Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM) is the leading open access, international journal for outstanding research articles across all aspects of materials science. The journal covers a broad spectrum of materials science research including:
Functional materials
Synthesis and processing
Theoretical analyses
Characterization and properties of materials.
Emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary nature of materials science and issues at the forefront of the field, such as energy and environmental issues, as well as medical and bioengineering applications.
Of particular interest are research papers on the following topics:
Nanostructured/nanoscale materials and nanodevices
Biological, biomedical and bio-inspired materials, novel technologies for clinical and medical applications
Materials for energy and environment (including materials for environmental remediation, materials for power generation and storage, next generation photovoltaics, materials for low carbon, green infrastructure, etc).
Click each section heading below to view the Editor’s Choice collection for that year.
Shinya Sakakibara, Shimaa A. Abdellatef, Shota Yamamoto, Masao Kamimura & Jun Nakanishi
Haruna Suzuki, Anna Adler, Tianwei Huang, Akiko Kuramochi, Yoshiro Ohba, Yuya Sato, Naoko Nakamura, Vivek Anand Manivel, Kristina N Ekdahl, Bo Nilsson, Kazuhiko Ishihara & Yuji Teramura
High performance {Nb5TaX12}@PVP (X = Cl, Br) cluster-based nanocomposites coatings for solar glazing applications
Clément Lebastard, Maxence Wilmet, Stéphane Cordier, Clothilde Comby-Zerbino, Luke MacAleese, Philippe Dugourd, Naoki Ohashi, Tetsuo Uchikoshi, Fabien Grasset
Self-assisted wound healing using piezoelectric and triboelectric nanogenerators
Fu-Cheng Kao, Hsin-Hsuan Ho, Ping-Yeh Chiu, Ming-Kai Hsieh, Jen‐Chung Liao, Po-Liang Lai, Yu-Fen Huang, Min-Yan Dong, Tsung-Ting Tsai & Zong-Hong Lin
Lightweight mobile stick-type water-based triboelectric nanogenerator with amplified current for portable safety devices
Kyunghwan Cha, Jihoon Chung, Deokjae Heo, Myunghwan Song, Seh-Hoon Chung, Patrick T.J. Hwang, Dongseob Kim, Bonwook Koo, Jinkee Hong & Sangmin Lee
Science of 2.5 dimensional materials: paradigm shift of materials science toward future social innovation
Hiroki Ago, Susumu Okada, Yasumitsu Miyata, Kazunari Matsuda, Mikito Koshino, Kosei Ueno & Kosuke Nagashio
Transformation behaviour of salts composed of calcium ions and phosphate esters with different linear alkyl chain structures in a simulated body fluid modified with alkaline phosphatase
Taishi Yokoi, Akiyoshi Mio, Jin Nakamura, Ayae Sugawara-Narutaki, Masakazu Kawashita & Chikara Ohtsuki
Yuta Yoshizaki, Hiroki Takai, Nozomi Mayumi, Soichiro Fujiwara, Akinori Kuzuya & Yuichi Ohya
Waterproof, Thin, and High-Performance Pressure Sensors-Hand Drawing for Underwater Wearable Applications
Chi Cuong Vu & Jooyong Kim
Magnetic stimulation of the angiogenic potential of mesenchymal stromal cells in vascular tissue engineering
Ana C. Manjua, Joaquim M. S. Cabral, Carla A. M. Portugal & Frederico Castelo Ferreira
Simultaneous harvesting of radiative cooling and solar heating for transverse thermoelectric generation
Satoshi Ishii, Asuka Miura,Tadaaki Nagao & Ken-ichi Uchida
Hybrid oxide brain-inspired neuromorphic devices for hardware implementation of artificial intelligence
Jingrui Wang, Xia Zhuge & Fei Zhuge
Shortwave infrared-absorbing squaraine dyes for all-organic optical upconversion devices
Karen Strassel, Wei-Hsu Hu, Sonja Osbild, Daniele Padula, Daniel Rentsch, Sergii Yakunin, Yevhen Shynkarenko, Maksym Kovalenko, Frank Nuesch, Roland Hany & Michael Bauer
Heusler alloys for spintronic devices: review on recent development and future perspectives
Kelvin Elphick, William Frost, Marjan Samiepour, Takahide Kubota, Koki Takanashi, Hiroaki Sukegawa, Seiji Mitani & Atsufumi Hirohata
Size-controlled bimodal in vivo nanoprobes as near-infrared phosphors and positive contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging
Kyohei Okubo, Ryuta Takeda, Shuhei Murayama, Masakazu Umezawa, Masao Kamimura, Kensuke Osada, Ichio Aoki & Kohei Soga
Yukikazu Takeoka, Fumio Asai & Sizhe Liu
Progress in polydopamine-based melanin mimetic materials for structural color generation
Michinari Kohri
Micropillar compression deformation of single crystals of α-Nb5Si3 with the tetragonal D8l structure
Kyosuke Kishida, Takuto Maruyam, Takayoshi Fukuyama & Haruyuki Inui
Materials informatics approach to understand aluminum
Ryo Tamura, Makoto Watanabe, Hiroaki Mamiya, Kota Washio, Masao Yano, Katsunori Danno, Akira Kato & Tetsuya Shoji
Molecular swarm robots: recent progress and future challenges
Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir , Daisuke Inoue & Akira Kakugo
Predicting material properties by integrating high-throughput experiments, high-throughput ab-initio calculations, and machine learning
Yuma Iwasaki, Masahiko Ishida & Masayuki Shirane
Progress on highly proton-conductive polymer thin films with organized structure and molecularly oriented structure
Yuki Nagao
Building memory devices from biocomposite electronic materials
Xuechao Xing, Meng Chen, Yue Gong, Ziyu Lv, Su-Ting Han & Ye Zhou
Yukari Katsura, Masaya Kumagai, Takushi Kodani, Mitsunori Kaneshige, Yuki Ando, Sakiko Gunji, Yoji Imai, Hideyasu Ouchi, Kazuki Tobita, Kaoru Kimura & Koji Tsuda
Latest advances in extracellular vesicles: from bench to bedside
Tomofumi Yamamoto ,Nobuyoshi Kosaka & Takahiro Ochiya
New development of atomic layer deposition: processes, methods and applications
Peter Ozaveshe Oviroh, Rokhsareh Akbarzadeh, Dongqing Pan, Rigardt Alfred Maarten Coetzee & Tien-Chien Jen
Electronic and optoelectronic applications of solution-processed two-dimensional materials
Jingyun Wang & Bilu Liu
Catalogue of NIMS fatigue data sheets
Yoshiyuki Furuya,Hideaki Nishikawa,Hisashi Hirukawa, Nobuo Nagashima & Etsuo Takeuchi
Recent advances on fluorescent biomarkers of near-infrared quantum dots for in vitro and in vivo
Shanmugavel Chinnathambi & Naoto Shirahata
Self-assembly as a key player for materials nanoarchitectonics
Katsuhiko Ariga, Michihiro Nishikawa, Taizo Mori, Jun Takeya, Lok Kumar Shrestha & Jonathan P. Hill
Stretchable electronics: functional materials, fabrication strategies and applications
Wei Wu
Synthesis and modelling of the mechanical properties of Ag, Au and Cu nanowires
Nurul Akmal Che Lah & Sonia Trigueros
Catalog of NIMS creep data sheets
Kota Sawada, Kazuhiro Kimura, Fujio Abe, Yasushi Taniuchi, Kaoru Sekido, Takehiro Nojima, Toshio Ohba, Hideaki Kushima, Hideko Miyazaki, Hiromichi Hongo & Takashi Watanabe
The application of nanogenerators and piezoelectricity in osteogenesis
Fu-Cheng Kao, Ping-Yeh Chiu, Tsung-Ting Tsai & Zong-Hong Lin
IIoannis Petsagkourakis, Klas Tybrandt, Xavier Crispin, Isao Ohkubo, Norifusa Satoh & Takao Mori
Functional biomimetic nanoparticles for drug delivery and theranostic applications in cancer treatment
Lei Li, Junqing Wang, Hangru Kong, Yun Zeng & Gang Liu
Fabrication of honeycomb films by the breath figure technique and their applications
Hiroshi Yabu
Chemical modification of group IV graphene analogs
Hideyuki Nakano, Hiroyuki Tetsuka, Michelle J. S. Spencer & Tetsuya Morishita
3D printing for soft robotics – a review
Jahan Zeb Gul, Memoon Sajid, Muhammad Muqeet Rehman, Ghayas Uddin Siddiqui, Imran Shah, Kyung-Hwan Kim, Jae-Wook Lee & Kyung Hyun Choi
Data-driven exploration of new pressure-induced superconductivity in PbBi2Te4
Ryo Matsumoto, Zhufeng Hou, Masanori Nagao, Shintaro Adachi, Hiroshi Hara, Hiromi Tanaka, Kazuki Nakamura, Ryo Murakami, Sayaka Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Takeya, Tetsuo Irifune, Kiyoyuki Terakura & Yoshihiko Takano
Cheol-Min Lim, In-Kyu Lee, Ki Joong Lee, Young Kyoung Oh, Yong-Beom Shin & Won-Ju Cho
Simplified detection of the hybridized DNA using a graphene field effect transistor
Arun Kumar Manoharan, Shanmugavel Chinnathambi, Ramasamy Jayavel & Nobutaka Hanagata
Plasmonic detection of mercury via amalgam formation on surface-immobilized single Au nanorods
Carola Schopf, Alfonso Martín & Daniela Iacopino
Ternary semitransparent organic solar cells with a laminated top electrode
Mohammed Makha, Paolo Testa, Surendra Babu Anantharaman, Jakob Heier, Sandra Jenatsch, Nicolas Leclaire, Jean-Nicolas Tisserant, Anna C. Véron, Lei Wang, Frank Nüesch & Roland Hany
Suppressing the coffee-ring effect of colloidal droplets by dispersed cellulose nanofibers
Yuto Ooi, Itsuo Hanasaki, Daiki Mizumura & Yu Matsuda
MDTS: automatic complex materials design using Monte Carlo tree search
Thaer M. Dieb, Shenghong Ju, Kazuki Yoshizoe, Zhufeng Hou, Junichiro Shiomi & Koji Tsuda
Solid state ionics: a Japan perspective
Osamu Yamamoto
Mechanism of secondary recrystallization of Goss grains in grain-oriented electrical steel
Yasuyuki Hayakawa
Understanding biomaterial-tissue interface quality: combined in vitro evaluation
Michael Gasik
Construction of nanostructures for selective lithium ion conduction using self-assembled molecular arrays in supramolecular solids
Makoto Moriya
Development and applications of transparent conductive nanocellulose paper
Shaohui Li & Pooi See Lee
Hiromu Kashida, Kazuhiro Morimoto & Hiroyuki Asanuma
Cytocompatible and multifunctional polymeric nanoparticles for transportation of bioactive molecules into and within cells
Kazuhiko Ishihara, Weixin Chen, Yihua Liu, Yuriko Tsukamoto & Yuuki Inoue
Lysosomal pH-inducible supramolecular dissociation of polyrotaxanes possessing acid-labile N-triphenylmethyl end groups and their therapeutic potential for Niemann-Pick type C disease
Atsushi Tamura, Kei Nishida & Nobuhiko Yui
Materials inspired by mathematics
Motoko Kotani & Susumu Ikeda
Bloch surface wave structures for high sensitivity detection and compact waveguiding
Muhammad Umar Khan & Brian Corbett
Towards a metadata scheme for the description of materials – the description of microstructures
Georg J. Schmitz, Bernd Böttger, Markus Apel, Janin Eiken, Gottfried Laschet, Ralph Altenfeld, Ralf Berger, Guillaume Boussinot & Alexandre Viardin
Carbon nanotube based transparent conductive films: progress, challenges, and perspectives
Ying Zhou & Reiko Azumi
Plastic deformation of directionally solidified ingots of binary and some ternary MoSi2/Mo5Si3 eutectic composites
Hirotaka Matsunoshita, Yuta Sasai, Kosuke Fujiwara, Kyosuke Kishida & Haruyuki Inui
Recent progress in the structure control of Pd–Ru bimetallic nanomaterials
Dongshuang Wu, Kohei Kusada & Hiroshi Kitagawa
Osteoblast and stem cell response to nanoscale topographies: a review
Nur Izzati Aminuddin, Roslina Ahmad, Sheikh Ali Akbar & Belinda Pingguan Murphy
Chitosan nanocomposites based on distinct inorganic fillers for biomedical applications
Duarte Moura, João F. Mano, Maria C. Paiva & Natália M. Alves
Recent progress in efficient hybrid lead halide perovskite solar cells
Jin Cui, Huailiang Yuan, Junpeng Li, Xiaobao Xu, Yan Shen, Hong Lin & Mingkui Wan
Hideo Hosono, Keiichi Tanabe, Eiji Takayama-Muromachi, Hiroshi Kageyama, Shoji Yamanaka, Hiroaki Kumakura, Minoru Nohara, Hidenori Hiramatsu & Satoru Fujitsu
Recent progress in advanced optical materials based on gadolinium aluminate garnet (Gd3Al5O12)
Ji-Guang Li & Yoshio Sakka
Recent progress on magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles: synthesis, surface functional strategies and biomedical applications
Wei Wu, Zhaohui Wu, Taekyung Yu, Changzhong Jiang & Woo-Sik Kim
Preparation of a platinum electrocatalyst by coaxial pulse arc plasma deposition
Yoshiaki Agawa, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Shigemitsu Torisu, Satoshi Endo, Akihiro Tsujimoto, Narishi Gonohe, Victor Malgras, Ali Aldalbahi, Saad M Alshehri, Yuichiro Kamachi, Cuiling Li & Yusuke Yamauchi
Recent progress in efficient hybrid lead halide perovskite solar cells
Jin Cui, Huailiang Yuan, Junpeng Li, Xiaobao Xu, Yan Shen, Hong Lin & Mingkui Wan