Advanced Optical Materials: Independence 2013

www.advopticalmat.de www.MaterialsViews.com Advanced Optical Materials: Independence 2013

support and advice of our Editorial Advi- also ﬁ nd excellent, original research he four focus sections on advanced

EDITORIAL T sory Board. We would like to take this on plasmonic nanostructures, optically optical materials published as part of opportunity to thank the Editorial Advi- enhanced architectures for solar cells, Advanced Materials in 2012 were well sory Board members for their support broad optical responses based on meta- received by readers and authors, and and advice in the launch phase: materials, a facile and sustainable fab- formed an excellent basis for our new rication method for SERS substrates, journal, the fi rst independent issue of • Hatice Altug (Boston University) microstructures with all-optical tunable which you are now reading. • Richard Averitt (Boston University) fano resonances, colorimetric biosensing, • Paul Braun (University of Illinois at conjugated polymers for cell imaging and Advanced Optical Materials is an inter- Urbana-Champaign) photodynamic therapy, photodetectors disciplinary forum for peer-reviewed • Mark Brongersma (Stanford Univer- based on iron pyrite, self-assembled met- papers on the materials science, engi- sity) amaterials, and liquid crystals. This fi rst • Timothy J. Bunning (Air Force Re- neering, physics, biology, and chemistry issue refl ects the diversity of this highly search Laboratory, Wright-Patterson of light–matter interactions. Advanced dynamic research fi eld which reaches Air Force Base, Ohio) Optical Materials contains an attractive into the different disciplines of materials • Cornelia Denz (University of Mün- mix of Communications, Full papers, ster) scientists, physicists, chemists, biolo- Review Articles, Progress Reports, and • Harald Giessen (University of Stutt- gists, and engineers. We look forward to Essays with the same article specifi ca- gart) bringing you the next developments and tions as Advanced Materials. It is dedi- • Peter Günter (ETH Zürich) cutting-edge discoveries in light-matter cated to breakthrough discoveries and • Holger Moench (Philips, Aachen) interactions. fundamental research in the fi eld of • Zhi-Yuan Li (Institute of Physics Chi- optical materials, including topics like nese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) metamaterials & plasmonics, optical • David Lidzey (University of Sheffi eld) nanostructures, optical devices, sensors • Luis Liz-Marzán (Centre for Coopera- & detectors, light sources & resonators, tive research in Biomaterials CIC bio- photonic crystals, gratings, coatings, and maGUNE, San Sebastian) more. • Cefe López (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid) • Polman (FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam) • Ullrich Steiner (University of Cam- bridge) • Jianfang Wang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) • Ralf Wehrspohn (Fraunhofer IWM, Halle) • Martin Wegener (Karlsruher Institute for Technology)

We are looking forward to an ongoing, fruitful collaboration for future issues and developments to constantly form this high-quality research forum into a top-tier journal in the ﬁ eld of optical On a technical note, we are pleased materials. to inform you that Advanced Optical Materials is the ﬁ rst member of the The inaugural issue of Advanced Advanced journal family which uses our Optical Materials includes a review article new editorial system, Editorial Manager. by Alfonso Cebollada and co-workers on It will replace manuscriptXpress. We have Such an endeavor requires the dedica- magnetoplasmonics, which reports on worked hard to ensure that the new tion and cooperation of a strong edito- nanosystems which combine magnetic system retains everything you have liked rial team. In turn, we rely heavily on the and plasmonic functionalities. You can about manuscriptXpress, while adding a

8 wileyonlinelibrary.com © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Adv. Optical Mater. 2013, 1, 8–9 www.advopticalmat.de www.MaterialsViews.com EDITORIAL lot of new features that will make sub- mitting your work or acting as a referee We would like to remind all readers To conclude, we thank our authors for even more convenient. not yet able to access Advanced Optical their hard work in bringing us the latest Materials that it will be freely available research results, our referees for helping for all institutions throughout 2013 and us ensure the highest standards, and 2014. If you cannot yet access the journal you, our readers, for your interest and at your institution, please ask your support. Enjoy the content of this ﬁ rst librarian to register at http://wileyon- independent issue and continue submit- linelibrary.com/newjournals for compli- ting your best manuscripts to Advanced mentary online access. Optical Materials.

Eva Rittweger Editor Peter Gregory Guido Fuchs Editor-in-Chief and Consulting Editor Editor

P.S.: 2012 saw many successes for our journal family, Advanced Energy Materials (www.advenergymat.de) received a ﬁ rst Immediacy Index of 1.950, comparable to Advanced Materials (2.155), Advanced Functional Materials (1.514), and Small (1.221). Advanced Health- care Materials (www.advhealthmat.de) has enjoyed a very successful ﬁ rst year as a new journal, it has been accepted into MEDLINE, and will double in frequency to monthly this year.