Materials Research Letters is a high impact, open access journal on the science and technology of advanced, novel and emergent materials.

Materials Research Letters supports the materials research community by publishing original and compelling research work.

Materials Research Letters provides fast communications on cutting-edge materials research findings. It primarily focuses on advanced metallic materials and physical metallurgy including the deformation mechanisms, structures, processing and properties of metals and alloys. Other materials including intermetallics, ceramics, and nanocomposites will also be considered.

Materials Research Letters publishes papers with significant breakthroughs in materials science, including the materials science for unprecedented mechanical and functional properties, the mechanism for processing and formation of novel microstructures including, but not limited to, nanostructures, heterostructures and hierarchical structures, as well as the mechanisms, physics and chemistry responsible for the observed mechanical and functional behaviors of advanced materials.

The journal accepts original research letters, brief overviews of critical issues, and perspective pieces that present provocative and visionary opinions and views.

Editors-in-Chief: 

Prof. Yuntian T. Zhu - School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, China; and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State University, NC, USA
Heterogeneous materials, gradient materials, nanostructured metals, deformation twinning, deformation physics, crystalline defects, mechanical properties, microstructures, CNT composites, CNT film, CNT synthesis. 

Prof. Quanxi Jia - Department of Materials Design and Innovation, University at Buffalo – the State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA 
Nanostructured materials, multifunctional materials, thin films, high-temperature superconductivity, novel solid-state microelectronic/electro-optic devices, and semiconductor/energy materials and devices. 

Editors:
 
Prof. Michel W. Barsoum - Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA 
MAX and MXene phases, structural ceramics, high temperature reactions and oxidation, deformation of layered solids, electrical and thermal transport properties 

Prof. Long-Qing Chen - Penn State University , Pennsylvania, USA 
Mesoscale computational materials science, domain structures in ferroics, precipitate morphologies and Ostwald ripening, ionic transport in solid electrolytes, dielectric capacitor degradation and breakdown, multiscale modeling integrating atomistic/first principles calculations with phase-field method of with kinetic Monte Carlo method 

Prof. Michael Farle - University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany 
Spin- and orbitronics, magnetism in nanostructured metals and insulators, nanoparticles and clusters, thin films, surface/interface physics, magneto-calorics, magnetic shape memory alloys, magnetic characterization, high-resolution transmission electron spectroscopy
 
Prof. Suveen N. Mathaudhu -  University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA 
Physical metallurgy, bulk nanostructured materials, powder metallurgy, lightweight metals, deformation, mechanical behavior of materials
 
Prof. Amit Misra -  University of Michigan, USA
Nanomechanics, transmission electron microscopy, dislocation theory, structural metallic materials, thin films, multilayers, nanocomposites and nanostructured materials, radiation damage, physical vapour deposition, severe plastic deformation
 
Prof. Cewen Nan -  Tsinghua University, China 
Multiferroics and magnetoelectrics, functional composites
  
Prof. Srinivasan G. Srivilliputhur - University of North Texas, TX, USA
Computational materials science, atomistic modelling, development of high-fidelity interatomic potentials, ab-initio simulations, deformation behavior and defect physics, phase transformations and structure property-relations in metals and alloys, parallel computing and visualisation
 
Prof. Hyoung Seop Kim - Department of Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology), Pohang, Korea
Multi-scale mechanics and plasticity modeling, integrated microstructure-processing-property optimization, severe plastic deformation, high-entropy alloy, porous materials, crystal plasticity finite element method, architectured materials, heterogeneous and architectured materials, machine learning material design
 
Dr. María Teresa Pérez-Prado - Physical Metallurgy Group, IMDEA Materials Institute, Madrid, Spain
Microstructure, texture, grain boundaries, nanostructured materials, additive manufacturing, mechanical behavior, recrystallization, deformation mechanisms, magnesium, aluminum, titanium, zirconium, physical metallurgy
 
Prof. Nobuhiro Tsuji - Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 
Physical Metallurgy; Structural metallic materials; Steels; Non-ferrous metals and alloys; Microstructure control; Thermomechanical processing; Metal Working; Severe plastic deformation (SPD); Ultrafine grained (UFG) materials; Static and dynamic recrystallization; Dynamic transformation; Strength; Ductility; Digital image correlation (DIC)  
 
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Weissmüller - Institute for Materials Physics and Materials Technology, Hamburg Technical University, Hamburg, Germany
Interfaces in materials, interfacial mechanics, mechano-chemical coupling, nanomechanics, nanoplasticity, nanoporous metals, alloy corrosion, diffraction studies of nanomaterials, thermodynamics of nanomaterials


Editorial Review Board: 

 
 
S. Pamir Alpay -  University of Connecticut, USA
Kei Ameyama - Ritsumeikan University, Japan 
Ilke Arslan - Argonne National Laboratory, USA 
Irene Beyerlein -  University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Brad L. Boyce - Sandia National Laboratory, USA
Claudia Cantoni - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Daolun Chen - Ryerson University, Canada
Huiming Cheng - Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Atul H. Chokshi - Indian Institute of Science, India
Beth Dickey -   NC State University, North Carolina, USA
David Dunand - Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
Chang Beom Eom - University of Wisconsin, USA
Yuri Estrin - Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Qiang (Charles) Feng - University of Science and Technology of Beijing, China
Horst Hahn - Institute for Nanotechnology, Germany
Zenji Horita - Kyushu University, Japan
Shenyang  Hu - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA  
Chongxiang Huang - Sichuan University, China 
Mingxin Huang - The University of Hong Kong,  Hong Kong
Djamel Kaoumi - North Carolina State University, USA
Ibrahim Karaman - Texas A&M University, USA 
Tsuyoshi Kimura -  Osaka University, Japan
Nan Li - Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Xiaodong Li - University of Virginia, USA
Xiaozhou Liao - The University of Sydney, Australia 
Yi Lin - National Institute of Aerospace, USA
Jie Liu - Duke University, North Carolina, USA
Wei Liu - Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China 
Zikui Liu – Penn State University, USA
  Xujie Lü - Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, China
Alan A. Luo - Ohio State University, USA
Evan Ma – Johns Hopkins University, USA
Hans Jürgen Maier - Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Scott Mao - University of Pittsburgh, USA
Nathan Mara - University of Minnesota, USA 
Flavio Maran - University of Padova, Italy 
John-Paul Maria - Penn State University, USA
Dean Miller - Argonne National Laboratory, USA 
Andrew M. Minor - University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Rajiv S. Mishra - University of North Texas, USA 
Farghalli Mohamed – UC Irvine, USA
Jian-feng Nie - Monash University, Australia
Tae Won Noh - Seoul National University, Korea 
Marek Niewczas - McMaster University, Canada
Reinhard Pippan - Austria Academy of Science, Austria
K.T. Ramesh - Johns Hopkins University , USA
Simon Ringer - University of Sydney, Australia
Zhifeng Ren - University of Houston, USA
Xavier Sauvage - CNRS, Normandy University, France 
Kurt E. Sickafus - The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Joseph B. Tracy - North Carolina State University, USA 
Ming-Hung Tsai - National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan 
Mark Tschopp - Army Research Laboratory, USA  
Nobuhiro Tsuji - Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Ruslan Valiev - Ufa State Aviation Tech U, Russia 
Blas Pedro Uberuaga - Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Ben Wang - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Jian Wang - University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Yuzhi Wang - Ohio State University, USA
Dieter Wolf - Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Xiaolei Wu - Chinese Academy of Science, China
Michael Zehetbauer - Vienna University, Austria 
Haibo Zeng - Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Xiangyi Zhang - Yanshan University, China
 
Advisory Board:

P. M. Ajayan - Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
Ray Baughman - University of Texas, Dallas, Texas, USA
Tsu-Wei Chou -   University of Delaware, Delaware, USA
Niels Hansen -  Risø National Laboratory, Denmark
John Hirth – Washington State University, Washington, USA
Herbert Gleiter – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Chennupati Jagadish, Australian National University, Australia
Sungho Jin – UC San Diego, California, USA
Carl Koch - NC State University, North Carolina, USA
Terence Langdon - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Enrique Lavernia - UC Davis, California, USA
Ke Lu – Institute of Metal Research, Shenyang,China
Andreas Mortensen – EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Hael Mughrabi - U. Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
Amiya Mukherjee - UC Davis, California, USA
Jagdish Narayan - NC State University, North Carolina, USA
K.R. Rajagopal - Texas A&M University, USA 
David N. Seidman – Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
Chain Tsuan Liu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Julia Weertman - Northwestern University, Illinois, USA