Aims & Scope

Materials Letters is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to rapid communications on the science, applications, and processing of materials.

Materials Letters is dedicated to publishing novel, cutting edge reports of broad interest to the materials community. The journal provides a forum for materials scientists and engineers, physicists, and chemists to rapidly communicate on the most important topics in the field of materials.

Contributions include, but are not limited to, a variety of topics such as:

    Materials - Metals and alloys, amorphous solids, ceramics, composites, polymers, semiconductors, biomaterials and biological materials, advanced materials, metamaterials, high-entropy alloys, nitrides, and oxides.
    Applications - Structural, opto-electronic, magnetic, biomedical, MEMS, sensors, electronics, smart materials, additive manufacturing, membranes, materials for energy systems, batteries, photocatalysis.
    Characterization - Analytical, microscopy, scanning probes, nanoscopic, optical, electrical, magnetic, acoustic, spectroscopic, diffraction.
    Novel Materials - Micro and nanostructures (nanowires, nanotubes, nanoparticles), nanocomposites, thin films, superlattices, quantum dots.
    Processing - Crystal growth, thin film processing, sol-gel processing, solvo-hydrothermal processing, mechanical processing, assembly, nanocrystalline processing, sustainable/green processing routes.
    Properties - Mechanical, magnetic, optical, electrical, ferroelectric/piezoelectric, thermal, interfacial, transport, thermodynamic, photoelectrochemical, photocatalytic, thermoelectric, biological, electrochemical.
    Synthesis - Quenching, solid state, mechano-chemical, solidification, solution synthesis, vapor deposition, high pressure, explosive, MOVPE and LPE epitaxial processes, single crystal growth.
    Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence - Materials discovery, design of materials and digital materials science.

Special Issue on Electrophoretic Deposition: Fundamentals and Applications
Submission Date: 2026-05-15

EPD is a valuable route for materials processing in which the scientific and industrial communities have been intensively researching mainly due to its versatility and scalability. This process steps up advantages of new approaches in today key sectors, such as biotechnology, energy, sensing and functionalization. It can be also considered a rapid prototyping and/or additive manufacturing method which allows the layer-by-layer assembly of organic molecules (biopolymers and natural polymers) and/or atomic clusters in thin functional layers, as well as grow coatings by packing particles or nanoparticles and/or immobilise nanoentities (ceramic, metal, polymers and biologic) at the surface of complex shape substrates (from scaffolds to electrodes). EPD is compatible with most nanotechnologies and it enables the accurate manufacture of single-phase materials or composites, exploting the combination of micro and nano-properties in the macroscale.

Guest editors:

Aldo Boccaccini, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Begoña Ferrari, CSIC - Instituto de Ceramica y Vidrio (ICV), Madrid, Spain
Andrew Pascall, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
Fabien Grasset, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
Kiyofumi Katagiri, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Japan

Manuscript submission information:

Submission Deadline: 15 May 2026

Submission Site: Editorial Manager®

Article Type Name: "VSI: Electrophoretic Deposition" - please select this item when you submit manuscripts online.

All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed. Submissions will be evaluated based on originality, significance, technical quality, and clarity. Once accepted, articles will be posted online immediately and published in a journal regular issue within weeks. Articles will also be simultaneously collected in the online special issue.

For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, welcome to contact the Leading Guest Editor.

For more information about our Journal, please visit our ScienceDirect Page: Material Letters.

Keywords:

Biomaterials, Biofabrication, Sensing, Functionalization, Energy, Colloidal Chemistry, Scaffolds, Nanoentities, Nanoparticles, Ceramics, Metals, Polymers, Composites, Thin Films, Coatings.