Looking back at 2025

An overview of the exciting events, activities and news for Nanoscale Horizons from 2025.

Now that 2025 has come to an end, we look back at some of the exciting events, activities and news from Nanoscale Horizons. We are continually thankful for the nano community’s engagement, which has enabled the journal to continue to support our growing community. We look forward to another great year for the journal in 2026.

This year marked the beginning of our celebrations for the 10^th Anniversary of Nanoscale Horizons and we are excited to continue the celebrations into 2026. We invited you all to you to take part, contribute and enjoy our activities. We published a special anniversary collection to celebrate and thank our community, along with reflections articles from our inaugural authors, regional and community spotlights, and commemorative cover artwork. Read our blog to catch up on all of our celebratory activities and check back regularly for updates!

In 2025 we welcomed Jovana Milić (University of Turku, Finland) and Jun Fan (City University of Hong Kong, China)  to the Editorial Borad of Nanoscale Horizons.

Jin-Hong Park (Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea), Katsuhiko Ariga (National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan) ended their terms on the Editorial Board and transferred to the Advisory Board, and Jinlan Wang (Southeast University, China) was also welcomed to the Advisory Board.

This year saw the continuation of our Emerging Investigator series, which showcases the exceptional work published by early-career researchers in the journal. The series continues to regularly highlight the corresponding author of a recently published Communication article through an interview-style Editorial and this year we featured interviews with 9 early-career researchers.

In 2025 we published a range of exciting collections that celebrates and showcases research and researchers across our nanoscience and nanotechnology community. Explore these amazing collections below!

Find more Nanoscale Horizons publications in the RSC cross journal collections on our themed collections page or head to our blog for the latest news on all our collections!

This year we featured research on Emerging horizons in polymer applications in a collection guest edited by Nanoscale Horizons Community Board member, Calum Ferguson, and Materials Horizons Community Board member, Kostas Parkatzidis. Look out for more collections in 2026!

We were delighted to announce Jiang Zhou and co-authors, Ankur Solanki and co-authors, and Cristina Zavaleta and co-authors as the winners of our 2024 Outstanding Paper Awards.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the 2024 Outstanding Paper Award and we hope that you enjoy reading their outstanding articles as much as we did!

Discover our latest educational articles, addressing topic areas that are often misunderstood or require greater explanation, in the Focus Article Collection.

Finally, the Nanoscale Horizons has a new Development team in the Editorial Office. We’ll be attending conferences throughout 2026 and will be delighted to chat with you about publishing with the RSC. Look out for us at your next event!

Executive Editor	Deputy Editor	Development Editor
Jeremy Allen	Zifei Lu	Paul Scott

The Nanoscale Horizons team wish you a Happy New Year!