NPG Asia Materials is an open access, international journal publishing peer-reviewed review and primary research articles that cover all aspects of the materials sciences. The journal is global in outlook and reach and its base in the Asia-Pacific reflects the substantial — and increasing — output of materials research from the region.

NPG Asia Materials is aimed at an audience of scientists and researchers across the full spectrum of materials research, and publishes articles from the physical and chemical sciences, biotechnology and nanotechnology. The journal welcomes high-quality review and research articles from the most rapidly advancing fields that lie at the borders between materials science and engineering and the classical disciplines of physics, chemistry and biology.

The journal features both theoretical and experimental aspects of research in the following areas related to materials science:

    Biomaterials and biosensors
    Electronic, magnetic and superconducting materials
    Energy conversion, catalysis and separation
    Inorganic, composite and hybrid materials
    Metals and alloys
    Nanomaterials
    Optics, photonics and optoelectronics
    Organic, carbon-based and soft materials
    Theory, modelling and simulations

Emphasis is placed on the novelty of the research, either in the sense of novel materials or synthetic methods, or in the sense of novel properties that lead to advanced functionality and applications of previously known materials. Both experimental and theoretical studies will be considered for publication. Studies on synthetic methods should demonstrate the generality of the approach or the advance represented in applying the material to practical devices. Equally, research on advances in methodology, processes or applied device engineering should demonstrate more than an incremental improvement on existing system and so be of the highest possible interest to our broad readership.

Articles, Review Articles, Perspective, Editorial

Founding Editor
Hideo Takezoe, Tokyo Institute of Technology，E-mail: asiamaterials@springernature.com
Editor-in-Chief
Martin Vacha
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Specialty field: Organic materials, optics and optical materials and properties
E-mail: asiamaterials@springernature.com

Associate Editors
Jong-Hyun Ahn
Professor
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Specialty field: Synthesis and properties of graphene, two-dimensional materials and nanomaterials, and their applications

Vasudevan Pillai Biju
Professor
Research Institute for Electronic Science Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan
Specialty field: Review Articles. Photochemistry, spectroscopy, nano-bio interface

Masaru Kuno
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Physics
University of Notre Dame
Specialty field: Optical microscopy, low dimensional materials, energy materials, materials chemistry, physical chemistry 

Tomoyasu Taniyama
Professor
Department of Physics
Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan
Specialty field: Nano-scale magnetism, spintronics, multiferroics, solid-state physics

Ikuyoshi Tomita
Professor
Department of Chemical Science and Engineering School of Materials and Chemical Technology
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Specialty field: Polymer chemistry, organic chemistry, electrochemistry

Shutao Wang
Professor
Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Specialty field: Biomaterials and bio-inspired materials, nano-bio interfaces and biosensors