Cambridge Materials is a purpose-driven portfolio of four open access journals advancing the materials science needed to build a sustainable future. Focusing on Health, Water, Energy, and Circularity, the journals translate breakthrough research into solutions aligned with the relevant UN Sustainable Development Goals. Through rigorous, open, globally equitable publishing, we accelerate discoveries that improve health, secure clean water, enable clean energy, and support circular economies.

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.

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.

Cambridge Materials will:

1. Promote cross-disciplinary collaboration for the SDGs
2. Highlight high-impact research in sustainable materials
3. Enhance accessibility and public engagement
4. Provide a platform for trustworthy, high-quality, interdisciplinary research
5. 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.

The suite of journals is overseen by an Executive Editorial Board, formed of the Executive Editors-in-Chief and the four journal Editors-in-Chief.

Executive Editors-in-Chief:

• Professor David Haddleton, University of Warwick, UK
• Professor Jason Robinson, University of Cambridge, UK
• Professor Yanlei Yu, Fudan University, China

Editors-in-Chief:

• Cambridge Materials: Circularity – Professor Veena Sahajwalla, UNSW Sydney, Australia
• Cambridge Materials: Energy – Professor Tierui Zhang, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Cambridge Materials: Health – Professor Vincent Rotello, UMass Amherst, USA
• Cambridge Materials: Water – Dr Seth Darling, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Cambridge Materials Journals: