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advmat-cover-letter
Use when drafting the cover letter for an Advanced Materials submission, whose core job is to convince the editor that the work is a genuine materials advance of broad impact worthy of the journal. Argues the impact case; does not fix the science or format the manuscript.
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# Advanced Materials Cover Letter (advmat-cover-letter)
## When to trigger
- You are about to submit and need a cover letter that earns editorial review
- `advmat-scope-fit` returned "Adv. Mater. with impact framing" and you must make that case
- An editor previously desk-rejected similar work as "not a sufficient advance"
- You need to distinguish this work from your own or others' recent related papers
- You are resubmitting after transfer from, or rejection by, another journal
## The editor's triage question
Advanced Materials editors desk-triage on **advance and impact before sending anything to review**. The cover letter's one job is to answer, in the editor's language: *why is this a broadly important materials advance, not incremental optimization, and why here?* Everything else is secondary.
