Iontronics is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing the science and technology of iontronics, an emerging field at the intersection of materials science, electrochemistry, soft electronics, and bioinspired systems. By focusing on the unique role of ions as charge and mass carriers, the journal provides a high-impact platform for pioneering research that drives innovations in information processing, energy conversion, signal transduction, and intelligent control.
Aims and Scope
Iontronics's mission is to support the academic and industrial communities by accelerating innovation, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, and guiding the development of iontronic devices and systems with real-world applications. Iontronics aims to inspire transformative research, bridge fundamental understanding with practical implementation, and establish a foundation for the next generation of ionic technologies that can address global challenges in health, energy, intelligent robotics, and sustainability.
Iontronics welcomes articles covering fundamental, applied, and translational advances related to ionic charge transport and ion-enabled systems. This includes but is not limited to:
- Ionic energy harvesting and storage
- Soft iontronic and bioelectronic interfaces
- Ionic logic, computing, and memory devices
- Nanofluidics and nanotechnology
- Neuromorphic iontronic systems
- Triboiontronics and mechanoionic coupling
- Nanoconfined catalysis and reactions
- Ionic conductors, gels, and soft matter systems
- Bioinspired sensors and actuators
- Electrochemical and ion-mediated signal transduction
- Theoretical modeling and simulation of ionic transport
- Scalable fabrication and integration of iontronic devices
- Hybrid system integrations
- AI-empowered iontronic systems for healthcare, robotics, and environmental applications
- Policy work and techno-economic analyses
Ownership
The journal is owned by OAE Publishing Inc.
Publishing Model
Gold Open Access. All articles published by Iontronics 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 Iontronics 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 Iontronics, 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.
Editors and Editorial Board
For more information about the editorial team, please refer to Editorial Board.
Editorial Policies
All manuscripts submitted to Iontronics should adhere to journal's Editorial Policies.
Peer Review
The journal adheres to rigorous peer review and undergoes double-blind peer review. For more details, please refer to Editorial Process.
Publication Ethics Statement
Iontronics 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 Iontronics 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 published
- DOI: 10.20517/iontronics
- ISSN 3070-6483 (Online)
- Digital archive: Portico
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