The new Editors

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As the number of submissions increases, we have added several new Editors. You will also have noticed that we have started to use a system of broad categories to group the published papers rather than ‘Original Paper’ or ‘Article’ which wasn’t terribly helpful. Our new Editors generally emphasize one of these categories, but some like Corinne Packard and Naiqin Zhao bridge several fields. Unfortunately, we have also said farewell to Mark Aindow after 13 years as an Editor of the Journal of Materials Science. Mark collected together the papers for the 50th Anniversary issue [J Mater Sci 51(1)] and organized the first years of the prestigious Cahn Prize, which Grant Norton now coordinates. We can’t thank him enough and wish him every success for the future. Mark’s expertise was broadly focused on metals (though he would also be excited by materials topics ranging from atomic resolution TEM to ice-cream wafers), so we are particularly pleased to welcome Antonia Antoniou and Nate Mara who work inter alia on metals. Mark Bissett and Kyle Brinkman both strengthen our coverage of Chemical Routes to Materials, but also bring a focus to our sections on Energy Materials. Polymer papers have long been a strength of the Journal of Materials Science with Bob Young having the record number of 77 published papers (an h-index of 30 just for these papers) and Steve Eichhorn’s review on cellulose (J Mater Sci 45(1) 1–33, 2010) having passed the 1000 citations. So it is a pleasure to welcome Dale Huber and Maude Jimenez—Maude joins Jaime Grunlan in emphasizing flame-retardant materials and Annela Seddon in the materials science aspects of biomaterials, while Dale links nano and polymers. …