Call For Proposals: Viewpoints at ACS Materials Letters

Viewpoints are an important staple manuscript type at ACS Materials Letters, providing authors with the opportunity to share their vision, stimulate discussion, and highlight recent innovations of interest to the materials science community in a short, easily digestible format. These manuscripts are typically invited by editors, and now prospective authors may submit a Viewpoint proposal for consideration to reach a broad and engaged audience.

What Are Viewpoints at ACS Materials Letters?

Viewpoints at ACS Materials Letters are short editorial features that comment on a specific research topic, provide educational insight into a research problem, or share scientific analysis/views on a materials-related topic.

What ACS Materials Letters Editors Look for in a Viewpoint

Viewpoints at ACS Materials Letters are focused editorial features that discuss and evaluate recent breakthroughs in the field through thoughtful commentary. They offer a rapid platform for researchers to communicate emerging ideas, field-shaping insights, and critical evaluations to drive materials research forward. A successful Viewpoint should offer a distinct, forward-thinking point of view of contemporary relevance to a particular field within materials science.

How to Submit a Viewpoint

Viewpoints are invited by the editorial team, and researchers can submit proposals for topics about which they wish to write. If your proposal is approved, you will be invited to submit a Viewpoint for consideration at ACS Materials Letters.

Authors who are interested in contributing a Viewpoint to ACS Materials Letters are encouraged to complete this form. If you have any questions, please contact the Managing Editor at managing.editor@materialslett.acs.org.

Highlighted Viewpoint Examples

High-Mobility Emissive Polymer Semiconductors: Decoding the Charge–Light Synergy for Multifunctional Optoelectronics
Jinyang Chen, Yunlong Guo*, and Yunqi Liu*

Pathways, Probes, and Puzzles of Broadband Luminescence in “Perovskite-Inspired” Materials
Simon Kahmann*

From Selenite to Diselenide-Containing Drug Delivery Systems
Chenxing Sun, Yizheng Tan, and Huaping Xu*

Diverse Polymeric Carbon Nitride-Based Semiconductors for Photocatalysis and Variations
Yuanxing Fang, Xianzhi Fu, and Xinchen Wang*

The Origin of Dual Emission in Antiparallel-Stacked Two-Dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks
Xing Li, Jingsi Qiao, Su Ying Quek, and Kian Ping Loh*

Sub-One-Nanometer Nanomaterials Showing Polymer-Analogue Properties
Simin Zhang, and Xun Wang*

Molecular Motion in the Solid State
Shunjie Liu, Yuanyuan Li, Haoke Zhang, Zheng Zhao, Xuefeng Lu, Jacky W. Y. Lam, and Ben Zhong Tang*

Hydrogels for Artificial Vitreous: From Prolonged Substitution to Elicited Regeneration
Pingqiang Cai, and Xiaodong Chen*