Advanced Materials Interfaces Celebrates its 10 Years Anniversary!

Abstract

As we wrote in the first issue of 2024, Advanced Materials Interfaces celebrates its 10 years anniversary (Figure 1). And what a year it has been… we have published many great articles and beautiful covers in each issue, we have organized a special live-event with international speakers in September and on top, this issue represents a Special Issue written solely by Editorial Board Members from Advanced Materials Interfaces!

Since its launch as an independent journal in 2014, Advanced Materials Interfaces has established its role as an outlet for high-quality research on surface and interface science. Ten years later, the journal continues to provide a forum for interface-related research across different disciplines with demonstrable potential for applications. Among the many topics we have published, well-cited topics include 2D materials, opto-electronic devices, biomaterials, nature-inspired surfaces, membranes, surface reactions, and energy storage materials. Note that we support the publication of fundamental as well as application-driven interface research.

To celebrate 10 years of Advanced Materials Interfaces, we have co-organized the Advanced Summit 2024 with Advanced Science (celebrating 10 years!) and Advanced Engineering Materials (celebrating 25 years!). We invited 10 of the world's best-in-class researchers to our Wiley-VCH office in Weinheim, Germany, who presented their latest research (Figure 2), not only in front of about 100 invited friends and colleagues but also for a live-stream that was viewed by 1600+ spectators. Building on the Advanced portfolio's commitment to disseminating the best science, the event commemorated the impact, history, and future of our (Advanced) journals—as well as the research published in them.

Furthermore, I am particularly proud to present a special issue: 10 Years of Advanced Materials Interfaces, which is filled with contributions from our Editorial Board Members All 12 review and perspective articles give an overview and/or an opinion on a specific topic in interface materials research (Table 1). The topics include layer deposition techniques, plasmonic processes and spectroscopy, catalysis, nanostructured surfaces and biopolymers, superconductivity, and nanomaterials for energy storage.

Since 2023, Advanced Materials Interfaces has joined over 200 other high-impact Wiley journals which have transitioned to Open Access (see the full Wiley Open Access portfolio here: https://www.wileyopenaccess.com). As authors in this subject area embrace Open Access publishing, this conversion has allowed the journal to continue attracting the very best papers in the field, while both the journal and its authors continue to benefit from a number of advantages that Open Access confers.

In the first place, everyone will now be able to read Advanced Materials Interfaces articles, irrespective of specialty, host institution, or location. In addition, we continue to see institutions and global funders creating Open Access policies and mandates for their authors, and many universities have entered into Transformational Agreements that automatically cover article processing charges; our conversion ensures that authors can continue to fulfil their funders' mandates and take advantage of these agreements (see the full Wiley Open Access funds here: https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/affiliation-policies-payments/institutional-funder-payments.html).

I would like to thank the board members for their valuable contributions to this special issue. Also, I'd like to give my appreciation to all advisory board member for their continuous support to Advanced Materials Interfaces. See here for the list of board members in Advanced Materials Interfaces.

Finally, we would like to thank our authors, reviewers, and readers for their continuous interest as well as support for Advanced Materials Interfaces. Enjoy this issue!

On behalf of the editorial team,

Jolke Perelaer

Editor-in-Chief