It includes communications, reviews, and feature articles on topics in chemistry, physics, nanotechnology, ceramics, metallurgy, and biomaterials.

Founder and editor-in-chief was Peter Goelitz (then editor of Angewandte Chemie).

In 2009, it started to publish weekly, with forty-eight issues per year.

As the volume of research in materials science increased significantly since the 1990s, several journals have been spun off, including:

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