Materials Letters is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to rapid communications on the science, applications, and processing of materials.

Materials Letters has an open access companion journal Materials Letters: X, which has the same aims and scope, editorial board and peer-review process. To submit to Materials Letters: X visit https://www.editorialmanager.com/MLBLUX/default.aspx.

Materials Letters is dedicated to publishing novel, cutting edge reports of broad interest to the materials community. The journal provides a forum for materials scientists and engineers, physicists, and chemists to rapidly communicate on the most important topics in the field of materials.

Contributions include, but are not limited to, a variety of topics such as:
Materials - Metals and alloys, amorphous solids, ceramics, composites, polymers, semiconductors, biomaterials and biological materials, advanced materials, metamaterials, high-entropy alloys, nitrides, and oxides.
Applications - Structural, opto-electronic, magnetic, biomedical, MEMS, sensors, electronics, smart materials, additive manufacturing, membranes, materials for energy systems, batteries, photocatalysis.
Characterization - Analytical, microscopy, scanning probes, nanoscopic, optical, electrical, magnetic, acoustic, spectroscopic, diffraction.
Novel Materials - Micro and nanostructures (nanowires, nanotubes, nanoparticles), nanocomposites, thin films, superlattices, quantum dots.
Processing - Crystal growth, thin film processing, sol-gel processing, solvo-hydrothermal processing, mechanical processing, assembly, nanocrystalline processing, sustainable/green processing routes.
Properties - Mechanical, magnetic, optical, electrical, ferroelectric/piezoelectric, thermal, interfacial, transport, thermodynamic, photoelectrochemical, photocatalytic, thermoelectric, biological, electrochemical.
Synthesis - Quenching, solid state, mechano-chemical, solidification, solution synthesis, vapor deposition, high pressure, explosive, MOVPE and LPE epitaxial processes, single crystal growth.
Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence - Materials discovery, design of materials and digital materials science.

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Editor-in-Chief
 
A.R. Boccaccini, MSc, Dr.-Ing. habil.
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Editors
 
R. Arroyave
Texas A&M University Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 119 Mechanical Engineering Office Bldg, College Station, Texas, 77843-3123, United States
 
M. Carboni
Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule, LHYS Laboratoire des systèmes HYbrides pour la Séparation, Bât. 426 – L1-21 – BP 17171, F-30207, Bagnols/Ceze cedex, France
 
O.A. Graeve
University of California San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California, CA 92093-0411, United States
 
J. Hojo
Kyushu University Faculty of Engineering, 744 TaijigenkouNishi-Ku, 819-0395, Fukuoka, Japan
 
V.V. Kharton
Institute of Solid State Physics Russian Academy of Sciences, 142432, Chernogolovka, Russian Federation
 
I.V. Kityk
Czestochowa Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Optoelectronics and Measuring Systems, ul. Armii Krajowej 17, 42-201, Częstochowa, Poland
 
S.E. Rodil
Autonomous National University of Mexico Materials Research Institute, Postal 70 360 cd, 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico
 
F. L. de Souza
Federal University of the ABC Centre for Natural Sciences and Humanities, Av.dos Estados, 5001-Santa Terezinha, Santo Andre, 09210-580, SANTO ANDRE, Brazil
 
B. Straumal
Institute of Solid State Physics Russian Academy of Sciences, 142432, Chernogolovka, Russian Federation
 
K.G. Webber
Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nurnberg Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Martensstr. 5, 91058, Erlangen, Germany
 
A.F.W. Willoughby
University of Southampton Engineering Materials Research Group, University Road, SO17 1BJ, Highfield, Southampton, United Kingdom
 
J-M. Yang
University of California Los Angeles Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, California, CA 90095-1595, United States
 
Y.F. Zheng
Peking University Department of Material Science and Engineering, No.5 Yi-He-Yuan Road, Hai-Dian District, 100871, Beijing, China
Managing Editor
 
Alessandro Polini
CNR NANOTEC - Istituto di Nanotecnologia del CNR, c/o Campus Universitario Ecotekne, via Monteroni, 73100, Lecce, Monteroni di Lecce, ITALY
Associate Editorial Board
Z. Ahmad
De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom
K. Aifantis
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States
A. Bellosi
Institute of Science and Technology of Ceramic Materials National Research Council, Faenza, Italy
 
J. Blaker
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
B. Bokstein
National University of Science and Technology, Moskva, Russian Federation
 
R. H. R. Castro
University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States
M. Cinibulk
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, United States
 
P. Colombo
University of Padova Department Industrial Engineering, Padova, Italy
N. Gao
University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
 
H. Gleiter
Helmholtz Nuclear Research Centre Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
 
A. Glezer
National University of Science and Technology College of New Materials and Nanotechnologies, Moscow, Russian Federation
 
T. Goto
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
D.C. Greenspan
Spinode Consulting, Gainesville, Florida, United States
A. Hozumi
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Chubu Center Materials Research Institute for Sustainable Development, Nagoya, Japan
 
J. Jang
National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
 
Y. Kaganovsky
Bar-Ilan University Department of Physics, Ramat-Gan, Israel
P. Kao
Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
J.A. Kilner
Imperial College London Department of Materials, London, United Kingdom
M. Lanagan
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
 
T. Laoui
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Al Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
B. Li
University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada, United States
 
X.G. Li
University of Science and Technology of China Department of Physics, Hefei, Anhui, China
 
Y.Y. Li
City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
 
T. Lopez
Metropolitan Autonomous University Cuajimalpa, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
 
Z.P. Lu
University of Science and Technology Beijing State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, Beijing, China
 
X.L. Ma, PhD
Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
 
J.F. Mano
University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
 
V. Novikov
National University of Science and Technology, Moskva, Russian Federation
 
A. Orlov
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States
 
P. Reed
University of Southampton Engineering Materials Research Group, Highfield, Southampton, United Kingdom
Y. Sakka
National Institute for Materials Science International Center for Nanoarchitectonics, Ibaraki, Japan
M. Sayer
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J. Shen
Intel Corp, Chandler, Arizona, United States
T. Siegrist
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States
N. A. Stolwijk
University of Münster, Munster, Germany
Y. Sugahara
Waseda University Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Applied Chemistry Polymer Chemistry, Shinjuku-Ku, Japan
 
M. Wang
University of Hong Kong Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
W.B. White
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
S. Wolf
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
C. Zollfrank
Technical University of Munich School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany
Founding Editor
F.F.Y. Wang
Editor Emeritus
J.H. Wernick