Physical Review Materials (PRMaterials), launched in 2017, is a broad-scope journal publishing high-quality research on materials. The journal serves the multidisciplinary community working on the prediction, synthesis, processing, structure, properties, and modeling of a wide range of materials.

Materials research has grown rapidly in recent years and increasingly transcends conventional subject boundaries. PRMaterials provides a publication and reference venue to the expanding community of physicists, materials scientists, chemists, engineers, and scientists in related disciplines, carrying out high-quality, original research in materials. PRMaterials coordinates with other members of the Physical Review journal family to serve new subspecialties as they develop. As such, PRMaterials expands the scope of Physical Review’s journals, providing an explicit focus on materials research.

PRMaterials publishes Review Articles, Research Updates, detailed Research Articles, and Letters, which are short papers of particular significance and/or topical interest. The journal has a flexible approach to article lengths and welcomes submission of longer papers that provide depth and authority in their subject areas.

Like all of the journals in the Physical Review family, PRMaterials is shaped by researchers to serve the research community. This commitment ensures that its mission and standards prioritize the needs of researchers and authors, not commercial publishing interests. Physical Review’s reach is far and wide, with authors and referees from over 130 countries.

PRMaterials covers a wide range of topics on materials research, including:

Submitted manuscripts should meet the following criteria:

At the core of APS's mission is a commitment to meeting the needs of physicists, a community that has been at the leading edge of open access. As a result, APS supports a variety of sustainable access options:

The PRMaterials Editorial Board is a diverse, global group of active, distinguished scientists, selected by editors in consultation with APS units and appointed by the Editor in Chief. Board members serve three-year terms. They may be requested by the editors to advise at any stage of the review process and they serve as adjudicators in formal appeals.

PRMaterials is managed by a professional editorial team of Ph.D. scientists with extensive research experience at major academic institutions or research laboratories around the world. All editorial decisions are based on PRMaterials’ acceptance criteria.

PRMaterials authors gain high visibility and achieve broad dissemination of their work in this interdisciplinary journal. PRMaterials editors bring attention to outstanding research and elucidate its importance through a number of features:

All Physical Review journals share many common policies, covering professional conduct, publication rights, copyright, research involving animal and human subjects, and open access. A comprehensive Physical Review journals guide (including author and referee service details) and PRMaterials-specific editorial policies and practices are both available.

PRMaterials is published electronically one article at a time. Articles are identified by volume number and a six digit article article number, for example, Phys. Rev. Mater. 1, 010101 (2017).