Materials Advances

We welcome any women corresponding authors and/or first authors who have published work in 2025 in Materials Horizons, J Mater Chem family or Materials Advances to get in touch at materials-rsc@rsc.org and have your work featured in the collections. ✨

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To celebrate International Women’s Day 2026, the RSC materials portfolio of journals has collated journal-specific collections showcasing a selection of articles published in 2025 led by women scientists around the world.
Explore the Materials Advances collection: pubs.rsc.org/en/Journals/...

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Take a look at this back cover of Issue 4, showcasing research from Keita Kuroiwa et al.

"Supramolecular hybrid of Fe pentanuclear complex/diblock copolypeptide amphiphiles with pH-responsive nano/microstructures in water"

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Check out the front cover of Issue 4, featuring work from Maria von Einem, Susan Köppen-Hannemann et al.

"Adsorption of wastewater pollutants on amorphous TiO2: an atomistic simulation study"

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Check out the outside back cover of Issue 3 from Badekai Ramachandra Bhat et al.,

"Photo-assisted water splitting over a NiCoP/g-C3N4 heterostructure: understanding the role of visible light in electrochemical water splitting"

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Inside back cover of Issue 3 is now out!

"Sustainable fabrication of arecanut waste-based polymer blend adsorbents for enhanced lead(II) ion removal from water" from Vijayasankar A.V. et al.,

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Top adsorption performance despite hydrolytic instability? This review from Tim Jähnichen explores the current challenges of porous boron nitride in water treatment.

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The submissions deadline for our themed collection on Amorphous Materials is soon approaching on 28 February 2026 - find out more and submit your latest research now
🔗https://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/calls-for-papers/materials-advances-amorphous-materials

Take a look at this paper on strain-programmable platform for freestanding perovskite & layered oxides—scalable transfer to silicon and flexible supports, from Rostaghi Chalaki et al.

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Take a look at this inside front cover of Issue 3, out now!

"Raman spectroscopy of electrochemically exfoliated graphene: defect evolution, doping effects, and interpretive frameworks" from M. J. Madito

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Read this latest work by Tizazu Mekonnen et al. in which lignin nanocontainers deliver APP in natural rubber, boosting flame retardancy while improving toughness and strength at low filler loadings - published in Materials Advances

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The submissions deadline for our Materials Advances themed collection on 'Polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyzers' is soon approaching on 28 February 2026 - if you work in the area, we would be delighted to receive your research!
Find out more 🔗 www.rsc.org/publishing/j...

Click-enabled tetrazine ionic liquid is reported as an advanced material for chemo-selective gas detection via inverse electron-demand Diels–Alder reaction. Read this recently published Materials Advances article by Yen-Ho Chu and team to find out more

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Check out this outside front cover of Issue 3 from Kun V. Tian, Gregory A. Chass et al.

"Al-driven cement functionality by manifold structuring & disorder"

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Recently published in Materials Advances, Check out 'Bio-Based Antimicrobial Nanocomposites Derived from Tannery Waste for Functional Leather Coating: Circular Valorization of Chrome Shaving Dust' by Md. Abdulla-Al-Mamun et al.

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We are pleased to open submissions to our Materials Advances themed collection on 'Solid Oxide Electrolysis' - if you work in the area, submit your latest research before 30 June 2026.
Find out more about this open call 🔗 www.rsc.org/publishing/j...

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This outside back cover of Materials Advances Issue 2 features artwork from Swapnali Hazarika et al.,

"Exploring covalent organic frameworks through the lens of computational chemistry"

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Check out this recent Materials Advances publication by Shakhawat H Firoz and team in which reline-powered Ni/Ni(OH)₂ nanocomposites boost catalytic hydrogenation 11×—greener synthesis, smarter nanostructures.

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Check out this recent paper in Materials Advances by Donia Dominic and team in which a simple reduced graphene oxide (rGO) micropatterning strategy unlocks efficient, spatially controlled intracellular delivery in living cells.

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Take a look at the inside front cover of Materials Advances Issue 2, featuring work from Adam Gali, David Beke et al.

"The role of aluminum in controlling defect formation and polytypism in silicon carbide via thermal synthesis"

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Can nanostructuring and Sb doping work together? In ZrNiSn they do—boosting ZT to ~0.6 at 600 K.

Read more in this recent article by Cristina Echevarria-Bonet and team published in Materials Advances.

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Synthesis and preclinical evaluation of novel L-cystine-based polyamide nanocapsules loaded with a fixed-dose combination of thymoquinone and doxorubicin for targeted pulmonary anticancer drug deliver... Innovative synthetic biodegradable polymers containing amino acid moieties are used as pulmonary anticancer drug delivery systems to efficiently administer drugs in a controlled manner while also alte...

'Synthesis and preclinical evaluation of novel l-cystine-based polyamide nanocapsules loaded with a fixed-dose combination of thymoquinone and doxorubicin for targeted pulmonary anticancer drug delivery' by Eman Zmaily Dahmash et al.
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Enhancing the magnetic properties of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles using hydrothermal treatment for magnetic hyperthermia application Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) are the most commonly used inorganic nanoparticles for magnetic hyperthermia in cancer treatment. In this technique, the temperature of the tumor is...

'Enhancing the magnetic properties of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles using hydrothermal treatment for magnetic hyperthermia application' by Paula I. P. Soares et al.
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Metal organic frameworks in photodynamic therapy of cancer: functional roles of active metal centres and integrated and loaded photosensitizers in the framework Cancer is a major health challenge that is accountable for a large percentage of disease-related deaths worldwide. Annually, new cancer diagnoses reach over 10 million with a record of about 9.6 milli...

Read the featured @materialsadvances.rsc.org articles below
'Metal organic frameworks in photodynamic therapy of cancer: functional roles of active metal centres and integrated and loaded photosensitizers in the framework' by Temitope Abodunrin et al.
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Check out this @rsc.org collection in line with #WorldCancerDay featuring some of the top cancer research related publications from 2025, including from @materialsadvances.rsc.org
Read the full collection here 🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

Submit your latest research to our Materials Advances themed collection on defect engineering before the submissions deadline of 14 May 2026 - find out more and submit here 🔗 www.rsc.org/publishing/j...

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Check out this outside front cover of Materials Advances Issue 2!

"Short-time spreading dynamics of elastic drops" from Sushanta K. Mitra et al.

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Check out this work by Raton Kumar Bishwas and team which shows how base choice affects crystallinity, purity, and colloidal stability of α-Al₂O₃ NPs-pushing forward sustainable nanomaterials.

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Take a look at this outside back cover, featured in Issue 1 of Materials Advances for 2026

"CytroCell: a computational study in aqueous solution and infrared spectroscopic structural characterization" by Anne-Sylvie Fabiano Tixier, Nicolas Michel et al.,

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