On December 28, Advanced Materials published a special issue to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Prof. Zhai Tianyou and Prof. Zhou Huamin from the School of Materials Science and Engineering serve as the guest editors.

Advanced Materials is one of the most influential international academic journals in the field of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), published by Wiley-VCH, Germany. This special issue presents 23 Reviews and 1 Perspective within the various research fields of MSE. In the area of electronic and optoelectronic materials, Zhai Tianyou and co-workers present the development of key nanopatterning technologies of 2D materials for integrated electronic and optoelectronic devices; Tang Jiang and co-workers discuss the light emission of selftrapped excitons in metal halides; Huang YongAn and co-workers provide key understanding on the flexible metamaterial electronics from enhancing to innovating physical functionalities; and Gao Yihua and co-workers summarize the application of MXenes in pressure sensing. In the area of energy storage materials, Huang Yunhui and co-workers review the recent progress and future perspective in building safe Li batteries with high-voltage cathodes; Feng Guang and co-workers provide a key introduction on the conductive MOFs for supercapacitors; Wang Chengliang and co-workers summarize the fundamentals and perspectives of organic electrodes for rechargeable multivalent metal-ion batteries; Li Huiqiao and co-workers comment on the dynamic investigation of battery materials via advanced nisualization; Hu Xianluo and co-workers review the advances in safe lithium/sodium batteries using ionogel-electrolyte membranes. In the area of energy conversion and catalysis materials, Han Hongwei and co-workers provide a review on the crystallization of halide perovskites; Xia Bao Yu and co-workers discuss the corrosion chemistry of electrocatalysts; Li Qing and co-workers summarize the effective approaches to stabilizing M-N-C PGM-free cathodes for proton-exchange-membrane fuel cells; Liu Youwen and co-workers introduce the structural reconstruction of catalysts in electroreduction reaction. In the area of functional soft materials, Xie Xiaolin and co-workers review the advances on thermal conductive polymer composites as underfill materials for electronic packaging; Lu Xing and co-workers summarize the supramolecular engineering of fullerene micro-/nanoarchitectures; Xu Ming and co-workers provide a review on the structural design and fabrication of multifunctional nanocarbon materials for extreme environmental applications. In the area of bio/medical materials, Liu Bifeng and co-workers introduce the intelligent micro/nanorobot for cancer theranostics; Tao Guangming and co-workers provide a perspective on medical intelligentfabric agents; Zhu Jintao and co-workers review the fabrication and emerging applications of bioinspired colloidal photonic nanocomposites; Yang Xiangliang and co-workers discuss the extracellular-vesicles-based drug delivery systems in modulating the cancer-immunity cycle. In the area of advanced materials manufacturing and processing, Ding Han and co-workers review the fabrication and functionalities integration technologies for small-scale soft robots; Zhou Huamin and co-workers discussed the polymer micro-nano processing for industrial applications; Shi Yusheng and co-workers summarize the recent advances on high-performance polyaryletherketone materials for additive manufacturing; Wang Xinyun and co-workers discuss the oxidation of metallic glasses from the aspect of mechanisms and applications.

The Materials Science and Engineering disciplines in HUST have been ranked in the ESI top 1‰. The global ranking of MSE is respectively #23 by ESI, #28 by US News, and #21 by ARWU. The School of Materials Science and Engineering, as the responsible unit for national "211 Project", "985 Project", and the national "Double First-Class" key construction disciplines of MSE, has made great strides in talent cultivation, with the addition of 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 9 national leading talents and 13 national young talents and 4 National Award for Science and Technology Progress in the past five years.

With the theme of "70 years of joint efforts working together, bring materials science into a new era", the School of Materials Science and Engineering celebrated the 70th anniversary of the university as well as the school. Adhering to the concept of academic celebration, this special issue of Advanced Materials is one of the series of academic activities of the School, and it will also carry out academic exchange activities such as academic frontier forum and alumni presentation.

Link to the special issue：https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15214095/2022/34/52