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Publishing frequency: 48 issues per year
Editors-in-chief: Chunli Bai, Dirk Guldi
Time to first decision: 32 days**
Scope
Nanoscale is a high impact international journal, publishing high quality research across nanoscience and nanotechnology. Nanoscale publishes a full mix of research articles on experimental and theoretical work, including reviews, communications and full papers. Highly interdisciplinary, Nanoscale appeals to scientists, researchers and professionals interested in nanoscience and nanotechnology, including the areas of physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, materials, energy/environment, information technology, detection science, healthcare and drug discovery, and electronics.
For publication in Nanoscale, papers must report high quality reproducible new work that will be of significant general interest to the journal's wide international readership.
Nanoscale is a collaborative venture between the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing and a leading nanoscience research centre, the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) in Beijing, China.
The journal publishes weekly issues, complementing and building on the nano content already published across the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing journal portfolio.
Since its launch in late 2009, Nanoscale has established itself as a platform for high quality, cross-community research that bridges the various disciplines involved with nanoscience and nanotechnology, publishing important research from leading international research groups.
Topics covered in the journal include, but are not limited to the following.
- Synthesis of nanostructured and nanoscale materials
- Characterisation of functional nanoscale materials and bio-assemblies
- Properties of nanoscale materials
- Self-assembly and molecular organisation
- Complex hybrid nanostructures
- Nanocomposites, nanoparticles, nanocrystalline materials, and nanoclusters
- Nanotubes, molecular nanowires and nanocrystals
- Molecular nanoscience
- Nanocatalysis
- Theoretical modelling
- Single-molecules
- Plasmonics
- Nanoelectronics and molecular electronics
- Nanophotonics
- Nanochips, nanosensors, nanofluidics and nanofabrication
- Carbon-based nanoscale materials and devices
- Biomimetic materials
- Nanobiotechnology/bionanomaterials
- Nanomedicine
- Regulatory approaches and risk assessment
Submissions are initially assessed by the Editorial Office and taken through peer-review by our high-profile associate editors.
Part of the nanoscale family
Nanoscale is part of the nanoscale family, which also includes Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale Advances. The journal series allows full coverage of interdisciplinary advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Editors-in-chief
Chunli Bai, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dirk Guldi, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Associate editors
Cinzia Casiraghi, University of Manchester, UK
Chunying Chen, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China, China
Qing Dai, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China, China
Yves Dufrêne, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Andrea Ferrari, University of Cambridge, UK
Dong Ha Kim, Ewha Womans University, Korea
Yamuna Krishnan, University of Chicago, USA
Quan Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Xing Yi Ling, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Xiaogang Liu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Renzhi Ma, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
Liberato Manna, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Dong Qin, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Paolo Samorì, Université de Strasbourg, France
Elena Shevchenko, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Ling-Dong Sun, Peking University, China
Shouheng Sun, Brown University, USA
Jonathan Veinot, University of Alberta, Canada
Umesh Waghmare, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research , India
Benjamin Wiley, Duke University, USA
Xiao Cheng Zeng, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Manzhou Zhu, Anhui University, China
Jin Zou, University of Queensland, Australia
Zhenan Bao, Stanford University, USA
Amanda Barnard, Australian National University, Australia
Suryasarathi Bose, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Stephanie Brock, Wayne State, Chemistry, USA
Raffaella Buonsanti, EPFL, Switzerland
Jingyi Chen, University of Arkansas, USA
Xiaodong Chen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Serena Corr, University of Sheffield, UK
Kristen Fichthorn, Penn State, Chemical Engineering, USA
Christy Haynes, University of Minnesota, USA
Xingyu Jiang, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
RongChao Jin, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Song Jin, University of Wisconsin, USA
Jesse Jokerst, UCSD, USA
Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, University of New South Wales, Australia
Pooi See Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Graham Leggett, University of Sheffield, UK
Changming Li, Southwest University, China
Zhiqun Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Jie Liu, Duke University, USA
Laura Na Liu, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany
Yunqi Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Wei Lu, University of Michigan, USA, University of Michigan, USA
Catherine Murphy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
So-Jung Park, Ewha Womans University, Korea
T Pradeep, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Zhigang Shuai, Tsinghua University, China
Sara Skrabalak, Indiana University, USA
Francesco Stellacci, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Hong-Bo Sun, Tsinghua University, China
Dmitri Talapin, University of Chicago, USA
Zhiyong Tang, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
Mauricio Terrones, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Ventsislav Valev, University of Bath, UK
Miriam Vitiello, CNR Nano, Italy
Jianfang Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Xiaojun Wu, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Yujie Xiong, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Hongxing Xu, Wuhan University, China
Lin Xu, Nanjing Normal University, China
Ya Yang, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jinhua Ye, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Gang Zhang, Institute of High Performance Computing, ASTAR, Singapore
Hua Zhang, City University of Hong Kong, China
Yuliang Zhao, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
Sam Keltie, Publisher
Michaela Mühlberg, Executive Editor ORCID 0000-0002-3468-280X
Charlotte Marshall, Managing Editor ORCID 0000-0001-6237-1665
Jonathon Watson, Editorial Production Manager
Rebecca Campbell, Senior Publishing Editor
Edward Gardner, Development Editor
Lucy Balshaw, Publishing Editor
Matthew Blow, Publishing Editor
Robin Brabham, Publishing Editor
Eleanor Clifford, Publishing Editor
Natalie Cotterell, Publishing Editor
Tom Cozens, Publishing Editor
Chris Dias, Publishing Editor
Emma Gorrell, Publishing Editor
Eleanor Griffiths, Publishing Editor
Sam Howell, Publishing Editor
Tamara Kosikova, Publishing Editor
Lucy Mapp, Publishing Editor
Carole Martin, Publishing Editor
Kirsty McRoberts, Publishing Editor
Lily Newton, Publishing Editor
Rebecca Plant, Publishing Editor
Pradip Songara, Publishing Editor
Ruth Zadik, Publishing Editor
Zita Zachariah, Publishing Editor
Ruoxuan Guo, Publishing Administrator
Jie Gao, Publishing Administrator
Journal guidelines
For guidance on preparing your article please visit our Prepare your article and Resources for authors pages, the content of which is relevant to all of our journals. Note that some journals have additional specific guidelines.
Readership information
The readership is cross-disciplinary and includes scientists, researchers and professionals in academia and industry interested in nanoscience and nanotechnology, including (but not limited to) the areas of physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, materials, energy/environment, information technology, detection science, healthcare and drug discovery, and electronics.
Subscription information
Nanoscale is part of RSC Gold and Materials Science subscription packages.
Online only 2021: ISSN 2040-3372, £1,796 / $2,927
*2019 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2020)
**Average time from receipt to first decision for peer reviewed manuscripts in 2019
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