Materials Characterization features original articles and state-of-the-art reviews on theoretical and practical aspects of the structure and behaviour of materials.
The Journal focuses on all characterization techniques, including all forms of microscopy (light, electron, acoustic, etc.,) and analysis (especially microanalysis and surface analytical techniques). Developments in both this wide range of techniques and their application to the quantification of the microstructure of materials are essential facets of the Journal.
The Journal provides the Materials Scientist/Engineer with up-to-date information on many types of materials with an underlying theme of explaining the behavior of materials using novel approaches. Materials covered by the journal include:
Metals & Alloys
Ceramics
Nanomaterials
Biomedical materials
Optical materials
Composites
Natural Materials
Organic materials
Please note that not all topics fall within the scope of Materials Characterization. Submissions focused on the topics listed below will not be considered for publication, potential alternative journals are indicated in brackets:

i) thin film semiconductors (Thin Solid Films; Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing)
ii) polymers or polymer composites (Elsevier polymer titles; Composites structures)
iii) mechanical, electrical or other property measurements without any accompanying microstructural characterization (depending on the focus, please consider submitting to Corrosion Science; Wear; Materials Science & Engineering B; Materials & Design)
iv) computation, theory or analysis papers without an accompanying microstructural characterization component (Computational Materials Science; Materials Science & Engineering A; Materials Science & Engineering B; Materials Science & Engineering C)

 original full-length research articles and reviews

Editor-in-Chief
I. Baker
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Associate Editors
David Field
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States
Heung Nam Han
Seoul National University Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwanak-gu, Korea, Republic of
Paul R. Munroe
University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Aude Simar
Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Min Song
Central South University Powder Metallurgy Research Institute, Changsha, China
Editorial Advisory Board
Bernard Bewlay
GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, United States
Harry Bhadeshia
University of Cambridge Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Nikhilesh Chawla
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States
Stephane Godet
ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium
Kenji Kaneko
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
David Larson
CAMECA Instruments Inc, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Williams Lefebvre
Materials Physics Group, Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France
Yong Liu
Central South University, Changsha, China
Zongyi Ma
Institute of Metal Research Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
Eric Maire
National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
Knut Marthinsen
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Michael Moody
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Pedro Rivera
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Anthony Rollett
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Dominique Schryvers
University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
Dong-Woo Suh
Pohang University of Science and Technology Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology, Pohang, Korea, Republic of
Satyam Suwas
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
Douglas Van Citters
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Shuang Xia
Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Wei Xiong
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States