Discover Materials : the pathway to explore materials as activators of the challenges of the future
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Discover Materials: the pathway to explore materials as activators of the challenges of the future Rodrigo Martins1
© The Author(s) 2020 OPEN
Today we are engaged in promoting science for the benefit of the whole world and to create a better standard of living for all. This implies that we need to exploit the activators able to answer to the demands of such relevant challenges as far as creativity and innovation are concerned. In this respect, materials offer a variety of solutions that stem from, or have been enhanced by, the perception we have that “Materials are everywhere—even in our body!”. Moreover, we must avoid residues as waste through reuse, recycling and circularity to serve a Green Agenda and bring prosperity for all. Also, our future developments will be grounded in the new capabilities offered by digital and communication techniques. These open the challenges of artificial intelligence, industry 4.0 technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), or Internet of Everything (IoE), and bring new relationships, which will have an important impact on discovering new materials.
1 Aims and scopes of the journal To support this, we created “Discover Materials”, as part of the Discover journal series committed to providing a streamlined submission process, rapid review and publication, and a high level of author service at every stage. It is a broad, open access journal publishing research from across all fields where materials are activators for the innovations and disruptions expected, providing cutting-edge research findings to researchers, academicians, students, and engineers. It considers all parts of the value chain, from fundamental and applied research to the synthesis, characterisation, modelling and application of materials.
2 Future expectations and challenges As a new journal that aims to be on the front line of these discoveries, we especially welcome papers connected to socalled ‘green materials’, which offer unique properties including natural abundance, low toxicity, economically affordability and versatility in terms of physical and chemical properties. They are the activators of an eco-sustainable economy serving all innovation sectors. Indeed, they can be applied in numerous scientific and technological applications including energy, electronics, building, construction and infrastructure, materials science and engineering applications, as well as pollution management and technology. For instance, green materials can be developed as a source for energy harvesting, tackling new outcome fields that will impact strongly on our development such as hydrogen, synthetic green fuels or the future exploitation of integrated nanogenerators to back up smart, recyclable and disposable platforms for a plethora of applications.
* Rodrigo Martins, [email protected] | 1Materials Science Department, Faculty of Science and Technology of New University of Lisbon, Campus de Caparica, 2829‑516 Caparica, Portugal. Discover Materials
(2021) 1:1
| https://doi.org/10.1007/s43939-020-00002-8
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