Editorial: Editors’ showcase: structural materials

Abstract

Copyright © 2023 Provis and Zhou. We are very pleased to present this Research Topic that highlights some of the outstanding work of the editorial team of the Structural Materials section of Frontiers in Materials. The breadth and depth of expertise featured in our editorial board is clearly evident in this Research Topic of articles, which range in topics from rock mechanics to cement chemistry, and from metallurgy to materials synthesis. Looking back to the opening of the Structural Materials section and the featured “Grand Challenges” article published in 2015 (Provis, 2015), it is striking that the topics featured in this Showcase Research Topic are very well aligned with the Grand Challenges of the section: bottom-up materials design, sustainable materials supply, and durability under extreme conditions. These areas—And with additional focus now on digitalisation—Continue to set the agenda for research in the field of structural materials.