Why now?
And why Cambridge Materials? The urgent global challenges of climate change, resource depletion, health inequities, and energy security underscore the need for a multidisciplinary research approach that supports sustainable development. The world's challenges are interconnected — and so is materials science.
Cambridge Materials will:
- Promote cross-disciplinary collaboration for the SDGs
- Highlight high-impact research in sustainable materials
- Enhance accessibility and public engagement
- Provide a platform for trustworthy, high-quality, interdisciplinary research
- Use open data and open peer review policies to underscore the reliability of the research
Please see our Cambridge Materials Aims & Scope document here for more information.
Focus: Sustainable materials systems and circular economies.
Editor-in-Chief: Professor Veena Sahajwalla
Focus: Materials enabling clean energy systems.
Editor-in-Chief: Professor Tierui Zhang
Focus: Materials advancing diagnostics, therapeutics, and wellbeing.
Editor-in-Chief: Professor Vincent Rotello
Focus: Materials solutions for water security and purification.
Editor-in-Chief: Dr Seth Darling
University of Warwick, UK
University of Cambridge, UK
Fudan University, China
Addressing these issues aligns closely with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly those that focus on ensuring access to clean energy (SDG 7), promoting good health and well-being (SDG 3), fostering industry innovation and infrastructure (SDG 9), ensuring responsible consumption and production (SDG 12), and taking action to combat climate change (SDG 13).
Existing, and more traditional, academic publishing outlets focus on specific aspects of material science, energy, or health - often segregating scientific, technological, and social research. To meet the challenges posed by the SDGs, the Cambridge Materials mission is to bridge these gaps and publish high-quality, interdisciplinary work that connects materials innovation with its real-world implications - environmental, societal, economic, and policy. We aim to bring discovery closer to deployment, and support a global community of researchers working at the forefront of sustainable materials science.
Read the introductory blog post
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Introducing Cambridge Materials [UPDATED February 2026]
- 17 November 2025,
- Announcing the launch of Cambridge Materials, a suite of four new journals dedicated to advancing materials science in the service of global sustainability....
Cambridge Materials: Circularity blog
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Cambridge Materials Q&A with Rumana Hossain
- 02 April 2026,
- As part of an ongoing series of Q&As with our Cambridge Materials Board Members, Dr Rumana Hossain, UNSW Sydney, Australia a Cambridge Materials: Circularity...
Cambridge Materials: Health blog
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Cambridge Materials: Health Q&A with Vincent Rotello
- 17 November 2025,
- Professor Vincent Rotello UMass, Amherst, USA is the recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Materials: Health. To celebrate the launch of the...
Cambridge Materials: Energy blog
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Cambridge Materials Q&A with Yat Li
- 24 March 2026,
- As part of an ongoing series of Q&As with our Cambridge Materials Board Members, Yat Li, UC Santa Cruz, USA, a Cambridge Materials: Energy Associate Editor...
Cambridge Materials: Water
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Cambridge Materials Q&A with Hao-Cheng Yang
- 17 March 2026,
- As part of an ongoing series of Q&As with our Cambridge Materials Board Members, Hao-Cheng Yang, Zhejiang University, China a Cambridge Materials: Water...