advmat-figures
Use when designing or auditing figures for an Advanced Materials manuscript, including the lead figure, multi-panel characterization figures, and the Table-of-Contents graphic, where visual quality is a house expectation. Designs figure strategy; does not run the analysis or write prose.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill advmat-figures --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Advanced Materials Figures (advmat-figures) ## When to trigger - You have many candidate panels and need a coherent figure set - Your lead figure does not convey the central advance at a glance - Characterization panels are crowded, mislabeled, or unreadable at column width - You have no Table-of-Contents (TOC) graphic, or it is an afterthought - A coauthor wants to "add one more panel just in case" ## Figure strategy for Adv. Mater. Advanced Materials is a **visually demanding** journal — striking, cover-quality figures are a house expectation, and the journal actively selects work for cover art. But visual polish must serve the science. The hierarchy: - **Lead figure (Figure 1)** — usually a schematic of the material/design concept plus the single most decisive piece of evidence. A reader skimming should grasp the advance from this figure and its caption alone. - **Characterization figures** — each closes one link of the structure → property → function chain (e.g. one figure for structure by XRD/TEM, one for the property, one for the device + benchmarking). - **The TOC graphic** — a small, self-explaining image plus a short blurb that sells the advance to a browsing reader; tre
- When to trigger
- Figure strategy for Adv. Mater.
- Multi-panel characterization figures
- Production standards (Wiley format)
- The TOC graphic and cover art
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the advmat-figures skill do?
Use when designing or auditing figures for an Advanced Materials manuscript, including the lead figure, multi-panel characterization figures, and the Table-of-Contents graphic, where visual quality is a house expectation. Designs figure strategy; does not run the analysis or write prose.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill advmat-figures --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.