Celebrating a New Year with 2024 Highlights at Chemistry of Materials

As we enter 2025, we want to take time to thank our nearly 1000 published authors and even more submitting authors. We also want to thank ∼2400 reviewers that made the past year possible. Your scientific contributions and expertise maintain the journal’s high standards and make Chemistry of Materials an exciting platform for scientific exchange. We also want to thank our editorial team, advisory board, ACS support team, and broader community members who have brought excellent ideas forward and supported special initiatives, as highlighted by the virtual special collections Celebrating the Life and Scientific Legacy of Professor Francis J. DiSalvo and Professor CNR Rao at 90 as well as our invited editorials on the Future of Zeolites and Future Directions on Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization. The journal’s editorial pages continue to offer insights into scientific practices, with The Rituals of Rejection receiving a high number of views. Additionally, we want to thank Rosa Palacin and Leslie Schoop for their completed service at Chemistry of Materials. They have been key members of the editorial team. Professor Palacin was recruited by previous Editor-in-Chief Jillian Buriak in response to the rapidly growing area of electrochemical energy generation and storage and has helped to solidify Chemistry of Materials as a scientific home for such research over her eight years as an Associate Editor. Professor Schoop has been a champion for quantum materials within the journal’s pages for the last three years as a Topical Editor while also inviting many early career scientists to share their scientific perspectives with the community. We now welcome Dr. Yan-Yan Hu from Florida State University as a Topical Editor. She brings expertise in in situ solid-state NMR to study energy materials to the journal’s team, along with broad knowledge of solid-state chemistry. To celebrate the research in Chemistry of Materials from 2024, we have selected─in addition the five above-referenced editorials─25 manuscripts from the past year that are either highly cited, highly engaged with, or editor recommended. They showcase the forefront of materials chemistry, with battery and porous materials continuing to be well-represented as well as catalytic materials, hydrogels and nanoscale therapeutics, 2D materials, and organic photovoltaic materials making our list. Of note is the increase in papers that incorporate artificial intelligence or machine learning compared to previous years. Again, we offer our thanks to our authors, reviewers, readers, and the team at Chemistry of Materials for your essential contributions. Wishing you all the best in the new year! This article has not yet been cited by other publications.