Guidelines for Section Selection for Physical Review Materials
Principal subjects are listed with examples of specific topics as guides for sectioning. Comments on the sectioning scheme in general are welcome. Authors are encouraged to suggest in the letter of submittal the most appropriate section for their manuscripts. The list of specific topics is by no means exhaustive and there is redundancy under some topics to accommodate papers that could appear in more than one area.
| Section M1-A, Crystal growth, crystallization, and kinetics: Materials synthesis, single crystal growth epitaxy, thin films, surfaces, heterostructures, multilayers, theory and modeling of growth. |
| Section M2-A, Structural and mechanical properties: Elastic properties, plasticity, grain boundaries and other interfaces, dislocations, defects, nanomechanics, high pressure, irradiation; materials structure, and structural phase transformations; lattice/structural dynamics. |
| Section M3-A, Development of new methods for materials: Development of experimental, theoretical, and computational methods; Microscopy, spectroscopy, scattering methods; materials by design; new models; from atomistic to continuum, multiscale modeling, ab initio, and empirical methods. |
| Section M4-A, Two-dimensional materials: Graphene and graphene-based materials, silicene, silicane, germanene, germanane, transition-metal dichalcogenides, boron nitride, composite 2D materials, other novel two-dimensional materials. |
| Section M5-A, Topological and Dirac materials: 2D and 3D topological insulators, 3D Dirac semimetals, Weyl semimetals, Chern insulators, other novel materials with nontrivial topology. |
| Section M6-A, Magnetic, ferroelectric, and multiferroic materials: Magnetic metals and alloys, magnetic compounds, magnetic semiconductors, magnetic insulators, materials for spin electronics, hard/soft magnets, shape memory alloys, multiferroic bulk materials and thin films, ferroelastics, pyroelectrics, piezoelectrics. |
| Section M7-A, Semiconducting materials: Bulk, surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and heterostructures; defects, compounds, quantum wells, and quantum dots; film growth and characterization; organic semicponductors; amorphous semiconductors; new semiconducting materials. |
| Section M8-A, Superconducting materials: Bulk and thin films; cuprates, magnesium diboride, pnictides, organic salts, fullerenes and carbon nanotubes, rare-earth and actinide compounds, noncentrosymmetric superconductors, strongly disordered and amorphous superconductors, and other novel superconducting materials. |
| Section M9-A, Other electronic materials: Metals and insulators, oxides, dielectrics, strongly correlated, metal alloys, intermetallics, rare earths and rare-earth compounds, actinides, organometallics. |
| Section M10-A, Metamaterials, optical, photonic, and plasmonic materials: Terahertz, photonic and microwave metamaterials. Plasmonic and dielectric metamaterials. Negative index, bi-isotropic and bianisotropic, chiral, and other novel metamaterials. Acoustic, elastic, structural, and nonlinear metamaterials. Photonic and phononic crystals. Nanophotonics and nanoplasmonics materials. |
| Section M11-A, Materials for energy harvesting, storage, and generation: Photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, hydrogen generation and storage, water splitting and photocatalysis, magnetocalorics. |
| Section M12-A, Soft, molecular, and amorphous materials: Soft materials, polymers, self-assembly, gels, foams, liquid crystals; molecular conductors and molecular magnets; glasses, amorphous solids, colloids, granular and porous materials; biomaterials. |
| Section M13-A, Materials for catalysis and electrochemistry: photocatalysis and electrocatalysis; chemical, photochemical, or electrochemical conversions with emphasis on the electronic, optical and structural properties; ultrafast phenomena at interfaces. |
| Section M14-A, Nanomaterials: nanostructures, nanocomposites, nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, molecular junctions, nanocontacts, molecular magnets, nanomagnets, clusters, nanopores. |
| Section M15-A, Materials for quantum technologies: Materials for quantum information science, quantum computation, quantum sensing, quantum communication, and other quantum technologies. |
