About NPG Asia Materials

A substantial share of the world’s materials research output comes from Asian countries, and the Asia-Pacific region is making rapidly increasing contributions to global scientific research. In response to these developments, scientists from Tokyo Institute of Technology (members of the Global-Center of Excellence (G-COE) program on materials science), together with NPG Nature Asia-Pacific, the Asia-Pacific wing of Nature Publishing Group (NPG), publisher of Nature, the international science weekly, have launched this website NPG Asia Materials in preparation for establishing a new research journal devoted to materials research.

The website includes highlights of research in materials design and synthesis, structure and properties, material processing, and devices and applications, with the following audiences and topics in mind:

Audiences

Materials scientists and engineers, chemists, physicists and biochemists

Topics

• Engineering materials (metals, alloys, ceramics, composites, porous materials)
• Organic and soft materials (glasses, colloids, liquid crystals, polymers)
• Biomaterials
• Optical, photonic and optoelectronic materials
• Electronic, magnetic and superconducting materials
• Energy conversion, catalytic and separation materials
• Nanoscale materials, processes and functions
• Computation, modeling and materials theory
• Design, synthesis, processing and characterization techniques

The publication is managed by an international Editorial Committee led by Editor-in-Chief, professor Hideo Takezoe of the Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and is supported by an Advisory Board composed of scientists and engineers from the Asia-Pacific region.

NPG Asia Materials will be developed in phases. In the first phase, this website is being hosted by NPG Nature Asia-Pacific at www.natureasia.com and publishes a monthly issue of research highlights (about 20 per month) on important findings published in leading journals by authors in the Asia-Pacific region. The highlights are written by a team of highly experienced NPG-selected science writers and describe research articles selected by the Editorial Committee based on recommendations of the Advisory Board. Peer-refereed reviews and primary research articles will be added in a future phase at which stage, the journal will move to NPG’s main website at www.nature.com.

Do please continue to visit and support NPG Asia Materials. You can sign up for a free monthly table of contents email alert. And, if you know of any research articles from the Asia-Pacific region that you wish to recommend for highlighting, please contact the advisory board at recommendation@asia-materials.com. Thank you for supporting NPG Asia Materials we look forward to creating one of the world’s leading venues for materials research publication.