Review of Materials Research (RMR) is one of the two official journals of Chinese Materials Research Society launched in 2025. This is a broad-scope open-access journal published monthly. It provides an international hybrid platform to simultaneously disseminate original frontier research letters, brief or extended reviews, and authoritative strategy commentaries about developing new materials and innovating traditional materials.

This journal publishes four categories of high-quality papers: (1) flash reports of original cutting-edge research up to 6 printing pages every paper, (2) concise reviews of current materials research limited to 10-20 printing pages for one article, (3) comprehensive surveys of advanced materials progress with full length of 50-150 printing pages each, and (4) strategic commentaries of strategic materials research with predetermined length. Emphases are stressed on but not limited to structural materials, functional materials, energy materials, electronic materials, optical materials, magnetic materials, smart and biomaterials, nanometer and low-dimensional materials.

RMR follows the common tradition of materials research to concentrate on the scientific interrelations of “material design — processing control — microstructure modulation — performance optimization”. Consequently, it will not consider those submissions such as pure theoretical analyses or numerical computations without experimental validations, pure physical or chemical explorations of various substances, design and manufacture of structures and devices without academic significance, as well as metallurgical procedure or materials production.