The journal was established in 1988 as a supplement to the general chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie and remained part of that journal for the first eighteen months of its existence. Founder and editor-in-chief was Peter Goelitz (then editor of Angewandte Chemie).[2] The current editors-in-chief are Irem Bayindir-Buchhalter and Esther Levy.[3]
Originally the journal appeared monthly; it switched to fifteen issues in 1997, eighteen issues in 1998, and twenty-four issues in 2000. In 2009, it started to publish weekly, with forty-eight issues per year. Since 2018, it publishes fifty-two issues per year.
Sister journals
As the volume of research in materials science increased significantly since the 1990s, several journals have been spun off, including:
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