Research Special Issues
Open for Submissions
Bioactive and Smart Materials in Medicine
Recent advances that broadly contribute to bioactive materials and/or smart materials in medicine
Closed for Submissions
Flexible Electronics Materials
Recent advances in flexible, printed, or dissolvable thin films or organic/hybrid electronic devices.
Published Special Issues
Intelligent Drug Delivery System
Highlights current advances for the design and development of intelligent drug delivery systems.
Fighting the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Focusing a New Lens on COVID-19
Recent and significant progress regarding our understanding of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19.
Perovskite Materials
Recent developments in the synthesis of perovskite-based functional materials for applications in light display, photovoltaics, imaging, and X-ray sensing.
Organic Super Long Afterglow
Highlights recent advances in organic afterglow materials and devices and provides a forum for sharing the mechanistic understanding of its unique optical phenomenon.
Emerging Nanogenerators
Focuses on the materials, devices, and applications of various nanogenerators.
Thermoelectric Materials
Original research and review articles promoting further applications and fundamental investigations of thermoelectrics.
Micro-Nano Robots
Insights into the latest advances and current trends in the exciting field of micro/nanoscale robots.
Nanofabrication of 2D Materials & Devices
Recent progresses and challenges in emerging 2D materials science and device engineering.
Nanomaterials for Energy Applications
Investigations of piezoelectric peptides, 2D materials, nanospheres and other materials for nanogenerators, batteries, thermogalvanic cells, and other energy applications.
Metamaterial
Recent progress in interdisciplinary research of metamaterials.
Special Issue Process
Please see the journal’s peer review process page for more information on how special issue submissions are handled.