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.

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

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale in 2017, 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.

Professor Xueyuan Chen, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ORCID: 0000-0003-0493-839X
Dr Hong Jin Fan, Nanyang Technological University, ORCID:  0000-0003-1237-4555
Professor Zhanjun Gu, Institute of High Energy Physics, ORCID: 0000-0003-3717-2423
Professor Hong Liu, Shandong University, ORCID:  0000-0002-4110-6333
Professor Jang Ung Park, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, ORCID: 0000-0003-1522-4958
Dr Yarjan Samad, University of Cambridge
Dr Yuxin Tang, Nanyang Technological University, ORCID: 0000-0001-9348-323X
Professor Yusuke Yamauchi, The University of Queensland
Professor Yuchao Yang, Peking University, ORCID: 0000-0003-4674-4059
Dr Xiaojian Zhu, University of Michigan

We would also like to thank the Nanoscale board and the nanoscience and nanotechnology 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

Titanium falls flat in an eight-membered boron ring

Source: Royal Society of Chemistry
(a) Top and (b) side views of the ball and stick model of the predicted 2D TiB4 monolayer. Titanium and boron atoms are denoted by grey and pink spheres, respectively. The black square marks a unit cell

Researchers in China and the US have predicted the first two-dimensional material to contain completely planar octacoordinate transition metal atoms – TiB₄. If scientists can make it, the monolayer would contain edge-sharing wheels of eight-membered boron rings with a central titanium atom.

To read the full article visit Chemistry World.

Two-dimensional TiB₄ Monolayer Exhibits Planar Octacoordinate Ti
Xin Qu, Jian Lv, Yanchao Wang, Jinghai Yang, Zhongfang Chen and Yanming Ma
Nanoscale, 2017, Accepted Manuscript
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7NR05688E