International Journal of Materials Chemistry and Physics is a scholarly peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, bimonthly and fully refereed journal devoted to publishing new research that demonstrates a significant impact or advance of scientific understanding of interest to the short communications, full-length research papers and feature articles on interrelationships among structure, properties, processing and performance of materials. It welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and academic excellence. Papers will be published shortly after acceptance.