The new international forum for applied materials science and engineering
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces is a new publication for the interdisciplinary community of chemists, engineers, physicists and biologists focusing on how newly-discovered materials and interfacial processes can be developed and used for specific applications. The journal publishes full length articles and letters from researchers in academia and industry in addition to featuring comments and forums dedicated to advancing applied materials research.

Topics covered by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces include:

• advanced active and passive electronic/optical materials
• coatings
• colloids
• biomaterials and bio-interfaces
• polymer materials
• hybrid and composite materials
• friction and wear

Editor-in-Chief Kirk Schanze answered your questions about ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

The introduction of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, with its focus on applications, enhances the portfolio of existing ACS publications focusing on fundamental materials science discovery, including Chemistry of Materials, Langmuir, Biomacromolecules, Macromolecules and The Journal of Physical Chemistry B and C.