Large-scale future for Nano Today

A new strategy will help Nano Today best serve the needs of the nano research community.

Cordelia Sealy, Managing Editor and Jackie Y. Ying, Editor-in-Chief

It is with great pleasure that Elsevier announces the appointment of Jackie Y. Ying as Editor-in-Chief of Nano Today. With her at the helm, Nano Today will continue to build on its unrivalled position as the premier publication dedicated to reviews covering all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

From 2009, Nano Today will be known as Nano Today: An International Rapid Reviews Journal and will move to a traditional journal format to enable us to bring the research community more of what it needs: cutting-edge, peer-refereed reviews covering the latest research in important and novel interdisciplinary areas.

Nano Today: An International Rapid Reviews Journal will publish six print issues per year, but articles will be published ahead of print on ScienceDirect, Elsevier's electronic delivery platform, with all its many benefits and features. The journal will continue to cover the latest news and developments in the research arena, as well as the opinions and comments of leaders in the field. Jackie Ying will lead a new and revitalized editorial board covering all aspects of this exciting and dynamic area.

No one could be better placed than Jackie Ying to lead Nano Today: An International Rapid Reviews Journal into the future. She is currently executive director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) in Singapore and an adjunct professor of chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her distinguished research career in nanostructured materials and systems has impacted a diverse range of applications, including catalysis, pharmaceuticals synthesis, ceramics, energy, environment, drug delivery, tissue engineering, imaging, sensing, medical diagnostics and biological devices. As such, she is uniquely placed at the intersection of the many disciplines that make nanoscience and nanotechnology both so unique and fascinating.

Jackie Ying is the founding director of IBN, a national research institute of 200 scientists, engineers and medical doctors working at the interface of bioengineering and nanotechnology. She was an AT&T Bell Laboratories PhD scholar at Princeton University, a NSF-NATO postdoctoral fellow and Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute for New Materials in Germany, and a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. She has received a myriad of awards and honors, including the American Ceramic Society Ross C. Purdy Award, the American Chemical Society Faculty Fellowship Award in Solid-State Chemistry, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Allan P. Colburn Award. She was elected a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists, Leopoldina, and appointed on the U.S. National Academy of Engineering blue-ribbon committee that identified grand challenges for engineering for the 21st century. She has authored over 190 articles and 90 patents, and presented over 220 invited lectures at international conferences. She has been recognized as Technology Review's TR100 Young Innovator and World Economic Forum's Young Global Leader.

In 2008, Nano Today will be publishing three double issues covering topics as diverse as the self-assembly of nanoparticles and their use in biosensing and diagnostics, the synthesis, purification, and basic physical properties of carbon nanotubes and nanowires. This, our first double issue, covers emerging topics in probe microscopy, as well as discussion of the potential concerns and societal/environmental issues surrounding nanotechnology.

We hope that you welcome the changes planned for Nano Today as the best route for us to serve the nano research community. Both the Nano Today team at Elsevier and Jackie Ying look forward to hearing from you.

Cordelia Sealy, Managing Editor and Jackie Y. Ying, Editor-in-Chief