VOLUME 1, NUMBER 7, JULY 2001 © Copyright 2001 by the American Chemical Society
Editorial Multimedia Capabilities for Authors of Nano Letters I hope that readers of Nano Letters have noticed the high production quality of the journal. Images from scanning probe microscopes and electron microscopes are fundamental to nanoscience and nanotechnology. For this reason, when I became involved in this journal project, my first priority was to ensure that such images would be faithfully and beautifully reproduced in print as well as online. The ACS Publications Division has gone to great pains to ensure that the methods of reproduction are first rate and that the graphical quality of our papers is high. Nano Letters offers authors the opportunity to publish color images at no cost, provided the color is key to making a scientific point. With this issue we are pleased to announce that Nano Letters now has the ability to offer authors multimedia features as well. The American Chemical Society is committed to archivally maintaining multimedia objects that are embedded in the online version of the publication. In the present issue, we have two papers that use these multimedia capabilities. In the paper by De Schryver and co-workers there are three STM-based embedded movies that help to illustrate the progress of a surface localized chemical reaction. In a paper from my group, online readers can view and rotate a three-dimensional plot of bandgap versus rod length and diameter for quantum rods. Nano Letters is able to offer other multimedia formats as well. For instance, a simple scatter plot can be linked directly to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, so that readers can access the data directly. These additions should enhance the abilities of authors to effectively communicate their results, without detracting at all from the print version.
Paul Alivisatos Editor NL010047Y
10.1021/nl010047y CCC: $20.00 Published on Web 07/11/2001
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