Synthetic Metals Explained

Synthetic Metals should not be confused with Synthesis of precious metals.

Synthetic Metals
Cover:Synthetic Metals.gif
Editor:Ifor D.W. Samuel
Discipline:Materials science
Abbreviation:Synth. Met.
Publisher:Elsevier
Frequency:24/year
History:1979–present
Impact:3.266
Impact-Year:2020
Website:http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/504105/description#description
Link1:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03796779
Link1-Name:Online access
Oclc:5540596
Lccn:80648575
Coden:SYMEDZ
Issn:0379-6779

Synthetic Metals is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering electronic polymers and electronic molecular materials.

Abstracting and indexing

Synthetic Metals is abstracted and indexed in the following services:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.266. It has published several highly cited papers (1 with ~1000 citations;[1] 5 with >600 citations; 30 with >200 citations, according to Web of Science); most of them are devoted to conductive polymers (especially polyaniline) and one to optical properties of carbon nanotubes[2] (see Kataura plot).

Notes and References

  1. Jin-Chih Chianga, Alan G MacDiarmid . 1986 . Polyaniline: Protonic acid doping of the emeraldine form to the metallic regime . Synthetic Metals . 13 . 1–3 . 193–205 . 10.1016/0379-6779(86)90070-6.
  2. H. Kataura. 1999 . Optical Properties of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes . Synthetic Metals . 103 . 1–3 . 2555–2558 . 10.1016/S0379-6779(98)00278-1. etal.