This peer-reviewed, open access journal is a partnership between ACS and ShanghaiTech University, and it will publish photon-based scientific research and technical innovations.
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and ShanghaiTech University are proud to announce the launch of Photon Science, a peer-reviewed, open access journal that will publish photon-based scientific research and technical innovations.
The journal will be led by its inaugural Editor-in-Chief, Wanli Yang, Ph.D.,Senior Staff Scientist in the Advanced Light Source division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA.
Photon Science will be an interdisciplinary journal with a focus on scientific studies of chemical transformation and energy materials based on photon, electron, and neutron facilities. The journal will also report breakthroughs in instrumentation, methodology, and big-data research with the potential for advancing chemistry and materials science.
“We are thrilled to extend our partnership with ShanghaiTech University to establish Photon Science as a home for research that advances this expansive field,” said ACS Publications Senior Vice President and Chief Publishing Officer Sarah Tegen, Ph.D. “We’re eager to work alongside Editor-in-Chief Dr. Yang to build Photon Science into an influential and preeminent journal that serves this scientific community.”
“We are excited to collaborate with ACS Publications to create this new journal, Photon Science. Photon science is an emerging and important area, particularly with new large facilities driving the creation and development of new sciences,” said Professor Zhi Liu, Ph.D., Vice Provost of ShanghaiTech University. “This journal will be a very important platform for this community, and we are glad that ShanghaiTech can contribute to the community in part through this journal’s development.”
Dr. Yang has been recognized for his seminal works on identifying and quantifying reaction centers in electrochemical systems through resonant soft X-ray inelastic scattering. His research interests include both technical innovations in spectroscopy and sciences in energy and quantum materials.
He earned his Ph.D. degree in Physics from Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, and his B.S. degree in Physics from Shandong University, China. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, USA. He has published more than 360 papers in peer reviewed journals, mostly based on synchrotron-based X-ray spectroscopy.
“The last several decades have witnessed significant technical advances in large-scale particle facilities, including photon, electron, and neutron sources. An important trend is the substantial growth in employing these modern facilities for studying chemical systems to serve the societal needs in energy, technology, and healthcare. Photon Science was brought forth in response to this dramatic evolution of facility sciences,” said Dr. Yang.
“I am excited to be the founding Editor-in-Chief and hope this journal will become the platform for researchers from the vast field of physics, chemistry, material and life sciences to share technical breakthroughs, methodology developments, and scientific findings based on modern photon, neutron, and electron facilities.”
The new journal will begin accepting submissions in early 2025 and will publish its first issue in mid 2025. It will publish original, peer-reviewed research in the form of articles, communications, reviews, perspectives, and methods/protocols, and diverse editorial materials including editorials and commentaries.
Photon Science will also offer introductory no-fee open access publication. Article publishing charges (APCs) will be automatically waived for all articles submitted by December 31, 2027, if they are accepted following the robust peer review expected of every ACS Publications journal.
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ShanghaiTech University is a young, dynamic university with a modern campus in the heart of Shanghai Pudong’s Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park. With the backing and support of Shanghai Municipal Government and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ShanghaiTech is committed to tackling the challenges that China and the world are facing in the fields of energy, materials, environment, human health, biological medical engineering, data science, artificial intelligence and electrical engineering. ShanghaiTech promotes a student-centered educational approach, encouraging cross-disciplinary research to nurture the next generation of leading scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs.
