MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING: B Advanced Functional Solid-State Materials AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Audience p.1 • Impact Factor p.1 • Abstracting and Indexing p.2 • Editorial Board p.2 • Guide for Authors p.4 ISSN: 0921-5107 DESCRIPTION . Materials Science and Engineering B (MSEB) aims at providing a leading international forum for material researchers across the disciplines of theory, experiment, and device applications. It publishes original studies and reviews related to the calculation, synthesis, processing, characterization, and understanding of advanced quantum materials such as low-dimensional materials, topological materials, meta-materials, correlated electronic materials and novel magnetic materials, as well as how these materials can be utilized in the construction of novel devices like quantum computers, quantum sensors, spintronics and optoelectronics devices. Studies including demonstrations of these devices are also welcome. To be published in MSEB, papers must meet the high scientific standards, contain original science and make significant advances within the field. Submissions will first be assessed by an editor before being sent to independent referees to ensure it meets the scope and standards of MSEB. Benefits to authors We also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services. Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our Support Center AUDIENCE . Materials Scientists, Solid-State Physicists and Chemists, Semiconductor Physicists and Device Engineers, Electronic Engineers, Researchers in Superconductivity, and Computational Materials Scientists IMPACT FACTOR . 2020: 4.051 © Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports 2021 AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 28 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/mseb 1 ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . Chemical Abstracts Science Citation Index American Ceramic Society Research Alert Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Current Contents Engineering Index Glass Technology Abstracts INSPEC Metals Abstracts Pascal Francis Physikalische Berichte Fluid Abstracts FLUIDEX FIZ Karlsruhe Scopus EDITORIAL BOARD . Editor-in-Chief J. Xia, Irvine, California, United States of America Editors B. Casas K. Dragnevski, University of Oxford Department of Engineering Science, Oxford, United Kingdom E. Levenson-Falk M. Miao L. Wansbeek F. Zhang Editorial Board D. Choi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America J.M.D. Coey, University of Dublin Trinity College School of Physics, Dublin, Ireland L. Cohen, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America P. Deymier, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America B. Dunn, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America J. Etourneau, Institute for Condensed Matter Chemistry Bordeaux, Pessac, France R. Fornari, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism National Research Council, Parma, Italy R. Freer, The University of Manchester School of Materials, Manchester, United Kingdom S. Gaan, Intel Corp, Chandler, Arizona, United States of America F. Gervais, University of Tours, Tours, France M. Gervais, University of Tours, Tours, France N. Govindaraju, Oklahoma State University - Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America M. Grinberg, University of Gdansk, Gdansk Poland A.F. Hepp, NASA John H Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America N. Hort, Helmholtz Centre Hereon, Geesthacht, Germany K.T. Jacob, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India V. Jayaram, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India S. Jin, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America C. Julien, Sorbonne University, Paris, France J. Y. Kim, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America K. Kitamura, National Institute for Materials Science Research Center for Functional Materials Opto-Single Crystal Group, Ibaraki, Japan K. Kohn, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Y. Komem, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel S. Makridis, University of Patras - Agrinio Campus, Agrinio, Greece A. Manivannan, National Energy Technology Laboratory Morgantown, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America J. Massies, Centre for Research on Heteroepitaxy and its Applications, Valbonne, France S.R. Naryanan, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America R.E. Riman, Rutgers University School of Engineering, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 28 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/mseb 2 S. H. Risbud, University of California Davis Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Davis, California, United States of America S. Sampath, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India P. Siffert, CNRS Alsace Delegation, Strasbourg, France R. Singh, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America M.M. Thackeray, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, United States of America F Witte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin Julius Wolff Institute for Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Regeneration - Campus Virchow Klinikum, Berlin, Germany AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 28 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/mseb 3 GUIDE FOR AUTHORS . Your Paper Your Way We now differentiate between the requirements for new and revised submissions. You may choose to submit your manuscript as a single Word or PDF file to be used in the refereeing process. Only when your paper is at the revision stage, will you be requested to put your paper in to a 'correct format' for acceptance and provide the items required for the publication of your article. To find out more, please visit the Preparation section below. INTRODUCTION The journal provides an international medium for the publication of theoretical and experimental studies and reviews related to the electronic, electrochemical, ionic, magnetic, optical, and biosensing properties of solid state materials in bulk, thin film and particulate forms. Papers dealing with synthesis, processing, characterization, structure, physical properties and computational aspects of nano-crystalline, crystalline, amorphous and glassy forms of ceramics, semiconductors, layered insertion compounds, low-dimensional compounds and systems, fast-ion conductors, polymers and dielectrics are viewed as suitable for publication. Articles focused on nano- structured aspects of these advanced solid-state materials will also be considered suitable. Types of paper Types of contributions New, cutting-edge, original research work not already published; current topics of interest to a broad materials research community; plenary lectures and/or individual papers given at conferences; reviews of specialized topics within the scope of the journal; engineering studies; letters to the editor; invited papers/proceedings. Review articles MSEB considers publication of review articles on relevant topics of importance and topical impact. Authors wishing to publish a review article should send a letter directly to the Editor-in- Chief (to the following email address: [email protected]) outlining the request to write a review article with a detailed justification as to the timeliness and need for publishing such a review along with a Table of Contents and a timeline needed to complete this review. Only after the EIC approves the review article should the author submit the same into the article type "Review Article" in Editorial Manager. New MATLAB feature We are pleased to inform the authors that Materials Science and Engineering B is one of the first journals to implement The MATLAB figure viewer, which has been designed to enrich an article by enabling the reader to explore figures with data interactively and in the context of the article. These figures, which will appear on ScienceDirect, are based on MATLAB FIG files uploaded by the author. They may contain experimental data, numerical results, a visualization of a model, or other kinds of data-based, visual research output. The FIG file format captures not only the visual information but also the underlying data - which makes it possible to view a figure at maximum accuracy at all levels of zoom and from all viewpoints, and also to download the data for validation or re-use (requires MATLAB). Submission checklist You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. 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