Looking back at 2021

An overview of the exciting events, activities and news for Nanoscale from 2021

Now that 2021 has come to an end, we look back at some of the exciting events and activities that happened last year for Nanoscale. Thank you for your engagement in 2021, and for enabling the journal to continue to support the community. With your support, we look forward to another great year for the journal in 2022.

Board updates

We welcomed Professor Jinlan Wang, Southeast University, China, to the Editorial Board of Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances as an Associate Editor. Professor Shouheng Sun, Brown University, USA, and Professor Xiao Cheng Zeng, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, completed their final terms as Associate Editors for Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances in 2022 and joined our Advisory Board. We would like to thank them both for their excellent service to the journal and community over many years.

Along with Professor Sun and Professor Zeng, we welcomed seven other new Nanoscale Advisory Board members in order to better represent the ever-increasing diversity of our authors and readers.

• Suryasarathi Bose, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
• Wenlong Cheng, Monash University, Australia
• Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, EPFL, Switzerland
• Michael Sailor, University of California, San Diego, USA
• Xiaoming Sun, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
• Sarah Tolbert, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
• Miqin Zhang, University of Washington, USA

A full list of the Nanoscale Advisory Board members can be found here.

Outstanding reviewers

Following on from recent years, Nanoscale once again recognised the significant contributions that our reviewers have made to the journal and highlighted the 2020 Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale in this Editorial.

Emerging investigators

In 2021, Nanoscale launched our inaugural Emerging Investigators themed collection, recognising the rising stars of nanoscience and nanotechnology in the early stages of their independent careers. Congratulations to all the featured researchers on their important work so far in the field. You can meet the featured authors in this Profile.

Themed collections

Nanoscale published six themed collections in 2021, and we have many more exciting themed collections planned.

• Advances in Plasmonics and Its Applications. Guest edited by Xing Yi Ling, Ramón Álvarez Puebla, and Jian-Feng Li
• Advanced Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage. Guest edited by Wee-Jun Ong, Markus Antonietti and Nanfeng Zheng
• Nanoscale Most Popular Articles
• Nanoscale Lunar New Year Collection 2021
• Battery science and technology – powered by chemistry
• Polymers in liquid formulations

Editor’s choice collections

Nanoscale published five Editor’s Choice Collections on topics selected by our Associate Editors. Look out for the upcoming collections that we will be publishing throughout 2022!

• Single-atom and nanocluster catalysis, selected by Manzhou Zhu (Anhui University, China).
• Thermoelectric nanostructures, selected by Jin Zou (University of Queensland, Australia).
• Recent breakthroughs in nanobiotechnology, selected by Yves Dufrêne (UCLouvain, Belgium).
• Computational studies of nanomaterials for energy, catalysis and electronics, selected by Xiao Cheng Zeng (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA).
• Controlling anisotropy in nanomaterials, selected by Shouheng Sun (Brown University, USA).

HOT articles

Finally, be sure to read the exciting articles featured in the 2021 Nanoscale HOT Article Collection.

The Nanoscale team wish you a Happy New Year!

With best wishes,

Dr Heather Montgomery

Managing Editor, Nanoscale

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale in 2019, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

Prof Dr Liqiang Mai, Wuhan University of Technology
Professor Qiang Zhang, Tsinghua University, orcid.org/0000-0002-3929-1541
Dr David Lou, Nanyang Technological University
Prof Dr Hui Wei, Nanjing University, orcid.org/0000-0003-0870-7142
Dr Xuping Sun, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, orcid.org/0000-0001-5034-1135
Dr Huiyu Liu, Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Dr Yu Chen, Shaanxi Normal University, orcid.org/0000-0001-9545-6761
Dr Zhanhu Guo, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, orcid.org/0000-0003-0134-0210
Prof. Xiaoji Xie, Nanjing Tech University, orcid.org/0000-0002-4830-1246
Dr Yu-Jin Chen, Harbin Engineering University, orcid.org/0000-0002-6794-2276
Dr Bohayra Mortazavi, Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar, orcid.org/0000-0003-3031-5057
Dr Xiaosi Zhou, Nanjing Normal University, orcid.org/0000-0001-9641-7166
Dr Shichun Mu, Wuhan University of Technology, orcid.org/0000-0003-3902-0976
Professor Jinghong Li, Tsinghua University, orcid.org/0000-0002-0750-7352
Dr Bin Dong, China University of Petroleum, orcid.org/0000-0002-4817-6289
Dr Zhiyong Tang, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, orcid.org/0000-0003-0610-0064
Prof. Han Zhang, Shenzhen University, orcid.org/0000-0002-0166-1973
Dr Rong Cai, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, orcid.org/0000-0001-6793-5765
Prof. Zhong Jin, Nanjing University, orcid.org/0000-0001-8860-8579
Dr Yusuke Yamauchi, The University of Queensland, orcid.org/0000-0001-7854-927X
Dr Wenping Sun, University of Wollongong, orcid.org/0000-0003-3021-6382
Z. J. Gu, Institute of high energy physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, orcid.org/0000-0003-3717-2423
Dr Yun Zong, Agency for Science Technology and Research, orcid.org/0000-0001-9934-0889
Prof. Timon Rabczuk, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Dr Vincenzo Caligiuri, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

We would also like to thank the Nanoscale board and the nanoscience community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé.  You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale Advances in 2019, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

Dr He Chen, Miami University, ORCID:0000-0001-5426-769X

Professor Yi-Jun Xu, Fuzhou University, ORCID:0000-0002-2195-1695

Dr Xuping Sun, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, ORCID:0000-0001-5034-1135

Dr Yupeng Li, University of Delaware

Prof. Han Zhang, Shenzhen University, ORCID:0000-0002-0166-1973

Dr Ke Xu, Hubei University of Arts and Science

Prof. Junwei Zheng, Soochow University, ORCID:0000-0002-6937-062X

Professor Katsuhiko Ariga, National Institute for Materials Science, ORCID:0000-0002-2445-2955

Dr Christopher Abram, Otto von Guericke University, ORCID:0000-0003-3645-6977

Prof. Sanat Kumar, Columbia University, ORCID:0000-0002-6690-2221

We would also like to thank the Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances board and the Nano chemistry community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé.  You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre

Thank you for sharing our 10^th Anniversary year.

As 2019 comes to an end, we look back at some of the exciting events and activities that have happened in the last year.

International Year of the Periodic Table

Nanoscale has featured in a series of online article collections celebrating the International Year of the Periodic Table, guest edited by Editorial Board Members from across the materials and nano journals.

• Elements for Next Generation Batteries
• Low Dimensional Carbon Systems
• Precious Metals for Cancer Treatment
• From Pb and Sn Perovskites to the Next Generation
• Lanthanides for Precision Therapy and Beyond
• Single Atoms as Active Catalysts

10^th Anniversary

We celebrated out 10^th Anniversary Year with a number of online collections to highlight the fantastic support that our authors, reviewers, and readers have given us over the last ten years.

• 10^th Anniversary Special Issue
• Nanoscale 10^th Anniversary: Top Authors
• Nanoscale 10^th Anniversary: Top Cited Articles

Themed issues

Nanoscale published two themed issues in 2019, and we have many more exciting themed issues planned. Watch this space!

• Halide perovskite nanocrystals, guest edited by Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Qiao Zhang, Soochow University, and Roman Krahne, Italian Institute of Technology.
• Nanocarbons, guest edited by Nianjun Yang, University of Siegen, Dai-Wen Pang, Wuhan University, and Yasuaki Einaga, Keio University.

HOT articles

Finally, check out the 2019 HOT article collection, featuring work from Morteza Mahmoudi, Paolo Samori, Martin Pumera, Xun Wang, and more.

2019 Nanoscale HOT Article Collection

The Nanoscale team wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Here’s a quick update on the nanoscale journal family to let you know how we are doing and what to look out for later in 2019.

Following our first (partial) impact factor last year, we are pleased to announce that our first full impact factor is 9.095^*!

Other news from 2019:

• Alongside Materials Horizons (impact factor 14.356^*), we awarded the first Horizons Outstanding Paper Prizes. These awards will be presented annually.
• New Scientific Editors: Yves Dufrêne, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, and Zhiyong Tang
• Post-publication online article collections:
  • Most popular articles published so far in 2019
  • Horizons Community Board collection: Nanobiomedicine
  • Horizons Community Board collection: Emerging 2D materials for energy and electronics applications

We are celebrating our 10^th Anniversary this year!

Look out for our celebrations at ChinaNANO 2019. In the meantime, why not have a read of these collections highlighting the most highly cited articles published in Nanoscale since we launched in 2009, as well as recent articles by some of our most prolific authors.

Other news from 2019:

• Our latest impact factor is 6.970^*.
• Chunying Chen, Dong Ha Kim, and Umesh Waghmare were appointed as Associate Editors.
• We’ve been publishing guest edited online themed collections:
  • Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals, guest edited by Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, Qiao Zhang, and Roman Krahne.
  • Nanocarbons, guest edited by Nianjun Yang, Dai-Wen Pang, and Yasuaki Einaga.
  • Still to come…10^th Anniversary Special Issue in October 2019, guest edited by Chunli Bai, Markus Niederberger, Francesco Stellacci, and Dirk Guldi.

We’ve published our first issues and we are delighted to see such a great response from the community. Thank you for supporting the Royal Society of Chemistry’s first journal to be Gold Open Access from launch!

Other news from 2019:

• We’ve collated the Most Popular Articles published in the journal so far in an online article collection.
• The journal has been accepted into the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and has also been accepted for inclusion in Scopus and the Emerging Sources Index in Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics.

Come and meet us

Members of the Editorial Team will be attending the following conferences in the coming months. Get in touch if you want to arrange a meeting, or just come over and say hello! You can also keep up to date on where the Editorial Team and our Associate Editors will be by following us on Twitter.

• RSC Chemical Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Group Annual Meeting, 22 July 2019, University of East Anglia, UK.
• 14^th International conference on materials chemistry (MC14), 8 – 11 July 2019, Birmingham, UK.
• We will be hosting the RSC Nanoscale Journals Symposium at ChinaNANO, 17 – 19 August 2019, NCNST, China
• 5^th International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics (PSCO 2019), 30 September – 2 October 2019, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Get in touch if you have any feedback on the nanoscale journal family: we would love to hear from you so email us at nanoscale-rsc@rsc.org.

Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances publish high quality research across nanoscience and nanotechnology. To help you find the research that’s important to you, we’ve brought together all of our most recent and ongoing online article collections. We hope you enjoy reading them!

Ongoing Collections

Nanoscale

Nanoscale Advances

Themed Collections

Other Collections

Check out the online article collections for our sister journal Nanoscale Horizons on this blog page.

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale in 2018, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

A message from Professor Dirk Guldi, Editor-in-Chief:

Like in recent years, Nanoscale is recognizing the Outstanding Reviewers for 2018. High quality peer review is an essential tool to guarantee the quality and impact of Nanoscale; it depends on the excellence and timeliness of the reviews.  As active researchers we all are facing many demands. To this end, providing carefully drafted reviews of the work of peers is a significant contribution to the readers of Nanoscale and the scientific community, in general. I want to add my thanks to these outstanding reviewers and also thank everyone who has reviewed manuscripts for Nanoscale.

Professor Qiang Zhang, Tsinghua University, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3929-1541
Dr Hongjin Fan, Nanyang Technological University, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1237-4555
Dr Yanglong Hou, Peking University, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0579-4594
Professor Haibo Zeng, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0281-3617
Dr David Lou, Nanyang Technological University, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5557-4437
Professor Tierui Zhang, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7948-9413
Professor Han Zhang, Shenzhen University， https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0166-1973
Dr Zheyu Fang, Peking University, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5780-0728
Professor Jianping Xie, National University of Singapore, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3254-5799
Professor Katsuhiko Ariga, National Institute for Materials Science, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2445-2955
Professor Ya Yang, Beijing Institute of Nano Energy and Systems, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0168-2974
Professor Xueyuan Chen, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0493-839X
Dr Sang-Jae Kim, Jeju National University, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5066-2622
Professor Xiaoji Xie, Nanjing Tech University, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4830-1246
Dr Xiaoxin Zou, Jilin University, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-9274
Dr Xuping Sun, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5034-1135
Dr Feng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9471-4386
Dr Yun Chan Kang, Korea University, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5769-5761
Dr Xianqiao Wang, University of Georgia, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2461-3015
Professor Seung Ko, Seoul National University, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7477-0820
Professor Jianfang Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2467-8751
Professor Dhiraj Bhatia, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1478-6417
Professor Zhonglin Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5530-0380
Dr Yun Zong, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9934-0889
Dr Shihe Yang, University of Science and Technology, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6469-8415

We would also like to thank the Nanoscale board and the nanoscience community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé.  You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre