Applied Physics A - Special Issue for the XVI Polish Conference for Fast Ionic Conductors
The local Polish conference “Przewodniki Szybkich Jonów” will take place from 16 to 19 April 2024 at the Hotel Warszawa, Augustów, Poland. After the pandemic time break, we seek to meet the whole Polish community of scientists working on ionic conducting materials, ion transport mechanisms, and electrochemical devices. We are pleased to announce that the special session devoted to prof. Franciszek Krok, with unique lectures given by prof Isaac Abrahams, prof. Joachim Maier and prof. Michel Armand, will take place at the first conference day). The conference will allow you to present your latest results and strengthen collaboration between different groups. A Special Issue of Applied Physics A is here organized with all conference participants being invited to submit a contribution. Considering your expertise and research alignment with the scope of this conference, we cordially invite you to join us at PSJ conference and contribute a manuscript to the special issue.
Editors
Marcinek Marek (lead GE) – Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw POLAND
Maciej Marczewski – Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw POLAND
Leszek Niedzicki – Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw POLAND
Jarosław Syzdek – Bio-Logic Science Instruments, Knoxville, TN 37923, USA
Timeline
Submissions start date: April 19, 2024
Submission deadline: May 30, 2024
Instructions for Authors
The sections below outline the submission instructions for authors. For any questions, please contact Dr. Fabio Santos at fabio.p.santos@springernature.com (this opens in a new tab).
Each manuscript goes through the normal high standard peer-review process and, upon acceptance, the papers are published online immediately after production. Then, all papers are organized under a special Topical Collection web page.
Preparing your Manuscript
For first (initial) submissions, we require:
a single file containing your manuscript (Word or PDF); orthe LaTeX package of files, which will be compiled at submission. For LaTeX submissions we encourage authors to use the Springer Nature LaTeX template (this opens in a new tab), although other templates are acceptable too.
For revised submissions we strongly recommend uploading the editable source files (either Word or LaTeX) together with a PDF of the revised (LaTeX) manuscript for reference. We can process a PDF-only submission, but upon acceptance source files are mandatory and providing source files after acceptance may delay production.
To ensure a smooth submission process, please include a Declarations section at the end of your manuscript, as described here (this opens in a new tab).
Please also refer to the journal’s submission guidelines (this opens in a new tab) and contact the journal if you have any questions.
Submission
To access the submission portal, please visit the main journal web page (this opens in a new tab) and click at “Submit your manuscript”. Follow the instructions to access the portal and upload your manuscript.
To indicate a submission to this collection, in the "Additional Information" step, select "Yes" to the question "Does this manuscript belong to a special issue?". Then select the Special Issue title.
Publishing Options
We offer two routes for publishing your manuscripts:
“Traditional” subscription model
Papers are published online without any costs to authors, and can be accessed, for example, through an institutional subscription. In addition, we encourage authors to use SharedIT (this opens in a new tab) to be able to share, easily and legally, a view-only full-text version of the published article with colleagues and general audiences.
Open Access model
The papers are published online and are immediately available for anyone to access for free. Depending on the corresponding author's affiliation, you might be eligible to publish OA at no costs to you as an author. This is because Applied Physics A benefits from Springer Nature’s Transformative Agreements, so that authors from a variety of countries and institutes are eligible to publish OA at no costs. Please learn more about this option under the Transformative Agreement section of this web page (this opens in a new tab). If you are not eligible through a Transformative Agreement, you can still publish OA through the payment of an Article Processing Charge (APC) - see fees and funding (this opens in a new tab) for more details.
Post-acceptance
Accepted papers will be typeset according to the usual format for the journal, and given a unique DOI number. Further information is provided in the relevant section of the submission guidelines (this opens in a new tab). After acceptance, there is an average 2-3 weeks for typesetting and proofs before final publication. Papers will be continuously published in the collection web page as soon as ready, thus the web page will be slowly populated with papers as soon as they appear online.