Future Materials is an international peer-reviewed, open access, online journal dedicated to communicating recent progresses related to materials science and engineering in the field of energy conversion and storage. The journal publishes Articles, Communications, Mini/Reviews, Research Highlights and Perspectives with original research works focusing on the challenges of sustainable energy for the future.

Aims and Scope

Future Materials is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to publishing high-impact, pioneering research on disruptive materials that enable next generation technologies. The journal provides a global platform for fundamental discoveries, technological innovations, and interdisciplinary advances in materials science, aiming tot shape the future of science, engineering, and society.

As artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, quantum technologies, aerospace engineering, biotechnology, and sustainable development continue to reshape the technological landscape, materials science is entering a new era driven by intelligence, data-centric paradigms, automation, and digital innovation. Future Materials focuses on transformative materials research that addresses emerging technological challenges by deeply  integrating materials science with artificial intelligence, computational science, robotics, digital engineering, and advanced manufacturing.

Scope and Representative topics

The journal covers, but is not limited to, the following forward-looking research areas:

• Materials for Intelligent Systems - smart materials, functional materials, intelligent sensing, embodied intelligence, soft robotics, neuromorphic materials, and autonomous systems.
• Materials for Computing & Information Technologies - semiconductors, photonic and electronic materials, quantum materials, neuromorphic computing materials, and next-generation communication technologies.
• Materials for Advanced Manufacturing - intelligent manufacturing, additive 4D manufacturing, biofabrication, digital manufacturing, micro/nano-manufacturing, and scalable materials production.
• Materials for Space, Energy & Sustainability - aerospace materials, extreme-environment materials, energy storage and conversion materials, carbon capture and low-carbon technologies, circular economy, and sustainable/recyclable materials.
• Materials for Healthcare - biomaterials, regenerative materials, tissue engineering, bioelectronics, neural interfaces, wearable diagnostics, precision medicine, and advanced medical technologies.
• AI-Driven Materials Innovation - materials informatics, materials foundation models, generative AI, machine learning, autonomous laboratories, high-throughput experimentation, digital twins, physics-informed models, and inverse materials design.

Article Types and Audience

Future Materials publishes a variety of article types, including original Research Articles, comprehensive Reviews, Perspectives, Viewpoints, Communications, and Editorials. The journal targets a broad, interdisciplinary audience of materials scientists, chemists, physicists, engineers, computer scientists, and researchers in related fields who are driving the next wave of technological innovation.

Commitment to Excellence and Open Science

The journal particularly welcomes research demonstrating scientific originality, disruptive innovation, interdisciplinary integration, and transformative technological impact. We are committed to open science and encourage the sharing of underlying data, models, and code where applicable. Future Materials is committed to publishing the discoveries that define the next generation of materials and enable the technologies of tomorrow.

Ownership

The journal is owned by OAE Publishing Inc.

Publishing Model

Gold Open Access. All articles published by Future Materials are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately from the date of publication. For further information, please refer to Open Access.

Copyright and License to Publish

Articles in Future Materials are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The CC BY 4.0 allows for maximum dissemination and re-use of open access materials and is preferred by many research funding bodies. Under this license users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit) and remix (adapt) the contribution for any purposes, even commercially, provided that the users appropriately acknowledge the original authors and the source.

Copyright is retained by authors. Authors are required to sign a License to Publish (which can be downloaded from the journal's Author Instructions), granting Future Materials, which identifies itself as the original publisher, exclusive rights to publish their articles, and granting any third party the right to use the articles freely as long as the integrity is maintained and the original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.

Editorial Board

For more information about the editorial team, please refer to Editorial Board.

Editorial Policies

All manuscripts submitted to Future Materials should adhere to journal's Editorial Policies.

Peer Review

The journal adheres to rigorous peer review and undergoes single-blind peer review. For more details, please refer to Editorial Process and Peer Review Guidelines.

Publication Ethics Statement

Future Materials fully adheres to the Code of Conduct and the Best Practice Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The Editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to guarantee to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The Editors of Future Materials take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use CrossCheck (powered by iThenticate) to check submissions against previous publications.

Journal Information and Statistics

• Publication model: Gold Open Access 
• Frequency: Quarterly
• DOI: 10.20517/futmater
• Online ISSN: Coming soon
• Digital archive: Portico

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