GIANT AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Abstracting and Indexing p.1 • Editorial Board p.1 • Guide for Authors p.6 ISSN: 2666-5425 DESCRIPTION . Giant is an interdisciplinary title focusing on fundamental and applied macromolecular science spanning all chemistry, physics, biology, and materials aspects of the field in the broadest sense. Key areas covered include macromolecular chemistry, supramolecular assembly, multiscale and multifunctional materials, organic-inorganic hybrid materials, biophysics, biomimetics and surface science. Core topics range from developments in synthesis, characterisation and assembly towards creating uniformly sized precision macromolecules with tailored properties, to the design and assembly of nanostructured materials in multiple dimensions, and further to the study of smart or living designer materials with tuneable multiscale properties. The journal seeks to bring an alternative, inclusive perspective on macromolecules and serves as a platform for discussions around emerging concepts in macromolecular science, with emphasis on the ever-expanding scope of new macromolecular architectures and the new understanding of the underlying common features of macromolecular systems. Core topics include but are not limited to: Macromolecules, biomacromolecules, and molecular clusters Nanomaterials and hybrid materials Supramolecular chemistry and hierarchical assembly Theory, modelling, and simulation in multiple scales Artificial/bio-inspired intelligent surface, interface and materials Soft-matter materials for health, energy and other related applications The editors welcome comprehensive articles, short communications and reviews and invited news and views articles. ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) EDITORIAL BOARD . Editor-in-Chief Stephen Cheng, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China Macromolecular and Soft Matter Science and Engineering Editors Lei Jiang, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Beijing, China Bio-inspired Materials, Superwetting Materials AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 2 Oct 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/giant 1 Eva Malmström, Royal Institute of Technology School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry Biotechnology and Health, Stockholm, Sweden Interplay Macromolecular Architecture – Polymer Properties, Controlled Polymerization, Hybrid Materials, (Nano)Composites, Biobased Materials, Bioplastics Managing Editors Xue-Hui Dong, South China University of Technology, South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology, Guangzhou, China Polymer Physics, Block Copolymer Self-assembly, Protein Materials Mingjie Liu, Beihang University, School of Chemistry, Beijing, China Hydrogel, Elastomer, Bioinspired materials, Mechanical performance , surface wettability Wei Zhang, South China University of Technology, South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology, Guangzhou, China Functional Supramolecular Polymers, controlled Self-Assembly, Self-assembly in the meso-scale Executive Advisory Board Takuzo Aida, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Wako, Japan Supramolecular Chemistry and Materials Science Christopher Barner-Kowollik, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia High Performance Polymers, Light and Matter Interactions, Complex Polymer Architectures, Living/ Controlled Polymerization, Mass Spectrometry Yong Cao, South China University of Technology Institute of Polymer Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Guangzhou, China Organic solid, Materials science and engineering, Polymer optoelectronics, Electroluminescence, Phivoltaics Wei Huang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China Flexible Electronics Materials, Polymer Solar cells, Materials science Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Carnegie Mellon University Department of Chemistry, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America Polymer synthesis, materials science, macromolecules, hybrid materials Virgil Percec, University of Pennsylvania Department of Chemistry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America Supramolecular;ar Chemistry, Self Assembly, Organic Nanostructured Materials Samuel I. Stupp, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America Self-assembly, biomaterials, energy materials, supramolecular chemistry Zhigang Suo, Harvard University John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America Mechanical behavior of materials and structures, Solid mechanics and thermodynamics, Mechanics of soft active materials, Configurational forces in nanostructures and self-assembly Zhong Qun Tian, Xiamen University Department of Chemistry, Xiamen, China Electrochemistry, Raman Spectroscopy, Molecule Assembly, Plasmonics, Nanochemistry. Ulrich Wiesner, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America Polymer Science, Block Copolymers, Self-assembly, Porous Materials, Ultrafiltration Membranes, Energy Conversion and Storage, Quantum Metamaterials, Nanoparticles, Nanomedicine, Oncology, Itamar Wilner, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Chemistry, Jerusalem, Israel Supramolecular Chemistry, Biopolymers, Hydrogels, DNA Nanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology Wantai Yang, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China Polymer synthesis Xi Zhang, Tsinghua University Department of Chemistry, Beijing, China Supramolecular polymers, self-assembly, host-guest chemistry, supramolecular chemistry Meifang Zhu, Donghua University, Shanghai, China Hybrid Materials, Fibers, Material Chemistry, Energy Materials, Biomaterials Executive Editorial Board Athina Anastasaki, ETH Zurich Department of Materials, Zurich, Switzerland Polymers, Self-assembled nanoparticles, Mechanisms Cyrille Boyer, University of New South Wales School of Chemical Engineering, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Polymer synthesis, photochemistry, drug delivery, functional materials, 3D printing Dirk Broer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven, Netherlands and South China Normal University, SCNU-TUE Joint Lab of Devices Integrated Responsive Materials, Geldrop, Netherlands Liquid Crystals, Polymer Liquid Crystals, Responsive Polymers AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 2 Oct 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/giant 2 Timothy Bunning, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, United States of America Liquid Crystal Polymers, Photonic Polymers, LC/Polymer Composites, Dynamic Optical Materials, Hierarchical Assembly Jie Cai, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China Polymer Physics, Biomacromolecules, Biomaterials Xiaoyu Cao, Xiamen University State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen, China Molecular Assembly, Catassembly, Supramolecular Chemistry, Complex Molecular Systems, Organic Electronics Changle L Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China Metal Catalyzed Polymerization, Polymer Synthesis, Polyolefin, Commodity Plastics Guosong Chen, Fudan University Department of Macromolecular Science, Shanghai, China Macromolecular self-assembly, glycopolymer, protein assembly, biomaterials Jianjun Cheng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America Biomaterials, Nanomedicine, Drug and Gene Delivery, Dynamic Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry Qunfeng Cheng, Beihang University, School of Chemistry, Beijing, China Polymer synthesis, Self-assembly, Characterization and their biomedical applications, Graphene work Yiyun Cheng, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China Gene Delivery, Protein Delivery, Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Hydrogels Qiang Fu, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China Polymer nanocomposites, Processing, Structure-property relationship, Polymer blends, Structuring- processing, Oleg Gang, The University of British Columbia Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Vancouver, Canada Soft matter, bio-nanomateirals, self- assembly, biophysics Changyou Gao, Zhejiang University Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Hangzhou, China Biomaterials, Bionanoparticles, Polymers, Hydrogels, Tissue Engineering Nicolas Giuseppone, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France Supramolecular chemistry, molecular machines, self-assemblies, supramolecular polymers, functional materials Jian Ping Gong, Hokkaido University Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Sapporo, Japan Hydrogel, double network, dynamic material, wet adhesion Gregory Grason, University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America Soft Matter and Polymer Theory, Self-assembly, Geometric Frustration in Soft Matter, Complex Order in Block Copolymers Yanchun Han, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China Polymer Thin Film, Phase Separation, Crystallization Ryan Hayward, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America Responsive Materials, Nanostructured Polymers and Composites, Soft Materials Mechanics, Active Matter Rong-Ming Ho, National Tsing-Hua University Department of Chemical Engineering, Hsinchu, Taiwan Polymer Physics, Polymer Morphologies, Chirality, Nanoporous Materials, Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials Fei Huang, State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangzhou, China Optoelectronic Polymers, Conjugated Polymers, Organic Electronics, Polymer Solar Cells Xiqun Jiang, Nanjing University School of Chemistry and