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will feed back to enhance what we are able to do in nanoscience and nanotechnology. One reason that nanoscience and nanotechnology are central to this initiative and others3,4 is that we have learned to communicate across fields, to share ideas, problems, and approaches. In this issue, we discuss how we could work as a field and across national borders to bring this cross-disciplinary training to a broader swath of students and the public.5
ast month, the efforts to lay out the challenges of understanding and controlling the microbiome1 were rewarded as a National Microbiome Initiative was announced at a White House event.2 Nine of the authors of the roadmap that we published in ACS Nano as well as many friends of the journal were present.
One reason that nanoscience and nanotechnology are central to this initiative and others is that we have learned to communicate across fields, to share ideas, problems, and approaches. A number of public and private funding opportunities related to the microbiome initiative have already been announced, and we anticipate that this effort will be global. We look forward to publishing the exciting results of these efforts in ACS Nano. Nine of the authors of the Microbiome Initiative Roadmap1 published in ACS Nano took part in the White House announcement of the Initiative last month.2 Front row: Profs. Pieter Dorrestein and Prof. Rob Knight of the University of California, San Diego, Prof. Jeff Miller of UCLA, Prof. Jack Gilbert of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, Dr. Miyoung Chun of the Kavli Foundation, ACS Nano Editor Prof. Paul S. Weiss of UCLA. Back row: Prof. Scott Fraser of the University of Southern California, Dr. Janet Jansson of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Dr. Sharif Taha of the Kavli Foudnation. Photo credit: Dr. Stefano Bertuzzi. Prof. Yan Li of Peking University and Prof. Manish Chhowalla of Rutgers University have joined ACS Nano as associate editors this month. Photo credit: Dr. Hailin Peng and Prof. Rick Lehman.
A National Microbiome Initiative was announced at a White House event.
Announcements. We are delighted to introduce two new associate editors, Prof. Yan Li, Chang Jiang Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Peking University, and Prof. Manish Chhowalla of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rutgers University. Prof. Li works on materials of reduced dimensionality, including their chemical, materials, and device properties.6,7 Prof. Chhowalla works on the synthesis and characterization of new materials as well as incorporating these materials into devices.8,9 Both have been active ACS Nano authors and editorial advisory board members. We are also excited to introduce Dr. Laura Fernandez as the managing editor ACS Nano and Nano Letters. Dr. Fernandez
As noted in the technology roadmap, there are tremendous opportunities for nanoscientists in this rich area of exploration. Multiplexed, multimodal sensor arrays will be needed to understand the chemical communication between organisms and in microbial communities. Synthetic biology will be used to manipulate microbiomes both for elucidating function and for modifying or correcting malfunctioning microbiomes. We will find connections with medicine, agriculture, microbiology, oceanography, atmospheric science, data science, and many other communities. The expertise in multimodal and multidimensional data sets that cross scales and fields that we are in the midst of developing will also be critical to advance this effort and © 2016 American Chemical Society
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DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b04029 ACS Nano 2016, 10, 5589−5590
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(6) Zhang, Z. Y.; Wang, S.; Wang, Z. X.; Ding, L.; Pei, T.; Hu, Z. D.; Liang, X. L.; Chen, Q.; Li, Y.; Peng, L. M. Almost Perfectly Symmetric SWCNT-Based CMOS Devices and Scaling. ACS Nano 2009, 3, 3781− 3787. (7) Wang, J.; Chu, H.; Li, Y. Why Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Can Be Dispersed in Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids. ACS Nano 2008, 2, 2540−2546. (8) Eda, G.; Chhowalla, M. Graphene Patchwork. ACS Nano 2011, 5, 4265−4268. (9) Eda, G.; Fujita, T.; Yamaguchi, H.; Voiry, D.; Chen, M.; Chhowalla, M. Coherent Atomic and Electronic Heterostructures of Single-Layer MoS2. ACS Nano 2012, 6, 7311−7317. (10) http://www.kavliprize.org/prizes-and-laureates/prizes/2016kavli-prize-nanoscience (Accessed June 10, 2016).
Dr. Laura Fernandez has become the managing editor of ACS Nano and Nano Letters. Photo credit: Patricia Fernandez. joins us from the University of Minnesota, where she has been active in theoretical research and outreach. Dr. Heather Tierney, who has been our managing editor since 2010, will continue to work with us and all American Chemical Society journals on ethical issues and has also taken over as managing editor of the Accounts of Chemical Research and Chemical Reviews. Welcome to all our new editors! Lastly, the 2016 Kavli Prizes have been announced,10 and the nanoscience laureates are the pioneering inventors of the atomic force microscope, Prof. Gerd Binnig, formerly of IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, ACS Nano editorial advisory board member Prof. Christoph Gerber of the University of Basel, and Prof. Cal Quate of Stanford University. Indeed, much of our field has been built on their efforts. Please join me in congratulating them!
Paul S. Weiss, Editor-in-Chief
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