Advanced materials—A tale of two journals

Advanced Materials has changed during its first five years of publication. The development of the journal from its beginnings as a section of Angewandte Chemie to today's international and interdisciplinary journal is traced. Trends in the type, number and rate of acceptance of papers are pointed out, along with the increasing variety of their country of origin. Looking towards the future, the members of the new Editorial Advisory Board who will guide the journal in the coming months are introduced.