土木工程师学会，其 Thomas Telford 品牌承载该学会的工程类出版。

• Volume 1, issue 1 appeared in March 2013 and opened with an editorial by Jaroslaw Drelich, whose own paper on antibacterial copper surfaces ran in the same issue.第 1 卷第 1 期于 2013 年 3 月面世，开篇为 Jaroslaw Drelich 撰写的社论，他关于抗菌铜表面的论文亦刊于同一期。^[1]

• The launch answered a field that had expanded sharply, as superhydrophobicity and self-cleaning moved from laboratory curiosities into coatings with industrial sponsors.创办回应了一个迅速扩张的领域，超疏水性与自清洁从实验室里的新奇现象，转为有产业赞助的成膜技术。

• Every deposit carries the DOI prefix 10.1680 that Thomas Telford built for the ICE list, which ties the journal's record to the society's engineering catalogue.所有存缴共用 10.1680 这一 DOI 前缀，该前缀由 Thomas Telford 为土木工程师学会刊物建立，把本刊记录系于学会的工程类目录。

• Ownership shifted in 2023, when Emerald Publishing took over ICE Publishing and its list of 35 peer-reviewed journals, and Crossref now records the publisher as Emerald - Thomas Telford Ltd., keeping both corporate names in one string.归属在 2023 年变动，Emerald Publishing 接手 ICE Publishing 及其 35 种同行评审期刊，Crossref 现把出版方记为 Emerald - Thomas Telford Ltd.，两家机构名并作一串。

• The platform followed the ownership, and the old icevirtuallibrary.com address now redirects to the Emerald site, where the aims, author guidelines and article records live.平台随归属一同迁移，ICE Virtual Library 的旧地址现跳转至 Emerald 站点，宗旨、作者指南与文章记录都在那里。

• The title is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, and the National Library of Medicine lists it for selected citations in PubMed with a quarterly frequency that the numbering has since outgrown.该刊收录于科学引文索引扩展版，美国国家医学图书馆将其列为 PubMed 选择性引文，所记刊期为季刊，现行期号早已超出这一节奏。

• Numbering records the change plainly, since volume 7 in 2019 ran to five numbers with one double issue while volume 13 in 2025 ran to 7-8.期号把变化记得清楚，2019 年第 7 卷含一个合刊共五个期号，2025 年第 13 卷则编到第 7-8 期。

• Volumes have advanced one a year without a gap, so the 2026 volume is the fourteenth, and Crossref holds 538 DOIs across the whole run.卷号每年递增且未曾断档，2026 年为第 14 卷，Crossref 收录该刊 538 条 DOI。

• Annual output is modest, with 34 citable items counted for 2025, which leaves the impact factor exposed to the citation fate of a few papers.年发文量不大，2025 年计 34 篇可引文献，影响因子因此对少数论文的被引情况格外敏感。

• The impact factor climbed from 3.016 in 2021 to 3.5 in 2024 and then fell to 1.9 in 2025, so the five-year figure of 2.0 now sits above the annual one.影响因子从 2021 年的 3.016 升到 2024 年的 3.5，2025 年回落至 1.9，五年影响因子 2.0 现已高于年度值。

• In the 2025 reports the journal sits fourth quartile in Chemistry, Physical at 161 of 191, and third quartile in Materials Science, Coatings and Films at 18 of 25, with 747 citations and a cited half-life of 5.1 years.2025 年报告中，该刊在物理化学类目列第四四分位，191 种刊物中排第 161 位，在材料科学涂层与薄膜类目列第三四分位，25 种中排第 18 位，总被引 747 次，引用半衰期为 5.1 年。

• Access stays on subscription, with a gold open-access share of zero recorded for 2025, so the archive is sold to libraries instead of being financed by author charges.阅读端仍以订阅为主，2025 年记录的金色开放获取比例为零，存档卖给图书馆，作者付费并不承担其成本。

Editors

• Editorial direction is signed on the page, and volume 13 carried issue editorials that state what the editors want the title to attract.编辑方向写在纸面上，第 13 卷各期的社论说明了编者希望刊物吸引什么稿件。

• Jaroslaw Drelich wrote the editorial that opened volume 1 and has held the editor-in-chief post since 2012, appearing again as a co-author of the issue editorials in volume 13 alongside Ludmila Boinovich and Ziqi Sun.Jaroslaw Drelich 撰写了第 1 卷的开篇社论，自 2012 年起担任主编，在第 13 卷各期社论中又与 Ludmila Boinovich 及 Ziqi Sun 共同署名。

• Themed issues are handed to guest editors, whose own editorials introduce the collection, and recent examples cover surface functionalisation and nanomaterial-driven surface engineering.主题刊交由客座编辑主持，由其撰写社论引出专辑，近年的例子有表面功能化与纳米材料驱动的表面工程。

• Manuscript categories come with hard limits, so original research stops at 5,000 words and an invited feature article at 7,000.稿件类型附带硬性字数上限，原创研究止于 5000 词，受邀专题综述止于 7000 词。

• Innovation letters exist as a short category of their own, and discussion comments keep a published paper open to argument after the fact.创新快报自成一类短篇体裁，讨论评论则让已发表论文在事后仍可被争辩。

• Expert opinion carries a single named author's judgement, and the category lets a position be stated without the apparatus of a full research paper.专家观点承载单一具名作者的判断，该类型使某种立场无需完整论文的框架即可陈述。

• Every research paper goes through external peer review before acceptance, so no file is settled by the editorial office alone.每篇研究论文录用前都经外部同行评审，没有任何稿件仅由编辑部定夺。

• Each manuscript is prepared to the limit of the category it is submitted under, and the category also decides which reviewing route the file follows.稿件按所投类型的篇幅上限准备，类型同时决定稿件走哪一条评审路线。

• The editorial office sits at the Institution of Civil Engineers' Westminster headquarters, and publisher records give One Great George Street as the correspondence address.编辑部设于英国土木工程学会的威斯敏斯特总部，出版方记录把大乔治街 1 号列为通讯地址。

• Authors correspond with the editorial office through the publisher's portal, and the submission checklist fixes what has to arrive with the file.作者经出版方平台与编辑部联系，投稿清单规定了随稿必须提交的材料。