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Solids: Exciting Research Should Be Accessible to the General Public—A Plea for a New Open Access Journal

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EditorialSolids: Exciting Research Should Be Accessible to theGeneral Public—A Plea for a New OpenAccess JournalGuido KickelbickInorganic Solid-State Chemistry, Saarland University, Campus Building C4 1, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany;guido.kickelbick@uni-saarland.de; Tel.: +49-681-302-70651Received: 16 December 2020; Accepted: 17 December 2020; Published: 21 December 2020 Solid-state sciences continue to be one of the key pillars of scientific and technological progress inour society. Future challenges in energy production and use, materials for longer lasting products,health care related materials, or those for exploring space have their birthplace in the lab of solid-statescientists. Often only small variations on the atomistic scale in such materials have large consequencesin their macroscopic properties. Intriguing effects such as magnetism, pyroelectricity, thermoelectricity,superconductivity, or optical and electronic properties are examples of how fundamental knowledgeof the solid-state phenomena can be transformed in high-tech materials. Many times, we can onlyunderstand the working principle if we look very closely into the atomistic world and into therespective atomistic ordering of the material. Thus, when dealing with the solid-state, we must targetthe fundamentals of the materials to show the fascination of this topic not only to colleagues but alsoto students and the public. Therefore, with this journal we are addressing a field at the borderlinebetween fundamental science, technology, and society. While in the past many scientific insights wereproduced in a single lab, interdisciplinary work is now promoted to understand materials and todevelop new approaches to solid-state properties. In particular, the borderlines between the disciplinesare interesting playing fields in which science develops dramatically.Solids, an open-access international journal by MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), focuses on the broadfield of solid-state materials. It is a forum for outstanding scientific results, the discussion of new ideasand a detailed view on both the fundamentals and applications of the solid-state. The journal publishesrigorously peer-reviewed original research papers, review articles, short communications, and opinionpieces on emerging research topics. We also welcome negative results as they may also advance thecommunity. Thus, we explicitly encourage all authors to communicate them. We are committed to theeducation of young scientists and therefore particularly welcome contributions carrying the fascinationof solid-state materials to students. Special Issues on selected scientific topics will multifacetedlyilluminate current trends in science, thus raising the interest of more scientists in the field.Both the editorial board and the journal staff are committed to making Solids the leading openaccess journal in the field of solid-state research. Committed to the scientific community, only articles ofinterest to a broad readership will be published that meet the high scientific standards of the reviewersand of the editorial board. Following the open-access policy, all articles in Solids are published underthe terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. Solids is available free of charge to readersaround the world, and copyright remains with the author(s).On behalf of the entire Editorial Board, I invite you to submit your exciting work and proposals forSpecial Issues to Solids, and I look forward to your contributions. Together we will develop a journalthat will become a central building block for knowledge within our community. Let’s make it happen!Conflicts of Interest: The author declares no conflict of interest.Solids 2020, 1, 47–48; doi:10.3390/solids1010005 www.mdpi.com/journal/solidsSolids 2020, 1 48Short Biography of AuthorGuido Kickelbick holds a chair of Inorganic Solid-State Chemistry at the Saarland University(Germany). He studied chemistry at the University of Würzburg (Germany) and carried out hisPh.D. thesis in the group of Ulrich Schubert at the University of Würzburg and the Vienna Universityof Technology on sol–gel derived surface-modified metal oxo clusters. After receiving his Ph.D.degree in 1997, he was awarded an Erwin-Schrödinger post-doctoral fellowship with KrzysztofMatyjaszewski at the Center for Macromolecular Engineering at the Carnegie Mellon Universityin Pittsburgh (USA) on the application of controlled radical polymerization in the formation ofhybrid materials. In 1998, he returned to Vienna University of Technology, where he carried out hishabilitation until 2003. At the end of 2003, he was promoted to the position of Associate Professorat Vienna University of Technology. In 2009, he accepted the call to a chair of Inorganic Solid-StateChemistry at Saarland University. His fields of research are hybrid materials and nanocomposites aswell as surface-functionalized nanoparticles, with a particular focus on the combination of organicpolymers with inorganic components. Recent contributions additionally address mechanochemistryand continuous synthesis of solid-state materials. Guido Kickelbick published more than 200 paperson different aspects of inorganic, polymer, and materials chemistry. He authored one textbook andedited several books.Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutionalaffiliations.© 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open accessarticle distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution(CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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