Welcome to the Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM) online submission and peer review system. STAM is an open access journal which provides an international forum for refereed research papers, topical reviews and focus issue papers covering all aspects of materials science. Emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary nature of materials science and issues at the forefront of the field, such as nano-, bio-, and ecomaterials. STAM is completely free to read, and there is no publication charge for authors. The costs of publication are covered by the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS). The intention of NIMS is to support free access to important research results at no cost to author or reader, through institution-sponsored open access. STAM is published by NIMS in partnership with IOP Publishing.

Authors

If you are a new user, you will need to register before you can login and submit your paper. After you have registered, your username and password will be e-mailed to you, so please be very careful to enter your correct e-mail address.

If you are an existing user, you do not need to re-register. Select login from the menu at the top, enter your username and password and then click the appropriate login button.

Items you can submit online
You can submit the following items either as individual files or uploaded together as a single ZIP file:

Manuscript, tables and figures: checked and prepared using the journal guidelines.
Multimedia: any number of additional multimedia items to be published with your paper.
Copyright form: a scanned copy of a signed assignment of copyright form (uploaded as a PDF). Alternatively, the signed copyright form can be mailed directly to the STAM editorial office.
Permissions: any permission letters you have in relation to figures or other material being reproduced from other sources.

Editors

Help for editors

All registered Editors may continue to login with their existing username and password.

Reviewers

Help for reviewers

Download Reviewer tutorial

You will receive an e-mail inviting you to referee papers, it will also contain your username and password. If you are both an author and a reviewer, you can perform both activities within the same account. Select login from the menu at the top and enter your username and password. Then click the Reviewer login button.

Registration and login

Once registered, you can change your username and password at anytime by clicking on the "Update my Information" link in the menu bar at the top of the screen. If you have received an e-mail from the journal containing your username and password please do not register again. Please note that everyone can login as an "Author" but the "Editor"and "Reviewer" roles require appropriate permissions assigned by the journal.

Help and assistance

If you have forgotten your password: click "login" and then select "Send Username/Password".

Contacting the journal office: you can contact the journal office at stam_office@nims.go.jp

Manuscript guidelines

Full instructions on preparing your manuscript are available from the STAM web site.