EML is born

Dear Friends,
Let me assure you that we (the editorial team) are just as anxious as you are to see what kind of papers are published by EML, with similar anticipation as one looks at a new born baby for the first time.  Does the baby girl have big eyes like her mother? Or does the baby boy have little hair on his head like his father? Or the baby is just different, different from all other children, and beautifully so.

Now 12 articles are available online on ScienceDirect (see http://www.journals.elsevier.com/extreme-mechanics-letters/, recent articles). I have to confess that I am in fact pleased with what I see.  Here are some observations:

1. Although all papers address mechanical aspects of some phenomena, they are quite interdisciplinary, and not necessarily mechanics-centric; 
2. Many papers address issues in important areas to the society such as bio/medical science (mechanics of healthy and diseased human red blood cells), micro-nanotechnology (stress evolution in thin films and plasticity in micro-pillars), energy materials (stresses in lithium-ion battery materials), interesting mechanics phenomena (patterns in elastic sewing machine), and various phenomena in soft materials (Ca2+ triggered stress generation in hydrogels, toughening of hydrogels, etc.);
3. The percentage of experimental papers seems to be higher than that in other mechanics journals.

Is this good or bad? I don’t know, since I cannot predict the impact of these papers. But I think it is interesting.

Was this by design? No. We cannot control what you submit.

What will EML be like as it grows? The answer is in your hands.

So EML is born. It is YOUR baby! Please join these authors to help shape the future of EML.

Jimmy