This is the last issue for which I am acting as the editor-in-chief of Chemistry of Materials. It is been almost 7 years, and I have enjoyed every single day. Since I joined the journal after 5 years at ACS Nano as an associate editor in September of 2013, I have had the honor of working with a dynamic and incredible team of editors and ACS staff, and innumerable colleagues across the journal family. I got to know so many of you in person at meetings and conferences around the world, via Twitter, and through your manuscripts. There are numerous internet memes of the following flavor, in which a reader is asked to choose two highly treasured and desirable things from a list of 3, and only two. In my world, those 3 options were (i) running Chemistry of Materials as the editor-in-chief, (ii) keeping my “day” job of an academic, running a research group + teaching + service, and (iii) ensuring that my family would continue to recognize me when I walked through the door at home. Relentless and increasing workloads coupled with the fact that (ii) and (iii) are not optional led me to this difficult decision almost a year ago. We have done so much together. In 2014, we introduced our Up & Coming series of perspectives by early career rising stars (link here to the full list), and it comprises over 70 remarkable and compelling pieces from around the globe. To try to help the materials community with more enabling “how to” articles and to address reproducibility, we launched our methods/protocols manuscript type in 2018 (link here to the full list). We have published well over 100 editorials since 2014 with the goals of supporting and informing the community over a broad range of topics, from insights into publishing, to advice on writing titles that clinch a potential reader’s attention, to more informative experimental sections, among many topics. We have tried hard to stay in close contact with the materials chemistry community through Twitter (@ChemMater), and I am so grateful for all your feedback and input—your energy and ideas made us better. So, I thank you everyone for the opportunity to serve you, and I wish the very best to the new Editor-in-Chief (and at this writing, I do not know who that is), to the editorial team and staff, and to the community as a whole. Best wishes and great science. Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS. This article has not yet been cited by other publications.

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感谢您为材料化学界服务的机会

这是我担任材料化学主编的最后一期。已经快7年了，我每天都很开心。自2013年9月我在ACS Nano担任了5年副刊编辑以来，我一直很荣幸能与一支充满活力和令人难以置信的编辑团队和ACS员工以及期刊家族中无数的同事一起工作。我通过Twitter和您的手稿在世界各地的会议上亲自认识了很多人。有许多具有以下风味的网络模因，要求读者从3个列表中选择2个非常珍贵且令人向往的东西，只有2个。在我的世界中，这3个选项是（i）运行材料化学作为总编辑，（ii）保持我的学术工作的“日常”工作，运行研究小组+教学+服务，（iii）确保当我走过门口时，家人会继续认出我来家。不断增加的工作量，加上（ii）和（iii）并非可有可无的事实，使我在大约一年前做出了这个艰难的决定。我们在一起做得很多。2014年，我们通过职业早期的后起之秀介绍了Up＆Coming系列观点（链接到完整列表），其中包括来自全球的70多个杰出且引人注目的作品。为了尝试帮助材料界提供更多使能的“操作方法”文章并解决可重复性问题，我们于2018年推出了方法/协议手稿类型（链接到完整列表）。自2014年以来，我们已经发表了100余篇社论，目标是在广泛的主题上为社区提供支持和信息，从见解到出版，到提供吸引潜在读者注意的标题的建议，再到内容丰富的实验部分，等等。话题。我们一直努力通过Twitter（@ChemMater）与材料化学界保持密切联系，我非常感谢您的所有反馈和意见-您的精力和想法使我们变得更好。因此，我感谢大家为您提供服务的机会，并祝新任总编辑（在撰写本文时，我不知道那是谁），编辑团队和工作人员一切顺利。整个社区。最好的祝愿和伟大的科学。本社论中表达的观点只是作者的观点，不一定是ACS的观点。本文尚未被其他出版物引用。