Advanced Science - Top Science with Maximum Accessibility.

Abstract

Imagine you've just made an exciting breakthrough and you need to get it published fast, but you don't want to publish it just anywhere. This is an important discovery – it demands to be published alongside the best research, and it deserves to be shared with the world, not just with those paying for a journal subscription. More than that, you want the paper to be handled by independent, experienced editors, in a reputable publishing house that offers not only the highest quality production and professional and high-profile promotion of its papers. Then here's your new journal: Advanced Science. We are proud to announce the launch of Advanced Science, Wiley's new premium interdisciplinary open access journal. Advanced Science is based on the strong principles that underpin our top journals, including Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie, The EMBO Journal, and Cancer. It will publish cutting-edge research, selected through a strict and fair reviewing process and presented using the highest-quality production standards to create a premium open access journal. Advanced Science will enable authors who are enthusiastic about open access and/or mandated to publish in fully open access journals to take advantage of Wiley's publishing excellence. Unlike the other titles of the Advanced Materials journal family, in Advanced Science, we go far beyond the scope of classical materials science. Advanced Science will cover fundamental and applied research in materials science, physics and chemistry, medical and life sciences, as well as engineering. To ensure that Advanced Science attracts and selects the highest quality papers, we have appointed the following top scientists from a broad variety of research fields to the Executive Advisory Board. The article publication charge (APC) for Advanced Science is $4500, with a 10% discount offered to authors who transfer an article to Advanced Science from another Advanced journal (after review). The APC includes Open Access from the moment an article is published: the authors retain the copyright for the work under a CC-BY license. Authors will have the option to have their work featured on the cover and/or as a frontispiece in the online issue. The first issue of Advanced Science contains outstanding contributions from various top scientists. Geoffrey Ozin's group describes the importance of both thermal and photochemical effects for the photomethanation of gas-phase CO2 over Ru nanoparticles sputtered onto black silicon nanowires. In the opinion of a reviewer, this is “a typical ‘food for thought' paper … and will find immediate value and impact. More of such work clears up thinking in science!” In their progress report, Frederik Krebs and co-workers address the large-area production of electrodes for solar cells, especially from the point of view of cost-reduction. With recent progress on power conversion efficiency and lifetime of organic photovoltaics, large-scale processing and cost reduction are issues that need to be urgently addressed. The authors show that use of indium tin oxide is not necessary anymore, and all-additive fabrication routes are now state-of-the-art. Thomas Anthopoulos (Imperial College London, UK) Zhenan Bao (Stanford University, USA) Siegfried Bauer (Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria) Frank Caruso (University of Melbourne, Australia) Gianaurellio Cuniberti (TU Dresden, Germany) Martin Fussenegger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Stefan Hecht (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany) Andreas Herrmann (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Wilhelm Huck (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Yanglong Hou (Peking University, China) Masaki Inagaki (Aichi Cancer Research Institute, Japan) Takashi Kato (University of Tokyo, Japan) Ali Khademhosseini (Harvard, USA) Frederik Krebs (Technical University of Denmark) Jean-Marie Lehn (University of Strasbourg, France) Minghua Liu (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) Geoffrey Ozin (University of Toronto, Canada) Patrick Rinke (Aalto University, Finland) Alex Shluger (University College London, UK) Dan Wang (Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) Fei Wei (Tsinghua University, China) George Whitesides (Harvard, USA) Deqing Zhang (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) Bing Zhu (National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China) Dan Wang and his group present an earth-abundant, low-cost, environmentally friendly, and high-performance electrode material achieved through a scalable and controllable process. While the synthesis of a multi-shell nanostructure had been previously established by the Wang group, the current work on Mn2O3 multi-shell constitutes a synthetic breakthrough, and the material shows a record high capacity as electrode materials. These papers, and more research highlights, can be found in the first issue of Advanced Science. We are an experienced, international editorial team and will run the journal in our best in-house editorial tradition, striving to make Advanced Science the journal of choice for your top-quality open access publications. The journal is now open for submission at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/advancedscience/ We would be happy to receive your input and comments at [email protected] On behalf of the whole editorial team, I am looking forward to reading your top papers. Kirsten Severing Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Science