SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ADVANCED MATERIALS - Classification Scheme - Purposes of the use: (1) Classify articles by fields (by authors when submitted, by editorial staff when accepted). (2) Categorize articles under the "Field menu" (Table of Contents) in the STAM online journal. (3) Description for STAM audience. (4) Description for database companies, such as Thomson, PubMed.
Main category and code	Sub code	Sub category
10 MATERIALS
	10.01	Bio/Organic materials
	10.02	Catalytic materials
	10.03	Ceramics
	10.04	Dielectric materials
	10.05	Ecomaterials
	10.06	Electronic materials
	10.07	Engineering and structural materials
	10.08	Glass materials
	10.09	Magnetic materials
	10.10	Nanoscale materials
	10.11	Optical, photonic and optoelectronic materials
	10.12	Refractory materials
	10.13	Soft materials (collids, liquid crystals, polymers)
	10.14	Superconducting materials
	10.15	Thermoelectronic materials
20 SYNTHESIS/PROCESSING
	20.01	Biological synthesis
	20.02	Catalytic synthesis
	20.03	Chemical synthesis
	20.04	Crystal growth
	20.05	Mechanical processing
	20.06	Organic synthesis
	20.07	Powder metallurgy
	20.08	Purification
	20.09	Soft-chemical synthesis
	20.10	Synthesis under extreme conditions (high pressure/high temperature)
	20.11	Thin films/Nanomaterials synthesis
30 THEORY/CHARACTERIZATION/PROPERTY
	30.01	Bulk physical properties
	30.02	Chemical properties
	30.03	Diffraction analysis (X-ray, electron and neutron diffraction)
	30.04	Materials observation (Optical microscopy, TEM, SEM, SPM, SNOM)
	30.05	Mechanical properties
	30.06	Modeling/Simulation
	30.07	Optical analysis (IR, Raman scattering, UV)
	30.08	Solid state theory
	30.09	Spectrometry (NMR, ESR, Mösbauer)
new as of Jan 2010	30.10	Surface/nanostructures characterization
new as of Jan 2010	30.11	Applications
The STAM scheme is created based on PACS.		Last updated January 21, 2010