Athena International Publishing regrets to announce that the journal Materials Highlights will be discontinued due to strong competition and lack of article flow. Despite efforts to expand the Editorial Board and promote the journal within the broadly defined fields of materials science and engineering, the journal did not succeed to publish another issue on the Athena platform since transferring from Atlantis Press in 2022. Editor-in-Chief Gareth Williams says: “I believe that closing the journal is the best way forward. There are so many journals in this field now that establishing a new one, with no impact factor yet, is incredibly challenging. The number of invitations I get to submit to new journals in this field seems to be increasing exponentially and I end up ignoring all of them as there are just too many...”. Following this decision, Materials Highlights is no longer open for new submissions effective immediately. The archive of published articles will remain available on the Athena platform, as well as in the e-Depot of the National Library of The Netherlands. All metrics for the journal will continue to be updated where relevant.