Springer Nature•ISSN: 2191-1630 / 2191-1649•United States
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BioNanoScience is a new field of research that has emerged at the interface of nanoscience and biology, aimed at integration of nano-materials into engineered systems, for new applications in biology and medicine. The aim of BioNanoScience is to provide a forum for the rapidly growing area of bionanoscience, emphasizing the link between structure, properties and processes of nanoscale phenomena in biological and bioinspired structures and materials for a variety of engineered systems. The journal promotes fundamental research in bionanoscience and engineering to advance nanoscience, nanotechnology and engineering, toward application in biology and medicine. This new journal will provide a forum for this interdisciplinary community by publishing highest quality peer-reviewed publications.
Methods covered in this journal include experimental (including but not limited to imaging, via SEM/AFM/optical microscopy and tweezers; x-ray scattering and diffraction tools, electrical/magnetic characterizations; design, and synthesis via self-assembly, layer-by-layer, Langmuir films; biotechnology, via recombinant DNA methods, and protein engineering, etc.), theoretical (e.g. statistical mechanics, nanomechanics, quantum mechanics, etc.) and computational (bottom-up multi-scale simulation, first principles methods, supercomputing, etc.) research.
Areas of applications of interest include all relevant physical, chemical, and biological phenomena and their engineering into integrated systems: mechanical (e.g. deformation, adhesion, failure), electrical and electronic (e.g. electromechanical stimulation, capacitors, energy storage, batteries), optical (e.g. absorption, luminescence, photochemistry), thermal (e.g. thermomutability, thermal management), biological (e.g. how cells interact with nanomaterials, molecular flaws and defects, biosensing, biological mechanisms s.a. mechanosensing), nanoscience of disease (e.g. genetic disease, cancer, organ/tissue fa ilure), as well as information science (e.g. DNA computing). The journal covers fundamental structural and mechanistic analyses of biological processes at nanoscale and their translation into synthetic applications. Studies of interfaces (e.g. between dissimilar structures, organic-inorganic) are of particular interest. In the area of interface between dissimilar structures, papers are also welcome on hybrid systems, including CMOS integrated circuits embedding organic nanostructures as well as biological components.
Emergent Materials is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, which publishes reviews, mini reviews, communications, progress reports, research news and original research articles at the forefront of physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering of advanced materials. Submissions will cover a wide range of articles, reviews and communications from the design and preparation of emerging materials to cutting edge applications.Emergent Materials aims to publish a series of high quality and high impact research articles that reflect and bring the best Research, at the forefront of physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering of advanced materials to the international research community. All manuscripts will be subjected to a preliminary review prior to the full reviewing process in order to evaluate their suitability for publication.Emergent Materials publishes articles that focus on but are not limited to, a variety of topics such as:• Design, synthesis, and characterization of advanced materials• Hierarchical materials• Self-assembly of materials• Polymers and composites• Coatings and membranes• Green and sustainable materials• Micro, meso and nanoporous materials• Nanostructures, nanocomposites and thin film• Carbon-based materials and applications• Renewable energy/Environment materials• Novel optical materials• Biomaterials• Catalysis• Surface Science and Engineering• Functional materials• Alloys design, synthesis, and applications• Nano-devices
The Shape Memory and Superelasticity journal invites original peer-reviewed papers that focus on shape memory materials research with contributions from materials science, materials engineering, experimental and theoretical mechanics, mathematics and physics. Of particular interest is to understand the response of these materials to external stimuli such as force, displacement, temperature, magnetic fields, irradiation, corrosive media and so on in pursuit of uncovering new phenomenon, new materials and new applications as follows: (i) the journal papers will examine these materials utilizing the principles of continuum mechanics, micromechanics, microstructuraly informed constitutive modeling, atomistic models, mathematics of microstructures and other methodologies. (ii) the development and use of advanced experimental techniques to expose and understand the shape memory response including thermal and mechanical cycling, application of magnetic and other external fields, (iii) the exploration and further understanding of shape memory materials due to fatigue, fracture and environmental factors are of significant interest, (iv) novel applications of the materials will be explored in all areas including bio-medical devices, actuators, thin films, robotics, mechanical and aerospace engineering components, civil engineering structures, and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). Specifically, the journal will include the following topics: (1) Behavior of all classes of shape memory materials including metals, non-metals (such as shape memory ceramics, shape memory polymers) and shape memory composites, (2) Stress-strain response in thermo-mechanical loadings (experimental observations and modeling), (3) Life prediction methodologies (different approaches including fracture mechanics, role of grain boundaries, the role of slip and twinning on shape memory behavior, crack nucleation modeling), (4) Thermodynamics of the transformation, the fundamentals of superelasticity and related areas such as twinning, detwinning, residual martensites, (5) Solutions of shape memory problems in industry (including biomedical, electronic, MEMS, microdevice and microactuator applications and applications in aero-, civil-, mechanical, electrical and other engineering disciplines), (6) Critical experiments that shed insight into shape memory behavior including digital image correlation, diffraction methodologies (including those using high energy sources), in-situ microscopy, infra red imaging techniques, and conventional and nano mechanical testing methods, (7) Novel experimental techniques for shape memory response (ranging from specimens of micron size, wires, laboratory specimens, rings, bent beams, complex shapes to components, and complex loading conditions), (8) Single Crystals and polycrystals of shape memory metals highlighting the role of texture and orientation effects on superelasticity and recoverable strain levels, and the role of different processing methods on the SMA response, (9) Shape memory response under coupled mechanical-magnetic fields, irradiation effects, magnetic shape memory and thermo-caloric effects, high temperature applications, (10) Alloy design (with cognizance of the chemical composition of underlying phases and crystallography) to tailor the properties to achieve shape memory materials with improved functionality in applications, (11) Surface engineering, corrosion and interaction of SMAs with fluids, behavior of shape memory thin films, and shape memory at nanoscale, (12) Application of atomistic methods (density functional theory and molecular dynamics) to gain insight into properties of such materials and enlighten shape memory alloy design with these materials, (13) Production and processing of shape memory alloys, including shape memory metals, shape memory polymers, shape memory ceramics, thin films, nanosize objects and specimens, and hybrids. Niche- The Journal of Shape Memory and Superelasticity supplies the readers with knowledge focused on shape memory materials and highlighting contributions that could influence other disciplinary fields in engineering, sciences, and medicine. The journal brings together the latest innovations in this ever-expanding field. The journal provides a forum for researchers, scientists and engineers of varied disciplines to access information about shape memory materials. The journal is aimed at disclosing the most pertinent needs in this area and providing a systematic approach to address these needs with experiments, theory and simulation. Articles are authored to describe results from original research and provide technical information that can be appreciated by readers in the subdisciplines while providing significant results that may foster research in applications and related areas. Therefore, the information provided can be utilized in many different disciplines, including medical device design, energy harvesting, structural damping and so on.