Upcoming Tenth Anniversary at ACS Nano
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n anticipation and in celebration of the tenth anniversary of our first issue,1 this coming August, we have planned a number of exciting activities. We are assembling small topical collections on a number of key topics in nanoscience, nanotechnology, and beyond,2 selected by the editors who handle manuscripts in these fields. You will see in these collections how we try to accelerate advances in the field by laying out challenges and opportunities in forward-looking articles and then report these advances as they are made. We are also planning live celebrations this August at the Fall National American Chemical Society meeting in Washington, DC and ChinaNano in Beijing. Stay tuned for more information on the event times and locations. Our editors’ meeting and ACS Nano award lectures for this year will also be held at ChinaNano in August. We are always interested in hearing from you and in celebrating when we meet you in our travels around the world. One of the aspects that makes ACS Nano special is our editors’ tight connections to and collaborations with each other and with our global community. Many of our most important innovations have come from our readers, authors, and advisors in informal settings. If you would like to meet up with us in person, our editors’ global travels and presentations are tweeted regularly at @acsnano. You are always welcome to reach out directly to me at editor@nano. ucla.edu or to any of our editors. We bring your suggestions to our monthly editors’ calls and semiannual meetings, and many of them have motivated successful changes and enhancements to ACS Nano.
Prof. Kazunori Kataoka, Director General of the new Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM) Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion, has joined ACS Nano as an associate editor. Photo credit: Atsuko Matsueda.
Announcements. We are delighted to announce that Prof. Kazunori Kataoka, Director General of the new Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (iCONM) Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion and until recently on the engineering and medical faculties of the University of Tokyo, has joined us as an associate editor. Dr. Kataoka is a leading figure in nanomedicine and nanodelivery of therapeutics and has been an active ACS Nano author, advisor, and Editorial Advisor Board member.4−7
In addition to publishing top advances and important challenges at ACS Nano, we continue and are strengthening our outreach to related scientific communities and to the public, the press, and governments around the world.
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Paul S. Weiss, Editor-in-Chief AUTHOR INFORMATION
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Lastly, I would like to comment that we focus as editors on what is important and interesting to our community and related others. This strategy determines the manuscripts that we accept and the front matter that we commission and sometimes help write ourselves. Much fuss is made of journal metrics, some of which were recently updated. We do not find such metrics terribly useful, as so many journals and publishers “play” to the metrics rather than to advancing science, engineering, and medicine. In addition to publishing top advances and important challenges at ACS Nano, we continue and are strengthening our outreach to related scientific communities and to the public, the press, and governments around the world; we see this role as critical to education in making our fields’ goals, strategies, and capabilities widely known (e.g., with the public, leading, rather than letting science fiction writers “define” what we could and want to do with nano).3 We hope that you will join in these efforts in your communities. © 2017 American Chemical Society
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author thanks Holly Bunje and Dr. Laura Fernandez for help in preparing this editorial. REFERENCES
(1) Weiss, P. S. Welcome to ACS Nano. ACS Nano 2007, 1, 1. (2) http://pubs.acs.org/page/ancac3/vi/index.html. (3) Jackman, J. A.; Cho, D. J.; Lee, J.; Chen, J. M.; Besenbacher, F.; Bonnell, D. A.; Hersam, M. C.; Weiss, P. S.; Cho, N. J. Nanotechnology Education for the Global World: Training the Leaders of Tomorrow. ACS Nano 2016, 10, 5595−5599. Published: June 27, 2017 5189
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(4) Kim, H.; Takemoto, H.; Yi, Y.; Zheng, M.; Maeda, Y.; Chaya, H.; Hayashi, K.; Mi, P.; Pittella, F.; Christie, R.; Toh, K.; Matsumoto, Y.; Nishiyama, N.; Miyata, K.; Kataoka, K. Precise Engineering of siRNA Delivery Vehicles to Tumors Using Polyion Complexes and Gold Nanoparticles. ACS Nano 2014, 8, 8979−8991. (5) Cabral, H.; Makino, J.; Matsumoto, Y.; Mi, P.; Wu, H. L.; Nomoto, T.; Toh, K.; Yamada, N.; Higuchi, Y.; Konishi, S.; Kano, M. R.; Nishihara, H.; Miura, Y.; Nishiyama, N.; Kataoka, K. Systemic Targeting of Lymph Node Metastasis through the Blood Vascular System by Using SizeControlled Nanocarriers. ACS Nano 2015, 9, 4957−4967. (6) Mitragotri, S.; Anderson, D. G.; Chen, X.; Chow, E. K.; Ho, D.; Kabanov, A. V.; Karp, J. M.; Kataoka, K.; Mirkin, C. A.; Petrosko, S. H.; Shi, J.; Stevens, M. M.; Sun, S.; Teoh, S.; Venkatraman, S. S.; Xia, Y.; Wang, S.; Gu, Z.; Xu, C. Accelerating the Translation of Nanomaterials in Biomedicine. ACS Nano 2015, 9, 6644−6654. (7) Pelaz, B.; Alexiou, C.; Alvarez-Puebla, R. A.; Alves, F.; Andrews, A. M.; Ashraf, S.; Balogh, L. P.; Ballerini, L.; Bestetti, A.; Brendel, C.; Bosi, S.; Carril, M.; Chan, W. C. W.; Chen, C.; Chen, X.; Chen, X.; Cheng, Z.; Cui, D.; Du, J.; Dullin, C.; et al. Diverse Applications of Nanomedicine. ACS Nano 2017, 11, 2313−2381.
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