''Science and Technology of Advanced Materials'' is a

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in materials science that was established in 2000. In 2008 it became an

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through the sponsorship of the

National Institute for Materials Science is an Independent Administrative Institution and one of the largest scientific research centers in Japan. History The growth and development of today's scientific research center has passed through several phases in a number of locations: I ...

(NIMS). The journal is international; it is managed by NIMS, which was joined in 2014 by the

Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology The Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa, German acronym for ''Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt'') is an interdisciplinary Swiss research institute for applied materials sciences and tech ...

(Empa). Currently STAM is an electronic journal, its articles are continuously published online. Its sister journal, ''STAM Methods'', has been launched in 2021.

Scope

The journal covers all aspects of materials science, including theoretical analysis, synthesis and processing, phase and structure analyses, characterization, properties, engineering, and applications. It covers advances in research on solids, liquids and colloids, with emphasis on the interdisciplinary nature of materials science and issues at the forefront of the field, such as nano-, bio- and eco- and energy materials.

License

Since March 2014, STAM articles are published under a Creative Commons

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license, while the previous content is either copyrighted or released within a non-commercial CC-BY-NC-SA platform.

Indexing

STAM is indexed by major databases including the

Astrophysics Data System The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is an online database of over 16 million astronomy and physics papers from both peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed sources. Abstracts are available free online for almost all articles, and full scanned ...

Chemical Abstracts Service CAS (formerly Chemical Abstracts Service) is a division of the American Chemical Society. It is a source of chemical information. CAS is located in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Print periodicals ''Chemical Abstracts'' is a periodical index th ...

, Inspec,

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and Web of Science.

Impact

According to the ''

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'', STAM has a 2021

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of 7.821. STAM has published articles and editorials by the Nobel Laureates

Ei-ichi Negishi was a Japanese chemist who was best known for his discovery of the Negishi coupling. He spent most of his career at Purdue University in the United States, where he was the Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor and the director of the Negi ...

Heinrich Rohrer Heinrich Rohrer (6 June 1933 – 16 May 2013) was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst ...

and

Dan Shechtman Dan Shechtman ( he, דן שכטמן; born January 24, 1941)Dan Shechtman
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. Its editorial board includes

Katsuhiko Ariga is a Japanese chemist specializing in nanotechnology and self-assembly. He was educated at the Tokyo Institute of Technology is a national research university located in Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Tokyo Tech is the largest institution f ...

Robert Chang Robert P. H. Chang is an American materials scientist who served as the president of the Materials Research Society (1989) and as a general secretary and president of the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS). Currently Ch ...

James Gimzewski James Kazimierz Gimzewski FRS FREng FInstP is a Scottish physicist of Polish descent who pioneered research on electrical contacts with single atoms and molecules and light emission using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM).James K. Gimzewski ...

Michael Grätzel Michael Grätzel (born 11 May 1944, in Dorfchemnitz, Saxony, Germany) is a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where he directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He pioneered research on energy and electron t ...

Hideo Hosono , Foreign Member of the Royal Society, ForMemRS, is a Japanese material scientist most known for the discovery of iron-based superconductors. Career and research Hosono is also a pioneer in developing transparent oxide semiconductors: he propos ...

Colin Humphreys Sir Colin John Humphreys, (born 24 May 1941) is a British physicist. He is the Professor of Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London. He is the former Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge and the ...

Yoshinori Tokura is a Japanese physicist, Professor at University of Tokyo and Director of Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) at RIKEN. He is a specialist in physics of strongly correlated electron systems and known for his work in high-temperature su ...

and Yoshihisa Yamamoto.Editorial Board
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References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tsta20 (English)
Japanese websiteSTAM hub
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