New Year, new opportunities for Nanoscale

Happy New Year from the Nanoscale Editorial team! 2012 has been an exciting year for the journal and we have really enjoyed working with our authors, readers, referees and Boards to publish consistently great research spanning nanoscience and nanotechnology. Nanoscale has grown rapidly from launch in 2009, and submissions continue to rise to ever-higher levels.

Indeed, Nanoscale is now very much firmly-established as a renowned home for important, international nano research. This is in no small part due to the dedication of our world-class team of Editors, who consistently offer the communities we serve a very rigorous and yet fair, unbiased and efficient handling of manuscripts.

Nanoscale received its first full impact factor of 5.91 this year. This impressive result reflects the high-quality research being published in the journal. We aspire to even higher impact and quality in future years. For acceptance in Nanoscale, the Editors stress that articles must report extremely novel, very high quality work of broad general interest. You can see some of the great Nanoscale reviews and original research that people have enjoyed reading over the last year in Table 1.

Table 1 Most read articles in Nanoscale in 2012

Title	Authors	DOI
Graphene edges: a review of their fabrication and characterization	Xiaoting Jia, Jessica Campos-Delgado, Mauricio Terrones, Vincent Meunier and Mildred S. Dresselhaus	10.1039/c0nr00600a
Gold nanoparticles: preparation, properties, and applications in bionanotechnology	Yi-Cheun Yeh, Brian Creran and Vincent M. Rotello	10.1039/c1nr11188d
3D branched nanowire heterojunction photoelectrodes for high-efficiency solar water splitting and H2 generation	Ke Sun, Yi Jing, Chun Li, Xiaofeng Zhang, Ryan Aguinaldo, Alireza Kargar, Kristian Madsen, Khaleda Banu, Yuchun Zhou, Yoshio Bando, Zhaowei Liu and Deli Wang	10.1039/c2nr11952h
Recent progress on metal core@semiconductor shell nanocomposites as a promising type of photocatalyst	Nan Zhang, Siqi Liu and Yi-Jun Xu	10.1039/c2nr00009a
Nanostructured metal oxide-based materials as advanced anodes for lithium-ion batteries	Hao Bin Wu, Jun Song Chen, Huey Hoon Hng and Xiong Wen (David) Lou	10.1039/c2nr11966h
The role of nanomaterials in redox-based supercapacitors for next generation energy storage devices	Xin Zhao, Beatriz Mendoza Sánchez, Peter J. Dobson and Patrick S. Gran	10.1039/c0nr00594k
A cuprous oxide–reduced graphene oxide (Cu2O–rGO) composite photocatalyst for hydrogen generation: employing rGO as an electron acceptor to enhance the photocatalytic activity and stability of Cu2O	Phong D. Tran, Sudip K. Batabyal, Stevin S. Pramana, James Barber, Lydia H. Wong and Say Chye Joachim Loo	10.1039/c2nr30881a
Li ion battery materials with core–shell nanostructures	Liwei Su, Yu Jing and Zhen Zhou	10.1039/c1nr10550g
Recent advances in solar cells based on one-dimensional nanostructure arrays	Miao Yu, Yun-Ze Long, Bin Sun and Zhiyong Fan	10.1039/c2nr30437f
Graphene: nanoscale processing and recent applications	László P. Biró, Péter Nemes-Incze and Philippe Lambin	10.1039/c1nr11067e

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We welcomed some new faces this year to our Editorial Board with Professors Xiao Cheng Zeng (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Rongchao Jin (Carnegie Mellon University) and Shouheng Sun (Brown University) joining us as Associate Editors. We sadly say goodbye to Professor Markus Niederberger who stops handling manuscripts at the end of 2012, and sincerely thank him for his huge contribution to the journal since its launch.

Making your research visible

Our popular Accepted Manuscript service – where the unedited version of a manuscript is published online as soon as it is accepted – has significantly lowered the time to first publication in Nanoscale so your work is available to researchers even more quickly.

The way science is funded and the way research is accessed continues to evolve rapidly. As a Society Publisher, RSC Publishing is committed to supporting the scientific communities we serve. We support Open Access models which seek to ensure that scholarly publishing activities operate in a long term, sustainable way. Full information about our policies can be seen at www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/OpenScience/.

You can also find some optional article templates on our website to help you prepare your paper for submission in a format that will look professional when deposited in a repository.

We are keen to promote you work on our Nanoscale Blog http://blogs.rsc.org/nr/ featuring our “Editor's Choices” of their favourite articles in their area of expertise, topical collections and “hot article” highlights. Our many followers keep up to date with the latest nano-related news on our Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RSCnanoscale and Twitter http://twitter.com/nanoscale_rsc pages. Newsworthy Nanoscale research regularly features in the RSC magazine Chemistry Worldhttp://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/.

Themed collections in Nanoscale are a great way to highlight exciting research in the fields you tell us you are really excited about. Last year's collections are on Modelling of the Nanoscale, Enabling Platforms in Nanotechnology and Metallic Clusters, and we have some great themes planned for 2013.

As a society journal Nanoscale is keen to support the community for example through sponsorship and offering poster prizes at conferences. Another initiative involves the RSC working with an Oxford University spin-out Marblar to “crowd source” ideas on how to apply the discoveries reported in scientific papers. One project to benefit is based on a Nanoscale paper by Sergio Bertazzo et al. on Correlative light-ion microscopy for biological applications (10.1039/c2nr30431g) . We are also pleased to announce the launch in 2013 of a Nanoscale lectureship award for young researchers – keep an eye out for more details on our blog.

We very much look forward to building on these successes in 2013. We always welcome your feedback, comments and suggestions; please do contact us at E-mail: nanoscale@rsc.org.

With our best wishes for the New Year,

Heather Montgomery

Deputy Editor, Nanoscale

Philip Earis

Managing Editor, Nanoscale

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