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25 May 2023
Meet Us at the 7th Scientific Meeting of Ph.D. Students (JPhD2023), 7–9 June 2023, Barcelona, Spain

MDPI will be presenting at the 7th Scientific Meeting of Ph.D. Students at the UAB campus (JPhD2023). The event will be held at the Sala d'Actes Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain, from 7 to 9 June 2023.
JPhD2023 aims to facilitate the exchange of knowledge about scientific research from different fields, sharing of research works and communication among the Ph.D. students of the BNC-b in an academic and scientific environment.
MDPI Speaker
Dr. Gabriel Martínez Edo
Presentation theme: MDPI Open Access & Peer Review Process
Dr. Gabriel Martínez Edo holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry (2013) and a master’s degree in pharmaceutical chemistry (2015) from the IQS school of Engineering, Universitat Ramon Llull (Barcelona, Spain). He completed his Ph.D. (2020) in chemistry and chemical engineering at the same institution focusing on the use of nanomaterials as drug delivery systems.
He joined MDPI in June 2020 as Assistant Editor and Section Managing Editor for the journal Nanomaterials. In 2021, he was appointed Managing Editor of the journal Nanomanufacturing, a position he held until his recent appointment as Journal Relations Specialist.
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://jphd.icmab.es/.
Relevant Journals:
12 May 2023
Meet Us at the 2020-2023 China Mass Spectrometry Conference, 9–13 June 2023, Hangzhou, China

MDPI will be attending the 2020-2023 China Mass Spectrometry Conference, which will be held from 9 to 13 June 2023 in Hangzhou, China. The conference is hosted by the Mass Spectrometry Branch of the Chinese Physical Society, the Mass Spectrometry Professional Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society, and the Analytical Instrument Branch of the Chinese Instrumentation Society, and co-organized by Zhejiang University.
This conference is a grand event in China’s mass spectrometry industry, aiming to promote the unity and progress of the academic community, harmonious development, and a win-win future, to improve the level of academic exchanges, and promote the wide application of mass spectrometry technology in various scientific and technological fields. Famous scholars in the field of mass spectrometry at home and abroad will be invited to attend this conference. The report forms are divided into the conference report, invited report, oral report, and poster presentation.
The conference will fully demonstrate China’s latest research progress and achievements in mass spectrometry and related fields, enhancing exchanges and cooperation among mass spectrometry scientists and mass spectrometry-related practitioners, in order to promote the development of China’s mass spectrometry industry and enhance the academic status and influence of China’s mass spectrometry in the world.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
If you plan on attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth and start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: http://www.cmss.org.cn/index.php?r=site%2Fcae-home&mid=19.
31 March 2023
Meet Us at the 7th Conference on New Energy and New Chemical Materials Cum National Symposium on Energy Conversion and Storage Materials, 7–9 April 2023, Wuhan, China

Conference: The 7th Conference on New Energy and New Chemical Materials Cum National Symposium on Energy Conversion and Storage Materials
Date: 7–9 April 2023
Place: Wuhan, China
Materials (ISSN: 1996-1944) will be attending the 7th Conference on New Energy and New Chemical Materials Cum National Symposium on Energy Conversion and Storage Materials as an exhibitor from 7 to 9 April 2023, in Wuhan, China.
The 7th Conference on New Energy and New Chemical Materials Cum National Symposium on Energy Conversion and Storage Materials is an important academic conference in the field of new energy materials and devices research in China. It has been successfully held six times in Xiamen, Suzhou, Dalian, Zhengzhou, and twice in Xi'an. The conference will focus on academic exchanges and discussions on secondary batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells and electrocatalysis, advanced energy storage materials and technologies, anode and cathode materials, and other energy storage technologies from the academic and application fields. The conference will bring together famous domestic experts, scholars, and enterprise technicians to discuss the future development prospects and directions of new energy materials and devices research.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
- Materials;
- Metals;
- Catalysts;
- Nanomaterials;
- Batteries;
- Electrochem;
- Electronic Materials;
- Crystals.
Please do not hesitate to reach out if you plan on attending this conference. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you might have.
For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: http://www.zgclzk.org.cn/col.jsp?id=141.
14 March 2023
Join Us at the 13th National Symposium on the Molecular and Structural Characterization of Polymers, 31 March–2 April 2023, Shenzhen, China

Conference: 13th National Symposium on the Molecular and Structural Characterization of Polymers
Date: 31 March–2 April 2023
Place: Shenzhen, China
MDPI will be attending the 13th National Symposium on the Molecular and Structural Characterization of Polymers as an exhibitor. This meeting will be held at Hyatt Regency Shenzhen Yantian, Shenzhen, China, from 31 March to 2 April 2023. The organizing committee consists of the Polymer Materials Analytical Technology and Characteristic Methods Committee of Chinese Chemical Society. Through this meeting, we wish to contribute to the discussion on the progress in the field of polymer characterization.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
- Polymers;
- Gels;
- Colloids and Interfaces;
- Symmetry;
- Surfaces;
- IJMS;
- Macromol;
- Nanomaterials;
- Analytica.
If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit https://poly-struc2022.scievent.com/.
13 March 2023
MDPI’s Newly Launched Journals in December 2022
As a leading open access publisher, MDPI provides scholars with a high-quality and rich academic exchange platform by continuously expanding into new and exciting research areas.
In December 2022, MDPI launched five new journals, covering multiple subjects such as life sciences, biology, medicine and pharmacology, social sciences and humanities. These new journals are being edited by established scholars across the world.
Journal |
Founding Editor-in-Chief |
Journal Topics (Selected) |
Prof. Dr. Fabio Gresta, University of Messina, Italy| Editorial | view inaugural issue |
grass/forage/turf production; grassland management; pasture monitoring; grazing and livestock; grass agro-ecosystems| view journal scope | submit an article |
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Prof. Dr. Christos G. Athanassiou, University of Thessaly, Greece| Editorial | view inaugural issue |
pesticides; fungicides; herbicides; fertilizers; soil conditioners| view journal scope | submit an article |
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Prof. Dr. Stephen H. Safe, Texas A&M University, USA| Editorial | view inaugural issue |
receptor structure; receptor function; receptor signaling; receptor expression and regulation; receptor interactions with drugs| view journal scope | submit an article |
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Dr. Jean Jacques Vanden Eynde, University of Mons-UMONS, Belgium| Editorial | view inaugural issue |
drug discovery; medicinal chemistry; preclinical and clinical research; marketed drugs; intellectual property and regulatory affairs| view journal scope | submit an article |
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Prof. Dr. Heather Kanuka, University of Alberta, Canada| Editorial | view inaugural issue |
higher education; tertiary education; policy and practice in higher education; educational leadership in higher education; educational administration and management in higher education| view journal scope | submit an article |
If you are interested in creating more open access journals with us to publish cutting-edge research, please send your journal proposal application to [email protected].
9 March 2023
Interview with Dr. Tsung-Rong Kuo—Winner of the Nanomaterials 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award
We are pleased to announce the winner of the Nanomaterials 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award—Dr. Tsung-Rong Kuo.
Name: Dr. Tsung-Rong Kuo
Affiliation: Graduate Institute of Nanomedicine and Medical Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Research Interests: optical sensors; biosensors; nanosensors; chemical sensors; SERS; plasmonic nanomaterials; antibacterial nanomaterials
Dr. Tsung-Rong Kuo hails from Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the National Taiwan Normal University in 2011. His Ph.D. research topic focused on preparations of plasmonic nanomaterials as carriers for drug delivery systems. Additionally, he then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. At that time, he designed and synthesized nanomaterials as contrast agents for application in molecular imaging. Afterward, he continued his postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Chemistry at the University of California (Berkeley). At Berkeley, he synthesized shape-controlled silver nanocrystals, and prepared silver nanocrystals and Langmuir–Blodgett films as surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates. In 2015, he joined the Graduate Institute of Nanomedicine and Medical Engineering at Taipei Medical University as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. In 2022, he was promoted to Professor. He is currently the director of the Graduate Institute of Nanomedicine and Medical Engineering and the International Ph.D. Program in Biomedical Engineering at Taipei Medical University. His recent research interests focus on preparations of nanomaterials for application in nanomedicine. He is credited with 71 publications with 1993 citations, and his h-index is now 26.
We would like to thank the award committee for their hard work in the difficult task of selecting a winner from such a large number of exceptional candidates. We will continue to reward reviewers with the Outstanding Reviewer Award to express our acknowledgment of their efforts in maintaining the high quality and quick turnaround time of the journal, and we wish them every success in their careers.
We hope you enjoy the interview with Dr. Tsung-Rong Kuo:
1. Could you give a brief introduction of yourself to our readers?
I am currently a professor at the Graduate Institute of Nanomedicine and Medical Engineering at Taipei Medical University. I have been working as an academic researcher at Taipei Medical University for more than seven years. At my current job at Taipei Medical University, I teach nanomaterials courses to undergraduate and graduate students. I am also the advisor to the graduate students in my lab. Our research group has focused on the designs and preparations of various nanomaterials for applications such as antibacterial agents, detection via surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, and photosynthetic biohybrid systems. Most importantly, as the director of the Graduate Institute of Nanomedicine and Medical Engineering and the International Ph.D. Program in Biomedical Engineering at Taipei Medical University, I take charge of recruiting international students. Taipei Medical University has been a leader in Taiwan’s healthcare system for more than half a century. Around 6,000 students from over 40 countries are currently enrolled at TMU's ten colleges. It is ranked 384 in the QS World University Rankings 2023 and ranked 201-250 in the THE World University Rankings 2022. We encourage international students to apply to our institute and program. My lab also welcomes students who are interested in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
2. What’s the focus of your current research, and why did you choose this research field? As a reviewer, what kind of manuscripts would you prefer to review in the future?
My current research is focused on the design, synthesis, and application of nanomaterials for biomedical applications. For example, we have prepared different morphologies of CuS, including microspheres, nanosheets, and nanoparticles, for light-driven antibacterial application. Based on the results of bacterial growth curves, ROS generation, and electron paramagnetic resonance studies, CuS nanostructures have higher photodynamic antibacterial activities. Moreover, bacteria incubated with CuS nanoparticles and CuS nanosheets have exhibited substantial bacterial degradation after near-infrared laser irradiation, which can be attributed to their photothermal killing effects.
Based on my research background and current health threats from bacterial infections, I believe that the development of novel antibacterial agents is an urgent task for human sustainability. Nanomaterials with unique chemical and physical properties are very suitable for this task, as they can act as antibacterial agents to combat bacterial infections. Therefore, I chose to focus my research on the development of antibacterial nanomaterials.
As a reviewer, I prefer to review manuscripts related to my current research interests. I appreciate reading pioneering research works from other research groups before their publication, and I can benefit from these novel research results. When I review an article, I sometimes get new ideas for my own research work, which is of great help to me.
3. Which research topics do you think are of particular interest to the research community in the coming years?
Currently, our group focuses on the research topic of photosynthetic biohybrid systems. The developments of efficient harvesting and storage of solar energy can provide unlimited renewable power and also address the environmental and climate change crises. We design and develop photosynthetic biohybrid systems based on light-absorbing nanomaterials and bacteria to convert greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals with high specificity and low cost. Under solar light irradiation, light-absorbing nanomaterials can produce photogenerated electrons to assist bacteria in the conversion of carbon dioxide to acetic acid. Moreover, the photothermal effect of nanomaterials can be used to increase the temperature of biohybrid systems to facilitate the growth of bacteria. However, elucidating the details of the reaction mechanisms of biohybrid systems is still an urgent task in our quest to improve conversion efficiency in photosynthetic biohybrid systems. In the near future, with the advantages of light-absorbing nanomaterials, photosynthetic biohybrid systems will reveal high-performance abilities, one of which is the ability to capture sunlight for accomplishing carbon dioxide fixation. Recently, we have published a review paper entitled “Emerging Trends in Nanomaterials for Photosynthetic Biohybrid Systems” in ACS Materials Letters. In this review paper, we collected some recent publications on the research topic of photosynthetic biohybrid systems, and we also explored the perspectives, challenges and opportunities of future practical applications of photosynthetic biohybrid systems. To read this review paper, please visit https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.2c00752.
4. Have you ever encountered any difficulties when conducting research? How did you overcome them?
In the early stages of my academic research, the first difficulty was applying for and receiving a research grant to set up my lab. I invested most of my research grant to buy lab infrastructure and analytical instruments. At this time, I could only provide a very small scholarship budget to recruit graduate students. Therefore, I had a very limited number of students with whom I could execute my research project. To overcome the issue of my limited research budget, I wrote many research proposals in order to attain research grants each year. I tried to apply for research grants that I could. However, writing these research proposals was very time-consuming, and thus, I did not have enough time to publish a research paper.
After my promotion to the position of professor, I had a large enough research budget to maintain my lab and provide scholarships for graduate students. However, currently, the recruitment of graduate students has turned out to be a difficult task. In Taiwan, there is a lack of graduate students; therefore, we have to recruit international graduate students to join our university. With competition from different countries, we have found it difficult to recruit international graduate students. To overcome the difficulty of our lack of lab graduate students, we try to provide high-quality research projects and a high number of scholarships in order to recruit international graduate students with outstanding research backgrounds.
5. If you have the opportunity, will you actively apply to attend academic conferences? What do you think you can learn from participating in conferences that are different from working in a lab?
I joined many local and international academic conferences when I was completing my Ph.D. During these academic conferences, I had the opportunity to display my research data via posters or talks. During communications with various other researchers and fields during the academic conferences, you can brainstorm using your own research projects. Furthermore, I had the chance to join talks given by pioneers in my field of interest and field of research during these academic conferences. Most importantly, I had the opportunity to meet old friends and make new friends. Doing academic research can be a lonely endeavor, and it is almost impossible to carry out research alone. Therefore, joining academic conferences is a good opportunity to make research connections. To this I say, why not?
As a research advisor, I also encourage the graduate students in my lab to join academic conferences. In taking these opportunities, they can practice presenting their research data to the scientific community. For me, personally, I can guide them in giving a good presentation and overcoming the fear of presenting to the public. I believe this is a win-win situation. Therefore, it is an important event when our research group joins an academic conference each year.
6. We are an Open Access journal. How do you think Open Access impacts authors?
Open Access journals make research articles freely available to anyone with internet access, without requiring a subscription or payment. In Open Access journals, readers can access and download the full text of articles without any financial barriers. Research articles published via Open Access can increase the accessibility and visibility of research, which can lead to increased citation and impact. Open Access journals have become more popular in recent years because they provide researchers with a wider readership and greater exposure of their work. Moreover, Open Access can help to address the issue of journal subscription costs, which can be a barrier to accessing research for individuals and institutions with limited resources. However, Open Access journals have also suffered various criticisms. Some claim that the article processing charges required by some Open Access journals can be prohibitively expensive for researchers, particularly those working in low-income countries. Additionally, there are concerns about the quality and rigor of some Open Access journals, as they may not have the same level of peer review and editorial oversight as traditional subscription-based journals. Overall, Open Access journals are a complex and evolving landscape that has the potential to democratize access to research and promote scholarly communication.
In my personal opinion, there are some important qualities that reviewers should have to be effective in their role. Herein, I have added a few qualities that I believe are particularly important:
- Objectivity: Reviewers should pay attention to being unbiased and objective when reviewing a manuscript. This means that the reviewers should evaluate the research work according to its merits, rather than their personal preferences or biases.
- Attention to detail: Reviewers should be careful and detail-oriented, paying attention to the unique aspects of the research work they are reviewing. Reviewers should also examine things like grammar, formatting, and citation style.
- Critical thinking: Reviewers should be able to think critically about the research work they are evaluating, identifying its strengths and weaknesses and providing constructive feedback.
- Communication skills: Reviewers should be able to clearly communicate their comments and suggestions to the author in a respectful and professional manner. This includes providing specific examples and actionable recommendations for the improvement of the manuscript.
- Time management: Reviewers should be able to manage their time effectively, ensuring that they can finish their reviews in a timely manner without sacrificing quality. This is particularly important in fields in which timely reviews are essential.
- Subject matter expertise: Reviewers should have a strong background in the research work that they are evaluating, allowing them to provide informed comments and suggestions for authors.
For more information about Nanomaterials awards, please refer to the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/awards.
9 March 2023
Interview with Dr. Gueorgui Gueorguiev—Winner of the Nanomaterials 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award
We are pleased to announce the winner of the Nanomaterials 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award—Dr. Gueorgui Gueorguiev.
Name: Dr. Gueorgui Gueorguiev
Affiliation: Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University, Sweden
Research Interests: carbon-based materials; inherently nanostructured thin films; group-III nitrides; group-III bismides; graphene; ultrathin films; protective coatings; 2D materials; ab-initio calculations; synthetic growth of thin films; molecular dynamics for nanostructured materials; magnetron sputtering; MOCVD; atomic layer deposition (ALD)
Dr. Gueorguiev completed his Ph.D. on the structural and electronic properties of carbon- and silicon-based clusters in 2003 at Coimbra University, Portugal, with the exceptional mark “Cum Laude” and following a fellowship at the prestigious Portuguese Instituto Camões.
Dr. Gueorguiev joined Linköping University, Sweden, in the year 2004 by establishing a new line of research on the theoretical design of nanostructured carbon-based thin films with pre-defined properties and with immediate experimental verification. By developing the DFT-based synthetic growth concept, he discovered and pioneered a new class of materials, that of fullerene-like thin solid films. His research interests then expanded towards 2D and van der Waals structures, layered compounds, and coatings with applications in aviation. The theoretical approaches to these include first principles and effective methods in computational materials science, synthesis techniques involving magnetron sputtering, MOCVD, and atomic layer deposition. The diversity and independence of his research activities and achievements are reflected in his publication profile.
For the past ten years, he has built a strong, competitive, and expansive research and education network in materials science, linking Linköping University (LiU) and the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)—https://liu.se/en/research/liu-ufba-network. This network involves a dynamic team, the exchange of research visits, joint supervision of Ph.D. students, joint execution of graduate courses, joint publishing of findings in new material phenomena with international impact for a variety of applications, and jointly organized high-level professional events.
We would like to thank the award committee for their hard work in the difficult task of selecting a winner from such a large number of exceptional candidates. We will continue to reward reviewers with the Outstanding Reviewer Award to express our acknowledgment of their efforts in maintaining the high quality and quick turnaround time of the journal, and we wish them every success in their careers.
We hope you enjoy the interview.
1. Could you give a brief introduction of yourself to the readers?
I am an Associate Professor at Linköping University in Sweden. I am a theoretician with a strong interest in the immediate experimental verification of theoretical predictions in materials science and their subsequent applications. My topical research lines include emerging 2D group III nitrides and oxides, topological insulators, inherently nanostructured carbon-based thin films for protective coatings, including hard/elastic and self-healing coatings, 2D carbon-based systems for the nanoelectronics and metal-organic interfaces, 2D silicon-based and cluster-assembled materials including silicon boride, and working towards a metal-semiconductor transition in 2D.
2. What’s your current research focus, and why did you choose this research field? As a reviewer, what kind of manuscripts would you prefer to review in the future?
For my current research topics, please see the previous question. My research focus on nanostructured materials and low-dimensional materials evolved as a result of a complex combination of following my own research interests, participating in the development of the field, working intense on my own projects and proposals, and working as a team member on larger projects. As a reviewer, due to the progress of my research and my many skills, I would say that I am quite versatile, and I feel equally comfortable and competent when evaluating not only theoretical but also most experimental manuscripts in the field of nanostructured materials.
3. Which research topics do you think are of particular interest to the research community in the coming years?
Low-dimensional and layered materials, heterostructures, and topological materials, to name just a few. Nanomaterials that are achievable by robust, repeatable, scalable, and industrially viable techniques will also be of particular interest (in contrast to those that rely on exotic, difficult-to-reproduce techniques).
4. What do you think you can learn from participating in conferences?
Well-planned, well-organized, topical scientific meetings, events, conferences, and workshops will always be important and significantly impact progress in most research fields. After the pandemic, most scientists have come to appreciate these opportunities even more so than before.
5. We are an Open Access journal. How do you think Open Access impacts authors?
Open Access publication has clearly become the paradigm in scientific publishing. In my opinion, its advantages are clear. The popularization of research, high numbers of citations of quality research, and in the end, quicker progress in most research fields are all reasons to support the increasing number of available Open Access journals.
6. Which qualities do you think reviewers need?
Scientific competence in the reviewed field and recent, updated knowledge are clearly and undoubtedly the necessary qualities for a reviewer. However, some other essential qualities of reviewers are frequently overlooked. A reviewer should be able to see the bigger picture, i.e., whether a given manuscript fits the recent trends and developments in impact and progress in the given field. The linguistic and stylistic competence of the reviewer cannot be neglected; they should be able to identify whether a manuscript is a good read, whether it is attractive to the audience, and whether it can inspire further work along similar research lines. The objectivity of reviewers is also frequently overlooked; a reviewer should not be guided by his/her own research inertia and preferences. Last but not least, a reviewer should be critical but positive, trying to help through advice and detailed comments on the publication of a manuscript that may exhibit good potential, even when this potential is accompanied by some errors or by insufficient presentation of results.
For more information about Nanomaterials awards, please refer to the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/awards.
8 March 2023
Interview with Dr. Liang Huang—Winner of the Nanomaterials 2022 Young Investigator Award
We are pleased to announce the winner of the Nanomaterials 2022 Young Investigator Award—Dr. Liang Huang.
Name: Dr. Liang Huang
Affiliation: Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Website: http://faculty.hust.edu.cn/huangliang1/en/index.htm
Dr. Liang Huang received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Lanzhou University in 2007 and 2013, respectively. He became a principal investigator at the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO), Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2016. His current interests focus on the salt-assisted synthesis of 2D materials for energy conversion and storage. He published over 120 papers on science advances, advanced materials, nano letters, ACS energy letters, ACS nano, advanced energy materials, etc. and has an H-index of 55. He is the Chutian scholar of Hubei Province (2017), Outstanding Scholar in Central China (2019), the Top 2% scientist selected by Stanford-Elsevier (2019 and 2020), and he received the 2020 IAAM Young Scientist Medal.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Liang Huang for his outstanding achievements.
We would like to thank the award committee for their excellent work in the hard task of selecting a winner from such a large number of excellent candidates. We would also like to thank all the nominees from various fields for their participation. We will continue to reward young scientists with the Young Investigator Award and wish them every success in their careers.
The following is a short Q&A with Dr. Liang Huang:
1. Could you give us a brief introduction of yourself to the readers?
My name is Liang Huang from Xinyu, Jiangxi Province, China. I got my B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Lanzhou University in 2007 and 2013, respectively. Now, I am working at the Huazhong University Of Science And Technology as an Associate Professor.
2. What’s your current research and why did you choose this research field?
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have demonstrated good chemical, optical, electrical, and magnetic characteristics and offer great potential in numerous applications. Therefore, corresponding synthesis technology of 2D materials that is timesaving, with high quality, high yield and low cost is desired. That is the reason why my group focuses on the salt-assisted synthesis of 2D materials to balance the quality and yield. The salt as a template or synthetic medium can be reusable and can work under high temperatures over the limitation of materials’ structure to form atomical thickness.
3. Which research topics do you think are of particular interest to the research community in the coming years?
In my opinion, I think the integrated chip using 2D materials will be of particular interest to the research community in the coming years.
4. What qualities do you think young scientists need?
This is a tough question. I think young scientists need to enjoy failure since we have to face lots of difficulties around us.
5. Can you briefly describe the key to a happy laboratory life?
Finding the research interesting and creating a family lab culture.
6. As the winner of this award, is there something you want to express, or someone to thank most?
As the winner of this award, I want to thank my wife, because I work in the lab six days a week from morning till night. I wouldn't be able to do my job without her understanding and tolerance to deal with things at home.
For more information about Nanomaterials awards, please refer to the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/awards.
7 March 2023
Displaying Co-Authors’ Email Addresses on the Webpage of Published Papers
MDPI is pleased to announce that we now display the co-authors’ email addresses in addition to the corresponding author’s email address on the webpage of published papers, protected by Captcha. For more information about this change, please visit the journal’s instructions for authors page.
We believe this change will facilitate academic discussions and advance our cause of open science and research. The corresponding authors are responsible for communicating with their co-authors and indicating in our system (https://susy.mdpi.com/) if co-authors would prefer for their email addresses not to be displayed.
16 February 2023
Increasing Visibility for Preprints.org – Clarivate adds the Preprint Citation Index to the Web of Science

On 9 February 2023, Clarivate, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics, added the Preprint Citation Index to the Web of Science platform, streamlining the research process by allowing researchers to locate and link to preprints alongside other trusted content in the database.
The Preprint Citation Index will act as a bridge to connect cutting-edge preprints with peer-reviewed journal articles published within the Web of Science Core Collection. Alerts can be easily set to monitor new research across several repositories and authors will also be able to include preprints on their Web of Science Research Profile to more accurately display their various research outputs.
As of its launch, the Preprint Citation Index will provide nearly two million preprints from various repositories, including MDPI’s own Preprints.org.
MDPI's Preprints Platform – Preprints.org
To advance Open Science and the fast dissemination of research, MDPI offers researchers a free multidisciplinary preprint platform. Preprints.org accepts submissions from all research areas and offers authors high visibility, permanent archiving, article-level Metrics and immediately citable content by assigning a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to all preprints.
During submission to any MDPI journal, authors have the option to share their research as a preprint. After an initial screening, the manuscript is available online in 48 hours or less. Once online, preprints can be downloaded, shared, commented on, and cited, providing authors maximum visibility.
We invite you to join the ranks of the over 100k researchers using Preprints.org and share your research.
For more information, please visit Preprints.org.
9 February 2023
Meet Us at the Fourth International Conference on Energy Storage Materials, 13–16 April 2023, Shenzhen, China
Conference: The Fourth International Conference on Energy Storage Materials
Date: 13–16 April 2023
MDPI will be attending the Fourth International Conference on Energy Storage Materials as the exhibitor. With the theme of advanced energy storage materials and energy storage devices, this seminar invites well-known scholars and industry professionals from around the world to discuss the latest research progress and industrial development status and trends in advanced energy storage materials and devices from academic and industrial perspectives in order to promote the application process of energy storage materials and energy storage devices. The conference is held annually.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
- Batteries;
- Energies;
- Sustainability;
- Materials;
- Electronics;
- Nanomaterials;
- Inorganics;
- Crystals;
- AppliedChem;
- Membranes;
- Electrochem;
- Applied Sciences;
- Metals;
- Molecules.
If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us at our booth: #9. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit http://www.icensm.ac.cn/eindex.html.
7 February 2023
Interview with Dr. Aiping Chen—Winner of Nanomaterials 2022 Young Investigator Award
We are pleased to announce the winner of the Nanomaterials 2022 Young Investigator Award—Dr. Aiping Chen.
Name: Dr. Aiping Chen
Affiliation: Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kTz75FoAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN
Dr. Aiping Chen is a scientist at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), New Mexico, USA. The CINT is a user facility funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, which serves national and international users. Dr. Chen received a B.Sc. in applied physics and an M.E. in physical electronics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2007 and 2009, respectively. He then joined Texas A&M University in 2009 and completed his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 2013. After his Ph.D., he continued to research functional thin films as a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow at LANL. He became a CINT scientist in 2016. Since then, he has been leading efforts to synthesize and characterize thin film at CINT and working with CINT users on nanoscience research. His recent research focuses on thin film synthesis, emerging phenomena in quantum materials and electronic devices. He was awarded the LANL Early Career Award in 2017. He has published over 120 papers that have been cited more than 4600 times and has an h-index of 39 (Google Scholar). He actively participates in the activities of different societies. He serves as an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports and Nano Convergence. He has organized many symposiums and been invited to give many talks at different international conferences.
We would like to thank the award committee for their hard work in the difficult task of selecting a winner from such a large number of exceptional candidates. We also thank all the nominees from various fields for their participation. We will continue to reward young scientists with the Young Investigator Award, and wish them every success in their careers.
For more information about Nanomaterials awards, please refer to the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/awards.
The following is an interview with Dr. Aiping Chen:
1. Which research topics do you think will be of particular interest to the research community in the coming years?
For nanoscience and nanomaterials research, the following areas could attract increasing attention in the coming years:
- Development and integration of non-conventional nanomaterials for advanced computing and artificial intelligence;
- Synthesis and integration of novel materials for quantum information science;
- Functional nanomaterials for flexible electronics and low-power devices;
- Materials and devices for extreme conditions.
2. Have you had difficulties to overcome in your work? How did you approach those situations?
I studied in school for over 20 years, and I seemingly know a lot about science and technology, especially materials science. I thought this would prepare me to become a great scientist and overcome any challenges. Unfortunately, I realized later what I learned in school was mostly about things around me, from atoms to the universe, from math equations to physical models, but almost none of this related to me. I most likely can handle the relationship between myself and things (e.g., experiments), as this simple relationship can be solved by using logical reasoning and basic knowledge learned from school. However, the relationship between myself and others (e.g., students, mentors, collaborators, co-workers, managers, etc.) seems far more complex. I think the biggest challenge during my research is how to handle relationships (i.e., me and myself, me and others). Unfortunately, I haven’t overcome this challenge yet, and I am still learning. In my learning curve, I do find that knowing myself both physically and mentally is important to handle such dynamic and complex relationships correctly.
3. What qualities do you think young scientists need?
I believe being open-minded is an extremely important quality for young scientists. Humans are often self-centered because nature structured our consciousness in such a way. That is why I often find myself stuck inside of my own ideas, data and writing. On the one hand, I have to believe in myself (data, analysis, etc.) to write/publish a paper. On the other hand, believing in myself too much will stop me from learning. Therefore, open-mindedness will be the key to solving this dilemma and making new discoveries.
Passion is required for a person to be successful in any type of job. Passion is even more important for a scientist. This is because a scientist or teacher, like an entrepreneur in a start-up company, works long hours, and handles both small and big tasks, such as purchases and finance. Without a passion to research and educate, the only thing left will just be pain.
We have many deadlines to deliver the promised research. Patience can be the most challenging characteristic to have, especially for a young scientist. As young researchers, we are eager to establish and demonstrate ourselves, which can be further fueled by both internal and external pressure. Knowing myself and looking beyond myself can reduce my internal anxiety and make patience a part of this journey.
4. Can you briefly describe the key to a happy laboratory life?
Laboratory life can be extremely frustrating as there are so many realistic challenges, such as a funding shortage, co-worker conflicts, proposals/papers rejection, etc. From the point of view of psychology and philosophy, the key to a happy (laboratory) life is to have a happy mindset. Every day can be a happy (laboratory) day if you truly believe so. We need a bit of stoicism to defeat anxiety, fear, and uncertainty. Learning from ancient philosophers may quickly help to stabilize our mental health.
Inner peace will be just the beginning. Setting up long-term goals or, in other words, finding the meaning of laboratory life is the secret of happiness. Luckily, I have had several excellent mentors in the past decade. I realized how important it is to have a good mentor. My first goal is to become an excellent mentor like my mentors did. In my institute, I have an opportunity to mentor a variety of students and postdocs from different cultures, countries, and research backgrounds. Accepting the differences between each individual and finding their strengths can really help them to achieve their personal best. Their career success really motivates me to move forward in my mentorship.
5. As the winner of this award, is there anything else you would like to say or anyone you would like to thank?
I would like to thank my postdoc mentor, Prof. Quanxi Jia, from the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, and institutional mentor Dr. Ho Nyung Lee from Oak Ridge National Laboratory for their continuous support of research. I learned a lot of things from them, not only about how to practice excellent science, but also about how to interact with or mentor others. These core values not only benefit me as a researcher, but also as a human being.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Aiping Chen on his outstanding achievements.
7 February 2023
Interview with Dr. Leonardo Ricotti—Winner of Nanomaterials 2022 Young Investigator Award
We are pleased to announce the winner of the Nanomaterials 2022 Young Investigator Award—Dr. Leonardo Ricotti.
Name: Dr. Leonardo Ricotti
Affiliation: The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, 56025 Pisa, Italy
Website: https://www.santannapisa.it/en/leonardo-ricotti
Dr. Leonardo Ricotti graduated with an M.Sc. degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Pisa in 2007 (full marks, cum laude). In 2008, he was hired as a Research Assistant by the CRIM Lab (Center of Research in Micro-bio-robotics) of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), and he completed a Ph.D. in biorobotics (full marks, cum laude) at the same institution in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor at the BioRobotics Institute at SSSA, where he leads the Regenerative Technologies Lab. Here, he conducts intense research and educational activities for M.Sc. students of bionics engineering and for Ph.D. students of biorobotics. From the beginning, his scientific research has been characterized by a strongly interdisciplinary and curiosity-driven approach. This has allowed him to carry out research at the interface between different disciplines, including materials science, molecular biology, micro/nanotechnologies, robotics and mechatronics. Nowadays, his research efforts focus on technologies for regenerative medicine, artificial and bioartificial organs and biohybrid robots. His goal is to invent innovative and potentially game-changing solutions in these fields, implementing these in clinical practice and improving the quality of life of a vast number of people.
We would like to thank the award committee for their hard work in the difficult task of selecting a winner from such a large number of exceptional candidates. We also thank all the nominees from various fields for their participation. We will continue to reward young scientists with the Young Investigator Award, and wish them every success in their careers.
For more information about Nanomaterials awards, please refer to the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/awards.
The following is an interview with Dr. Leonardo Ricotti:
1. Can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers?
I am a 40-year-old biomedical engineer. Together with my research, I love soccer and sports in general and, of course, my family (I am married, and I have a one-year-old daughter). I really hope that my work will contribute to improving the quality of life of a vast number of people worldwide.
2. What are you currently researching, and what made you choose this field?
I work on technologies for regenerative medicine and artificial organs. I lead a group of about 30 people involved in different research projects and dedicated to inventing solutions to regenerate, heal or substitute organs and tissues that have lost their functions. I chose to pursue these research challenges because it is a nice intersection between different disciplines I am interested in (materials science, molecular biology, micro/nanotechnologies, robotics and mechatronics), and it has the potential to have a great impact on our society.
3. Have you had difficulties to overcome in your work? How did you approach those situations?
As with most researchers, I had difficult moments, and I had to overcome several challenges. The most challenging period for me was probably 1-2 years after completing my Ph.D. I was working as a post-doc, and I was writing several grant proposals (investing several days and nights), trying to obtain funding for my research ideas. I failed many times, often narrowly, but I did not give up. After 15-20 (maybe more) unsuccessful attempts, things started to change, and I made my first achievement. Nowadays, my group is well-funded, and we have the resources to pursue many ambitious research activities.
4. What qualities do you think young scientists need?
I would say that resilience is the most important characteristic, which allows difficult periods in which results are not achieved or good ideas are not funded to be overcome. Then, of course, creativity and a rigorous method are also crucial, but they are not sufficient without strong determination, hard work and the ability to not be discouraged when things go wrong.
5. We are an Open Access journal. How do you think Open Access impacts authors?
In recent years, an intense discussion was raised in the scientific community about the advantages and risks of the Open Access model. My group mostly works on projects funded by the European Commission, for which Open Access publications are mandatory. I cannot estimate the impact of Open Access on authors, but surely this model is the most consolidated in the scientific community. It allows researchers from every country to access scientific knowledge without the need for a journal subscription by their university. It also allows non-researchers (e.g., citizens that are simply curious) to access such knowledge. Thus, if properly managed and connected with other tools (e.g., to make the content of a specialistic paper understandable by non-experts), Open Access can help to build scientific culture and awareness in society.
6. As the winner of this award, is there anything else you would like to say or anyone you would like to thank?
I am grateful to my institution, the BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, which gave me the opportunity to carry out my research in a stimulating and highly interdisciplinary environment. I thank the Director, Prof. Christian Cipriani, and the Institute’s former Director and founder, Prof. Paolo Dario. They both strongly supported my nomination for this award.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Leonardo Ricotti on his outstanding achievement.
7 February 2023
Nanomaterials Webinar | Sustainable Synthesis of Oxides for Electronics, Photocatalysis, and Energy Applications, 1 March 2023
Date: 1 March 2023
Time: 10:00–12:00 PT time (11:00-13:00 CET)
Webinar ID: 863 3018 8709
Webinar website: https://nanomaterials-11.sciforum.net/
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5116741395086/WN_pCHex1wpRraNdNwumf7QmQ
Participation fee: None
Language: English
Webinar keywords: solution combustion synthesis; hydrothermal synthesis; oxide thin films; nanostructures; metal oxide devices; photocatalysis; printed electronics
Related Special Issues:
- “Nanomaterials for Photocatalytic and Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction”;
- “Application of Nanomaterials in Photodegradation”.
Chair:
Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Ferrão de Paiva Martins
CENIMAT|i3N, Department of Materials Science, NOVA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | FCT NOVA, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
Speakers:
Dr. Rita Branquinho
CENIMAT|i3N, Department of Materials Science, NOVA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | FCT NOVA, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
Dr. Daniela da Silva Nunes Gomes
CENIMAT|i3N, Department of Materials Science, NOVA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | FCT NOVA, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
Dr. Emanuel Carlos
CENIMAT|i3N, Department of Materials Science, NOVA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | FCT NOVA, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
If you have any questions about this webinar, please contact [email protected].
We look forward to your participation in this event.
Nanomaterials Editorial Office
20 January 2023
Meet Us at the XII Reunión del Grupo de Física de la Materia Condensada de la RSEF (GEFES 2023), 1–3 February 2023, Salamanca, Spain

MDPI will be attending the XII Reunión del grupo de física de la materia condensada de la RSEF (GEFES 2023) in Salamanca, Spain, which will take place from 1 to 3 February 2023. The GEFES 2023 is the annual meeting of GEFES, the Condensed Matter Physics Division of the Spanish Royal Physics Society. The theme of GEFES 2023 is to review the condensed matter physics research achievements of the society in the past year and discuss the opportunities and challenges in the field.
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- Electronics;
- Nanomaterials;
- Energies;
- Materials;
- Symmetry;
- Electronic Materials;
- Physics;
- Condensed Matter.
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11 January 2023
Nanomaterials | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology”

1. “Impact of Microplastics and Nanoplastics on Human Health”
by Maxine Swee-Li Yee, Ling-Wei Hii, Chin King Looi, Wei-Meng Lim, Shew-Fung Wong, Yih-Yih Kok, Boon-Keat Tan, Chiew-Yen Wong and Chee-Onn Leong
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(2), 496; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11020496
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/2/496
Cited by 106 | Viewed by 16035
2. “A Review of Carbon Dots Produced from Biomass Wastes”
by Chao Kang, Ying Huang, Hui Yang, Xiu Fang Yan and Zeng Ping Chen
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(11), 2316; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10112316
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/11/2316
Cited by 87 | Viewed by 7629
3. “Nanotechnology Potential in Seed Priming for Sustainable Agriculture”
by Anderson do Espirito Santo Pereira, Halley Caixeta Oliveira, Leonardo Fernandes Fraceto and Catherine Santaella
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(2), 267; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11020267
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/2/267
Cited by 70 | Viewed by 7813
4. “Chitosan–Selenium Nanoparticle (Cs–Se NP) Foliar Spray Alleviates Salt Stress in Bitter Melon”
by Morteza Sheikhalipour, Behrooz Esmaielpour, Mahdi Behnamian, Gholamreza Gohari, Mousa Torabi Giglou, Pavla Vachova, Anshu Rastogi, Marian Brestic and Milan Skalicky
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(3), 684; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11030684
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/3/684
Cited by 54 | Viewed by 3325
5. “Acid Dye Removal from Aqueous Solution by Using Neodymium(III) Oxide Nanoadsorbents”
by Shahin Ahmadi, Leili Mohammadi, Abbas Rahdar, Somayeh Rahdar, Ramin Dehghani, Chinenye Adaobi Igwegbe and George Z. Kyzas
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(3), 556; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10030556
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/3/556
Cited by 45 | Viewed by 2193
6. “Bimetallic Ni-Based Catalysts for CO2 Methanation: A Review”
by Anastasios I. Tsiotsias, Nikolaos D. Charisiou, Ioannis V. Yentekakis and Maria A. Goula
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(1), 28; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11010028
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/1/28
Cited by 40 | Viewed by 6178
7. “Green Synthesis, Characterization and Application of Natural Product Coated Magnetite Nanoparticles for Wastewater Treatment”
by Chanchal Das, Subhadeep Sen, Tejinder Singh, Tanmoy Ghosh, Subha Sankar Paul, Tae Wan Kim, Seob Jeon, Dilip K. Maiti, Jungkyun Im and Goutam Biswas
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(8), 1615; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10081615
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/8/1615
Cited by 40 | Viewed by 3953
8. “Synthesis and Characterization of Amorphous Iron Oxide Nanoparticles by the Sonochemical Method and Their Application for the Remediation of Heavy Metals from Wastewater”
by Virendra Kumar Yadav, Daoud Ali, Samreen Heena Khan, Govindhan Gnanamoorthy, Nisha Choudhary, Krishna Kumar Yadav, Van Nam Thai, Seik Altaf Hussain and Salim Manhrdas
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(8), 1551; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10081551
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/8/1551
Cited by 40 | Viewed by 3614
9. “Uptake and Accumulation of Nano/Microplastics in Plants: A Critical Review”
by Imran Azeem, Muhammad Adeel, Muhammad Arslan Ahmad, Noman Shakoor, Gama Dingba Jiangcuo, Kamran Azeem, Muhammad Ishfaq, Awais Shakoor, Muhammad Ayaz, Ming Xu et al.
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(11), 2935; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11112935
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/11/2935
Cited by 28 | Viewed by 4669
10. “Emerging MXene–Polymer Hybrid Nanocomposites for High-Performance Ammonia Sensing and Monitoring”
by Vishal Chaudhary, Akash Gautam, Yogendra K. Mishra and Ajeet Kaushik
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(10), 2496; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11102496
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/10/2496
Cited by 28 | Viewed by 2561
11 January 2023
Nanomaterials | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Solar Energy and Solar Cells”

1. “Transition Metal Oxide Electrode Materials for Supercapacitors: A Review of Recent Developments”
by Ruibin Liang, Yongquan Du, Peng Xiao, Junyang Cheng, Shengjin Yuan, Yonglong Chen, Jian Yuan and Jianwen Chen
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(5), 1248; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11051248
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/5/1248
Cited by 91 | Viewed by 5704
2. “Improved Thermophysical Properties and Energy Efficiency of Aqueous Ionic Liquid/MXene Nanofluid in a Hybrid PV/T Solar System”
by Likhan Das, Khairul Habib, R. Saidur, Navid Aslfattahi, Syed Mohd Yahya and Fazlay Rubbi
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(7), 1372; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10071372
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/7/1372
Cited by 54 | Viewed by 3879
3. “Optimization of Thermophysical and Rheological Properties of Mxene Ionanofluids for Hybrid Solar Photovoltaic/Thermal Systems”
by Balaji Bakthavatchalam, Khairul Habib, R. Saidur, Navid Aslfattahi, Syed Mohd Yahya, A. Rashedi and Taslima Khanam
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(2), 320; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11020320
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/2/320
Cited by 21 | Viewed by 1745
4. “Titanium Dioxide-Coated Zinc Oxide Nanorods as an Efficient Photoelectrode in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells”
by Qiang Zhang, Shengwen Hou and Chaoyang Li
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(8), 1598; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10081598
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/8/1598
Cited by 18 | Viewed by 2457
5. “Transparent Platinum Counter Electrode Prepared by Polyol Reduction for Bifacial, Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells”
by Alvien Ghifari, Dang Xuan Long, Seonhyoung Kim, Brian Ma and Jongin Hong
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(3), 502; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10030502
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/3/502
Cited by 15 | Viewed by 2215
6. “Design and Numerical Investigation of a Lead-Free Inorganic Layered Double Perovskite Cs4CuSb2Cl12 Nanocrystal Solar Cell by SCAPS-1D”
by Yizhou He, Liyifei Xu, Cheng Yang, Xiaowei Guo and Shaorong Li
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(9), 2321; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11092321
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/9/2321
Cited by 14 | Viewed by 2669
7. “Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis of Parabolic Trough Collectors Using Straight Conical Strip Inserts with Nanofluids”
by Nabeel Abed, Imran Afgan, Hector Iacovides, Andrea Cioncolini, Ilyas Khurshid and Adel Nasser
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(4), 853; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11040853
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/4/853
Cited by 12 | Viewed by 1855
8. “Arrays of Plasmonic Nanostructures for Absorption Enhancement in Perovskite Thin Films”
by Tianyi Shen, Qiwen Tan, Zhenghong Dai, Nitin P. Padture and Domenico Pacifici
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(7), 1342; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10071342
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/7/1342
Cited by 11 | Viewed by 2073
9. “The Role of the Interactions at the Tungsten Disulphide Surface in the Stability and Enhanced Thermal Properties of Nanofluids with Application in Solar Thermal Energy”
by Paloma Martínez-Merino, Antonio Sánchez-Coronilla, Rodrigo Alcántara, Elisa I. Martín, Iván Carrillo-Berdugo, Roberto Gómez-Villarejo and Javier Navas
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(5), 970; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10050970
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/5/970
Cited by 10 | Viewed by 1535
10. “Biosynthesis of Silver Nanoparticles and Their Applications in Harvesting Sunlight for Solar Thermal Generation”
by Rebwar Faiq Talabani, Samir Mustafa Hamad, Azeez Abdullah Barzinjy and Usame Demir
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(9), 2421; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11092421
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/9/2421
Cited by 10 | Viewed by 2408
10 January 2023
Nanomaterials | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Energy and Catalysis”

1. “Sulfide and Oxide Inorganic Solid Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Li Batteries: A Review”
by Mogalahalli V. Reddy, Christian M. Julien, Alain Mauger and Karim Zaghib
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(8), 1606; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10081606
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/8/1606
Cited by 104 | Viewed by 13304
2. “Novel Architecture Titanium Carbide (Ti3C2Tx) MXene Cocatalysts toward Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production: A Mini-Review”
by Van-Huy Nguyen, Ba-Son Nguyen, Chechia Hu, Chinh Chien Nguyen, Dang Le Tri Nguyen, Minh Tuan Nguyen Dinh, Dai-Viet N. Vo, Quang Thang Trinh, Mohammadreza Shokouhimehr, Amirhossein Hasani et al.
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(4), 602; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10040602
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/4/602
Cited by 78 | Viewed by 6864
3. “An Overview on Anodes for Magnesium Batteries: Challenges towards a Promising Storage Solution for Renewables”
by Federico Bella, Stefano De Luca, Lucia Fagiolari, Daniele Versaci, Julia Amici, Carlotta Francia and Silvia Bodoardo
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(3), 810; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11030810
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/3/810
Cited by 63 | Viewed by 4597
4. “Computational Framework of Magnetized MgO–Ni/Water-Based Stagnation Nanoflow Past an Elastic Stretching Surface: Application in Solar Energy Coatings”
by Muhammad Mubashir Bhatti, Osman Anwar Bég and Sara I. Abdelsalam
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(7), 1049; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12071049
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/7/1049
Cited by 62 | Viewed by 1297
5. “Advances and Challenges in Developing Efficient Graphene Oxide-Based ZnO Photocatalysts for Dye Photo-Oxidation”
by Asim Ali Yaqoob, Nur Habibah binti Mohd Noor, Albert Serrà and Mohamad Nasir Mohamad Ibrahim
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(5), 932; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10050932
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/5/932
Cited by 58 | Viewed by 4175
6. “Sustainable Biomass Activated Carbons as Electrodes for Battery and Supercapacitors—A Mini-Review”
by Glaydson Simões dos Reis, Sylvia H. Larsson, Helinando Pequeno de Oliveira, Mikael Thyrel and Eder Claudio Lima
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(7), 1398; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10071398
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/7/1398
Cited by 46 | Viewed by 3612
7. “Kinetic Analysis of 4-Nitrophenol Reduction by “Water-Soluble” Palladium Nanoparticles”
by Anas Iben Ayad, Denis Luart, Aissa Ould Dris and Erwann Guénin
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(6), 1169; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10061169
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/6/1169
Cited by 45 | Viewed by 2551
8. “Environmentally Safe Biosynthesis of Gold Nanoparticles Using Plant Water Extracts”
by Mohadeseh Hassanisaadi, Gholam Hosein Shahidi Bonjar, Abbas Rahdar, Sadanand Pandey, Akbar Hosseinipour and Roohollah Abdolshahi
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(8), 2033; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11082033
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/8/2033
Cited by 42 | Viewed by 2935
9. “Nanocomposites of NiO/CuO Based MOF with rGO: An Efficient and Robust Electrocatalyst for Methanol Oxidation Reaction in DMFC”
by Tayyaba Noor, Sadaf Pervaiz, Naseem Iqbal, Habib Nasir, Neelam Zaman, Muhammad Sharif and Erum Pervaiz
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(8), 1601; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10081601
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/8/1601
Cited by 40 | Viewed by 3427
10. “Nanofiber NiMoO4/g-C3N4 Composite Electrode Materials for Redox Supercapacitor Applications”
by Kannadasan Thiagarajan, Thirugnanam Bavani, Prabhakarn Arunachalam, Seung Jun Lee, Jayaraman Theerthagiri, Jaganathan Madhavan, Bruno Georges Pollet and Myong Yong Choi
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(2), 392; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10020392
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/2/392
Cited by 39 | Viewed by 3256
6 January 2023
Nanomaterials | Season’s Greetings from Editorial Board Members
This Season's Greetings video is from Prof. Dr. Eleonore Fröhlich, Prof. Dr. Jordi Sort and Dr. Mikhael Bechelany, Editorial Board Members of Nanomaterials (ISSN: 2079-4991), who would like to extend their sincere holiday wishes to everyone on behalf of the editorial team of the journal. Our sincerest thanks go out to all scholars for their strong support of Nanomaterials in the past year! May the new year be better, happier, and more successful than the old one, with all your wishes coming true.
6 January 2023
Nanomaterials | Issue Cover Articles in 2022
The articles below have been selected as cover articles for 2022 by the Editorial Office of Nanomaterials (ISSN: 2079-4991). You can find the 24 covers in volume 12 at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12. The articles address autonomous nanomaterials, heterostructured nanowires, quantum theory, silicon nanocomposites, magnetic fluids, cellulose nanofibers, hybrid nanocatalysts, droplets, fluorescent gold nanoclusters, zeolite, porphyrins, and semiconductors in the first half of the year; in the second half of the year they address perovskite quantum dots, 2D hBN, nanobubbles, sodium-ion batteries, lanthanide nanoparticles, electrorheological fluids, photovoltaic thin films, nanopesticides, anticancer nanomaterials, nanocavities, MOFs, and metal oxide nanostructures. We hope that they provide insights and references for scholars in related fields.
1. “Data-Centric Architecture for Self-Driving Laboratories with Autonomous Discovery of New Nanomaterials”
by Maria A. Butakova, Andrey V. Chernov, Oleg O. Kartashov and Alexander V. Soldatov
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(1), 12; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12010012
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/1/12
2. “Anisotropic Radiation in Heterostructured “Emitter in a Cavity” Nanowire”
by Alexey Kuznetsov, Prithu Roy, Valeriy M. Kondratev, Vladimir V. Fedorov, Konstantin P. Kotlyar, Rodion R. Reznik, Alexander A. Vorobyev, Ivan S. Mukhin, George E. Cirlin and Alexey D. Bolshakov
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(2), 241; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12020241
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/2/241
3. “Intrinsic Dynamic and Static Nature of π···π Interactions in Fused Benzene-Type Helicenes and Dimers, Elucidated with QTAIM Dual Functional Analysis”
by Taro Nishide and Satoko Hayashi
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(3), 321; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12030321
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/3/321
4. “Industrial Silicon-Wafer-Wastage-Derived Carbon-Enfolded Si/Si-C/C Nanocomposite Anode Material through Plasma-Assisted Discharge Process for Rechargeable Li-Ion Storage”
by Rasu Muruganantham, Chih-Wei Yang, Hong-Jyun Wang, Chia-Hung Huang and Wei-Ren Liu
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(4), 659; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12040659
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/4/659
5. “Magnetic Field Sensing Based on Whispering Gallery Mode with Nanostructured Magnetic Fluid-Infiltrated Photonic Crystal Fiber”
by Chencheng Zhang, Shengli Pu, Zijian Hao, Boyu Wang, Min Yuan and Yuxiu Zhang
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(5), 862; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12050862
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/5/862
6. “Freestanding Translucent ZnO–Cellulose Nanocomposite Films for Ultraviolet Sensor Applications”
by Hiroaki Komatsu, Yurika Kawamoto and Takashi Ikuno
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(6), 940; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12060940
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/6/940
7. “Multifunctionalized Mesostructured Silica Nanoparticles Containing Mn2 Complex for Improved Catalase-Mimicking Activity in Water”
by Tristan Pelluau, Saad Sene, Beltzane Garcia-Cirera, Belen Albela, Laurent Bonneviot, Joulia Larionova and Yannick Guari
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(7), 1136; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12071136
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/7/1136
8. “Responsive Liquid Metal Droplets: From Bulk to Nano”
by Minghui Duan, Xiyu Zhu, Xiaohui Shan, Hongzhang Wang, Sen Chen and Jing Liu
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(8), 1289; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12081289
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/8/1289
9. “Evidence of Au(II) and Au(0) States in Bovine Serum Albumin-Au Nanoclusters Revealed by CW-EPR/LEPR and Peculiarities in HR-TEM/STEM Imaging”
by Radek Ostruszka, Giorgio Zoppellaro, Ondřej Tomanec, Dominik Pinkas, Vlada Filimonenko and Karolína Šišková
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(9), 1425; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12091425
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/9/1425
10. “Nitrogen- and Halogen-Free Multifunctional Polymer-Directed Fabrication of Aluminum-Rich Hierarchical MFI Zeolites”
by Yuan Hu, Chan Wang, Tiesen Li, Xiaojun Bao and Yuanyuan Yue
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(10), 1633; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12101633
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/10/1633
11. “One A3B Porphyrin Structure—Three Successful Applications”
by Ion Fratilescu, Anca Lascu, Bogdan Ovidiu Taranu, Camelia Epuran, Mihaela Birdeanu, Ana-Maria Macsim, Eugenia Tanasa, Eugeniu Vasile and Eugenia Fagadar-Cosma
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(11), 1930; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12111930
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/11/1930
12. “Light-Emitting Diodes Based on InGaN/GaN Nanowires on Microsphere-Lithography-Patterned Si Substrates”
by Liliia Dvoretckaia, Vladislav Gridchin, Alexey Mozharov, Alina Maksimova, Anna Dragunova, Ivan Melnichenko, Dmitry Mitin, Alexandr Vinogradov, Ivan Mukhin and Georgy Cirlin
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(12), 1993; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12121993
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/12/1993
13. “Perovskite Quantum Dots for Emerging Displays: Recent Progress and Perspectives”
by Xinxin Ren, Xiang Zhang, Hongxing Xie, Junhu Cai, Chenhui Wang, Enguo Chen, Sheng Xu, Yun Ye, Jie Sun, Qun Yan and Tailiang Guo
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(13), 2243; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12132243
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/13/2243
14. “Tailoring the Emission Wavelength of Color Centers in Hexagonal Boron Nitride for Quantum Applications”
by Chanaprom Cholsuk, Sujin Suwanna and Tobias Vogl
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(14), 2427; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12142427
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/14/2427
15. “Degradation Mechanism of Micro-Nanobubble Technology for Organic Pollutants in Aqueous Solutions”
by Youbin Zhou, Dapeng Cao and Xianren Zhang
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(15), 2654; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12152654
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/15/2654
16. “Recent Progress on Graphene-Based Nanocomposites for Electrochemical Sodium-Ion Storage”
by Mai Li, Kailan Zhu, Hanxue Zhao and Zheyi Meng
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(16), 2837; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12162837
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/16/2837
17. “Lanthanide-Ion-Doping Effect on the Morphology and the Structure of NaYF4:Ln3+ Nanoparticles”
by Nikita A. Bogachev, Anna A. Betina, Tatyana S. Bulatova, Viktor G. Nosov, Stefaniia S. Kolesnik, Ilya I. Tumkin, Mikhail N. Ryazantsev, Mikhail Yu. Skripkin and Andrey S. Mereshchenko
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(17), 2972; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12172972
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/17/2972
18. “Development of Novel Colorful Electrorheological Fluids”
by Suk Jekal, Jiwon Kim, Qi Lu, Dong-Hyun Kim, Jungchul Noh, Ha-Yeong Kim, Min-Jeong Kim, Min-Sang Kim, Won-Chun Oh, Hyoung-Jin Choi et al.
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(18), 3113; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12183113
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/18/3113
19. “Copper-Arsenic-Sulfide Thin-Films from Local Raw Materials Deposited via RF Co-Sputtering for Photovoltaics”
by Pedro Centeno, Miguel Alexandre, Filipe Neves, Elvira Fortunato, Rodrigo Martins, Hugo Águas and Manuel J. Mendes
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(19), 3268; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12193268
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/19/3268
20. “Liposomal Formulations Loaded with a Eugenol Derivative for Application as Insecticides: Encapsulation Studies and In Silico Identification of Protein Targets”
by Maria José G. Fernandes, Renato B. Pereira, Ana Rita O. Rodrigues, Tatiana F. Vieira, A. Gil Fortes, David M. Pereira, Sérgio F. Sousa, M. Sameiro T. Gonçalves and Elisabete M. S. Castanheira
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(20), 3583; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12203583
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/20/3583
21. “Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles Enhance the Anticancer Efficacy of Platinum(IV)-Phenolate Conjugates in Breast Cancer Cell Lines”
by Ivana Predarska, Mohamad Saoud, Dijana Drača, Ibrahim Morgan, Teodora Komazec, Thomas Eichhorn, Ekatarina Mihajlović, Duško Dunđerović, Sanja Mijatović, Danijela Maksimović-Ivanić et al.
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(21), 3767; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12213767
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/21/3767
22. “Indefinite Graphene Nanocavities with Ultra-Compressed Mode Volumes”
by Chunchao Wen, Zongyang Wang, Jipeng Xu, Wei Xu, Wei Liu, Zhihong Zhu, Jianfa Zhang and Shiqiao Qin
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(22), 4004; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12224004
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/22/4004
23. “Antibacterial Activity of Two Zn-MOFs Containing a Tricarboxylate Linker”
by Sara Rojas, Amalia García-García, Tania Hidalgo, María Rosales, Daniel Ruiz-Camino, Pablo Salcedo-Abraira, Helena Montes-Andrés, Duane Choquesillo-Lazarte, Roberto Rosal, Patricia Horcajada et al.
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(23), 4139; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12234139
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/23/4139
24. “Recent Advances in Synthesis and Application of Metal Oxide Nanostructures in Chemical Sensors and Biosensors”
by Vincentas Maciulis, Almira Ramanaviciene and Ieva Plikusiene
Nanomaterials 2022, 12(24), 4413; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12244413
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/24/4413
28 December 2022
Nanomaterials | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Nanocomposite Materials”

“Recent Advances in Synthesis and Applications of MFe2O4 (M = Co, Cu, Mn, Ni, Zn) Nanoparticles”
by Thomas Dippong, Erika Andrea Levei and Oana Cadar
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(6), 1560; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11061560
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/6/1560
Cited by 69 | Viewed by 4564
“Graphene Oxide–Silver Nanoparticle Nanohybrids: Synthesis, Characterization, and Antimicrobial Properties”
by Mónica Cobos, Iker De-La-Pinta, Guillermo Quindós, M. Jesús Fernández and M. Dolores Fernández
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(2), 376; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10020376
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/2/376
Cited by 66 | Viewed by 5176
“Preparation and Characterization of Epoxy Resin Filled with Ti3C2Tx MXene Nanosheets with Excellent Electric Conductivity”
by Ailing Feng, Tianqi Hou, Zirui Jia, Yi Zhang, Fan Zhang and Guanglei Wu
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(1), 162; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10010162
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/1/162
Cited by 56 | Viewed by 4347
“Silica-Coated Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Grafted onto Graphene Oxide for Protein Isolation”
by Xuan-Hung Pham, Eunil Hahm, Hyung-Mo Kim, Byung Sung Son, Ahla Jo, Jaehyun An, Tuong An Tran Thi, Dinh Quan Nguyen and Bong-Hyun Jun
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(1), 117; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10010117
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/1/117
Cited by 35 | Viewed by 4397
“Failure Analysis of Ultra High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Structures Enhanced with Nanomaterials by Using a Diffuse Cohesive Interface Approach”
by Umberto De Maio, Nicholas Fantuzzi, Fabrizio Greco, Lorenzo Leonetti and Andrea Pranno
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(9), 1792; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10091792
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/9/1792
Cited by 33 | Viewed by 1963
“Recent Advances in the Development of Smart and Active Biodegradable Packaging Materials”
by Mahmood Alizadeh Sani, Maryam Azizi-Lalabadi, Milad Tavassoli, Keyhan Mohammadi and David Julian McClements
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(5), 1331; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11051331
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/5/1331
Cited by 32 | Viewed by 4875
“Nanocomposites for Food Packaging Applications: An Overview”
by Jawad Sarfraz, Tina Gulin-Sarfraz, Julie Nilsen-Nygaard and Marit Kvalvåg Pettersen
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(1), 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11010010
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/1/10
Cited by 31 | Viewed by 4430
“Green Synthesis and Catalytic Activity of Silver Nanoparticles Based on Piper chaba Stem Extracts”
by Md. Mahiuddin, Prianka Saha and Bungo Ochiai
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(9), 1777; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10091777
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/9/1777
Cited by 31 | Viewed by 2092
“Sensitive Voltammetric Sensor for Tryptophan Detection by Using Polyvinylpyrrolidone Functionalized Graphene/GCE”
by Quanguo He, Jun Liu, Jinxia Feng, Yiyong Wu, Yaling Tian, Guangli Li and Dongchu Chen
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(1), 125; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10010125
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/1/125
Cited by 29 | Viewed by 2375
“Recent Advances in Nanomicelles Delivery Systems”
by Salah M. Tawfik, Shavkatjon Azizov, Mohamed R. Elmasry, Mirkomil Sharipov and Yong-Ill Lee
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(1), 70; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11010070
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/1/70
Cited by 27 | Viewed by 2796
28 December 2022
Nanomaterials | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “2D and Carbon Nanomaterials”

“Applications of Nanocellulose/Nanocarbon Composites: Focus on Biotechnology and Medicine”
by Lucie Bacakova, Julia Pajorova, Maria Tomkova, Roman Matejka, Antonin Broz, Jana Stepanovska, Simon Prazak, Anne Skogberg, Sanna Siljander and Pasi Kallio
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(2), 196; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10020196
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/2/196
Cited by 63 | Viewed by 7575
“Self-Healable Electro-Conductive Hydrogels Based on Core-Shell Structured Nanocellulose/Carbon Nanotubes Hybrids for Use as Flexible Supercapacitors”
by Huixiang Wang, Subir Kumar Biswas, Sailing Zhu, Ya Lu, Yiying Yue, Jingquan Han, Xinwu Xu, Qinglin Wu and Huining Xiao
Nanomaterials 2020, 10, 112. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10010112
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/1/112
Cited by 56 | Viewed by 5343
“Carbon Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Functionalization and Sensing Applications”
by Giorgio Speranza
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(4), 967; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11040967
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/4/967
Cited by 39 | Viewed by 4971
“Two-Dimensional Silicon Carbide: Emerging Direct Band Gap Semiconductor”
by Sakineh Chabi and Kushal Kadel
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(11), 2226; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10112226
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/11/2226
Cited by 33 | Viewed by 4919
“A Review of Graphene-Based Surface Plasmon Resonance and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Biosensors: Current Status and Future Prospects”
by Devi Taufiq Nurrohman and Nan-Fu Chiu
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(1), 216; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11010216
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/1/216
Cited by 31 | Viewed by 3760
“Screen-Printed Electrode Surface Modification with NiCo2O4/RGO Nanocomposite for Hydroxylamine Detection”
by Somayeh Tajik, Hadi Beitollahi, Sayed ali Ahmadi, Mohammad Bagher Askari and Antonio Di Bartolomeo
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(12), 3208; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11123208
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/12/3208
Cited by 29 | Viewed by 1152
“Synergistic Antibacterial Activity of Silver-Loaded Graphene Oxide towards Staphylococcus Aureus and Escherichia Coli”
by Truong Thi Tuong Vi, Selvaraj Rajesh Kumar, Jong-Hwei Su Pang, Yu-Kuo Liu, Dave W. Chen and Shingjiang Jessie Lue
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(2), 366; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10020366
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/2/366
Cited by 29 | Viewed by 3266
“Graphene-Based Scaffolds for Regenerative Medicine”
by Pietro Bellet, Matteo Gasparotto, Samuel Pressi, Anna Fortunato, Giorgia Scapin, Miriam Mba, Enzo Menna and Francesco Filippini
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(2), 404; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11020404
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/2/404
Cited by 27 | Viewed by 3055
“Multi-layer Scaffolds of Poly(caprolactone), Poly(glycerol sebacate) and Bioactive Glasses Manufactured by Combined 3D Printing and Electrospinning”
by Adja B. R. Touré, Elisa Mele and Jamieson K. Christie
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(4), 626; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10040626
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/4/626
Cited by 26 | Viewed by 3461
“Electrospun PCL/PGS Composite Fibers Incorporating Bioactive Glass Particles for Soft Tissue Engineering Applications”
by Marina Luginina, Katharina Schuhladen, Roberto Orrú, Giacomo Cao, Aldo R. Boccaccini and Liliana Liverani
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(5), 978; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10050978
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/5/978
Cited by 26 | Viewed by 3239
28 December 2022
Nanomaterials | Top 5 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Theory and Simulation of Nanostructures”

“Comparing Methods for Calculating Nano Crystal Size of Natural Hydroxyapatite Using X-Ray Diffraction”
by Marzieh Rabiei, Arvydas Palevicius, Ahmad Monshi, Sohrab Nasiri, Andrius Vilkauskas and Giedrius Janusas
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(9), 1627; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10091627
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/9/1627Cited by 123 | Viewed by 3534
“Performance of Intrinsic and Modified Graphene for the Adsorption of H2S and CH4: A DFT Study”
by Xin Gao, Qu Zhou, Jingxuan Wang, Lingna Xu and Wen Zeng
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(2), 299; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10020299
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/2/299
Cited by 54 | Viewed by 3424
“Impact of the Interband Transitions in Gold and Silver on the Dynamics of Propagating and Localized Surface Plasmons”
by Krystyna Kolwas and Anastasiya Derkachova
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(7), 1411; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10071411
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/7/1411
Cited by 34 | Viewed by 3416
“Time-Domain Investigations of Coherent Phonons in van der Waals Thin Films”
by Fabien Vialla and Natalia Del Fatti
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(12), 2543; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10122543
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/12/2543
Cited by 18 | Viewed by 4397
“Effect of Cu Ion Concentration on Microstructures and Mechanical Properties of Nanotwinned Cu Foils Fabricated by Rotary Electroplating”
by Yu-Wen Hung, Dinh-Phuc Tran and Chih Chen
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(8), 2135; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11082135
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/8/2135
Cited by 15 | Viewed by 1734
23 December 2022
Nanomaterials | Top 20 Highly Cited Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Biology and Medicines”

1. “Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles: Prospects and Applications in Medicine”
by Daniel Ziental, Beata Czarczynska-Goslinska, Dariusz T. Mlynarczyk, Arleta Glowacka-Sobotta, Beata Stanisz, Tomasz Goslinski and Lukasz Sobotta
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(2), 387; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10020387
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/2/387
2. “The Potential of Silver Nanoparticles for Antiviral and Antibacterial Applications: A Mechanism of Action”
by Atiqah Salleh, Ruth Naomi, Nike Dewi Utami, Abdul Wahab Mohammad, Ebrahim Mahmoudi, Norlaila Mustafa and Mh Busra Fauzi
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(8), 1566; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10081566
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/8/1566
3. “Polymeric Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery: Recent Developments and Future Prospects”
by Belén Begines, Tamara Ortiz, María Pérez-Aranda, Guillermo Martínez, Manuel Merinero, Federico Argüelles-Arias and Ana Alcudia
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(7), 1403; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10071403
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/7/1403
4. “Stealth Coating of Nanoparticles in Drug-Delivery Systems”
by See Yee Fam, Chin Fei Chee, Chean Yeah Yong, Kok Lian Ho, Abdul Razak Mariatulqabtiah and Wen Siang Tan
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(4), 787; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10040787
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/4/787
5. “Application of Nanomaterials in Biomedical Imaging and Cancer Therapy”
by Sarkar Siddique and James C. L. Chow
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(9), 1700; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10091700
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/9/1700
6. “Systemic Review of Biodegradable Nanomaterials in Nanomedicine”
by Shi Su and Peter M. Kang
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(4), 656; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10040656
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/4/656
7. “Immunological and Toxicological Considerations for the Design of Liposomes”
by Collin T. Inglut, Aaron J. Sorrin, Thilinie Kuruppu, Shruti Vig, Julia Cicalo, Haroon Ahmad and Huang-Chiao Huang
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(2), 190; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10020190
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/2/190
8. “On Facing the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) with Combination of Nanomaterials and Medicine: Possible Strategies and First Challenges”
by Vishnu Sankar Sivasankarapillai, Akhilash M. Pillai, Abbas Rahdar, Anumol P. Sobha, Sabya Sachi Das, Athanasios C. Mitropoulos, Mahboobeh Heidari Mokarrar and George Z. Kyzas
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(5), 852; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10050852
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/5/852
9. “Multi-Scale Surface Treatments of Titanium Implants for Rapid Osseointegration: A Review”
by Qingge Wang, Peng Zhou, Shifeng Liu, Shokouh Attarilar, Robin Lok-Wang Ma, Yinsheng Zhong and Liqiang Wang
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(6), 1244; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10061244
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/6/1244
10. “Polymeric Nanocapsules as Nanotechnological Alternative for Drug Delivery System: Current Status, Challenges and Opportunities”
by Siyuan Deng,Maria Rosa Gigliobianco,Roberta Censi and Piera Di Martino
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(5), 847; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10050847
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/5/847
11. “Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles Using Annona muricata Extract as an Inducer of Apoptosis in Cancer Cells and Inhibitor for NLRP3 Inflammasome via Enhanced Autophagy”
by Majid S. Jabir, Yasmin M. Saleh, Ghassan M. Sulaiman, Nahi Y. Yaseen, Usama I. Sahib, Yaser Hassan Dewir, Mona S. Alwahibi and Dina A. Soliman
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(2), 384; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11020384
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/2/384
12. “Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles with Antibacterial Activity Using Various Medicinal Plant Extracts: Morphology and Antibacterial Efficacy”
by Aneta Salayová, Zdenka Bedlovičová, Nina Daneu, Matej Baláž, Zdenka Lukáčová Bujňáková, Ľudmila Balážová and Ľudmila Tkáčiková
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(4), 1005; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11041005
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/4/1005
13. “Antimicrobial Activity of Zinc Oxide Nano/Microparticles and Their Combinations against Pathogenic Microorganisms for Biomedical Applications: From Physicochemical Characteristics to Pharmacological Aspects”
by Su-Eon Jin and Hyo-Eon Jin
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(2), 263; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11020263
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/2/263
14. “Antiviral Activity of Silver, Copper Oxide and Zinc Oxide Nanoparticle Coatings against SARS-CoV-2”
by Padryk Merkl, Siwen Long, Gerald M. McInerney and Georgios A. Sotiriou
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(5), 1312; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11051312
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/5/1312
15. “Emerging Nano-Formulations and Nanomedicines Applications for Ocular Drug Delivery”
by Dawin Khiev, Zeinab A. Mohamed, Riddhi Vichare, Ryan Paulson, Sofia Bhatia, Subhra Mohapatra, Glenn P. Lobo, Mallika Valapala, Nagaraj Kerur, Christopher L. Passaglia et al.
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(1), 173; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11010173
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/1/173
16. “Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles by Using Green Machinery: Characterization and In Vitro Toxicity”
by Ahmed Al Saqr, El-Sayed Khafagy, Ahmed Alalaiwe, Mohammed F. Aldawsari, Saad M. Alshahrani, Md. Khalid Anwer, Salman Khan, Amr S. Abu Lila, Hany H. Arab and Wael A. H. Hegazy
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(3), 808; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11030808
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/3/808
17. “Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles Using Diospyros malabarica Fruit Extract and Assessments of Their Antimicrobial, Anticancer and Catalytic Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol (4-NP)”
by Kaushik Kumar Bharadwaj, Bijuli Rabha, Siddhartha Pati, Bhabesh Kumar Choudhury, Tanmay Sarkar, Sonit Kumar Gogoi, Nayanjyoti Kakati, Debabrat Baishya, Zulhisyam Abdul Kari and Hisham Atan Edinur
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(8), 1999; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11081999
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/8/1999
18. “(Bio)Nanotechnology in Food Science—Food Packaging”
by Mateja Primožič, Željko Knez and Maja Leitgeb
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(2), 292; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11020292
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/2/292
19. “Smart Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications—A Review”
by Magdalena Aflori
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(2), 396; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11020396
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/2/396
20. “Graphene Oxide: Opportunities and Challenges in Biomedicine”
by Pariya Zare, Mina Aleemardani, Amelia Seifalian, Zohreh Bagher and Alexander M. Seifalian
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(5), 1083; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11051083
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/5/1083
22 December 2022
Special Issue Mentor Program
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21 December 2022
Nanomaterials | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Nanophotonics Materials and Devices”

1. “Tunable Fano Resonance and Enhanced Sensing in a Simple Au/TiO2 Hybrid Metasurface”
by Zhihui He, Weiwei Xue, Wei Cui, Chunjiang Li, Zhenxiong Li, Lihui Pu, Jiaojiao Feng, Xintao Xiao, Xuyang Wang and Gang Li
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(4), 687; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10040687
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/4/687
2. “Latest Novelties on Plasmonic and Non-Plasmonic Nanomaterials for SERS Sensing”
by Grégory Barbillon
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(6), 1200; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10061200
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/6/1200
3. “Tunable Split-Disk Metamaterial Absorber for Sensing Application”
by Yusheng Zhang, Peng Lin and Yu-Sheng Lin
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(3), 598; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11030598
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/3/598
4. “Using Dual Microresonant Cavity and Plasmonic Effects to Enhance the Photovoltaic Efficiency of Flexible Polymer Solar Cells”
by Wenfei Shen, Guoqing Zhao, Xiaolin Zhang, Fanchen Bu, Jungheum Yun and Jianguo Tang
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(5), 944; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10050944
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/5/944
5. “A Review of Fluorescent Carbon Dots, Their Synthesis, Physical and Chemical Characteristics, and Applications”
by Mychele Jorns and Dimitri Pappas
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(6), 1448; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11061448
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/6/1448
6. “Tunable Bound States in the Continuum in All-Dielectric Terahertz Metasurfaces”
by Xu Chen and Wenhui Fan
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(4), 623; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10040623
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/4/623
7. “Recent Advances in the Design of Plasmonic Au/TiO2 Nanostructures for Enhanced Photocatalytic Water Splitting”
by Jehad Abed, Nitul S Rajput, Amine El Moutaouakil and Mustapha Jouiad
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(11), 2260; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10112260
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/11/2260
8. “Color Centers Enabled by Direct Femto-Second Laser Writing in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors”
by Stefania Castelletto, Jovan Maksimovic, Tomas Katkus, Takeshi Ohshima, Brett C. Johnson and Saulius Juodkazis
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(1), 72; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11010072
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/1/72
9. “Performance of Graphene–CdS Hybrid Nanocomposite Thin Film for Applications in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Solar Cell and H2 Production”
by Salh Alhammadi, Vasudeva Reddy Minnam Reddy, Sreedevi Gedi, Hyeonwook Park, Mostafa Saad Sayed, Jae-Jin Shim and Woo Kyoung Kim
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(2), 245; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10020245
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/2/245
10. “Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Cancer Immunotherapy Applications: Opportunities, Challenges, and Current Progress in Nanomaterial Strategies”
by Shuvashis Dey, Matt Trau and Kevin M. Koo
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(6), 1145; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10061145
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/6/1145
21 December 2022
Nanomaterials | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Nanoelectronics, Nanosensors and Devices”

1. “State of the Art and Future Perspectives in Advanced CMOS Technology”
by Henry H. Radamson, Huilong Zhu, Zhenhua Wu, Xiaobin He, Hongxiao Lin, Jinbiao Liu, Jinjuan Xiang, Zhenzhen Kong, Wenjuan Xiong, Junjie Li et al.
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(8), 1555; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10081555
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/8/1555
2. “Current Trends in Nanomaterials for Metal Oxide-Based Conductometric Gas Sensors: Advantages and Limitations. Part 1: 1D and 2D Nanostructures”
by Ghenadii Korotcenkov
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(7), 1392; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10071392
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/7/1392
3. “Carbon-Based Quantum Dots for Supercapacitors: Recent Advances and Future Challenges”
by Fitri Aulia Permatasari, Muhammad Alief Irham, Satria Zulkarnaen Bisri and Ferry Iskandar
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(1), 91; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11010091
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/1/91
4. “Tunable Infrared Metamaterial Emitter for Gas Sensing Application”
by Ruijia Xu and Yu-Sheng Lin
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(8), 1442; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10081442
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/8/1442
5. “Surface and Interface Designs in Copper-Based Conductive Inks for Printed/Flexible Electronics”
by Daisuke Tomotoshi and Hideya Kawasaki
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(9), 1689; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10091689
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/9/1689
6. “Silicon Nanowires for Gas Sensing: A Review”
by Mehdi Akbari-Saatlu, Marcin Procek, Claes Mattsson, Göran Thungström, Hans-Erik Nilsson, Wenjuan Xiong, Buqing Xu, You Li and Henry H. Radamson
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(11), 2215; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10112215
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/11/2215
7. “Electrochemical Sensors Based on Conducting Polymers for the Aqueous Detection of Biologically Relevant Molecules”
by Álvaro Terán-Alcocer, Francisco Bravo-Plascencia, Carlos Cevallos-Morillo and Alex Palma-Cando
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(1), 252; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11010252
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/1/252
8. “Hydrothermal Synthesis and Gas Sensing of Monoclinic MoO3 Nanosheets”
by Teodóra Nagyné-Kovács, Levente Studnicka, István Endre Lukács, Krisztina László, Pawel Pasierb, Imre Miklós Szilágyi and György Pokol
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(5), 891; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10050891
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/5/891
9. “Recent Progress on Vanadium Dioxide Nanostructures and Devices: Fabrication, Properties, Applications and Perspectives”
by Yanqing Zhang, Weiming Xiong, Weijin Chen and Yue Zheng
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(2), 338; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11020338
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/2/338
10. “Application of Nanostructured Carbon-Based Electrochemical (Bio)Sensors for Screening of Emerging Pharmaceutical Pollutants in Waters and Aquatic Species: A Review”
by Álvaro Torrinha, Thiago M. B. F. Oliveira, Francisco W. P. Ribeiro, Adriana N. Correia, Pedro Lima-Neto and Simone Morais
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(7), 1268; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10071268
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/7/1268
21 December 2022
Nanomaterials | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Nanofabrication and Nanomanufacturing”

1. “Charge Transfer and Biocompatibility Aspects in Conducting Polymer-Based Enzymatic Biosensors and Biofuel Cells”
by Simonas Ramanavicius and Arunas Ramanavicius
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(2), 371; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11020371
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/2/371
2. “Exploiting Fruit Waste Grape Pomace for Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis, Assessing Their Antioxidant, Antidiabetic Potential and Antibacterial Activity Against Human Pathogens: A Novel Approach”
by Ganesh Dattatraya Saratale, Rijuta Ganesh Saratale, Dong-Su Kim, Do-Yeong Kim and Han-Seung Shin
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(8), 1457; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10081457
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/8/1457
3. “Hypericum perforatum L.-Mediated Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles Exhibiting Antioxidant and Anticancer Activities”
by Abdalrahim Alahmad, Armin Feldhoff, Nadja C. Bigall, Pascal Rusch, Thomas Scheper and Johanna-Gabriela Walter
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(2), 487; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11020487
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/2/487
4. “On the Role of Nanofluids in Thermal-hydraulic Performance of Heat Exchangers—A Review”
by Salah Almurtaji, Naser Ali, Joao A. Teixeira and Abdulmajid Addali
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(4), 734; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10040734
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/4/734
5. “Materials, Electrical Performance, Mechanisms, Applications, and Manufacturing Approaches for Flexible Strain Sensors”
by Fei Han, Min Li, Huaiyu Ye and Guoqi Zhang
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(5), 1220; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11051220
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/5/1220
6. “Strategies for SERS Detection of Organochlorine Pesticides”
by Rebeca Moldovan, Bogdan-Cezar Iacob, Cosmin Farcău, Ede Bodoki and Radu Oprean
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(2), 304; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11020304
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/2/304
7. “Silver Nanowire Synthesis and Strategies for Fabricating Transparent Conducting Electrodes”
by Amit Kumar, Muhammad Omar Shaikh and Cheng-Hsin Chuang
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(3), 693; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11030693
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/3/693
8. “Tribological Behavior of Nanolubricants Based on Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles and Trimethylolpropane Trioleate Base Oil”
by José M. Liñeira del Río, Enriqueta R. López, Manuel González Gómez, Susana Yáñez Vilar, Yolanda Piñeiro, José Rivas, David E. P. Gonçalves, Jorge H. O. Seabra and Josefa Fernández
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(4), 683; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10040683
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/4/683
9. “Nanofluid Development Using Silver Nanoparticles and Organic-Luminescent Molecules for Solar-Thermal and Hybrid Photovoltaic-Thermal Applications”
by James Walshe, Pauraic Mc Carron, Conor McLoughlin, Sarah McCormack, John Doran and George Amarandei
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(6), 1201; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10061201
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/6/1201
10. “Gold Nanorod Assemblies: The Roles of Hot-Spot Positioning and Anisotropy in Plasmon Coupling and SERS”
by Priyanka Dey, Verena Baumann and Jessica Rodríguez-Fernández
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(5), 942; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10050942
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/5/942
14 December 2022
"Thanks a Million!" – One Million Articles Published in MDPI Journals
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8 December 2022
MDPI Sustainability Foundation: New Look and Nominations for the 2023 Sustainability Awards Now Open
We are pleased to announce that the website of the MDPI Sustainability Foundation has been revamped! For the past couple of months, our UX UI team and front-end developers have been working hard to launch the website in time for the opening of the Sustainability Awards nominations.
The website is not the only thing that has had a remodeling. Indeed, the format of the Emerging Sustainability Leader Award (ESLA) has been updated. ESLA is now a competition open to individual researchers or start-ups founded by researchers under the age of 35. Nominee applications will go through 2 rounds of selection until the final 3 are decided. The finalists will then be invited to give pitch presentations during the Award Ceremony to win either first place (10,000 USD) or runner-up (2 x 5000 USD).
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7 December 2022
Editorial Board Members from Nanomaterials Featured in 2022 Highly Cited Researchers List Published by Clarivate
Recently, Clarivate™ revealed its 2022 list of Highly Cited Researchers™—individuals at universities, research institutes and commercial organizations.
The scientists who were selected into this year’s list of Highly Cited Researchers have published highly cited papers in the 11-year period from January 2011 to December 2021, with citation frequency in the top 1% of academic subjects and the same year of publication in the Web of Science™ database. Based on Web of Science Citation data, 6,938 researchers from across the globe who have demonstrated a disproportionate level of significant and broad influence in their chosen field or fields over the last decade have been awarded Highly Cited Researcher 2022 designations. The list is truly global, spanning 69 countries or regions and spread across a diverse range of research sciences and social sciences.
According to statistics, 46 members of the editorial board of Nanomaterials (ISSN: 2079-4991) have been selected into the list of Highly Cited Researchers of Clarivate in 2022. They are being recognized for their high-quality scientific research achievements and outstanding contributions to their professional fields. The Nanomaterials journal office sincerely congratulates all elected Editorial Board Members and hopes that they continue to have an academically productive relationship with the journal.
Name | Affiliation |
Dr. Andres Castellanos-Gomez | King Saud University, Saudi Arabia |
Prof. Dr. Anlian Pan | Hunan University, China |
Prof. Dr. Babak Anasori | Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, United States |
Prof. Baoshan Xing | University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States |
Prof. Dr. Chao Deng | Suzhou University, China |
Prof. Dr. Dai-Bin Kuang | Sun Yat Sen University, China |
Prof. Dr. Fedor Jelezko | Ulm University, Germany |
Prof. Dr. George Z. Kyzas | International Hellenic University, Greece |
Prof. Dr. Guangbin Ji | Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China |
Prof. Dr. Guozhong Cao | University of Washington Seattle, United States |
Prof. Dr. Huanting Wang | Monash University, Australia |
Dr. Jiaqing He | Southern University of Science & Technology, China |
Prof. Dr. Jun Lin | Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Prof. Dr. Lei Jiang | Purdue University, United States |
Prof. Dr. Letian Dou | Suzhou University, China |
Dr. Liangzhu Feng | University of Queensland, Australia |
Prof. Dr. Lianzhou Wang | East China Normal University, China |
Prof. Dr. Likun Pan | Southern University of Science & Technology, China |
Dr. Meng Gu | University of California Berkeley, United States |
Prof. Dr. Michael F. Crommie | University of Stuttgart, Germany |
Prof. Dr. Michael Saliba | Swansea University, United Kingdom |
Prof. Dr. Nidal Hilal | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
Prof. Dr. Seeram Ramakrishna | Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Prof. Dr. Shuangming Chen | Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China |
Prof. Dr. Tianyou Zhai | Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Prof. Dr. Tierui Zhang | Harvard University, United States |
Dr. Wei Ting Chen | Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Prof. Dr. Wei Xing | Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Prof. Dr. Weida Hu | Tianjin University, China |
Prof. Dr. Wenbin Hu | Jinan University, China |
Prof. Dr. Wenjie Mai | Beijing Institute of Technology, China |
Dr. Yang Zhao | Nanjing University, China |
Prof. Dr. Yi Shi | Fuzhou University, China |
Dr. Yi-Jun Xu | Tsinghua University, China |
Prof. Dr. Yongfa Zhu | Beihang University, China |
Prof. Dr. Yongji Gong | Fudan University, China |
Prof. Dr. Yongyao Xia | Shenzhen University, China |
Prof. Dr. Yumeng Shi | Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Prof. Dr. Zhanjun Gu | City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
Prof. Dr. Zhanxi Fan | Suzhou University, China |
Prof. Dr. Zhenhui Kang | National Center for Nanoscience & Technology, China |
Prof. Dr. Zhixiang Wei | Dalian University of Technology, China |
Prof. Dr. Zhiyu Wang | Nanjing University, China |
Prof. Dr. Zhong Jin | Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Prof. Dr. Zhong-Shuai Wu | Curtin University, Australia |
Prof. Dr. Zongping Shao | Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
25 November 2022
Nanomaterials | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Inorganic Materials and Metal-Organic Frameworks Section”

“Biocompatible Magnetic Fluids of Co-Doped Iron Oxide Nanoparticles with Tunable Magnetic Properties”
by Silvio Dutz, Norbert Buske, Joachim Landers, Christine Gräfe, Heiko Wende and Joachim H. Clement
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(6), 1019; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10061019
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/6/1019
Cited by 27 | Viewed by 2512
“A Guided Walk through the World of Mesoporous Bioactive Glasses (MBGs): Fundamentals, Processing, and Applications”
by Carla Migneco, Elisa Fiume, Enrica Verné and Francesco Baino
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(12), 2571; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10122571
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/12/2571
Cited by 22 | Viewed by 1924
“MIL-88A Metal-Organic Framework as a Stable Sulfur-Host Cathode for Long-Cycle Li-S Batteries”
by Almudena Benítez, Juan Amaro-Gahete, Dolores Esquivel, Francisco José Romero-Salguero, Julián Morales and Álvaro Caballero
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(3), 424; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10030424
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/3/424
Cited by 21 | Viewed by 3740
“Magnetocrystalline and Surface Anisotropy in CoFe2O4 Nanoparticles”
by Alexander Omelyanchik, María Salvador, Franco D’Orazio, Valentina Mameli, Carla Cannas, Dino Fiorani, Anna Musinu, Montserrat Rivas, Valeria Rodionova, Gaspare Varvaro et al.
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(7), 1288; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10071288
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/7/1288
Cited by 18 | Viewed by 2117
“Recent Developments in Lanthanide-Doped Alkaline Earth Aluminate Phosphors with Enhanced and Long-Persistent Luminescence”
by Doory Kim
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(3), 723; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11030723
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/3/723
Cited by 17 | Viewed by 2676
“Polydopamine-Modified Metal–Organic Frameworks, NH2-Fe-MIL-101, as pH-Sensitive Nanocarriers for Controlled Pesticide Release”
by Yongpan Shan, Chunli Xu, Hongjun Zhang, Huiping Chen, Muhammad Bilal, Shujun Niu, Lidong Cao and Qiliang Huang
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(10), 2000; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10102000
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/10/2000
Cited by 17 | Viewed by 2545
“Zinc Gallium Oxide—A Review from Synthesis to Applications”
by Mu-I Chen, Anoop Kumar Singh, Jung-Lung Chiang, Ray-Hua Horng and Dong-Sing Wuu
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(11), 2208; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10112208
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/11/2208
Cited by 16 | Viewed by 3586
“Carbon Nanotube Sheet-Synthesis and Applications”
by Megha Chitranshi, Anuptha Pujari, Vianessa Ng, Daniel Chen, Devika Chauhan, Ronald Hudepohl, Motahareh Saleminik, Sung Yong Kim, Ashley Kubley, Vesselin Shanov et al.
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(10), 2023; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10102023
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/10/2023
Cited by 14 | Viewed by 5991
“Inkjet Printing of Flexible Transparent Conductive Films with Silver Nanowires Ink”
by Xiaoli Wu, Shuyue Wang, Zhengwu Luo, Jiaxin Lu, Kaiwen Lin, Hui Xie, Yuehui Wang and Jing-Ze Li
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(6), 1571; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11061571
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/6/1571
Cited by 13 | Viewed by 1565
“Synthesis and Performance of MOF-Based Non-Noble Metal Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: A Review”
by Nicolas Delaporte, Etienne Rivard, Sadesh K. Natarajan, Pierre Benard, Michel L. Trudeau and Karim Zaghib
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(10), 1947; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10101947
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/10/1947
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9 November 2022
Nanomaterials Webinar | Catalysis by Carbon Materials, 25 November 2022

Date: 25 November 2022
Time: 10:00 a.m. CET | 4:00 a.m. EST | 5:00 p.m. CST Asia
Webinar ID: 874 0094 0079
Register here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8016666193194/WN_57Jdo8RzTfeu3NdlKyrgrw
Participation fee: None
Language: English
Webinar keywords: carbon materials; nanostructured carbon gels; electrochemistry; fuel cells; batteries; advanced oxidation processes; photocatalysis
Related Special Issues:
- "Carbon-Based Nanomaterials for Visible-Light Photocatalysis and Photoelectrocatalysis";
- "Synthesis of Nanocomposites and Catalysis Applications II".
Chair:
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Prof. Dr. Sónia Carabineiro |
Speakers:
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Prof. Dr. Nathalie Job |
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Prof. Dr. Francisco José Maldonado Hodar |
If you have any questions about this webinar, please contact [email protected].
We look forward to your participation in this event.
Nanomaterials Editorial Office
28 September 2022
Peer Review Week 2022 – Research Integrity: Creating and Supporting Trust in Research

Peer Review Week began 19 September 2022 under the theme of “Research Integrity: Creating and Supporting Trust in Research”. Through various blog articles, podcast, and webinar, we discussed this crucial subject throughout the week, celebrating the essential role peer review plays in maintaining research quality.
To begin, we held a Webinar on the topic. Professor Peter W. Choate and Dr. Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi joined Dr. Ioana Craciun, one of MDPI’s scientific officers, for an in-depth discussion.
We invite you to view the event recording:
During the week, the MDPI Blog in a series articles highlighted how good Peer Review safeguards research integrity. The following topics were covered:
- Peer Review Week 2022
- Research Integrity
- What We’ve Learned About Peer Review Reports
- 4 Steps to the Perfect Peer Review Report
- How to Write the Perfect Peer Review Report: An Interview
- Inviting Great Peer Reviewers
In a new edition of Insight Faster, an MDPI podcast, we were delighted to talk to the co-chairs of the Peer Review Week committee, Jayashree Rajagopalan (Senior Manager of Global Community Engagement for CACTUS) and Danielle Padula (Head of Marketing and Community Development at Scholastica) to get their take on this year’s event and its related topics.
You can find the Podcast here.
We hope you enjoy the contents!
4 July 2022
Meet Us at the 11th National Conference on Environmental Chemistry, 25–29 July 2022, Harbin, China

A range of MDPI journals will be attending the 11th National Conference on Environmental Chemistry as an exhibitor. This meeting will be held in Harbin, China, from 25 to 29 July 2022.
The theme of this conference will be “Innovating Environmental Sciences, Low-Carbon Protecting Environment and Health”, which fully reflects the conference’s purpose of innovation, participation, cooperation, and foresight. More than 50 branches have been set up in the fields of interface process, toxicology and health, public health, environmental safety, pollution control, remediation technology, green and low-carbon, and environmental policy, and various well-known experts at home and abroad have been invited to produce conference and branch reports and deliver speeches. We invite experts in the field and environmental protection companies to participate in the exhibition, for which academic activities such as paper exhibitions, postgraduate forums, and Editor-in-Chief meetings have been organized.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
- Toxics (leading);
- Water (leading);
- Sustainability (leading);
- Applied Sciences;
- JoX;
- Nanomaterials;
- Soil Systems;
- Sustainable Chemistry;
- IJERPH;
- Pollutants;
- Environments.
If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference and our booth, please visit the following link: https://www.ncec2021.com/Home/Default.
28 June 2022
2021 Impact Factors - Released
The 2021 citation metrics have been released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and we’re pleased to announce the following results for MDPI journals:
Journal | Impact Factor | Rank | Category |
Antioxidants | 7.675 | Q1 | Food Science & Technology |
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | |||
Chemistry, Medicinal | |||
Cells | 7.666 | Q2 | Cell Biology |
Nutrients | 6.706 | Q1 | Nutrition & Dietetics |
Cancers | 6.575 | Q1 | Oncology |
Pharmaceutics | 6.525 | Q1 | Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 6.208 | Q1 | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Q2 | Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | ||
Marine Drugs | 6.085 | Q1 | Chemistry, Medicinal |
Pharmacology & Pharmacy | |||
Biomolecules | 6.064 | Q2 | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Batteries * | 5.938 | Q2 | Electrochemistry |
Energy & Fuels | |||
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | |||
Viruses | 5.818 | Q2 | Virology |
Biosensors | 5.743 | Q1 | Chemistry, Analytical |
Instruments & Instrumentation | |||
Q2 | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | ||
Journal of Fungi | 5.724 | Q1 | Mycology |
Q2 | Microbiology | ||
Nanomaterials | 5.719 | Q1 | Physics, Applied |
Q2 | Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | ||
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | |||
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | |||
Metabolites | 5.581 | Q2 | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Foods | 5.561 | Q1 | Food Science & Technology |
Drones * | 5.532 | Q2 | Remote Sensing |
Remote Sensing | 5.349 | Q1 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
Imaging Science & Photographic Technology | |||
Q2 | Remote Sensing | ||
Environmental Sciences | |||
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research | 5.318 | Q2 | Business |
Antibiotics | 5.222 | Q1 | Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
Q2 | Infectious Diseases | ||
Pharmaceuticals | 5.215 | Q1 | Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
Q2 | Chemistry, Medicinal | ||
Biology | 5.168 | Q1 | Biology |
Fermentation | 5.123 | Q2 | Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology |
Toxins | 5.075 | Q1 | Toxicology |
Q2 | Food Science & Technology | ||
Bioengineering * | 5.046 | Q2 | Engineering, Biomedical |
Polymers | 4.967 | Q1 | Polymer Science |
Journal of Clinical Medicine | 4.964 | Q2 | Medicine, General & Internal |
Vaccines | 4.961 | Q2 | Immunology |
Medicine, Research & Experimental | |||
Molecules | 4.927 | Q2 | Chemistry, Multidisciplinary |
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | |||
Microorganisms | 4.926 | Q2 | Microbiology |
Journal of Functional Biomaterials * | 4.901 | Q2 | Engineering, Biomedical |
Materials Science, Biomaterials | |||
Biomedicines | 4.757 | Q2 | Medicine, Research & Experimental |
Pharmacology & Pharmacy | |||
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | |||
Plants | 4.658 | Q1 | Plant Sciences |
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 4.614 | Q1 | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (SSCI) |
Q2 | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (SCIE) | ||
Environmental Sciences (SCIE) | |||
Membranes | 4.562 | Q1 | Polymer Science |
Q2 | Engineering, Chemical | ||
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | |||
Chemistry, Physical | |||
Pathogens | 4.531 | Q2 | Microbiology |
Catalysts | 4.501 | Q2 | Chemistry, Physical |
Toxics | 4.472 | Q2 | Toxicology |
Environmental Sciences | |||
Gels | 4.432 | Q1 | Polymer Science |
Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease | 4.415 | Q2 | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems |
Chemosensors | 4.229 | Q1 | Instruments & Instrumentation |
Q2 | Chemistry, Analytical | ||
Q3 | Electrochemistry | ||
Genes | 4.141 | Q2 | Genetics & Heredity |
Diagnostics | 3.992 | Q2 | Medicine, General & Internal |
Agronomy | 3.949 | Q1 | Agronomy |
Plant Sciences | |||
Land | 3.905 | Q2 | Environmental Studies |
Sustainability | 3.889 | Q2 | Environmental Sciences (SCIE) |
Environmental Studies (SSCI) | |||
Q3 | Green & Sustainable Science & Technology (SCIE) | ||
Q4 | Green & Sustainable Science & Technology (SSCI) | ||
Sensors | 3.847 | Q2 | Instruments & Instrumentation |
Chemistry, Analytical | |||
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic | |||
Materials | 3.748 | Q1 | Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering |
Q2 | Physics, Applied | ||
Physics, Condensed Matter | |||
Q3 | Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | ||
Chemistry, Physical | |||
Biomimetics * | 3.743 | Q2 | Engineering, Multidisciplinary |
Q3 | Materials Science, Biomaterials | ||
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease * | 3.711 | Q1 | Tropical Medicine |
Q2 | Parasitology | ||
Q3 | Infectious Diseases | ||
Lubricants * | 3.584 | Q2 | Engineering, Mechanical |
Fractal and Fractional | 3.577 | Q1 | Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications |
Water | 3.530 | Q2 | Water Resources |
Q3 | Environmental Sciences | ||
Micromachines | 3.523 | Q2 | Instruments & Instrumentation |
Physics, Applied | |||
Chemistry, Analytical | |||
Q3 | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | ||
Journal of Personalized Medicine | 3.508 | Q2 | Medicine, General & Internal |
Health Care Sciences & Services | |||
Agriculture | 3.408 | Q1 | Agronomy |
Processes | 3.352 | Q2 | Engineering, Chemical |
Separations | 3.344 | Q2 | Chemistry, Analytical |
Magnetochemistry | 3.336 | Q2 | Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear |
Q3 | Chemistry, Physical | ||
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | |||
Brain Sciences | 3.333 | Q3 | Neurosciences |
Buildings | 3.324 | Q2 | Construction & Building Technology |
Engineering, Civil | |||
Forests | 3.282 | Q1 | Forestry |
Energies | 3.252 | Q3 | Energy & Fuels |
Life | 3.251 | Q2 | Biology |
Coatings | 3.236 | Q2 | Materials Science, Coatings & Films |
Physics, Applied | |||
Q3 | Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | ||
Animals | 3.231 | Q1 | Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science |
Veterinary Sciences | |||
Journal of Intelligence * | 3.176 | Q2 | Psychology, Multidisciplinary |
Fishes | 3.170 | Q1 | Marine & Freshwater Biology |
Q2 | Fisheries | ||
Healthcare | 3.160 | Q2 | Health Policy & Services (SSCI) |
Health Care Sciences & Services (SCIE) | |||
Inorganics * | 3.149 | Q2 | Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear |
Insects | 3.139 | Q1 | Entomology |
Atmosphere | 3.110 | Q3 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
Environmental Sciences | |||
Current Oncology | 3.109 | Q3 | Oncology |
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information | 3.099 | Q2 | Geography, Physical |
Q3 | Computer Science, Information Systems | ||
Remote Sensing | |||
Diversity | 3.029 | Q2 | Biodiversity Conservation |
Ecology | |||
Tomography | 3.000 | Q3 | Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging |
Current Issues in Molecular Biology | 2.976 | Q3 | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Medicina | 2.948 | Q3 | Medicine, General & Internal |
Symmetry | 2.940 | Q2 | Multidisciplinary Sciences |
Horticulturae | 2.923 | Q1 | Horticulture |
Machines | 2.899 | Q2 | Engineering, Mechanical |
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic | |||
Systems * | 2.895 | Q2 | Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary |
Applied Sciences | 2.838 | Q2 | Engineering, Multidisciplinary |
Physics, Applied | |||
Q3 | Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | ||
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | |||
Children | 2.835 | Q2 | Pediatrics |
Minerals | 2.818 | Q2 | Mining & Mineral Processing |
Mineralogy | |||
Geochemistry & Geophysics | |||
Universe | 2.813 | Q2 | Astronomy & Astrophysics |
Q3 | Physics, Particles & Fields | ||
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering | 2.744 | Q1 | Engineering, Marine |
Q2 | Oceanography | ||
Engineering, Ocean | |||
Entropy | 2.738 | Q2 | Physics, Multidisciplinary |
Fire * | 2.726 | Q2 | Forestry |
Q3 | Ecology | ||
Metals | 2.695 | Q2 | Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering |
Q3 | Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | ||
Electronics | 2.690 | Q3 | Engineering, Electrical & Electronic |
Computer Science, Information Systems | |||
Physics, Applied | |||
Crystals | 2.670 | Q2 | Crystallography |
Q3 | Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | ||
Aerospace | 2.660 | Q1 | Engineering, Aerospace |
Mathematics | 2.592 | Q1 | Mathematics |
Photonics | 2.536 | Q3 | Optics |
Actuators | 2.523 | Q2 | Instruments & Instrumentation |
Q3 | Engineering, Mechanical | ||
Veterinary Sciences | 2.518 | Q2 | Veterinary Sciences |
Behavioral Sciences * | 2.286 | Q3 | Psychology, Multidisciplinary |
Axioms * | 1.824 | Q2 | Mathematics, Applied |
For more information on Impact Factors and what it means to index academic journals, please visit our related blog posts.
* Journals given their first Impact Factor in 2022
Source: 2021 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports TM (Clarivate, 2022)
27 June 2022
MDPI’s 2021 Young Investigator Awards in “Chemistry & Materials Sciences”—Winners Announced
MDPI’s Young Investigator Awards recognize promising junior researchers, acknowledge their contributions, and enhance communication among scientists. We are proud to present the winners for the year 2021 in the “Chemistry & Materials Sciences” category. The winners were selected by the journals’ editors.
We warmly congratulate the awarded Young Investigators for their outstanding contributions.
MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.
- Marta Mohedano, Complutense University of Madrid-UCM, Spain
- Edoardo Baldini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Mauro Perfetti, University of Florence, Italy
- Xu Hou, Xiamen University, China
- Biplab Maji, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India
- Andres Castellanos-Gomez, Instituto de Ciencia de los Materiales de Madrid, Spain
- Takuya Isono, Hokkaido University, Japan
- Panbo Liu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
27 June 2022
MDPI’s 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Awards in “Chemistry & Materials Sciences”—Winners Announced
In order to acknowledge our reviewers, who so generously dedicate their time to reviewing papers and demonstrate diligence, professionalism, and timeliness when reviewing manuscripts, MDPI journals regularly offer outstanding reviewer awards to scholars who participate in the peer-review process.
We are proud to recognize the winners for the year 2021 in the “Chemistry & Materials Sciences” category for their outstanding contributions among extensive competition by presenting them with the Outstanding Reviewer Award.
We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the winners on their achievement.
MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.
- Rahat Javaid, Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, Japan
- Georgios Bampos, University of Patras, Greece
- Esmail Doustkhah, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
- Pawan Kumar, University of Alberta, Canada
- Lorenzo Sorace, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
- Khaled Giasin, University of Portsmouth, UK
- Oldrich Sucharda, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
- Danil Pimenov, South Ural State University, Russia
- Marián Palcut, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
- Khaled Giasin, University of Portsmouth, UK
- Catalin Pruncu, University of Strathclyde, UK
- Jacek Tomków, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
- Alexander Yu Churyumov, National University of Science and Technology (MISiS), Russia
- Hesam Pouraliakbar, Chungnam National University, South Korea
- George Kenanakis, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece
- Goshtasp Cheraghian, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
- Oana Cadar, Research Institute for Analytical Instrumentation, Romania
- Sawsan A. Zaitone, Suez Canal University, Saudi Arabia
- Lucia Baldino, University of Salerno Via Giovanni Paolo II, Fisciano (SA) Italy
- Gyorgy Szekely, University of Manchester, UK
- Bin Jiang, Northeast Agricultural University, China
- Haibao Lu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
27 June 2022
MDPI’s 2021 Best Paper Awards in “Chemistry & Materials Sciences”—Winners Announced
The purpose of our Best Paper Awards is to promote and recognize the most impactful contributions published within MDPI journals.
The editors of each journal carefully selected reviews and research papers through a rigorous judging process based on criteria such as the scientific merit, overall impact, and the quality of presentation of the papers published in the journal last year.
We are honored to present the winners in the “Chemistry & Materials Sciences” category, who were selected amongst the extensive competition, and congratulate the authors for their outstanding scientific publications.
MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.
C — Journal of Carbon Research:
- “Activated Carbons Derived from High-Temperature Pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass”
by Cristian I. Contescu, Shiba P. Adhikari, Nidia C. Gallego, Neal D. Evans and Bryan E. Biss
C 2018, 4(3), 51; doi:10.3390/c4030051
- “Hydrogen Oxidation on Ni-Based Electrocatalysts: The Effect of Metal Doping”
by Elena S. Davydova, Jérémie Zaffran, Kapil Dhaka, Maytal Caspary Toroker and Dario R. Dekel
Catalysts 2018, 8(10), 454; doi:10.3390/catal8100454 - “Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production: Role of Sacrificial Reagents on the Activity of Oxide, Carbon, and Sulfide Catalysts”
by Vignesh Kumaravel, Muhammad Danyal Imam, Ahmed Badreldin, Rama Krishna Chava, Jeong Yeon Do, Misook Kang and Ahmed Abdel-Wahab
Catalysts 2019, 9(3), 276; doi:10.3390/catal9030276 - “A General Overview of Support Materials for Enzyme Immobilization: Characteristics, Properties, Practical Utility”
by Jakub Zdarta, Anne S. Meyer, Teofil Jesionowski and Manuel Pinelo
Catalysts 2018, 8(2), 92; doi:10.3390/catal8020092 - “Mechanistic Insights into Photodegradation of Organic Dyes Using Heterostructure Photocatalysts”
by Yi-Hsuan Chiu, Tso-Fu Mark Chang, Chun-Yi Chen, Masato Sone and Yung-Jung Hsu
Catalysts 2019, 9(5), 430; doi:10.3390/catal9050430
- “Chemical Preparation Routes and Lowering the Sintering Temperature of Ceramics”
by Philippe Colomban
Ceramics 2020, 3(3), 312–339; doi:10.3390/ceramics3030029
- “State of the Art in Directed Energy Deposition: From Additive Manufacturing to Materials Design”
by Adrita Dass and Atieh Moridi
Coatings 2019, 9(7), 418; doi:10.3390/coatings9070418 - “Encapsulation of Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells: A Review”
by Ashraf Uddin, Mushfika Baishakhi Upama, Haimang Yi and Leiping Duan
Coatings 2019, 9(2), 65; doi:10.3390/coatings9020065 - “Poly (Lactic Acid)/Thermoplastic Starch Films: Effect of Cardoon Seed Epoxidized Oil on Their Chemicophysical, Mechanical, and Barrier Properties”
by Rosa Turco, Rodrigo Ortega-Toro, Riccardo Tesser, Salvatore Mallardo, Sofia Collazo-Bigliardi, Amparo Chiralt Boix, Mario Malinconico, Massimo Rippa, Martino Di Serio and Gabriella Santagata
Coatings 2019, 9(9), 574; doi:10.3390/coatings9090574 - “Physical and Morphological Characterization of Chitosan/Montmorillonite Films Incorporated with Ginger Essential Oil”
by Victor Gomes Lauriano Souza, João Ricardo Afonso Pires, Carolina Rodrigues, Patricia Freitas Rodrigues, Andréia Lopes, Rui Jorge Silva, Jorge Caldeira, Maria Paula Duarte, Francisco Braz Fernandes, Isabel Maria Coelhoso and Ana Luisa Fernando
Coatings 2019, 9(11), 700; doi:10.3390/coatings9110700 - “Application and Evaluation of a Pectin-Based Edible Coating Process for Quality Change Kinetics and Shelf-Life Extension of Lime Fruit (Citrus aurantifolium)”
by Neda Maftoonazad and Hosahalli S. Ramaswamy
Coatings 2019, 9(5), 285; doi:10.3390/coatings9050285
- “Crystal and Magnetic Structures in Layered, Transition Metal Dihalides and Trihalides”
by Michael A. McGuire
Crystals 2017, 7(5), 121; doi:10.3390/cryst7050121 - “σ-Hole Interactions: Perspectives and Misconceptions”
by Peter Politzer and Jane S. Murray
Crystals 2017, 7(7), 212; doi:10.3390/cryst7070212 - “σ-Hole Interactions of Covalently-Bonded Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Arsenic: A Survey of Crystal Structures”
by Peter Politzer, Jane S. Murray, Goran V. Janjić and Snežana D. Zarić
Crystals 2014, 4(1), 12-31; doi:10.3390/cryst4010012 - “Epitaxial Graphene on SiC: A Review of Growth and Characterization”
by Gholam Reza Yazdi, Tihomir Iakimov and Rositsa Yakimova
Crystals 2016, 6(5), 53; doi:10.3390/cryst6050053
- “A Clock Transition in the Cr7Mn Molecular Nanomagnet”
by Charles A. Collett, Kai-Isaak Ellers, Nicholas Russo, Kevin R. Kittilstved, Grigore A. Timco, Richard E. P. Winpenny and Jonathan R. Friedman
Magnetochemistry 2019, 5(1), 4; doi:10.3390/magnetochemistry5010004 - “A Series of Field-Induced Single-Ion Magnets Based on the Seven-Coordinate Co(II) Complexes with the Pentadentate (N3O2) H2dapsc Ligand”
by Vyacheslav A. Kopotkov, Denis V. Korchagin, Valentina D. Sasnovskaya, Ildar F. Gilmutdinov and Eduard B. Yagubskii
Magnetochemistry 2019, 5(4), 58; doi:10.3390/magnetochemistry5040058 - “Magnetic Janus Particles for Static and Dynamic (Bio)Sensing”
by Susana Campuzano, Maria Gamella, Verónica Serafín, María Pedrero, Paloma Yáñez-Sedeño and José Manuel Pingarrón
Magnetochemistry 2019, 5(3), 47; doi:10.3390/magnetochemistry5030047
- “Composite Membranes for High Temperature PEM Fuel Cells and Electrolysers: A Critical Review”
by Xinwei Sun, Stian Christopher Simonsen, Truls Norby and Athanasios Chatzitakis
Membranes 2019, 9(7), 83; doi:10.3390/membranes9070083
- “Transport Characteristics of Fujifilm Ion-Exchange Membranes as Compared to Homogeneous Membranes AMX and CMX and to Heterogeneous Membranes MK-40 and MA-41”
by Veronika Sarapulova, Inna Shkorkina, Semyon Mareev, Natalia Pismenskaya, Natalia Kononenko, Christian Larchet, Lasaad Dammak and Victor Nikonenko
Membranes 2019, 9(7), 84; doi:10.3390/membranes9070084
- “Nanomaterials for the Removal of Heavy Metals from Wastewater”
by Jinyue Yang, Baohong Hou, Jingkang Wang, Beiqian Tian, Jingtao Bi, Na Wang, Xin Li and Xin Huang
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(3), 424; doi:10.3390/nano9030424 - “Injectable Alginate-Peptide Composite Hydrogel as a Scaffold for Bone Tissue Regeneration”
Moumita Ghosh, Michal Halperin-Sternfeld, Itzhak Grinberg and Lihi Adler-Abramovich
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(4), 497; doi:10.3390/nano9040497 - “Carbon Dots and Graphene Quantum Dots in Electrochemical Biosensing”
by Susana Campuzano, Paloma Yáñez-Sedeño and José M. Pingarrón
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(4), 634; doi:10.3390/nano9040634 - “A Smart Nanovector for Cancer Targeted Drug Delivery Based on Graphene Quantum Dots”
by Daniela Iannazzo, Alessandro Pistone, Consuelo Celesti, Claudia Triolo, Salvatore Patané, Salvatore V. Giofré, Roberto Romeo, Ida Ziccarelli, Raffaella Mancuso, Bartolo Gabriele, Giuseppa Visalli, Alessio Facciolà and Angela Di Pietro
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(2), 282; doi:10.3390/nano9020282 - “Evolution of Wearable Devices with Real-Time Disease Monitoring for Personalized Healthcare”
by Kyeonghye Guk, Gaon Han, Jaewoo Lim, Keunwon Jeong, Taejoon Kang, Eun-Kyung Lim and Juyeon Jung
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(6), 813; doi:10.3390/nano9060813 - “An Ultra-High-Energy Density Supercapacitor; Fabrication Based on Thiolfunctionalized Graphene”
by Janardhanan. R. Rani, Ranjith Thangavel, Se-I Oh, Yun Sung Lee and Jae-Hyung Jang
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(2), 148; doi:10.3390/nano9020148
- “The Relationships between the Working Fluids, Process Characteristics and Products from the Modified Coaxial Electrospinning of Zein”
by Menglong Wang, Tao Hai, Zhangbin Feng, Deng-Guang Yu, Yaoyao Yang and SW Annie Bligh
Polymers 2019, 11(8), 1287; doi:10.3390/polym11081287 - “Design of Controlled Release System for Paracetamol Based on Modified Lignin”
by Mahboubeh Pishnamazi, Hamid Hafizi, Saeed Shirazian, Mario Culebras, Gavin M. Walker and Maurice N. Collins
Polymers 2019, 11(6), 1059; doi:10.3390/polym11061059 - “Additive Manufacturing of PLA-Based Composites Using Fused Filament Fabrication: Effect of Graphene Nanoplatelet Reinforcement on Mechanical Properties, Dimensional Accuracy and Texture”
by Miguel Ángel Caminero, Jesús Miguel Chacón, Eustaquio García-Plaza, Pedro José Núñez, José María Reverte and Jean Paul Becar
Polymers 2019, 11(5), 799; doi:10.3390/polym11050799 - “Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites: Manufacturing, Properties, and Applications”
by Miguel Ángel Caminero, Jesús Miguel Chacón, ,Eustaquio García-Plaza, Pedro José Núñez, José María Reverte and Jean Paul Becar
Polymers 2019, 11(10), 1667; doi:10.3390/polym11101667
27 June 2022
MDPI’s 2021 Travel Awards in “Chemistry & Materials Sciences”—Winners Announced
We are proud to recognize the winners of MDPI’s 2021 Travel Awards in the “Chemistry & Materials Sciences” category for their outstanding presentations.
MDPI journals regularly offer travel awards to encourage talented junior scientists to present their latest research at academic conferences in specific fields, which helps to increase their influence.
The winners mentioned below were carefully selected by the journal editors based on an outline of their research and the work to be presented at an academic conference.
We would like to warmly congratulate the winners of Travel Awards for the year 2021 and wish them the greatest success with their future research endeavors.
MDPI will continue to enhance communication among scientists.
- Gaojun Mao, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
- Lidia Bofill Herrera, University of Barcelona, Spain
Gels:
- Demetra Giuri, University of Bologna, Italy
- Martina Genta, Imperial College London, UK
Journal of Functional Biomaterials:
- Anushree Seth, Washington University, USA
- Fabio Ferreira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Giulia Serrano, University of Florence, Italy
- Giulia Fredi, University of Trento, Italy
- Mattia Biesuz, Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic
- Adriana Eres-Castellanos, Spanish National Center for Metallurgical Research, Spain
- Pavel Shurkin, National University of Science and Technology, Russia
- Aleksandrs Leitis, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, France
- Ekaterina Kolesova, ITMO, Russia
- Christoph Gstoettner, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands
9 June 2022
2021 CiteScores - Released

The 2021 citation metrics have been officially released in Scopus!
We are pleased to announce that 182 MDPI journals are included, of which:
● 21 journals received their first CiteScore.
● 85% of journals increased their CiteScore from 2020.
● 155 journals (85%) ranked above average, in at least one category.
The following 65 MDPI journals (36%) ranked among the top 25% of journals, in at least one category:
Journal |
CiteScore |
Quartile |
Category |
10.1 |
Q1 |
Genetics |
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10.0 |
Q1 |
Biomedical Engineering |
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8.1 |
Q1 |
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous) |
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7.9 |
Q1 |
Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
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7.9 |
Q1 |
Nutrition and Dietetics |
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7.4 |
Q1 |
General Earth and Planetary Sciences |
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7.2 |
Q1 |
Computer Science Applications |
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6.9 |
Q1 |
Inorganic Chemistry |
|
6.9 |
Q1 |
Computer Networks and Communications |
|
6.7 |
Q1 |
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
|
6.6 |
Q1 |
General Chemical Engineering |
|
6.6 |
Q1 |
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis |
|
6.6 |
Q1 |
Infectious Diseases |
|
6.5 |
Q1 |
Food Science |
|
6.5 |
Q1 |
Civil and Structural Engineering |
|
6.4 |
Q1 |
Nature and Landscape Conservation |
|
6.4 |
Q1 |
Instrumentation |
|
6.1 |
Q1 |
Management Information Systems |
|
5.9 |
Q1 |
Chemistry (miscellaneous) |
|
5.7 |
Q1 |
Polymers and Plastics |
|
5.6 |
Q1 |
Engineering (miscellaneous) |
|
5.5 |
Q1 |
General Environmental Science |
|
5.5 |
Q1 |
Urban Studies |
|
5.4 |
Q2 |
Computer Networks and Communications |
|
5.3 |
Q1 |
Food Science |
|
5.3 |
Q1 |
Plant Science |
|
5.2 |
Q1 |
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics |
|
5.2 |
Q1 |
General Engineering |
|
Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity |
5.1 |
Q1 |
Development |
5.0 |
Q1 |
Chemistry (miscellaneous) |
|
5.0 |
Q1 |
Control and Optimization |
|
5.0 |
Q1 |
Geography, Planning and Development |
|
5.0 |
Q1 |
Geography, Planning and Development |
|
4.9 |
Q1 |
Forestry |
|
4.9 |
Q1 |
Control and Optimization |
|
4.9 |
Q1 |
Soil Science |
|
4.8 |
Q1 |
General Earth and Planetary Sciences |
|
4.8 |
Q1 |
Mechanical Engineering |
|
4.8 |
Q1 |
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health |
|
4.8 |
Q1 |
Geography, Planning and Development |
|
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |
4.5 |
Q1 |
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health |
4.5 |
Q1 |
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation |
|
4.4 |
Q1 |
Mathematical Physics |
|
4.4 |
Q1 |
General Medicine |
|
4.3 |
Q1 |
General Mathematics |
|
4.2 |
Q1 |
Surgery |
|
4.1 |
Q1 |
Health Professions (miscellaneous) |
|
4.1 |
Q1 |
Plant Science |
|
4.0 |
Q1 |
General Engineering |
|
4.0 |
Q1 |
Forestry |
|
4.0 |
Q1 |
Education |
|
3.9 |
Q1 |
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics |
|
3.9 |
Q1 |
Applied Mathematics |
|
3.8 |
Q1 |
Development |
|
3.8 |
Q1 |
Architecture |
|
3.8 |
Q1 |
Metals and Alloys |
|
3.5 |
Q1 |
Communication |
|
3.4 |
Q1 |
General Social Sciences |
|
2.9 |
Q1 |
General Mathematics |
|
2.8 |
Q1 |
Analysis |
|
2.7 |
Q1 |
General Veterinary |
|
2.6 |
Q1 |
Algebra and Number Theory |
|
1.8 |
Q1 |
Conservation |
|
1.0 |
Q1 |
Religious Studies |
|
0.9 |
Q1 |
Philosophy |
Source: 2021 CiteScores™ (Elsevier)
6 May 2022
Nanomaterials | Call for Special Issue Proposals
Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991; IF 5.076) is an international, peer-reviewed, and open access journal published semimonthly online by MDPI. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications, and short notes that are relevant to any field of study that involves nanomaterials, with respect to their science and application. The journal is indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), PubMed, PMC, CAPlus/SciFinder, Inspec, DOAJ (https://www.doaj.org/), and many other databases.
The Nanomaterials editorial team is pleased to announce this open call for Special Issue proposals, which offers a group of authors the opportunity to work on an interconnected set of papers on an innovative topic. We are soliciting high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a continuous selection process throughout the year.
Proposals within the scope of the journal are welcome. For more details, please see: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/about.
If you would like to propose a Special Issue topic for this journal, please contact the Nanomaterials Editorial Office ([email protected]) or complete and submit the form at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journalproposal/sendproposalspecialissue/nanomaterials. Our editors will respond to you swiftly.
As a Guest Editor, you would be responsible for:
- Inviting papers from your peers to be published in this Special Issue and take advantage of our high publicity of open access publishing, our rapid and high-quality peer review process, and immediate publication after acceptance;
- Checking the suitability of abstracts/manuscripts submitted to the Special Issue;
- Making precheck decisions regarding whether to send a new submission to peer review;
- Making final decisions regarding whether to accept a paper based on peer review outcomes.
As a Guest Editor, you would have the following privileges:
- A recognition certificate as a Guest Editor of Nanomaterials;
- Publishing papers with special discounts;
- Inviting high-quality papers to be published in your Special Issue free of charge or with certain discounts;
- If the Special Issue is successful, with at least 10 accepted manuscripts after full peer review, we can organize it into a printed book and send you a free one as a gift.
The Editorial Office will set up the Special Issue’s website, arrange the promotional materials, assist with the invitations for paper contributions, and take care of the administrative tasks associated with peer review, including inviting reviewers, collating reports, contacting authors, and arranging professional production before publication.
Please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office ([email protected]) for further details and clarification.
We look forward to receiving your proposals.
Nanomaterials Editorial Office
6 May 2022
Nanomaterials | Special Issue Mentor Program
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative: the Special Issue Mentor Program.
This program intends to provide an opportunity for early career scientists to enhance their editing, networking, and organizational skills, and to work closely with our journal to gain more editorial experience. Early career scientists who have novel ideas for new Special Issues in Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991; IF 5.076) will act as Guest Editors under the mentorship of an experienced scientist; this mentor could be a member of the Editorial Board of Nanomaterials or from other well-established research institutes or laboratories.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your Special Issue proposal to the Nanomaterials Editorial Office ([email protected]) or complete and submit the form at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journalproposal/sendproposalspecialissue/nanomaterials. We will discuss the process (i.e., mentor collaboration and Special Issue topic feasibility analysis, among others) in further detail.
In addition to the new Special Issue Mentor Program, Nanomaterials continues to welcome Special Issue proposals based on hot research topics.
22 April 2022
Invitation to Read Conference Proceedings of the 2nd International Online-Conference on Nanomaterials (IOCN 2020)

The 2nd International Online-Conference on Nanomaterials, held from 15 to 30 November 2020, set out to cover the whole breadth of nanomaterials research and provide a forum for presenting and discussing new results.
Accepted papers or abstracts with supplementary materials from the conference have been published in a dedicated issue of Materials Proceedings (ISSN: 2673-4605). This volume contains 93 proceeding papers and abstracts. We selected the following papers, which are among the most downloaded and cited publications from Volume IOCN 2020:
1. “Development of Flexible Polycation-Based mRNA Delivery Systems for In Vivo Applications”
by Takuya Miyazaki et al.
https://doi:10.3390/IOCN2020-07857
2. “Electrical Conduction and Photoconduction in PtSe2 Ultrathin Films”
by Antonio Di Bartolomeo et al.
https://doi:10.3390/IOCN2020-07814
3. “Properties of Molybdenum–Tungsten Blue Nanoparticles as a Precursor for Ultrafine Binary Carbides”
by Maria Myachina et al.
https://doi:10.3390/IOCN2020-07894
4. “Asymmetric Hysteresis Loops and Horizontal Loop Shifts in Purely Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles”
by Joscha Detzmeier et al.
https://doi:10.3390/IOCN2020-07836
5. “Development and Characterization of Polyaniline/Hexamethylene Diisocyanate-Modified Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites”
by Ana Maria Díez-Pascual et al.
https://doi:10.3390/IOCN2020-07788
To see the full list of the IOCN2020 conference proceedings, please click on the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4605/4/1.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your support and contributions to the 2nd International Online-Conference on Nanomaterials. We would appreciate it if you would circulate this document among your colleagues or through your network.
The 3rd International Online-Conference on Nanomaterials (IOCN 2022) will be hosted online from 25 April to 10 May 2022. You are welcome to register for the live session that you would like to join. All accepted papers or abstracts with supplementary materials from the IOCN 2022 will also be published in a dedicated issue in Materials Proceedings.
Materials Proceedings is an open access journal dedicated to publishing findings resulting from conferences, workshops, and similar events in all areas of material sciences. For more information, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/materproc.
28 February 2022
Prof. Dr. Marco Stoller Appointed Associate Editor of Section “Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology” in Nanomaterials
We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Marco Stoller has been appointed Associate Editor of "Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology” in Nanomaterials (ISSN: 2079-4991).
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Name: Prof. Dr. Marco Stoller |
We look forward to his contribution to the continued success of Nanomaterials.
21 January 2022
Meet Us at the 9th International Symposium on Sensor Science (I3S 2022), 20–22 June 2022, Warsaw, Poland

Conference name: 9th International Symposium on Sensor Science (I3S 2022)
Conference website: https://i3s2022warsaw.sciforum.net/
Date: 20–22 June 2022
Place: Warsaw, Poland
It is with great pleasure that we announce the 9th International Symposium on Sensor Science, to be held in Warsaw, Poland, from 20 to 22 June 2022.
Sensor technology has been shown to be suitable for applications in many important fields, including industrial applications, security medical diagnostics, and environmental monitoring. This international conference, supported by the Photonics Society of Poland, Warsaw University of Technology, as well as MDPI’s Sensors (ISSN: 1424-8220), will bring together scientists from different areas to discuss important recent developments in sensor technology. It will represent a great opportunity for an in-person meeting of an interdisciplinary community aiming to discuss important breakthroughs in sensor technology and its related fields.
The main topics of the conference include:
- Chemical sensors;
- Biosensors;
- Physical sensors;
- Optical/photonic sensors;
- Sensor applications;
- Specialty optical fibers for sensing;
- Materials, microfluidics, configurations and strategies for sensing;
- Distributed sensing in optical fibers;
- Amorphous materials for sensor applications.
We look forward to your participation in this exciting event.
Dr. Piotr Lesiak, Prof. Tomasz Woliński and Prof. Leszek Jaroszewicz
I3S 2022 Conference Chairs
Follow the conversation on Twitter with #I3S2022
29 December 2021
Season's Greetings from Section Editors-in-Chief of Nanomaterials
We are pleased to announce the Season's Greetings from our Section Editors-in-Chief:
“Nanocomposite Materials” Section, Prof. Dr. Jordi Sort;
“Biology and Medicines” Section, Prof. Dr. Eleonore Fröhlich;
“Theory and Simulation of Nanostructures” Section, Prof. Dr. Sotirios Baskoutas;
“Nanofabrication and Nanomanufacturing” Section, Dr. Mikhael Bechelany;
“Inorganic Materials and Metal-Organic Frameworks” Section, Prof. Dr. Félix Zamora;
“Synthesis, Interfaces and Nanostructures” Section, Prof. Dr. Paolo M. Scrimin;
“2D and Carbon Nanomaterials” Section, Prof. Dr. Antonio Di Bartolomeo.
20 December 2021
Welcoming New Editorial Board Members of Nanomaterials
It is our great pleasure to welcome the following eminent researchers, who have recently joined the Editorial Board of Nanomaterials (ISSN: 2079-4991):
Name: Prof. Dr. Juan M. Ruso
Affiliation: Soft Matter and Molecular Biophysics Group, Department of Applied Physics, University of Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Interests: synthesis and characterization of nanostructured templated materials; biophysics of proteins and protein interactions; self-aggregation processes
Name: Prof. Dr. Ze Don Kvon
Affiliation: Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics and Novosibirsk State University, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
Interests: electrons; phonons spin; two-dimensional systems; semimetals; topological insulators; 2D materials; Dirac fermions; spin current
Name: Prof. Dr. Heping Zeng
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Interests: nanostructure materials; photonic integrated devices; infrared and THz photonics; frequency comb; precision spectroscopy; infrared photon detection; ultrafast fiber lasers; laser micromachining
Name: Prof. Dr. Hong Seok Kang
Affiliation: Department of Nano & Advanced, Jeonju University, Chonju 55069, Chonbuk, Korea
Interests: the electronic, physical, and catalytic properties of 2D materials; first principles; DFT calculation; electrochemical/photoelectrochemical reduction of water and CO2
We look forward to our future collaboration!
22 November 2021
722 MDPI Editorial Board Members Receiving "2021 Highly Cited Researchers" Distinction
It is our great honor to congratulate the Editorial Board Members and Editors in MDPI's journals who have been distinguished as 2021 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate, according to Web of Science data. We herewith express our gratitude for the immense impact the named researchers continue to make on scientific progress and on our journals' development.
Clarivate's annual list of Highly Cited ResearchersTM identifies the most highly cited scientists for the past decade. Their impactful papers are among the top 1 per cent in the citation distribution of one or more of 22 fields analyzed in the "Essential Science Indicators", distinguishing them as hugely influential among their peers.
Abate, Antonio Abatzoglou, John T. Abbaszadeh, Mostafa Acharya, U. Rajendra Acharya, Viral V. Agarwal, Ravi P. Ahn, Myung-Ju Airoldi, Laura Ali, Imran Allakhverdiev, Suleyman I. Aluko, Rotimi E. Anasori, Babak Andersson, Dan I. Andes, David Anker, Stefan D. Apergis, Nicholas Ariga, Katsuhiko Arqub, Omar Abu Aschner, Michael Assaraf, Yehuda G. Astruc, Didier Atala, Anthony Atanasov, Atanas G. Atangana, Abdon Bahram, Mohammad Bakris, George L. Balandin, Alexander A. Baleanu, Dumitru Balsamo, Gianpaolo Bando, Yoshio Banks, William A. Bansal-Travers, Maansi Barba, Francisco J. Barros, Lillian Basit, Abdul W. Baskonus, Haci Mehmet Bassetti, Matteo Battino, Maurizio Bell, Jordana T. Bellomo, Nicola Benediktsson, Jon Atli Benelli, Giovanni Benjakul, Soottawat Bhatnagar, Amit Biddle, Stuart J. H. Biondi, Antonio Biondi-Zoccai, Giuseppe Bjarnsholt, Thomas Blaabjerg, Frede Blaschke, Thomas Blay, Jean-Yves Blumwald, Eduardo Blunt, John W. Boffetta, Paolo Bogers, Marcel Bonomo, Robert A. Bowman, David M.J.S. Boyer, Cyrille Brestic, Marian Brevik, Eric C. Buhalis, Dimitrios Burdick, Jason A. Byrd, John C. Cabeza, Luisa F. Cai, Xingjuan Cai, Jianchao Calhoun, Vince D. Calin, George Cao, Jinde Cao, Guozhong Carvalho, Andre F. Castellanos-Gomez, Andres Cerqueira, Miguel Ângelo Parente Ribeiro Chang, Jo-Shu Chang, Chih-Hao Chastin, Sebastien Chau, Kwok-wing Chemat, Farid Chen, Xiaobo Chen, YangQuan Chen, Jianmin Chen, Chaoji Chen, Min Chen, Qi Chen, Jun Chen, Xi Chen, Peng Chen, Yulin Chen, Bo Chen, Chen Chen, Zhi-Gang Chen, Wei-Hsin Chen, Gang Chen, Yongsheng Chen, Xiang Chen, Yimin Chen, Runsheng Chen, Lidong Chen, Shaowei Chen, Qian Chen, Yu Chen, Shuangming Chiclana, Francisco Cho, Sun Young Choi, Wonyong Chowdhary, Anuradha Choyke, Peter L. Cichocki, Andrzej Corella, Dolores Corma, Avelino Cortes, Javier Cortes, Jorge Costanza, Robert Crommie, Michael F. Cui, Yi Cui, Haiying Cui, Qinghua Cummings, Kenneth Michael Dai, Shifeng Dai, Sheng Daiber, Andreas Davis, Steven J. Dawson, Ted M. de la Fuente-Nunez, Cesar Decker, Eric Andrew Dekel, Avishai Demaria, Marco Deng, Yong Deng, Xiangzheng DePinho, Ronald A. Desneux, Nicolas Dimopoulos, Meletios-Athanasios Ding, Aijun Dionysiou, Dionysios D. Dokmeci, Mehmet Remzi Dolgui, Alexandre Dong, Fan Dou, Shi Xue Dou, Letian Du, Qian Du, Bo Dube, Shanta Rishi Dufresne, Alain Dummer, Reinhard Dupont, Didier Edwards, David Elaissari, Abdelhamid Elhoseny, Mohamed Ellahi, Rahmat Ellis, Erle C. ElMasry, Gamal Esteller, Manel Estévez, Mario Fabbro, Doriano Facchetti, Antonio Fan, Zhanxi Fang, Chuanglin Fasano, Alessio Fečkan, Michal Felser, Claudia Feng, Liangzhu Fensholt, Rasmus Ferdinandy, Péter Fernandez-Lafuente, Roberto Ferreira, Isabel C. F. R. Filippi, Massimo Fisher, Helen Fortino, Giancarlo Fosso Wamba, Samuel Franceschi, Claudio Fujita, Hamido Fujita, Masayuki Gai, Francesco Gaisford, Simon Galanakis, Charis M. Galluzzi, Lorenzo Galvano, Fabio Gan, Ren-You Gan, Lihua Gandomi, Amir H. Gao, Bin Gao, Feng Gao, Minrui Gao, Huijun Gao, Wei Gao, Huile Garbe, Claus Garcia, Hermenegildo Gasbarrini, Antonio Gasco, Laura Gautret, Philippe Geng, Yong Gerdts, Gunnar Geschwind, Daniel H. Ghadimi, Noradin Ghaffari, Roozbeh Ghamisi, Pedram Giampieri, Francesca Glick, Bernard R. Gnant, Michael Goel, Ajay Gogotsi, Yury Goldewijk, Kees Klein Gong, Jinlong Gong, Yongji Govindan, Kannan Granato, Daniel Grancini, Giulia Green, Douglas R. Grosso, Giuseppe Gu, Ke Guan, Cao Guastella, Adam J. Guerrero, Josep M. Gui, Guan Guizani, Mohsen Guo, Zaiping Gupta, Rangan Gutzmer, Ralf Haase, Dagmar Habibi-Yangjeh, Aziz Hagemann, Stefan Hagger, Martin Hamblin, Michael R. Hammoudeh, Shawkat Han, Heesup Hanes, Justin Harrison, Roy M. Hartung, Hans-Peter Hasanuzzaman, Mirza He, Jr-Hau He, Hongwen He, Jiaqing He, Debiao Henseler, Jörg Herrera, Francisco Herrera-Viedma, Enrique Hetz, Claudio Ho Kim, Jung Holmes, Elaine Hossain, Ekram Hsueh, Po-Ren Hu, Xiaosong Hu, Wenbin Huang, Jianping Huang, Hongwei Huang, Yu Huang, Jianying Huang, Peng Huang, Baibiao Huang, Shaoming Hubacek, Klaus |
Iqbal, Hafiz M. N. |
Saad, Fred |
The full list of 2021 Highly Cited Researchers can be accessed at the following webpage in the Web of ScienceTM https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2021/.
--- Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) is a Clarivate product.
16 November 2021
Topical Advisory Panel Established to Support Editorial Board
Academic editors play a crucial role in leading our journals and ensuring that each article undergoes a robust and timely peer-review. With the launch of Topics this year and addition of Topic Editors to our family of academic editors, we decided it would be a good time to restructure our academic boards, thus providing more clarity and support for each role. MDPI is pleased to announce the launch of a new position—Topical Advisory Panel Member, that will replace the previous position of Topics Board Member. The Topical Advisory Panel will be comprised of early career researchers eager to gain experience in editorial work.
The main responsibility of the new members of the Topical Advisory Panel is to regularly provide support to Guest Editors, Topic Editors, and Section Board Members. The responsibilities of the Topical Advisory Panel are available here: https://www.mdpi.com/editors.
Each year, the members’ performances are evaluated, and outstanding members are promoted to the Editorial Board by the Editor-in-Chief.
To qualify as a Topical Advisory Panel Member, applicants must:
- Have expertise and experience in the field related to the journal;
- Have received a Ph.D. in the last 10 years, approximately;
- Have at least 6-8 published papers in the last 5 years as first author or corresponding author;
- Currently hold an independent research position in academia or a government institute.
If you are interested in this role, please contact the editorial office by email.
We look forward to hearing from you soon.
25 October 2021
Open Access Week 2021 | It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity, 25–31 October
Founded in 1996, MDPI was one of the first fully Open Access publisher. Over 25 years MDPI has grown to become the largest Open Access publisher globally, publishing over 160,000 articles across more than 350 journals in 2020. At the core, MDPI was founded in response to a pressing need of fast publication and inclusion. The scholar was set at the centre of the publication process for the first time. Acting as a service provider, rather than a product provider, MDPI exists to help scientists achive their objective to disseminate research results. At MDPI, we believe scientists deserve a better service from the publishing world.
The International Open Access Week (Open Access Week), founded by the SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Alliance and student partners in 2008, has been successfully running for 13 years. As an advocate and pioneer of open access publishing, MDPI actively responds to the call of International Open Access Week. This year’s theme of “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity” highlights the Recommendation’s call for equitable participation from all authors and readers.
For the last 25 years, MDPI has been committed to disseminating open research. Here is a video showing MDPI’s Commitment to Equity, Inclusion and Diversity for More than 25 Years.
International Open Access Week is an important opportunity to catalyze new conversations, create connections across and between communities that can facilitate this co-design, and advance progress in the building of more equitable foundations for opening knowledge—discussions and actions that need to be continued, year in and year out. MDPI has always aimed to provide professional and efficient publishing services to scholars around the world.
Our mission is to make scientific research accessible to everyone; this year, we interview and hold discussions with open science ambassadors on how to build an equal and inclusive environment for open science. Academic editors help us collaborate with more institutions to advocate for open access ideas.
Besides this, our scientific community is a key driver of our success and MDPI’s remarkable growth. Despite the pandemic, we have prepared online conferences and workshops to gather scholars from different communities.
The Basel Sustainable Publishing online forum provides an equal opportunity for stakeholders and researchers from multi-cultural environments to exchange ideas and eliminate barriers to participation.
Conference date: 25 October 2021, online
Conference website: https://bspf2021.sciforum.net/
Main topics: MDPI discusses the current dilemma of open access science from various perspectives such as governments, libraries, and publishers, and related measures on how to change the status quo of discrimination from a global perspective.
We aim to support equality, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in scholarly communications. We collaborate with universities and key laboratories and have scholarly communications with researchers, teachers, and students on open access workshops.
- 25 October 2021
Energies journal and Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 28 October 2021
Machines journal and State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University
- 29 October 2021
Processes journal and Beijing Institute of Technology
- 29 October 2021
Coatings journal and Wuhan University of Technology
MDPI is committed to providing open access and high-quality publishing services for scholars and promoting rapid dissemination of academic achievements. We hope to promote the practices and policies of open access publishing and diversify the dissemination of academic achievements.
23 September 2021
2020 MDPI Top Reviewer Award—Winners Announced

Rigorous peer-review is the cornerstone of high-quality academic publishing. Over 369,916 scholars served as reviewers for MDPI journals in 2020. We are extremely appreciative of all those who made a contribution to the editorial process in this capacity. At the beginning of every year, journal editorial offices publish a list of all reviewers’ names to express our gratitude. In addition, this year, the MDPI Top Reviewer Award was announced, to recognize the very best reviewers for their expertise and dedication, and their high-quality, and timely review reports. We are pleased to announce the following winners of the 2020 MDPI Top Reviewer Award:
- Adriana Burlea-Schiopoiu;
- Alban Kuriqi;
- Álvaro González-Vila;
- Alessandro Alaimo;
- Alexey Beskopylny;
- Alexander Yu Churyumov;
- Alberto Fernández-Isabel;
- Andrea Mastinu;
- Antonios N. Papadopoulos;
- Anton Rassõlkin;
- Antonio Humberto Hamad Minervino;
- Arkadiusz Matwijczuk;
- Artur Słomka;
- Baojie He;
- Bartłomiej Potaniec;
- Bojan Đurin;
- Camilo Arturo Rodriguez Diaz;
- Carmelo Maria Musarella;
- Chiachung Chen;
- Chiman Kwan;
- Cristian Busu;
- Danil Pimenov;
- Dan-Cristian Dabija;
- Delfín Ortega-Sánchez;
- Demetrio Antonio Zema;
- Denis Butusov;
- Elena Lucchi;
- Gaurab Dutta;
- Livia Anastasiu;
- M. R. Safaei.
For more information about how to become a reviewer of MDPI journals, please see: www.mdpi.com/reviewers.
22 September 2021
MDPI Joins SDG Publishers Compact
UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. In 2020 the SDG Publishers Compact was launched, aimed to inspire publishers and accelerate progress to achieve the 17 goals by 2030. Members of the programme are committed to support the publication of materials that will promote and inspire actions towards SDGs.
MDPI is an eager advocate of SDGs and has already been supporting the programme by creating Special Issues and publishing a series of books on SDGs prior to joining the Compact in 2021. MDPI's Sustainability Foundation initiated the World Sustainability Awards in 2016. We fully support UN's goals to promote sustainable actions that make the world a better place for all and, as part of its commitment, we will focus our actions on SDG10: Reduced Inequalities whilst promoting all 17 SDGs. For more details, please visit the programme’s website: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sdg-publishers-compact/.
Joining this initiative was a unanimous decision. MDPI has in its core values the dissemination of science for all, breaking the wall between research access and under-represented members of the scientific community and the general population. To support this initiative further and continue to support under-represented scientists, MDPI will take a series of actions that will be announced once ready.
The first action MDPI takes is to nominate Dr. Liliane Auwerter as the coordinator of the programme. Dr. Auwerter studied Environmental Process Technology (UTFPR, Brazil), obtained her MSc degree in Water and Environmental Engineering (University of Surrey, UK) and in 2020 completed her PhD in self-healing low-friction materials for water transport (Imperial College London, UK), always focusing on diverse scientific projects that would potentially bring sustainability to industrial processes. As a student in Brazil, she engaged in volunteering activities focused on environmental education and took part in the Millennial Development Goals meetings held at the university.
For more information, please contact:
Dr. Liliane Auwerter
Scientific Officer
[email protected]
15 September 2021
Meet Us at the 20th National Catalysis Conference, Wuhan, China, 15–20 October 2021

MDPI will be attending the 20th National Catalysis Conference in Wuhan, China, which will take place from 15 to 20 October 2021. The theme of the conference is “Catalytic Science and Technology for Green, Low-Carbon, High-Quality Economic Development”. The topics include the science and technology of catalytic materials and catalyst preparation, catalytic materials and catalytic reaction characterization technology and theory, green catalysis, environmental catalysis, energy catalysis, and science and technology in the catalysis process of petroleum and chemical industry.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
- Catalysts;
- Nanomaterials;
- Coatings;
- Inorganics;
- Applied Sciences;
- Sustainable Chemistry;
- Chemistry;
- Processes;
- Reactions;
- Toxics.
If you are attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: http://20ncc.mzpco.com/.
9 September 2021
Nanomaterials | Virtual Issue on the Topic of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles and Their Applications
“Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Therapeutic Regulation of Macrophage Functions”
Marina S. Dukhinova et al.
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(11), 1631; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9111631
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/9/11/1631
“Hyperthermia, Cytotoxicity, and Cellular Uptake Properties of Manganese and Zinc Ferrite Magnetic Nanoparticles Synthesized by a Polyol-Mediated Process”
Cristian Iacovita et al.
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(10), 1489; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9101489
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/9/10/1489
“Polypropylene Nanocomposite Filled with Spinel Ferrite NiFe2O4 Nanoparticles and In-Situ Thermally-Reduced Graphene Oxide for Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Application”
Raghvendra Singh Yadav et al.
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(4), 621; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9040621
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/9/4/621
“Facile Electrochemical Sensor for Nanomolar Rutin Detection Based on Magnetite Nanoparticles and Reduced Graphene Oxide Decorated Electrode”
Quanguo He et al.
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(1), 115; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9010115
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/9/1/115
“Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles: Prospects and Applications in Medicine”
Daniel Ziental et al.
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(2), 387; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10020387
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/2/387
“Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles Rescue α-Synuclein-Induced Toxicity in a Yeast Model of Parkinson’s Disease”
Roberta Ruotolo et al.
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(2), 235; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10020235
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/2/235
“Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles in Food and Personal Care Products—What Do We Know about Their Safety?”
Joanna Musial et al.
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(6), 1110; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10061110
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/6/1110
“Hadron Therapy, Magnetic Nanoparticles and Hyperthermia: A Promising Combined Tool for Pancreatic Cancer Treatment”
Francesca Brero et al.
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(10), 1919; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10101919
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/10/1919
“Computational Study of Heat Transfer inside Different PCMs Enhanced by Al2O3 Nanoparticles in a Copper Heat Sink at High Heat Loads”
Nadezhda S. Bondareva et al.
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(2), 284; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10020284
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/2/284
“Antiviral Activity of Silver, Copper Oxide and Zinc Oxide Nanoparticle Coatings against SARS-CoV-2”
Padryk Merkl et al.
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(5), 1312; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11051312
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/5/1312
For more papers on this topic, please click on the section “Inorganic Materials and Metal-Organic Frameworks” at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sections/inorganic_materials_metal-organic_frameworks.
To access all papers published in the latest issue, please follow this link: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/9.
3 September 2021
Nanomaterials | A Virtual Issue on the Topic of Carbon-Based Nanomaterials and Their Applications
“Structural Characterization of Graphene Oxide: Surface Functional Groups and Fractionated Oxidative Debris”
Elvin Aliyev et al.
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(8), 1180; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9081180
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/9/8/1180
“Carbon Dots and Graphene Quantum Dots in Electrochemical Biosensing”
Susana Campuzano et al.
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(4), 634; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9040634
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/9/4/634
“Electronic and Thermal Properties of Graphene and Recent Advances in Graphene Based Electronics Applications”
Mingyu Sang et al.
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(3), 374; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9030374
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/9/3/374
“Recent Advances in Graphene-Based Humidity Sensors”
Chao Lv et al.
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(3), 422; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9030422
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/9/3/422
“Controlling Nitrogen Doping in Graphene with Atomic Precision: Synthesis and Characterization”
Tomotaroh Granzier-Nakajima et al.
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(3), 425; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9030425
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/9/3/425
“A Review of Applications Using Mixed Materials of Cellulose, Nanocellulose and Carbon Nanotubes”
Daisuke Miyashiro et al.
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(2), 186; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10020186
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/2/186
“Recent Advancement of Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Shielding of Two Dimensional (2D) MXene and Graphene Aerogel Composites”
Kanthasamy Raagulan et al.
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(4), 702; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10040702
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/4/702
“Graphene Oxide–Silver Nanoparticle Nanohybrids: Synthesis, Characterization, and Antimicrobial Properties”
Mónica Cobos et al.
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(2), 376; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10020376
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/2/376
“Direct Ink Writing Technology (3D Printing) of Graphene-Based Ceramic Nanocomposites: A Review”
Nestor Washington Solís Pinargote et al.
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(7), 1300; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10071300
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/7/1300
“Performance of Intrinsic and Modified Graphene for the Adsorption of H2S and CH4: A DFT Study”
Xin Gao et al.
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(2), 299; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10020299
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/2/299
For more papers on this topic, please click section “2D and Carbon Nanomaterials”.
To access all papers published in the latest issue, please click here.
1 September 2021
Meet Us at the 6th Optoelectronics Global Conference (OGC 2021) in Shenzhen, China, 15–18 September 2021

MDPI will be attending the 6th Optoelectronics Global Conference (OGC 2021), hosted by the IEEE Photonics Society, Guangzhou Photonics Chapter, and Southern University of Science and Technology, which will be held from Wednesday, 15 September, until Saturday, 18 September, 2021, at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center, China.
OGC aims to promote the interaction and exchange of various disciplines among professionals in academia and industry at home and abroad. In addition, it also serves to turn technologies into industrial applications. OGC will be an ideal platform for scholars, researchers and professionals to exchange insights and discuss the development of the optoelectronics industry. It will be a perfect gathering to learn about new perspectives, technologies and trends which might push the boundaries of technology and eventually create a broader future for optoelectronics applications.
The topics covered will include precision optics, optical communications, lasers, infrared applications, and fiber sensors.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit http://www.ipsogc.org/index.html.
30 August 2021
Nanomaterials Receives Updated Impact Factor of 5.076

We are pleased to inform you that Nanomaterials received an updated Impact Factor of 5.076 in the June 2021 release of the Journal Citation Reports®. The journal's 5-Year Impact Factor is 5.346. Nanomaterials now ranks 35/160 Q1 in the “Physics, Applied” category in JCR, and 58/279 Q1 in the “General Chemical Engineering” category in CiteScore. It has also received an increased CiteScore (2020 Scopus data) of 5.4.
Acknowlegments from the Editor-in-Chief:
“Clearly, this notable increase in the journal's Impact Factor is due to the hard work and significant contributions of many people. I would like to take this opportunity to thank particularly the Editorial Board Members and Guest Editors for soliciting so many excellent papers for the journal. I also thank the authors for submitting their papers to the journal, as their superb work is vital to the journal's success. I thank the reviewers for their important efforts to improve the manuscripts and for keeping the quality of the journal high. Finally, I thank the editorial staff for their diligence in keeping track of the many details related to publishing a successful scientific journal. I look forward to continuing to work with all of you as we keep improving the journal's quality and impact.”
We would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to all the authors, editors, and reviewers for their valuable contributions, which have enabled us to make these great achievements!
3 August 2021
Announcement on Japanese Consumption Tax (JCT)
This serves to announce to our valued authors based in Japan that value-added tax, or consumption tax will now be imposed on article processing fees and other service fees for all papers submitted, or resubmitted (assigned new paper IDs), effective from 15 August 2021. The change is in accordance with the Japanese "Act for Partial Revision of the Income Tax Act and Other Acts" (Act No. 9 of 2015), which includes a revision of consumption taxation on cross-border supplies of services such as digital content distribution.
For additional information from the National Tax Agency please see here ("Cross-border supplies of electronic services").
Contact: Setsuko Nishihara, MDPI Tokyo
9 July 2021
Welcoming the New Section Editor-in-Chief of Nanomaterials
We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Dongling Ma has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of "Solar Energy and Solar Cells” in Nanomaterials. We look forward to her contribution to the continued success of Nanomaterials.
Name: Prof. Dr. Dongling Ma
Affiliation:INRS-Energy, Materials and Telecommunications, Varennes, QC, Canada
Interests: synthesis; characterization; surface modification and biomedical applications of highly luminescent and stable nanoparticles, particularly near infrared-emitting quantum dots; investigation of surface chemistry and surface-property relationship of laser fabricated nanoparticles; development of novel nano-complexes for the detection of virus cellular trafficking; novel solar cells based on the nanohybrids of quantum dots and high-mobility one-dimensional structures (such as carbon nanotubes and TiO2 nanobelts); design and realization of new high-efficiency; low-cost transition metal nanoparticle catalysts; synthesis, characterization, surface modification and biomedical applications of multifunctional nanoparticles, which integrate superparamagnetic and luminescent components into a single nano-architec
5 July 2021
Meet Us at the 2nd International Conference for Global Chinese Academia on Energy and Built Environment, Chengdu, China, 16–19 July 2021

MDPI will be attending the 2nd International Conference for Global Chinese Academia on Energy and Built Environment (CEBE 2021) in Chengdu, China, on 16–19 July 2021. The conference aims at establishing a worldwide platform for promoting global cooperation and innovative communications for ethnic Chinese around the globe, sharing cutting-edge achievements in the utilization of clean energy, the enhancement of energy efficiency via the built environment, and the improvement in environmental quality.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
If you are attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: http://www.cebe2021.com.
30 June 2021
2020 Impact Factors - Released
The 2020 citation metrics have been officially released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR)!
We are pleased to announce that 85 MDPI journals are included, of which:
- 10 journals received their first impact factor
- 96% of journals increased their impact factor from 2019
- 32 journals (38%) ranked among the top 25% of journals, in at least one category
Journal | Impact Factor | Rank | Category |
Cancers | 6.639 | Q1 | • Oncology |
Cells | 6.600 | Q2 | • Cell Biology |
Pharmaceutics | 6.321 | Q1 | • Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
Antioxidants | 6.313 | Q1 | • Food Science & Technology |
• Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | |||
• Chemistry, Medicinal | |||
Biomedicines | 6.081 | Q1 | • Medicine, Research & Experimental |
• Pharmacology & Pharmacy | |||
• Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | |||
International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 5.924 | Q1 | • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Q2 | • Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | ||
Pharmaceuticals | 5.863 | Q1 | • Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
• Chemistry, Medicinal | |||
Journal of Fungi | 5.816 | Q1 | • Mycology |
• Microbiology | |||
Nutrients | 5.719 | Q1 | • Nutrition & Dietetics |
Biosensors | 5.519 | Q1 | • Chemistry, Analytical |
• Instruments & Instrumentation | |||
Q2 | • Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | ||
Marine Drugs | 5.118 | Q1 | • Chemistry, Medicinal |
• Pharmacology & Pharmacy | |||
Biology | 5.079 | Q1 | • Biology |
Nanomaterials | 5.076 | Q1 | • Physics, Applied |
Q2 | • Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | ||
• Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | |||
• Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | |||
Viruses | 5.048 | Q2 | • Virology |
Journal of Personalized Medicine | 4.945 | Q1 | • Medicine, General & Internal |
• Health Care Sciences & Services | |||
Metabolites | 4.932 | Q2 | • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Biomolecules | 4.879 | Q2 | • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Remote Sensing | 4.848 | Q1 | • Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
Q2 | • Remote Sensing | ||
• Imaging Science & Photographic Technology | |||
• Environmental Sciences | |||
Gels * | 4.702 | Q1 | • Polymer Science |
Antibiotics | 4.639 | Q2 | • Infectious Diseases |
• Pharmacology & Pharmacy | |||
Toxins | 4.546 | Q1 | • Toxicology |
• Food Science & Technology | |||
Vaccines | 4.422 | Q2 | • Immunology |
• Medicine, Research & Experimental | |||
Molecules | 4.412 | Q2 | • Chemistry, Multidisciplinary |
• Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | |||
Foods | 4.350 | Q2 | • Food Science & Technology |
Polymers | 4.329 | Q1 | • Polymer Science |
Journal of Clinical Medicine | 4.242 | Q1 | • Medicine, General & Internal |
Toxics | 4.146 | Q2 | • Toxicology |
• Environmental Sciences | |||
Catalysts | 4.146 | Q2 | • Chemistry, Physical |
Microorganisms | 4.128 | Q2 | • Microbiology |
Membranes | 4.106 | Q1 | • Polymer Science |
Q2 | • Engineering, Chemical | ||
• Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | |||
• Chemistry, Physical | |||
Genes | 4.096 | Q2 | • Genetics & Heredity |
Fermentation * | 3.975 | Q2 | • Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology |
Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease * | 3.948 | Q2 | • Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems |
Plants | 3.935 | Q1 | • Plant Sciences |
Life | 3.817 | Q2 | • Biology |
Diagnostics | 3.706 | Q2 | • Medicine, General & Internal |
Current Oncology | 3.677 | Q3 | • Oncology |
Materials | 3.623 | Q1 | • Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering |
Q2 | • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | ||
• Chemistry, Physical | |||
• Physics, Applied | |||
• Physics, Condensed Matter | |||
Sensors | 3.576 | Q1 | • Instruments & Instrumentation |
Q2 | • Chemistry, Analytical | ||
• Engineering, Electrical & Electronic | |||
Pathogens | 3.492 | Q2 | • Microbiology |
Agronomy | 3.417 | Q1 | • Agronomy |
• Plant Sciences | |||
Chemosensors | 3.398 | Q2 | • Instruments & Instrumentation |
• Chemistry, Analytical | |||
Q3 | • Electrochemistry | ||
Land | 3.398 | Q2 | • Environmental Studies |
Brain Sciences | 3.394 | Q3 | • Neurosciences |
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 3.390 | Q1 | • Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (SSCI) |
Q2 | • Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (SCIE) | ||
• Environmental Sciences (SCIE) | |||
Tomography | 3.358 | Q2 | • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging |
Fractal and Fractional * | 3.313 | Q1 | • Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications |
Sustainability | 3.251 | Q2 | • Environmental Sciences (SCIE) |
• Environmental Studies (SSCI) | |||
Q3 | • Green & Sustainable Science & Technology (SCIE) | ||
• Green & Sustainable Science & Technology (SSCI) | |||
Water | 3.103 | Q2 | • Water Resources |
• Environmental Sciences | |||
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research | 3.049 | Q3 | • Business |
Energies | 3.004 | Q3 | • Energy & Fuels |
Agriculture | 2.925 | Q1 | • Agronomy |
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information | 2.899 | Q2 | • Geography, Physical |
• Computer Science, Information Systems | |||
Q3 | • Remote Sensing | ||
Micromachines | 2.891 | Q2 | • Instruments & Instrumentation |
• Physics, Applied | |||
Q3 | • Chemistry, Analytical | ||
• Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | |||
Coatings | 2.881 | Q2 | • Materials Science, Coatings & Films |
• Physics, Applied | |||
Q3 | • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | ||
Children | 2.863 | Q2 | • Pediatrics |
Processes | 2.847 | Q3 | • Engineering, Chemical |
Separations | 2.777 | Q3 | • Chemistry, Analytical |
Insects | 2.769 | Q1 | • Entomology |
Animals | 2.752 | Q1 | • Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science |
• Veterinary Sciences | |||
Symmetry | 2.713 | Q2 | • Multidisciplinary Sciences |
Atmosphere | 2.686 | Q3 | • Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
• Environmental Sciences | |||
Applied Sciences | 2.679 | Q2 | • Engineering, Multidisciplinary |
• Physics, Applied | |||
Q3 | • Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | ||
• Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | |||
Photonics | 2.676 | Q2 | • Optics |
Buildings * | 2.648 | Q2 | • Construction & Building Technology |
• Engineering, Civil | |||
Healthcare | 2.645 | Q2 | • Health Policy & Services (SSCI) |
Q3 | • Health Care Sciences & Services (SCIE) | ||
Minerals | 2.644 | Q2 | • Mining & Mineral Processing |
• Mineralogy | |||
• Geochemistry & Geophysics | |||
Forests | 2.634 | Q1 | • Forestry |
Crystals | 2.589 | Q2 | • Crystallography |
Q3 | • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | ||
Entropy | 2.524 | Q2 | • Physics, Multidisciplinary |
Diversity | 2.465 | Q2 | • Biodiversity Conservation |
Q3 | • Ecology | ||
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering | 2.458 | Q2 | • Oceanography |
• Engineering, Marine | |||
• Engineering, Ocean | |||
Medicina | 2.430 | Q2 | • Medicine, General & Internal |
Machines * | 2.428 | Q2 | • Engineering, Mechanical |
Q3 | • Engineering, Electrical & Electronic | ||
Electronics | 2.397 | Q3 | • Engineering, Electrical & Electronic |
• Computer Science, Information Systems | |||
• Physics, Applied | |||
Fishes * | 2.385 | Q2 | • Fisheries |
• Marine & Freshwater Biology | |||
Metals | 2.351 | Q2 | • Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering |
Q3 | • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | ||
Horticulturae * | 2.331 | Q1 | • Horticulture |
Veterinary Sciences * | 2.304 | Q1 | • Veterinary Sciences |
Universe | 2.278 | Q3 | • Physics, Particles & Fields |
• Astronomy & Astrophysics | |||
Mathematics | 2.258 | Q1 | • Mathematics |
Magnetochemistry | 2.193 | Q3 | • Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear |
• Chemistry, Physical | |||
• Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | |||
Current Issues in Molecular Biology | 2.081 | Q4 | • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Actuators | 1.994 | Q3 | • Instruments & Instrumentation |
• Engineering, Mechanical | |||
Aerospace * | 1.659 | Q2 | • Engineering, Aerospace |
* Journals given their first Impact Factor in 2021
Source: 2020 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports ® (Clarivate, 2021)
8 June 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for the Section “Biology and Medicines” of Nanomaterials

The Section “Biology and Medicines” of Nanomaterials is recruiting Editorial Board Members. You can check the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sectioneditors/biology_medicines
The main responsibilities of the Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:
- Provide scientific supervision for the Section;
- Invite distinguished scientists to join the Editorial Board;
- Suggest hot topics for Special Issues;
- Take decisions about the suitability of a paper to enter the peer-review process and about its acceptance at the end of the process;
- Promote this Section, recommending international conference cooperation, and assisting this Section in holding physical/electronic conferences.
- Provide feedback and suggesting improvements for the journal
This section of Nanomaterials deals with intended (antimicrobial, diagnostic, and therapeutic medical application) and non-intended (short- and long-term toxicity, accumulation) biological effects of all kinds of nanomaterials on living organisms, including humans, animals, plants, and microbiota.
For more information about this Section, publishing in Nanomaterials, please see the Section’s webpage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sections/biology_medicines
To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Dr. Mirabelle Wang ([email protected]) in the Nanomaterials Editorial Office.
1 June 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for Section “Inorganic Materials and Metal–Organic Frameworks” of Nanomaterials

Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991; CODEN: NANOKO; IF:4.324) is recruiting Editorial Board Members for the Section “Inorganic Materials and Metal–Organic Frameworks” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sections/inorganic_materials_metal-organic_frameworks).
The main responsibilities of the Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:
1) Promoting this Section on social media, at conferences, and among your acquaintances;
2) Supervising the quality of the papers in this Section;
3) Acting as a/recommending a Guest Editor for a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests;
4) Supporting the Section’s development.
The Section “Inorganic Materials and Metal–Organic Frameworks” is devoted to multidisciplinary research at the frontier between nanomaterials and inorganic chemistry, including metal–organic frameworks. These (multi)functional nanomaterials have become an increasingly popular field of research due to the significant changes in physical and/or chemical properties that occur at this small scale. Accordingly, inorganic nanomaterials are used in a variety of applications, including catalysis, gas storage, spin crossover, sensors, magnetics, optics, and drug delivery. This Section is concerned with both fundamental and applied studies. It considers manuscripts that deal with preparation, characterization, properties, device fabrication, and applications to theoretical studies.
To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact the Nanomaterials Editorial Office ([email protected]).
27 May 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for the Section “Nanoelectronics, Nanosensors and Devices” of Nanomaterials

The Section “Nanoelectronics, Nanosensors and Devices” of Nanomaterials is recruiting Editorial Board Members. You can check the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sections/nanoelectronics_nanosensors_devices.
The main responsibilities of the Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:
- Perform pre-review checks for new submissions. Only novel submissions with good presentation will be granted a chance for peer review;
- Make recommendations based on review reports. If there is a rejection, review the report received for a submission;
- Make final decisions when the review process is complete;
- Propose Special Issue topics in this direction, and edit Special Issues you are interested in. Assist the Section’s Editor-in-Chief on the management of Special Issues in the Section;
- Promote the Section via conferences or your own network;
- Discuss and suggest improvements to our Section's development with the Section’s Editor-in-Chief.
Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal published monthly online by MDPI. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications, and short notes relevant to any field of study that involves nanomaterials, concerning their science and application. It is abstracted and indexed by SCIE, Scopus, and other databases. The IF for Nanomaterials for 2020 was 5.076.
For more information about this Section, publishing in Nanomaterials, please see the Section’s webpage:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sections/nanoelectronics_nanosensors_devices
To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Mr. Johnny Wang ([email protected]) in the Nanomaterials Editorial Office.
27 May 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for Section “Theory and Simulation of Nanostructures” of Nanomaterials

Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991; IF:4.324) is recruiting Editorial Board Members for the Section “Theory and Simulation of Nanostructures” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sections/theory_simulation_nanostructures).
- Promoting this Section on social media, at conferences, and among your acquaintances;
- Supervising the quality of the papers in this Section;
- Acting as a/recommending a Guest Editor for a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests;
- Supporting the Section’s development.
The Section "Theory and Simulation of Nanostructures" publishes original theoretical and/or experimental communications, articles, and review articles in the area of the theory and simulation of nanostructures. The research of the published articles focuses on the design, development and study of electronic, optical, magnetic (etc.) properties of nanostructures, with an emphasis on their application in quantum technology, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, sensors and health sciences. All manuscripts submitted for publication in this Section will be reviewed by expert Section Editors and undergo a rigorous peer-review process. Our goal is to publish high-quality, high-impact research in the area of theory and simulation of nanostructures.
To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Ms. Amelia Liu ([email protected]) at the Nanomaterials Editorial Office
25 May 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for the Section “Nanofabrication and Nanomanufacturing” of Nanomaterials

The Section “Nanofabrication and Nanomanufacturing” of Nanomaterials is recruiting Editorial Board Members. You can check the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sectioneditors/nanofabrication_nanomanufacturing.
The main responsibilities of Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:
- Perform pre-review checks for new submissions. Only novel submissions with good presentation will be granted a chance for peer review;
- Make recommendations based on review reports. If there is a rejection, review the report received for a submission;
- Make final decisions when the review process is complete;
- Propose SI topics in this direction, and edit SIs you are interested in. Assist the Section’s EiC on the management of SIs in the section;
- Promote the Section via conferences or your own network;
- Discuss and suggest improvements to our section's development with the section’s Editor-in-Chief.
Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal published monthly online by MDPI. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications, and short notes relevant to any field of study that involves nanomaterials, concerning their science and application. It is abstracted and indexed by SCIE, Scopus, and other databases. The IF for Nanomaterials for 2019 was 4.324. For more information about this section, or publishing in Nanomaterials, please see the section’s webpage:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sections/nanofabrication_nanomanufacturing.
To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Ms. Alisa Si ([email protected]) at the Nanomaterials Editorial Office.
24 May 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for the Section “Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology” of Nanomaterials

The Section “Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology” of Nanomaterials is recruiting Editorial Board Members. You can check the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sectioneditors/environmental_nanoscience_nanotechnology.
The main responsibilities of Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:
- Perform pre-review checks for new submissions. Only novel submissions with good presentation will be granted a chance for peer review;
- Make recommendations based on review reports. If there is a rejection, review the report received for a submission;
- Make final decisions when the review process is complete;
- Propose SI topics in this direction and edit Special Issues that you are interested in. Assist the Section’s EiC on the management of SIs in the Section;
- Promote the Section via conferences or your own network;
- Discuss and suggest improvements for the Section's development with the Section’s Editor-in-Chief.
Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal published monthly online by MDPI. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications, and short notes relevant to any field of study that involves nanomaterials, concerning their science and application. It is abstracted and indexed by SCIE, Scopus, and other databases. The IF for Nanomaterials for 2019 was 4.324. For more information about this Section and publishing in Nanomaterials, please see the Section’s webpage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sections/environmental_nanoscience_nanotechnology.
To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Ms. Colleen Zhang ([email protected]) from the Nanomaterials Editorial Office.
21 May 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for Section “Energy and Catalysis” of Nanomaterials

Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991; IF:4.324) is recruiting Editorial Board Members for the Section “Energy and Catalysis”. You can check the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sections/energy_catalysis.
The main responsibilities of Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:
- Make a brief check before peer review when submissions are received in this Section, and make the final decision as to whether a paper is acceptable or not (after peer review and author's revision);
- Promote this Section on social media, at conferences, and recommend senior scholars;
- Propose hot topics in this field, and choose to edit a Special Issue on a topic related to your research;
- Assist the Editor-in-Chief on the Section’s development and contribute to the success of this Section.
The Section “Energy and Catalysis” aims to publish original and high-quality research, communications, articles, and review articles in the areas of nanoparticle design, synthesis and mechanistic aspects, modeling, and catalytic application of nanomaterials, with a particular focus on energy, biomass, and sustainable chemical processes.
To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Riven Yang ([email protected]) in the Nanomaterials Editorial Office.
20 May 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for Section “Nanophotonics Materials and Devices” of Nanomaterials

Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991; CODEN: NANOKO; IF:4.324) is recruiting Editorial Board Members for the Section “Nanophotonics Materials and Devices” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sections/nanophotonics_characterization_modelling_nanodevices).
The main responsibilities of a Section Editorial Board Member are as follows:
1) Promoting this Section on social media, at conferences, and among your acquaintances;
2) Supervising the quality of the papers in this Section;
3) Acting as a/recommending a Guest Editor for a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests;
4) Supporting the Section’s development.
The Section "Nanophotonics Materials and Devices" publishes original high-quality research, communications, articles, and review articles in the broad areas of physics, chemistry, and engineering of nanomaterials and their interactions with light leading to devices with photonics applications. It will consider manuscripts that deal with topics ranging from the design, creation, and experimental measurements of nanomaterials with novel and potentially useful optical properties to the testing and applications of nanophotonic devices. This Section is concerned with both fundamental and applied studies related to the interactions between nanomaterials and light. All manuscripts submitted for publication under this Section will be reviewed by expert Section Editors and undergo a rigorous peer-review process. Our goal is to publish high-quality, high-impact research in the area of nanomaterials and nanostructures for photonics applications.
To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Ms. Greta Zhang ([email protected]) in the Nanomaterials Editorial Office.
20 May 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for Section “2D and Carbon Nanomaterials” of Nanomaterials

The Section “2D and Carbon Nanomaterials” of Nanomaterials is recruiting Editorial Board Members. You can check the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sectioneditors/2D_carbon_nanomaterials.
The main responsibilities of Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:
1) Promoting this Section on social media, at conferences, and among your acquaintances;
2) Supervising the quality of the papers in this Section;
3) Acting as a/recommending a Guest Editor for a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests;
4) Supporting this Section’s development.
The Section “2D and Carbon Nanomaterials” aims to publish original research and review articles on the fabrication, the characterization, the physical and chemical properties, and the applications of two-dimensional (2D) and carbon nanomaterials.
All manuscripts submitted for publication under this Section will be reviewed by expert Section Editors and will undergo a rigorous peer-review process. Our goal is to publish high-quality, impactful research on the synthesis, manipulation, characterization, properties, and applications of 2D and carbon nanomaterials. We consider both experimental and theoretical works, as well as simulation studies, preferably supported by experimental evidence.
To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Ms. Kristine Zhang ([email protected]) or the Nanomaterials Editorial Office ([email protected]).
18 May 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for Section “Solar Energy and Solar Cells” of Nanomaterials

The Section “Solar Energy and Solar Cells” of Nanomaterials is recruiting Editorial Board Members. You can check the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sectioneditors/Solar_Energy_Solar_Cells. The main responsibilities of Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:
- Perform pre-review checks for new submissions. Only novel submissions with good presentation will be granted a chance for peer review;
- Make recommendations based on review reports; if there is a rejection, review the report received for a submission;
- Make final decisions when the review process is complete;
- Propose SI topics in this direction, and edit SIs you are interested in. Assist the Section’s EiC on the management of SIs in the Section;
- Promote the Section via conferences or your own network;
- With the Section’s Editor-in-Chief, discuss and suggest improvements to our Section's development.
Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal published monthly online by MDPI. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications, and short notes relevant to any field of study that involves nanomaterials, concerning their science and application. It is abstracted and indexed by SCIE, Scopus, and other databases. The IF for Nanomaterials for 2019 was 4.324. For more information about this Section, publishing in Nanomaterials, please see the Section’s webpage:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sections/Solar_Energy_Solar_Cells
To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Ms. Nora Pang ([email protected]) in the Nanomaterials Editorial Office.
17 May 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for Section “Synthesis, Interfaces and Nanostructures” in Nanomaterials

Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991; CODEN: NANOKO; IF:4.324) is recruiting Editorial Board Members for the section “Synthesis, Interfaces and Nanostructures” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sections/synthesis_interfaces_nanostructures).
The main responsibilities of the Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:
1) Promoting this section on social media, at conferences, and among your acquaintances;
2) Supervising the quality of the papers in this section;
3) Acting as a/recommending a Guest Editor for a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests;
4) Supporting section development.
The section “Synthesis, Interfaces and Nanostructures” aims to publish manuscripts dealing with the chemistry of interfaces, reporting on phenomena such as adsorption, reactions, films, forces, measurement techniques, charge transfer, electrochemistry, electrocatalysis, energy production, and storage, as well as discussing systems presenting interfacial regions (including nanoparticles, colloids, emulsions, surfactants, proteins, and polymers). Contributions dealing with nanostructures (organic, inorganic, and hybrid) are expected to focus not only on the synthesis and fabrication of nanostructures but also on their properties and applications. Papers concerning the fundamentals and processing techniques relating to the synthesis, characterization, properties, and applications of nanostructures belong in this section. Theoretical and computational manuscripts dealing with interfacial phenomena as well as nanostructures are welcome.
To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact the Nanomaterials Editorial Office ([email protected]).
28 April 2021
Book Builder—Compile a Customized E-Book from Your Favorite MDPI Open Access Content
MDPI Books recently released Book Builder, a new online tool to conveniently arrange, design and produce an eBook from any content published in MDPI journals. Book Builder offers two functions: on the one hand (1) Selections, available to every registered user of MDPI; on the other hand (2) Special Issue Reprints, which can be used exclusively by Guest Editors of Special Issues.
Selections
In just a matter of a few clicks, all users are now able to assemble books from MDPI articles and receive instantaneous feedback in the form of a fully produced and compiled book (PDF), which can be downloaded or ordered as print copy. Selections can include any paper published with MDPI, picking and combining content from different journals and special issues.
This way, the user may for example choose to compile an ebook focusing around a particular topic, or assemble articles from a group of others.
We invite you to make yourself familiar with the new tool! The Book Builder can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/books/book_builder.
Special Issue Reprints
The Book Builder allows Guest Editors of MDPI journals to create a reprint from a successfully completed Special Issue or Topical Collection in book format. If you are a Guest Editor for an MDPI journal, you can use the new tool to create an PDF document which includes all articles published in the Special Issue as well as a book cover and table of contents.
For Special Issues containing a minimum of 5 articles, the Guest Editor can request its publication on the MDPI Book platform. Published reprints are assigned an ISBN and DOI.
In addition to the PDF copy of the Reprint Book, as a token of our gratitude, MDPI offers every Guest Editor one (1) complimentary print copy (via print-on-demand). All contributors benefit from a discount on orders of any additional print copies, to share with colleagues or libraries or others.
In line with our organization's values, MDPI Books publishes all content in open access, promoting the exchange of ideas and knowledge in a globalized world. MDPI Books encompasses all the benefits of open access—high availability and visibility, as well as wide and rapid dissemination. MDPI Books are distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License, meaning as an author you retain the copyright for your work. In addition, with MDPI Books you can complement the digital version of your work with a high-quality printed counterpart.
If you are interested in editing a book volume or series, or have a monograph manuscript to be considered for publication, please submit your proposal online and look at our Information for Authors.
Contact: Laura Wagner, MDPI Books Manager (email)
16 April 2021
11th International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS 11), Krakow, Poland, 22-27 August 2021

We are pleased to inform you that the 11th International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS 11) will be held in Krakow, Poland, from 22 to 27 August 2021. The conference is dedicated to advances in all areas of vibrational spectroscopy and will provide an opportunity to discuss and exchange cutting-edge knowledge and ideas in vibrational spectroscopy.
We are delighted to invite you to participate in ICAVS 11. Poland will be hosting this prestigious event for the first time. Krakow is the former capital of Poland and is considered one of the most attractive and fashionable cities in Europe. Despite its volatile history, the city has survived largely intact, and today competes with some of Europe’s most beautiful cities. The medieval old town, which is on the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites, is the dynamic heart of Krakow, buzzing with students, residents, and tourists from all over the world. The key points of interest are the Main Market Square (the largest medieval square in Europe), Royal Castle Wawel, the Cloth Hall, the old Jewish district of Kazimierz, and many more. Krakow is also a strong academic and scientific center with several dozen institutions of higher education headed by the illustrious 700-year-old Jagiellonian University. It is also one of Poland’s most important economic centers and the economic hub of the Malopolska region. Krakow is now positioned as Europe’s Silicon Valley based on the large number of local and foreign hi-tech companies.
ICAVS 11 in Krakow will offer a unique opportunity for interesting and fruitful scientific interactions to all participants, providing them with memorable and pleasant experiences.
Depending on pandemic conditions at the time, the conference may be virtual. This decision will be made no later than 20 May 2021.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we would like to warmly invite scientists from all parts of the world to join us at ICAVS 11, and we look forward to welcoming you in Krakow in 2021!
Yours,
Malgorzata Baranska
Kamilla Malek
Katarzyna M. Marzec
15 April 2021
MDPI Celebrates Company Milestone With 25th Anniversary Page
"We exist to help scientists achieve their own objectives"

In June of this year, MDPI will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its foundation. To mark this significant milestone, we have created a 25th Anniversary page on our website that evokes the development of our company over the past quarter-century.
MDPI has been a pioneer of Open Access publishing ever since the concept was first created.
In a wide-ranging interview, our CEO Delia Mihaila reflects on the company’s 25th anniversary and its contribution to the world of scientific publishing.
Delia considers how MDPI has evolved since starting life in 1996 as a visionary ‘project’ run out of an apartment in Basel, Switzerland, by Dr. Shu-Kun Lin. A chemist who was passionate about the long-term preservation of rare chemical sample, Dr. Lin was determined to help scholars publish their findings as quickly as possible and make their research results available to as wide a readership as possible worldwide. That determination remains unchanged 25 years later.
Today, MDPI is an international organization with over 4,000 employees based on three continents and in ten countries, and ranks among the world's top four academic publishers.
MDPI's mission is to accelerate access to new scientific research, delivering insight faster for researchers worldwide. Read more here about the company's remarkable success story and what the Open Access publishing model can offer the global scientific community.
10 March 2021
Journal Selector: Helping to Find the Right MDPI Journal for Your Article
At MDPI, we strive to make your online publication process seamless and efficient. To achieve this, our team is continuously developing tools and features to make the user experience useful and convenient.
As the number of academic papers continues to grow, so does the need to analyze and work with them on a large scale. This prompted us to design a new feature aimed at helping researchers find journals that are relevant to their publication by matching their abstract topic. In this regard, we designed a similarity model that automatically identifies the most suitable academic journals for your paper.
We are pleased to introduce Journal Selector, a new feature that measures similarity in academic contexts. By simply entering the title and/or abstract into our Journal Selector, the author will see a list of the most related scientific journals published by MDPI. This method helps authors select the correct journals for their papers, highlighting the time of publication and citability.
The methodology is known as representation learning, where words are represented as vectors in hyperspace. Representation helps us differentiate between different concepts within articles, and in turn, helps us identify similarities between them.
We used an advanced machine learning model to better capture the semantic meanings of words. This helps the algorithm make better predictions by leveraging scientific text representation. In turn, this ensures high precision, helping authors decide which journal they should submit their paper to.
The goal is to support authors to publish their work in the most suitable journal for their research, as fast as possible, accelerating their career progress.
Contact: Andrea Perlato, Head of Data Analytics, MDPI (email)
5 February 2021
Recruiting Section Editor-in-Chief for Nanomaterials
Nanomaterials is recruiting Section Editor-in-Chief for the following section:
- Theory and Simulation of Nanostructures
Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991; CODEN: NANOKO) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal published monthly online by MDPI. It publishes regular reviews, research papers, communications, and short notes relevant to any field of study that involves nanomaterials, with respect to their science and application. It is abstracted and indexed by SCIE, Scopus, and other databases. The IF for Nanomaterials in 2019 was 4.324. For more information about Nanomaterials, please see the journal webpage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials.
Section Editors-in-Chief are responsible for the following:
- Defining the Aims and Scope of the Section;
- Advising on the strategic development of the Section;
- Ensuring the quality of the published content;
- Nominating/inviting Guest Editors and optionally delegating to them the authority to make final acceptance decisions for submitted articles;
- Nominating/inviting contributors;
- Nominating and leading the Section Editorial Board;
- Promoting the journal at scientific conferences or through other venues.
To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact the Nanomaterials Editorial Office ([email protected]) or Walker Zheng ([email protected]).
15 December 2020
MDPI adopts C4DISC principles to improve diversity and inclusion in scholarly communications
MDPI is proud to adopt the principles of the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) to support building equity, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in scholarly communications.
The C4DISC represents organizations and individuals working in scholarly communications and is focused on addressing issues of diversity and inclusion within the publishing industry.
MDPI’s Managing Editors encourage the Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors to appoint diverse expert Editorial Boards. This is also reflective in our multi-national and inclusive workplace. We are proud to create equal opportunities without regard to gender, ethnicity, geographic location, sexual orientation, age, disability, political beliefs, religion, or socio-economic status. There is no place for discrimination in our workplace and editors of MDPI journals are to uphold these principles in high regard.
Representatives from C4DISC meet monthly, and have started to implement initiatives to shed light and improve on the lack of diversity in scholarly communications. Some of the initiatives include developing a joint statement of principles; conducting market research; providing training resources, best practices, toolkits, and documentation for our collective memberships; and establishing outreach programs, curricula, events, and publications.
The Coalition is committed to:
- eliminating barriers to participation, extending equitable opportunities across all stakeholders, and ensuring that our practices and policies promote equitable treatment and do not allow, condone, or result in discrimination;
- creating and maintaining an environment that respects diverse traditions, heritages, and experiences;
- promoting diversity in all staff, volunteers, and audiences, including full participation in programs, policy formulation, and decision-making;
- raising awareness about career opportunities in our industries to groups who are currently underrepresented in the workforce;
- supporting our members in achieving diversity and inclusion within their organizations.
15 December 2020
Nanomaterials Reaches 6,000 Articles Milestone

Nanomaterials (ISSN 2075-5309), MDPI’s open access journal on any field of study that involves nanomaterials, has published more than 6000 papers since its inception in 2010. On behalf of the editorial team, we would like to express our gratitude to the Editor-in-Chief of Nanomaterials, Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang, all Section Editors-in-Chief and Editorial Board Members, as well as to the Guest Editors of Special Issues, Topics Board Members, and Reviewer Board members who have ensured the continued success of the journal through their hard work and diligence.
Nanomaterials is now covered in the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), Scopus, Chemical Abstracts, Inspec, and Polymer Library. Citations are available in PubMed and full texts are archived in PubMed Central. The CiteScore of Nanomaterials (2019 Scopus data) is 4.1, which equals rank 147/460 (Q1) in 'General Materials Science' and rank 73/281 (Q1) in 'General Chemical Engineering'. The latest Impact Factor of 2019 is 4.324.
14 December 2020
Article Layout and Templates Revised for Future Volumes
At MDPI we have slightly revised the layout for articles to be published in the 2021 Volume, starting at the end of December 2020. As of today, the article templates available for download on ‘Instructions for Authors’ pages have been updated.
The most noticeable change can be found on the first page of the article, where a left-hand column has been created to include the following front matter elements: (i) the recommended citation style for the article, (ii) the publishing history, (iii) as well as the Creative Commons Attribution license used (iv) a standard note regarding affiliations. At the same time, the extra spacing on the left means the authors’ affiliations are now more clearly set apart than before. Other front matter key elements such as journal logo, article type, article title, authors, abstract and keywords remain unchanged.
The blank column on the left runs through all pages in an article; as a result, the main text is slightly more condensed, which improve reader friendliness for smaller screens. Small figures/tables are aligned on the left with standard indenture, while large figures/tables are centered and covering the full width of the page. The revised layout was applied in the article pictured below, to serve as an example:
1) Information is displayed in the left information bar.
2) In the main text, there is a blank column on the left.
3) Small tables/figures are aligned on the left, large tables/figures are centered.
11 December 2020
2020 "Highly Cited Researchers" on MDPI Journal's Editorial Boards
We are pleased to acknowledge that many academic editors who have made an impact on MDPI journals as editorial board members, editors-in-chief, or section editors, are recognized as 2020 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate.
Highly Cited Researchers highlights the top 1% of researchers, by citations, in one or more of the 22 fields used in Clarivate Analytics Essential Science Indicators. We offer our congratulations to 279 academic editors of MDPI journals who were recognized as the most influential scholars in their fields in 2020.
Adams, Dave Agarwal, Ravi P. Ahn, Choon Ki Ahn, Myung-Ju Albrecht, Randy A. Andersson, Dan I. Anker, Stefan D. Apergis, Nicholas Ariga, Katsuhiko Artaxo, Paulo Balsamo, Gianpaolo Barba, Francisco J. Benediktsson, Jon Atli Benelli, Giovanni Bhatnagar, Amit Bialystok, Ellen Blaabjerg, Frede Blay, Jean-Yves Bogers, Marcel Bolton, Declan J. Boyer, Cyrille Brocca, Luca Bruix, Jordi Buhalis, Dimitrios Burdick, Jason A. Byrd, John C. Cabeza, Luisa F. Cabrerizo-Lorite, Francisco Javier Cai, Jianchao Calhoun, Vince D. Cantu, Robert C. Cerqueira, Miguel Chang, Jo-Shu Chau, Kwok-wing Chemat, Farid Chen, Jianmin Chen, Jun Chen, Min Chen, Shaowei Chen, Wei Chen, Wei-Hsin Chen, Xiaofeng Chen, Yangkang Chen, Zhi-Gang Chiclana, Francisco Corella, Dolores Cortes, Javier Cortes, Jorge Cummings, Kenneth Michael Dai, Shifeng Decker, Eric A. DePinho, Ronald A. Dimopoulos, Meletios-Athanasios Dincer, Ibrahim Du, Yihong Dupont, Didier Edwards, David Ellahi, Rahmat Ellis, Erle C. ElMasry, Gamal Esteller, Manel Estruch, Ramón Fang, Chuanglin Fasano, Alessio Fernandez-Lafuente, Roberto Ferreira, Isabel Fortino, Giancarlo Galluzzi, Lorenzo Galvano, Fabio Gandomi, Amir H. Gandomi, Amir H. Gao, Bin Gao, Feng Gao, Wei Garbe, Claus García, Hermenegildo Geschwind, Daniel H. Giampieri, Francesca Giralt, Sergio A. Glanz, Karen Goldewijk, Kees Klein Gössling, Stefan Govindan, Kannan Granato, Daniel Grosso, Giuseppe Grosso, Giuseppe Guerrero, Josep M. Haase, Dagmar Hagger, Martin S. Hamblin, Michael R. Han, Heesup Jankovic, Joseph Janotti, Anderson |
Jiang, Hai-Long Kalaji, Hazem M. Kalantar-Zadeh, Kourosh Kaner, Richard B. Karimi, Hamid Reza Kataoka, Kazunori Keesstra, Saskia Kepp, Oliver Kerminen, Veli-Matti Keyzers, Robert A. Khademhosseini, Ali Khan, Nafees A. Kim, Ki-Hyun Klemeš, Jiří Jaromír Klenk, Hans-Peter Konopleva, Marina Y. Krammer, Florian Krebs, Frederik C. Kroemer, Guido Kudo, Masatoshi Kurths, Juergen Kurzrock, Razelle Kuznetsov, Nikolay V. Kyrpides, Nikos C. La Vecchia, Carlo Lai, Yuekun Lam, James Lancellotti, Patrizio Lee, Sangmoon Leung, Victor C. M. Li, Jinghong Li, Yurui Lindahl, José M. Merigó Lip, Gregory Y. H. Loh, Xian Jun Long, Hualou Lund, Henrik Luo, Jingshan Luque, Rafael Lyons, Timothy W. Ma, Jun Ma, Wen-Xiu Ma, Yanming Maeda, Keisuke Makarova, Kira Mantovani, Alberto Martín-Belloso, Olga Martinoia, Enrico Marzband, Mousa Masclaux-Daubresse, Celine Masson, Patrick Mateos, María Victoria Mathiesen, Brian Vad Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof McArthur, Grant A. McCauley, Darren Medlock, Jolyon M. Melero, Ignacio Mezzetti, Bruno Miroshnichenko, Andrey E. Moran, Daniel Mueller, Lukas A. Mueller-Roeber, Bernd Naushad, Mu Nemeroff, Charles B. Nieto, Juan J. O'Donnell, Colm Ogino, Shuji Olabi, Abdul-Ghani O'Regan, Donal Orsini, Nicola Oswald, Isabelle P. Ozcan, Aydogan Pahl-Wostl, Claudia Pang, Huan Payne, James E. Peng, Shushi Perc, Matjaz Perez-Alvarez, Jose Angel Piquero, Alex R. Ploss, Alexander Postolache, Mihai Pradhan, Biswajeet Prinsep, Michele R. Qian, Dong Qu, Xiaogang Reiter, Russel J. Riahi, Keywan Richter, Andreas Rignot, Eric Robert, Caroline Ros, Emilio Rosell, Rafael |
Rosen, Marc A. |
The full list of 2020 Highly Cited Researchers can be accessed on https://recognition.webofsciencegroup.com/awards/highly-cited/2020/
--- Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) is a Clarivate product.
26 October 2020
Meet us at the China Materials Conference and Exhibition 2020, Qingdao, Shandong, China, November 19–21, 2020

MDPI will be attending the China Materials Conference and Exhibition 2020, Qingdao, Shandong, China, November 19–21, 2020.
CMC's 19th annual meeting is the premier venue for the presentation in the field of materials sciences, where one can learn from experts, forge collaborations with peers, explore new tools and technologies, and advance their career.
The purpose of the conference is to build an exchange platform for experts, scholars, professors, scientific and technological workers, relevant government management departments and leaders, entrepreneurs, and related personnel, engaged in the scientific research, development, and industrialization of new materials in China to exchange and share the latest materials research achievements, in order to achieve the purpose of mutual promotion and common improvement.
There are many outstanding people in the committee of the meeting, such as Professor Boyun Huang and Academician Lian Zhou of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Professor Bingbo Wei of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, etc. The following MDPI journals will be represented:
- Coatings (leading journal);
- Materials;
- Crystals;
- Energies;
- Molecules;
- Metals;
- Nanomaterials;
- Polymers.
- Actuators
- Sustainability
- Membranes
- Technologies
- Gels
- ASI
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth C13). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: http://cmc2020.medcon.net.cn/cn/web/index/
23 October 2020
Announcement for “Nanomaterials 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” Winners
The Nanomaterials Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to the journal. It is thanks to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick submission to publication process are maintained. The median time to first decision is currently and impressive 12.8 days, and the median time to publication is 33 days, which is all because of you.
Please join us in congratulating the three referees below, who will receive the “Nanomaterials 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Award” in recognition of the quantity, timeliness, and quality of their reviews in 2019. Each of them will receive 500 CHF and a certificate for their outstanding review work.
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Prof. Constantin Apetrei Department of Chemistry, Physics and Environment, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Romania |
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Prof. Dawid Janas Head of Functional Nanomaterials Group, Department of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Poland |
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Prof. Katsuhiko Ariga NIMS, WPI MANA, Tsukuba, Japan |
Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991; CODEN: NANOKO) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, published monthly by MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland. The journal is covered by leading indexing services, including Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) and Scopus. Its 2019 Impact Factor is 4.324, and its five-year Impact Factor is 4.514. For further details, please refer to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials.
22 October 2020
2rd Webinar of Nanomaterials: Advanced Mechanical Modeling of Nanomaterials and Nanostructures II—30 October 2020

The series of talks will show different results from large numerical campaigns, focusing on fiber-reinforced composites and laminates, functionally graded materials, carbon nanotubes, graphene nanoplatelets, auxetic materials, latticed and cellular (honeycomb) materials, SMART constituents, together with innovative and advanced classes of composites such as Variable Angle-Tow laminates. Among many possible structural applications (e.g. SMART actuators, piezoelectric sensors, shape memory alloys, magnetostrictive and electrostrictive materials, or auxetic components), composite beams and shells with different geometries will be discussed, due to their unique shapes and outstanding mechanical behavior, accounting for their possible size-dependence.
Date: 30 October 2020
Time: 11:00 am (CEST)丨5:00 am (EDT)丨17:00 pm (CST ASIA)
Webinar ID: 816 2977 6147
Register for Free Here: https://nanomaterials-2.sciforum.net/
Chair:
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Dr. Francesco Tornabene Editorial Board Member of “Advanced Mechanical Modeling of Nanomaterials and Nanostructures” |
Interests: theory of shells, plates, arches and beams; generalised differential quadrature; FEM; SFEM; WFEM; IGA; SFIGA; WFIGA; advanced composite materials; functionally graded materials; nanomaterials and nanotechnology; variable angle tow composites |
Speakers:
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Prof. Dr. Carola Esposito Corcione Guest Editor of “Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of Polymer Nanocomposites” |
Presentation: "Cure Reaction of Epoxy Resins catalyzed by Graphite-Based Nanofillers” |
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Prof. Dr. Victor A. Eremeyev |
Presentation: "Anti-plane surface waves in media with surface structures and surface interfaces. Discrete and continuum models” |
27 September 2020
1st Webinar of Nanomaterials: Advanced Mechanical Modeling of Nanomaterials and Nanostructures—16 October 2020

The series of talks will show different results from large numerical campaigns, focusing on fiber-reinforced composites and laminates, functionally graded materials, carbon nanotubes, graphene nanoplatelets, auxetic materials, latticed and cellular (honeycomb) materials, SMART constituents, together with innovative and advanced classes of composites such as Variable Angle-Tow laminates. Among many possible structural applications (e.g. SMART actuators, piezoelectric sensors, shape memory alloys, magnetostrictive and electrostrictive materials, or auxetic components), composite beams and shells with different geometries will be discussed, due to their unique shapes and outstanding mechanical behavior, accounting for their possible size-dependence.
Date: 16 October 2020
Time: 11:00 am (CEST)丨5:00 am (EDT)丨17:00 pm (CST ASIA)
Webinar ID: 899 2278 0922
Register for Free Here: https://nanomaterials-1.sciforum.net/
Chair:
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Dr. Francesco Tornabene Editorial Board Member of “Advanced Mechanical Modeling of Nanomaterials and Nanostructures” |
Interests: theory of shells, plates, arches and beams; generalised differential quadrature; FEM; SFEM; WFEM; IGA; SFIGA; WFIGA; advanced composite materials; functionally graded materials; nanomaterials and nanotechnology; variable angle tow composites |
Speakers:
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Prof. Dr. Rossana Dimitri Guest Editor of “Advanced Mechanical Modeling of Nanomaterials and Nanostructures” |
Presentation: "Editorial Board Member of “Advanced Mechanical Modeling of Nanomaterials and Nanostructures” |
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Prof. Salvatore Brischetto Guest Editor of “Additive Manufacturing Technologies and Applications” |
Presentation: "3D and advanced shell models for the analysis of single- and double-walled carbon nanotubes and nano-reinforced structures.” |
For any questions about the webinar, please send an email to [email protected]
25 September 2020
Recruiting Section Editor Board Members for Section Nanocomposite Materials' of Nanomaterials
The newly released section “Nanocomposite Materials” of Nanomaterials is recruiting Editorial Board Members. We would like to invite you to visit our welcome message at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sections/nanocomposite_materials.
The main responsibilities of Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:
1) Making decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted based on the reports we collect;
2) Reviewing a small number of papers per year;
3) Acting as the Guest Editor for a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests;
4) Promoting Nanomaterials and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences.
Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991; CODEN: NANOKO) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal published monthly online by MDPI. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications, and short notes relevant to any field of study that involves nanomaterials, concerning both their science and application. It is abstracted and indexed by SCIE, Scopus, and other databases. The 2019 IF for Nanomaterials was 4.324.
To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact the Nanomaterials Editorial Office ([email protected]) or Sandr Ma ([email protected]).
11 September 2020
Meet us at the 4th Micro-Nano Optics Technology and Application Exchange Conference (MOTA2020), Chengdu, China, 26–28 September 2020

MDPI will be attending the 4th Micro-Nano Optics Technology and Application Exchange Conference (MOTA2020), Chengdu, September 26–28, 2020.
MOTA2020 is organized by the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering, which combines the national defense and industrial applications to build a large platform for the industrial chain. The aim is to build a seamless docking platform for scientific and technical personnel engaged in related research in China and industrial application teams to form a joint force to promote the rapid technological development of micro-nano optics itself and its industrial development.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
- Energies (leading journal)
- Photonics
- Nanomaterials
- Coatings
- Sensors
- Clean Technologies
- Safety
- Micromachines
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth "Journal Energies"). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://b2b.csoe.org.cn/meeting/MOTA2020.html.
25 August 2020
Recruiting Female Editors for Nanomaterials

Nanomaterials is delighted to invite top female researchers in the nano field to join the Editorial Board as Editorial Board Members.
Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991; CODEN: NANOKO) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal published monthly online by MDPI. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications, and short notes relevant to any field of study that involves nanomaterials, with respect to their science and application. It is abstracted and indexed by SCIE, Scopus, and other databases. The impact factor (IF) for Nanomaterials for 2019 was 4.324. For more information about Nanomaterials, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials
As an Editorial Board Member, you will be responsible for:
(1) Pre-screening submissions and making decisions on whether they should be rejected or accepted for processing;
(2) Suggesting interesting topics in your research field;
(3) Editing a Special Issue on a topic related to your research;
(4) Publishing/inviting/recommending one paper free of charge per year;
(5) Promoting Nanomaterials and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences.
To apply or request further information, please contact the Nanomaterials Editorial Office ([email protected]).
3 August 2020
Recruiting Editors for New Journal Nanomanufacturing

Nanomanufacturing, a new journal published by MDPI, is recruiting Editorial Board (EB) members whose research interests are related, but not limited, to the following aspects:
- Micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS);
- Plasma surface engineering, plasma etching, and laser surface engineering;
- 3D nanomanufacturing, 3D printing, and 3D bioprinting;
- Photonic and plasmonic devices;
- Nanoelectronic devices, wearable electronics, flexible electronics, and paper electronics;
- Energy-harvesting devices;
- Nanofluidic devices (for separation, reaction, sensing, and other functions);
- Miniaturized devices for biology, chemistry, health, and medicine, including nanobiosensors;
- Integration of processes and technologies to build nanodevices or nanosystems with added functionality;
- Making nanoscale objects with special properties (e.g., quantum dot synthesis);
- Assembling nanoscale objects into more complex structures (e.g., DNA origami-directed assembly);
- Scanning probe techniques;
- Physical sensors;
- Nanomachines;
- Self-assembly and combinations of top-down and bottom-up nanofabrication;
- Integrated circuit fabrication;
- Nanopatterning and lithography, including nanoimprint and roll-to-roll nanoimprint lithography;
- Integration of design and manufacturing based on topology optimization and additive manufacturing;
- Nanometrology and ultraprecision measurement science and technology;
- Tools and processes for nanomanufacturing and atomic manufacturing;
- Nanofabrication and nanostructures for art and culture;
- Design algorithms for multiscale manufacturing.
Nanomanufacturing is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes reviews, original research papers, communications, letters, and short notes that are relevant to any field of study that involves nanomanufacturing. This journal focuses on all aspects of lithographic methods aimed at the submicron- to nanoscale fabrication and integration of functional nanostructures and surfaces towards intelligent nanomanufacturing, the exploitation and control of self-organization phenomena for patterning, and the application of the created structures and devices in physical, biomedical, chemistry, environmental science, agrofood, and life science experiments. You can find more information on our homepage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomanufacturing/about.
If you are interested in the latest research advances in this field, please do not hesitate to contact the Nanomanufacturing editorial office at nanomanufacturing@mdpi.com.
Editorial Board members have the following responsibilities:
- Making decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted or not, based on the reports we collect;
- Reviewing a small number of papers per year;
- Acting as a Guest Editor of a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests;
- Promoting Nanomanufacturing and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences.
We believe that by combining our rigorous editorial policies with your expertise, we can build a high quality journal. We thank you in advance for your interest and we look forward to collaborating with you.
29 July 2020
Recruiting Section Editor Board Members for Section “Synthesis, Interfaces and Nanostructures” of Nanomaterials
The Section “Synthesis, Interfaces and Nanostructures” of Nanomaterials is recruiting Editorial Board Members. You can check the existed Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sectioneditors/synthesis_interfaces_nanostructures The main responsibilities of Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:
- Perform pre-review checks for new submissions. Only novel submissions with good presentation will be granted a chance for peer review;
- Make recommendations based on review reports; if there is a rejection, review the report received for a submission;
- Make final decisions when the review process is complete;
- Propose SI topics in this direction, and edit SIs you are interested in. Assist the Section’s EiC on the management of SIs in the Sections;
- Promote the Section via conferences or your own network;
- With the Section’s Editor-in-Chief, discuss and suggest improvements to our Section's development.
Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991; CODEN: NANOKO) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal published monthly online by MDPI. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications, and short notes relevant to any field of study that involves nanomaterials, concerning their science and application. It is abstracted and indexed by SCIE, Scopus, and other databases. The IF for Nanomaterials for 2019 was 4.324. For more information about this Section, publishing in Nanomaterials, please see the section webpage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/sections/synthesis_interfaces_nanostructures.
To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Ms. Erika Zhao ([email protected]) from the Nanomaterials Editorial Office before 21 September 2020.
29 July 2020
Recruiting Editors for Nanomaterials
Nanomaterials is recruiting Section Editorial Board Members for the following seven new Sections:
- Nanoelectronics, Nanosensors, Spintronics, and Devices
- Nanocomposite Materials
- 2D and Carbon Nanomaterials
- Nanofabrication and Nanomanufacturing
- Inorganic Materials and Metal-Organic Frameworks
- Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- Theory and Simulation of Nanostructures
Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991; CODEN: NANOKO) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal published monthly online by MDPI. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications, and short notes relevant to any field of study that involves nanomaterials, with respect to their science and application. It is abstracted and indexed by SCIE, Scopus, and other databases. The IF for Nanomaterials for 2019 was 4.324. For more information about Nanomaterials, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials
As a Section Editorial Board Member, you will be responsible for:
(1) Pre-screening submissions and making decisions on whether they should be rejected or accepted for processing;
(2) Suggesting interesting topics in your research field;
(3) Editing a Special Issue on a topic related to your research;
(4) Publishing/inviting/recommending one paper free of charge per year;
(5) Promoting Nanomaterials and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences.
To apply or request further information, please contact the Nanomaterials Editorial Office ([email protected]).
24 July 2020
The 2nd International Online-Conference on Nanomaterials (IOCN)—Open for Submission

We are pleased to announce that the 2nd International Online-Conference on Nanomaterials, chaired by Prof. Dr. Ana María Díez-Pascual, from University of Alcalá, Spain, Prof. Dr. Antonio Di Bartolomeo, from University of Salerno, Italy, and Prof. Dr. Guanying Chen, from Harbin Institute of Technology, China and State University of New York, USA, will be held from 15 to 30 November 2020 at Sciforum (https://sciforum.net/conference/IOCN2020). All proceedings will be held online.
These are some of the topics that we expect to cover:
- Synthesis and Characterization of Nanomaterials
- Modeling and Simulation of Nanostructures
- Graphene & 2D Nanomaterials & Soft Nanomaterials
- Polymer Nanomaterials, Nanocoatings/Thin films and Nanostructured Durfaces
- Magnetism and Magnetic Nanomaterials
- Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology
- Nanotechnology for Energy, Environment, Catalyst and Sensing
- Nanophysics, Nanophotonics, Nanoplasmonics, Nanoelctronics and Nanodevices
The conference will be completely free of charge—both to attend, and for scholars to upload and present their latest work on the conference platform. There will also be the possibility to submit selected extended papers to the Special Issue of the conference entitledThere will be an opportunity to publish peer-reviewed and accepted papers in the Special Issue of the conference entitled "Selected Papers from the 2nd International Online Conference on Nanomaterials" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials/special_issues/nano_IOCN2020) in the journal Nanomaterials (IF: 4.324, ISSN 2079-4991; https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials), with a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charge.
Important Dates
- Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 October 2020
- Abstract Acceptance Notification Deadline: 18 October 2020
- Submission of Conference Proceedings Papers/Posters Deadline: 20 October 2020
- Conference Date: 15–30 November 2020
- Conference Special Issue Paper Deadline: 20 January 2021
For more information on IOCN2020, please visit the conference website (https://sciforum.net/conference/IOCN2020) or contact us by email ([email protected]).
9 July 2020
Open Access Agreement Between Jisc Collections and MDPI
We are delighted to announce the establishment of our Open Access agreement with Jisc Collections, which will allow UK institutions to benefit from access to article processing charge (APC) discounts and streamlined payment workflows.
All institutions participating in the agreement will also gain access to the MDPI online submission system where they can find full article metadata and pricing information for easy identification and additional transparency.
Eligible authors affiliated with the participating institutions are prompted to choose the corresponding Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) when they submit an article via our online submission system.
About Jisc
Jisc's vision is for the UK to be the most digitally advanced education and research nation in the world. At its heart is the super-fast national research and education network, Janet, with built-in cyber security protection. Jisc also provides technology solutions for its members (colleges, universities and research centres) and customers (public sector bodies), helps members save time and money by negotiating sector-wide deals and provides advice and practical assistance on digital technology. Jisc is funded by the UK higher and further education and research funding bodies and member institutions.
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About MDPI
MDPI is a publisher of fully peer-reviewed, Open Access journals with a focus on thorough and rapid editorial processing. Its aim is to ensure that high-quality research is verified and made available to the research community as quickly as possible. MDPI stands at the forefront of the Open Access movement, having launched its first online journal Molecules in 1996. Today, MDPI is a leader in Open Access publishing with over 250 journals across all research disciplines, and all content published under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
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29 June 2020
Updated Impact Factors Released in the Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate)
The updated citation metrics have been released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), published by Clarivate. The recent release of the JCR includes seventy-one MDPI titles. Out of these, 18 titles are newcomers, receiving a first Journal Impact Factor which is based on citation activity in 2019: Actuators, Agriculture, Biology, Biomedicines, Biosensors, Chemosensors, Children, Healthcare, Journal of Fungi, Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM), Land, Life, Magnetochemistry, Membranes, Pharmaceuticals, Photonics, Separations and Toxics.
- Out of the previously listed journals, a total of 72 percent boast an increased Impact Factor.
- 25 journals are ranked among the top 25% of journals in at least one of the categories they are ranked for.
- Articles published in 2019 in MDPI journals account for approximately 17 percent of of articles published in gold Open Access journals covered in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).
First Impact Factors
Journal | Impact Factor | Rank | Category | Details |
Actuators | 1.957 | 31/64 (Q2) | • Instruments & Instrumentation | Link |
Agriculture | 2.072 | 25/91 (Q2) | • Agronomy | Link |
Biology | 3.796 | 19/93 (Q1) | • Biology | Link |
Biomedicines | 4.717 | 30/138 (Q1) 36/270 (Q1) |
• Medicine, Research & Experimental • Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
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Biosensors | 3.240 | 24/86 (Q2) | • Chemistry, Analytical | Link |
Chemosensors | 3.108 | 16/64 (Q1) 27/86 (Q2) 13/27 (Q2) |
• Instruments & Instrumentation • Chemistry, Analytical • Electrochemistry |
Link |
Children | 2.078 | 50/128 (Q2) | • Pediatrics | Link |
Healthcare | 1.916 | 62/102 (Q3) 45/87 (Q3) |
• Health Care Sciences & Services (SCIE) • Health Policy & Services (SSCI) |
Link |
Journal of Fungi | 4.621 | 5/29 (Q1) 31/135 (Q1) |
• Mycology • Microbiology |
Link |
Journal of Personalized Medicine | 4.433 | 24/165 (Q1) 10/102 (Q1) |
• Medicine, General & Internal • Health Care Sciences & Services |
Link |
Land | 2.429 | 58/123 (Q2) | • Environmental Studies (SSCI) | Link |
Life | 2.991 | 26/93 (Q2) 109/267 (Q2) |
• Biology • Microbiology |
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Magnetochemistry | 1.947 | 22/45 (Q2) 109/159 (Q3) 201/314 (Q3) |
• Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear • Chemistry, Physical • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary |
Link |
Membranes | 3.094 | 53/143 (Q2) 129/314 (Q2) 23/89 (Q2) |
• Engineering, Chemical • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary • Polymer Science |
Link |
Pharmaceuticals | 4.286 | 49/270 (Q1) | • Pharmacology & Pharmacy | Link |
Photonics | 2.140 | 48/97 (Q2) | • Optics | Link |
Separations | 1.900 | 53/86 (Q3) | • Chemistry, Analytical | Link |
Toxics | 3.271 | 32/92 (Q2) 92/265 (Q2) |
• Toxicology • Environmental Sciences |
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Updated Impact Factors
Journal | Impact Factor | Rank | Category | Details |
Agronomy | 2.603 | 18/91 (Q1) 65/234 (Q2) |
• Agronomy • Plant Sciences |
Link |
Animals | 2.323 | 10/63 (Q1) 14/142 (Q1) |
• Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science • Veterinary Sciences |
Link |
Antibiotics | 3.893 | 23/93 (Q1) 64/270 (Q1) |
• Infectious Diseases • Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
Link |
Antioxidants | 5.014 | 10/139 (Q1) 56/297 (Q1) 7/61 (Q1) |
• Food Science & Technology • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology • Chemistry, Medicinal |
Link |
Applied Sciences | 2.474 | 161/314 (Q3) 32/91 (Q2) 88/177 (Q2) 62/154 (Q2) |
• Materials Science, Multidisciplinary • Engineering, Multidisciplinary • Chemistry, Multidisciplinary • Physics, Applied |
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Atmosphere | 2.397 | 48/93 (Q3) | • Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | Link |
Biomolecules | 4.082 | 98/297 (Q2) | • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Link |
Brain Sciences | 3.332 | 113/271 (Q2) | • Neurosciences | Link |
Cancers | 6.126 | 37/244 (Q1) | • Oncology | Link |
Catalysts | 3.520 | 65/159 (Q2) | • Chemistry, Physical | Link |
Cells | 4.366 | 70/195 (Q2) | • Cell Biology | Link |
Coatings | 2.436 | 10/21 (Q2) | • Materials Science, Coatings & Films | Link |
Crystals | 2.404 | 10/26 (Q2) 165/314 (Q3) |
• Crystallography • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary |
Link |
Diagnostics | 3.110 | 39/165 (Q1) | • Medicine, General & Internal | Link |
Diversity | 1.402 | 119/168 (Q3) | • Ecology | Link |
Electronics | 2.412 | 125/266 (Q2) | • Engineering, Electrical & Electronic | Link |
Energies | 2.702 | 63/112 (Q3) | • Energy & Fuels | Link |
Entropy | 2.494 | 33/85 (Q2) | • Physics, Multidisciplinary | Link |
Foods | 4.092 | 27/139 (Q1) | • Food Science & Technology | Link |
Forests | 2.221 | 17/68 (Q1) | • Forestry | Link |
Genes | 3.759 | 53/177 (Q2) | • Genetics & Heredity | Link |
Insects | 2.220 | 18/101 (Q1) | • Entomology | Link |
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) | 2.849 | 58/193 (Q2) 32/170 (Q1) 105/265 (Q2) |
• Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (SCIE) • Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (SSCI) • Environmental Sciences (SCIE) |
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) | 4.556 | 74/297 (Q1) 48/177 (Q2) |
• Biochemistry & Molecular Biology • Chemistry, Multidisciplinary |
Link |
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI) | 2.239 | 31/50 (Q3) 18/30 (Q3) |
• Geography, Physical • Remote Sensing |
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Journal of Clinical Medicine | 3.303 | 36/165 (Q1) | • Medicine, General & Internal | Link |
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering | 2.033 | 31/66 (Q2) | • Oceanography | Link |
Marine Drugs | 4.073 | 16/61 (Q2) | • Chemistry, Medicinal | Link |
Materials | 3.057 | 132/314 (Q2) | • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | Link |
Mathematics | 1.747 | 28/324 (Q1) | • Mathematics | Link |
Medicina | 1.205 | 107/165 (Q3) | • Medicine, General & Internal | Link |
Metabolites | 4.097 | 95/297 (Q2) | • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Link |
Metals | 2.117 | 18/79 (Q1) 185/314 (Q3) |
• Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary |
Link |
Micromachines | 2.523 | 56/92 (Q3) 23/64 (Q2) |
• Nanoscience & Nanotechnology • Instruments & Instrumentation |
Link |
Microorganisms | 4.152 | 37/135 (Q2) | • Microbiology | Link |
Minerals | 2.380 | 6/21 (Q2) 11/30 (Q2) |
• Mining & Mineral Processing • Mineralogy |
Link |
Molecules | 3.267 | 70/177 (Q2) 141/297 (Q2) |
• Chemistry, Multidisciplinary • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Link |
Nanomaterials | 4.324 | 89/314 (Q2) 42/103 (Q2) |
• Materials Science, Multidisciplinary • Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
Link |
Nutrients | 4.546 | 17/89 (Q1) | • Nutrition & Dietetics | Link |
Pathogens | 3.018 | 65/135 (Q2) | • Microbiology | Link |
Pharmaceutics | 4.421 | 44/270 (Q1) | • Pharmacology & Pharmacy | Link |
Plants | 2.762 | 58/234 (Q1) | • Plant Sciences | Link |
Polymers | 3.426 | 16/89 (Q1) | • Polymer Science | Link |
Processes | 2.753 | 59/143 (Q2) | • Engineering, Chemical | Link |
Remote Sensing | 4.509 | 9/30 (Q2) | • Remote Sensing | Link |
Sensors | 3.275 | 22/86 (Q2) 77/266 (Q2) 15/64 (Q1) |
• Chemistry, Analytical • Engineering, Electrical & Electronic • Instruments & Instrumentation |
Link |
Sustainability | 2.576 | 120/265 (Q2) 26/41 (Q3) 53/123 (Q2) 6/8 (Q3) |
• Environmental Sciences (SCIE) • Green & Sustainable Science & Technology (SCIE) • Environmental Studies (SSCI) • Green & Sustainable Science & Technology (SSCI) |
Link |
Symmetry | 2.645 | 29/71 (Q2) | • Multidisciplinary Sciences | Link |
Toxins | 3.531 | 21/92 (Q1) 34/139 (Q1) |
• Toxicology • Food Science & Technology |
Link |
Universe | 1.752 | 18/29 (Q3) 42/68 (Q3) |
• Physics, Particles & Fields • Astronomy & Astrophysics |
Link |
Vaccines | 4.086 | 57/158 (Q2) 50/138 (Q2) |
• Immunology • Medicine, Research & Experimental |
Link |
Viruses | 3.816 | 12/37 (Q2) | • Virology | Link |
Water | 2.544 | 31/94 (Q2) | • Water Resources | Link |
Source: Clarivate 2020, InCites Journal Citation Reports®.
19 June 2020
Recruiting Section Editor-in-Chief for Nanomaterials
Nanomaterials is recruiting Section Editors-in-Chief for the following four new sections:
- Nanoelectronics, Nanosensors, Spintronics, and Devices
- Theory and Simulation of Nanostructures
- Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- Nanofabrication and Nanomanufacturing
Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991; CODEN: NANOKO) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal published monthly online by MDPI. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications, and short notes relevant to any field of study that involves nanomaterials, concerning their science and application. It is abstracted and indexed by SCIE, Scopus, and other databases. The IF for Nanomaterials for 2018 was 4.034. For more information about Nanomaterials, please see the journal webpage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials
Section Editors-in-Chief are responsible for the following:
- Defining the Aims and Scope of the Section;
- Advising on the strategic development of the Section;
- Ensuring the quality of the published content;
- Nominating/inviting Guest Editors and optionally delegating to them the authority to make final acceptance decisions for submitted articles;
- Nominating/inviting contributors;
- Nominating and leading the Section Editorial Board;
- Promoting the journal at scientific conferences or through other venues.
To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact the Nanomaterials Editorial Office ([email protected]) before 30 June 2020.
13 May 2020
COVID-19 Academic Resources Center

Since 1996, MDPI has been committed to supporting the research community by providing the latest research freely available and making relevant and useful research available as quickly as possible. The world is current experiencing a pandemic of COVID-19, and researchers are working extremely hard to understand it and find a cure.
The values MDPI holds strongly are particularly important at the moment, and we will continue to publish relevant, peer-reviewed research as quickly as possible in open access format. This means that it will immediately be available for researchers, health professionals, and the general public to read, distribute, and reuse. We believe that scientific advancements will be crucial to overcoming this pandemic, and will do everything we can to support researchers working looking for solutions.
COVID-19 Academic Resources Center contains a variety of information related to COVID-19 available from MDPI, including journal articles, special issues, and preprints, among others.
For more information, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/covid-19
23 April 2020
Presenting the 2020 Nanomaterials Travel Award Winners
It is our pleasure to announce the winners of the 2020 Travel Award sponsored by MDPI and Nanomaterials. The award has been granted to two outstanding young researchers working in thematic areas covered by Nanomaterials.
Dr. Kenry’s research focuses on nano-bio interface engineering for precision nanomedicine. He is particularly interested in understanding and manipulating the interfacial interactions between biological barriers and nanomaterials to regulate their site-specific target localization for enhanced fluorescence and photoacoustics in addition to Raman imaging, photodynamic therapy, and immunotherapy of various diseases. He will present his work at the 94th American Chemical Society (ACS) Colloid & Surface Science Symposium in Houston, USA, on June 7–10, 2020. |
Mr. Kumar works on the simulation, fabrication, and characterization of highly efficient organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) based on thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters. He was a Marie Sklodowska Curie Early Stage Researcher working on the project “Excilight” Donor–Acceptor Light Emitting Exciplexes as Materials for Easy-to-Tailor Ultra-efficient OLED Lighting. He will present his work at the 2020 E-MRS Fall Meeting in Warsaw, Poland on September 14–17, 2020. |
This has certainly been a difficult decision, given the large number of high-quality applications for the award. We would like to thank all of the applicants for submitting what was, collectively, a diverse range of fascinating research topics and congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.
For more information about Nanomaterials awards, please visit this page.
9 April 2020
Free Open Platforms to Support Academics During the COVID-19 Pandemic

As a leading Open Access publisher, MDPI is committed to fostering open scientific exchange in all forms across all disciplines. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, many researchers have to stay at home and many academic conferences have been cancelled or postponed. In light of these changes, MDPI has adopted numerous initiatives that may help accelerate scientific exchange and provide support to the academics during this period.
Scholarly Community—Encyclopedia
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Comprehensive and Free Literature Database—Scilit
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Organize and Participate in Conferences Online—Sciforum
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Post Early Versions of Research Outputs—Preprints
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30 March 2020
Recruiting Topic Editors for Nanomaterials
Nanomaterials is recruiting Topic Editors for the journal:
Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991; CODEN: NANOKO) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal published monthly online by MDPI. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications, and short notes relevant to any field of study that involves nanomaterials, with respect to their science and application. It is abstracted and indexed by SCIE, Scopus, and other databases. The IF for Nanomaterials for 2018 was 4.034. For more information about Nanomaterials, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials
As the Topic Editor, you are responsible for the following:
- Periodically leading Special Issues related to your research field;
- Suggesting new topics, and recommending or inviting other scholars to serve as Guest Editors;
- Supervising the editorial process, for example, pre-screening submissions and making final decisions on papers;
- Reviewing manuscripts related to your research interests;
- Promoting Nanomaterials at conferences that you attend or organize.
The following benefits are available to Topic Editors of Nanomaterials:
- Publish one paper free of charge per year in the Special Issues you supervise, and special discounts of 200 CHF for the papers you invite;
- Discounts of 400 CHF for your paper in the Special Issues you recommend;
- Apply for a travel grant if you lead a successful Sepcial Issue and would like to promote it at conferences.
To apply or request further information, please contact the Nanomaterials Editorial Office ([email protected]).
30 March 2020
Recruiting Editors for Nanomaterials
Nanomaterials is recruiting Editorial Board Members for the following five new sections:
- Nanocomposite Thin Films and 2D Materials
- Biology and Medicines
- Nanophotonics: Characterization, Modelling, and Nanodevices
- Synthesis, Interfaces and Nanostructures
- Energy and Catalysis
Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991; CODEN: NANOKO) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal published monthly online by MDPI. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications, and short notes relevant to any field of study that involves nanomaterials, with respect to their science and application. It is abstracted and indexed by SCIE, Scopus, and other databases. The IF for Nanomaterials for 2018 was 4.034. For more information about Nanomaterials, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials
As an Editorial Board Member, you will be responsible for:
(1) Pre-screening submissions and making decisions on whether they should be rejected or accepted for processing;
(2) Suggesting interesting topics in your research field;
(3) Editing a Special Issue on a topic related to your research;
(4) Publishing/inviting/recommending one paper free of charge per year;
(5) Promoting Nanomaterials and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences.
To apply or request further information, please contact the Nanomaterials Editorial Office ([email protected]).
25 March 2020
MDPI Comment on the COVID-19 Virus
The world is currently suffering from a global pandemic of the corona virus COVID-19. MDPI expresses its sympathies for all of those affected by the virus and stands in solidarity with medical staff and researchers treating patients and searching for scientific solutions.
MDPI has previously published papers covering corona viruses in addition to new papers on the current outbreak, see all papers here. In particular, Viruses has published a number of Special Issues and papers on the topic (see here, here, and here) as well as a forthcoming Special Issue.
Alongside journal articles, MDPI has been a strong supporter of preprints, which are increasingly being used to rapidly disseminate the latest research, and we run the preprint server Preprints.org. Our database of research articles, Scilit, is free to use and covers all publishers including preprint servers. New papers are often in search results within hours of publication and users can set up alerts for new papers.
Our main priority during this period has been the health and safety of staff, and we continue to allow staff to work at home and closely monitor the situation in all locations in which we work. Despite the restrictions, we continue to provide a full publication service and, by close collaboration with our editorial boards and making use our in-house teams, ensure that there are no unnecessary delays in publishing vital research. Fast and open publication has always been at the core of MDPI values and is now more important than ever.
We hope that a solution to the current situation will emerge soon. In the meantime, we will do our best to continue communicating vital research in all fields.
18 March 2020
MDPI Co-Signed Position Statement on Transformative Agreements
The advantages of the open access model of scientific publishing are being increasingly recognized in the scientific community. It allows new scientific evidence to be accessed from the moment of publication for free by anyone around the globe, boosting the impact of new research. In response, many funders, libraries and universities have been adopting new principles to accelerate the transition to open access.
Recently, “transformative agreements” have been negotiated between traditional publishers and various institutions. While increasing the number of open access papers, these agreements lack binding commitments to a full transition to open access, their conditions vary across different regions, and access is still limited for many users.
MDPI is a co-signatory of the recent position statement raising concerns about potential downsides of transformative agreements and how they may delay a full transition to open access. The statement highlights that these models “risk perpetuating current limitations on access, transparency and market competitiveness, while simultaneously facilitating excessive charges on the public purse”.
As a pioneering open access journal publisher, MDPI is the first to promote the importance of science being made available to everyone. Our peer-reviewed journals, covering diverse academic disciplines, are fully accessible to the public free of charge under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). This is why, along with other open access publishers, MDPI is a proud signatory of the position paper and is committed to contributing to the replacement of weak transitional agreements with “agreements with publishers that are already fully committed to open science and who offer full, immediate and transparent Open Access”.
Read the position paper here
16 March 2020
Encyclopedia Outstanding Contributor Awards 2020 - Open for Application
We are pleased to announce that Encyclopedia will be awarding five Outstanding Contributor Awards for researchers in 2020. The nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Encyclopedia Editorial Board.
Prize for Winners
- An official certificate;
- A cash award of 500 CHF or an MDPI discount voucher of 800 CHF.
Application Deadline
31 December, 2020 (Please send your application email with a list of all entries you contributed to our office before the deadline: [email protected])
Candidate Requirements
- Have a Ph.D. degree;
- Have more than three qualified entries published in Encyclopedia in 2020.
Evaluation Standards
- Number of entries published in Encyclopedia in 2020;
- Quality of entries online (including length, figure quality, and novelty);
- Impact of entries (including the number of likes, discussion contents, views, and downloads).
If you are a researcher and have not yet contribute entries to Encyclopedia, please do not miss this chance to highlight your research results.
18 December 2019
Meet Us at TMS 2020 in San Diego, CA, USA, 23–27 February 2020

MDPI will be attending the 149th TMS 2020 on minerals, metals, and materials in San Diego, CA, USA, 23–27 February 2020. An Editorial Board Member meeting of Metals will take place during this event. We warmly welcome you join and share your publishing experience with us.
TMS2020 will present more than 85 symposia planned by all five TMS technical divisions and covering a broad range of topics related to minerals, metals, and materials science and engineering. The event will draw more than 4000 attendees and feature four full days of technical programming.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #726). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://www.tms.org/TMS2020.
11 October 2019
Introducing SciProfiles, an Academic Social Network
MDPI is pleased to announce the release of SciProfiles, its social network platform for researchers and scholars.
The purpose of SciProfiles is aligned with MDPI’s broad mission to accelerate discovery and innovation by facilitating immediate access to research results and to serve scholars and communities by providing opportunities for academic networking.
SciProfiles also ambitions to serve as a sustainable, transparent and community-driven research evaluation system aligned with the DORA principles (https://sfdora.org/). Through their scientific profiles, academics can highlight their contribution to research communities, and measure their impact on their field, beyond publication numbers and impact factors. SciProfiles is currently a beta version and will enrich to give researchers the possibility to highlight all of their contributions to science and their scientific communities as authors, reviewers, editors, conference organizers, conference panelists, conference keynote speakers, or even as lecturers or student mentors at their University.
The classic components of popular community social networks, including follower/following, classical metrics, endorsements and recommendations (https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1690), comments (https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1397) are or will be very soon highlighted in SciProfiles as open science contributions.
To help increase the impact and visibility of articles and their authors to an appropriate audience, the platform offers a NewsFeed that includes recommendations of relevant content based on interests, publication history, saved searches or colleagues’ recommendations.
SciProfiles’ avatars are now being integrated on several MDPI platforms, meaning that you will directly access researchers’ profiles from any of the MDPI platforms:
MDPI's journal publishing website: www.mdpi.com
MDPI's conference hosting and management website: www.sciforum.net
MDPI's pre-print website : www.preprints.org
MDPI's knowledge sharing website : www.encyclopedia.pub
MDPI's books store: www.mdpi.com/books
MDPI's literature database : www.scilit.net
SciProfiles aims to serve scientific communities at large. It can be embedded into third-party websites and also welcomes integration of data from third-parties.
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/2
Dr. Franck Vazquez: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/FranckVazquez
Dr. Martyn Rittman: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/martynrittman
9 October 2019
Meet Us at the 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting in Orlando, USA, 10–15 November 2019

MDPI will be attending the 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting in Orlando, USA, 10–15 November 2019.
The AIChE Annual Meeting is the premier educational forum for chemical engineers interested in innovation and professional growth. Academic and industry experts will cover wide range of topics relevant to cutting-edge research, new technologies, and emerging growth areas in chemical engineering.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
- Processes
- Catalysts
- Safety
- Coatings
- Foods
- Chemosensors
- Nanomaterials
- Pharmaceutics
- Separations
- Sustainability
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #335). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://www.aiche.org/conferences/aiche-annual-meeting/2019.
2 October 2019
Winners of the 2019 MDPI Writing Prize
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 MDPI Writing Prize. Entrants were asked to write on the theme "Judging research: How should research and researchers be evaluated and rewarded?" We received a large number of excellent essays from PhD students and postdocs, and the process of shortlisting and choosing winners was not an easy one. The winners demonstrated excellent writing skills alongside interesting and thought-provoking ideas.
As last year, we will begin the process of collating all entries into a book that will be available in open access format. Alongside promoting good writing skills, we see the prize as a way to promote the voices of early career researchers within broader debates and policy discussions.
Congratulations to all of the participants and especially the winners. The winners are:
1st Prize (500 CHF):
Albin Nilsson (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland)
[Read here]
2nd Prize (250 CHF):
Qi Zhang (Shandong University, Jinan, China)
[Read here]
Igor Ogashawara (Indiana University, Indianapolis, US)
[Read here]
3rd Prize (100 CHF):
Margaret Sivapragasam (Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Perak, Malaysia)
[Read here]
Arvind Sharma (The University of Queensland, Gatton, Australia)
[Read here]
Jose Flores-Guerrero (University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)
[Read here]
The MDPI Writing Prize is an annual award supported by MDPI Author Services, which provides services including language editing, reformatting, plagiarism checks, and image editing.
20 September 2019
Meet us at the 5th International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics (PSCO-2019).

MDPI will attend PSCO-2019 in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 30 September to 2 October 2019.
As the 5th International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics, this event will bring a broad spectrum of the community together to discuss and share knowledge on the latest advances in perovskite materials, devices, and photophysical and optoelectronic properties and phenomena.
It will also host a special session dedicated to speakers working in industry. Additionally, two sessions will be sponsored by two European Projects on perovskites, Espresso and PerTPV.
Representatives from MDPI will be present to exhibit our open access journals
Energies, Batteries, Photonics, and Nanomaterials.
If you plan to attend this event, please visit us at the SwissTech Convention Center. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have regarding open access publishing or our journals. For more information about this conference, please visit https://www.psco-conference.org/index.php
20 September 2019
MDPI Now Gives Scholars the Possibility to Endorse and Recommend Articles
MDPI is pleased to announce the release of a new functionality giving the possibility for researchers and scholars to endorse, and formally recommend articles to their colleagues.
MDPI was an early signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (https://sfdora.org/read/) which calls for improvement in how quality and impact of scholarly research outputs are evaluated, especially in moving beyond journal-based citation metrics (journal Impact Factor, Scopus Citescore, etc.).
MDPI supports the establishment of article-level impact metrics, including citations, views, downloads, and Altmetric scores. These measures serve as an impact indicator for research articles on a case–by-case basis, assessing paper on its own merit. However, these metrics are also subjective and can give a biased picture of the article impact: they do not directly reflect the quality or the intrinsic scientific value of the article.
In our view, community engagement with publications based on community-driven metrics can help to overcome this limitation. We have therefore launched an option for scholars to endorse articles, indicating their own assessment of its content and making a recommendation to their community. This follows our implementation of the open source Hypothesis commenting tool, which has been available for all articles published by MDPI for over a year (https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1397). Both endorsement and commenting are available for all previously published and forthcoming MDPI articles.
In addition to potentially serving as a sustainable solution to article assessment, endorsements will help scientific communities to identify the most relevant articles, independently of the journal in which it was published.
The code for the endorsing functionality, which relies on DOIs and ORCIDs, will be made available on GitHub with an open source license.
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin, President and Founder
Dr. Franck Vazquez, Chief Scientific Officer
Dr. Martyn Rittman, Publishing Director
11 September 2019
Create an Entry in Encyclopedia to Get a 100 CHF Voucher in Publishing in MDPI Journals
Encyclopedia is a free online reference created and curated by active scholars. It aims to highlight the latest research results as well as provide a comprehensive record of scientific development. If you have any suggestions or questions, please feel free to contact us via [email protected].
6 August 2019
Preprints Reaches 10,000 Posted Articles Milestone
We are pleased to announce that Preprints has passed the milestone of 10,000 posted preprints. We are delighted to have reached this after just over three years of operation. Our congratulations and thanks go to our authors and advisory board who have supported growth of the platform and been crucial to its operation.
You can find further details at https://www.preprints.org/announcement/show/37.
2 August 2019
DeepGreen Partnering with Publishers and Universities in Distributing Open Access Content to Institutional Repositories
Last week, the DeepGreen initiative in Germany started into an advanced test phase with the publishing partners S. Karger AG, SAGE Publishing, MDPI, Frontiers and De Gruyter, as well as 27 universities from all over Germany, from Hamburg University of Applied Sciences to University of Konstanz.
DeepGreen aims at lowering the barriers for open access publishing by automatically delivering metadata and full text publications from participating publishers to authorized repositories at German universities.
In preparation for a later live operation, the advanced test phase serves to gain experience with extensive data deliveries from publishers and also handling different repository software (including OPUS4, DSpace, EPrints, MyCoRe). DeepGreen thereby acts as a sophisticated platform, receiving articles published by authors affiliated with German universities and depositing these articles to respective university repositories, based on the affiliation metadata. For more information about DeepGreen: https://deepgreen.kobv.de
Karger AG has been a close cooperation partner of the DeepGreen consortium since 2016. S. Karger has more than 80 subscription-based and around 20 open access journals covering a wide spectrum in health science. DeepGreen will assign S. Karger articles to authorized institutions on the legal basis of German alliance and national licenses.
SAGE Publishing was founded by Sara Miller McCune in 1965 to support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE publishes more than 1,000 journals and over 600 new books each year, spanning a wide range of subject areas. Our growing selection of library products includes archives, data, case studies and video. SAGE remains majority owned by our founder and after her lifetime will become owned by a charitable trust that secures the company’s continued independence. Principal offices are located in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC and Melbourne. SAGE Publishing has been a close cooperation partner of DeepGreen since 2016.
MDPI is a scientific open access publisher and has been a partner of DeepGreen since 2017. MDPI comprises 205 peer-reviewed journals of various disciplines. All articles are published under a CC-BY license and are freely available without embargo period.
Frontiers is a scientific open access publisher with 61 journals of over 600 academic disciplines. All articles are peer-reviewed and published freely available under CC-BY license.
De Gruyter is an academic publisher with more than 700 subscription-based and open access journals of 29 disciplines. Articles provided by De Gruyter will be assigned to institutions with German alliance and national licenses.
There is promising communication with other publishers.
DeepGreen is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the consortium comprises six institutions: the Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg, Bavarian State Library, Bavarian Library Network, University Library of the Technische Universität Berlin, University Library of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Helmholtz Open Science Coordination Office at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences.
If you would like to know in more detail which institutions take part in the advanced test phase of DeepGreen, you can find more information here.
17 July 2019
First Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum
The University of Basel and the MDPI Sustainability Foundation are organizing the First Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum on 9th September 2019.
The aim of this event is to provide background and perspectives on Plan S to Learned Societies, which have to make well-informed decisions to transition their journals to Open Access (OA).
The BSPF will bring together several representatives of Learned societies, Plan S architects as well as representatives from various publishers and publishing platforms. After getting the big picture from cOAlition S, panel discussions will allow to better understand the diverse challenges that Learned societies are facing to transition their journals to OA as well as to identify sustainable, implementable and scalable solutions for successful Open Access transition.
For program details and registration, please follow the link below:
https://sciforum.net/conference/SustainableSolutionsToOpenAccess
28 June 2019
Meet Us at ECM32 in Vienna, Austria, 18–23 August 2019

We will be attending the 32nd European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM32), to be held in the High-Renaissance main building of the University of Vienna, in Vienna, Austria, 18–23 August 2019. ECM32 is organized by the European Crystallographic Association (ECA) as a collaboration between the University of Vienna and the Technical University at Vienna. ECM32 is setting up an attractive program covering the latest advances in crystallography and related sciences to attract young and senior scientists, as well as companies and the general public. Representatives from the following open-access journals will be attending:
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (booth #D12). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit https://www.ecm2019.org/home/.
20 June 2019
Nanomaterials Receiving 2018 Updated Impact Factor of 4.034
We are pleased to inform that Nanomaterials received an updated Journal Impact Factor of 4.034 in the recent release of the Journal Citation Reports®. The journal's 5-Year Impact Factor is 4.358. Nanomaterials now ranks 71/293 (Q1) in the category 'Materials Science, Multidisciplinary' and 39/94 (Q2) in 'Nanoscience & Nanotechnology.'
Evolution of Impact Factor, Citations and Publications for Nanomaterials:
Source: data according to Journal Citation Reports®, 2018 release, a Clarivate Analytics product.
19 June 2019
Meet Us at EUROMAT 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden, 1–5 September

MDPI will be attending the European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes (EUROMAT 2019) in Stockholm, Sweden on 1–5 September 2019.
EUROMAT is the premier international congress in the field of materials science and technology in Europe. The visions of EUROMAT2019 are to:
- Facilitate a programme where academia, research institutes and industry can meet and exchange ideas and provide information on the latest scientific development in
- Promote involvement of top universities and researchers in materials science including special contribution from large scale facilities like MAXIV in Lund
- Demonstrate efficient knowledge transfer between research and its application through the active involvement of research institutes in Sweden like RISE and Swerea
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
Materials
Metals
Catalysts
Nanomaterials
Processes
Polymers
Molecules
JFB
Sustainability
Coatings
Inorganics
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (#BrB1) in Norra Latin - The Marble Vault. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://euromat2019.fems.eu/.
18 June 2019
Meet Us at the MNE 2019 in Rhodes Island, Greece, 23–26 September 2019

MDPI will be attending the 45th International Conference on Micro & Nano Engineering (MNE 2019), to be held in Rhodes Island, Greece, 23 - 26 September 2019.
MNE is the core international conference focusing on: micro/ nanofabrication and manufacturing techniques, and application of the fabricated micro/nanostructures, devices and microsystems into electronics, photonics, energy, environment, chemistry and life sciences.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #3). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: http://www.cleoeurope.org/.
31 May 2019
First-Timers: MDPI Journals Receiving a First CiteScore™ in Scopus
In addition to MDPI journals who received updated CiteScores for 2018, the titles listed below were added in Scopus recently and therefore received a first CiteScore in May 2019, based on last year's citation activity in the database.
For almost all of the newly added MDPI titles, their CiteScore ranks in the upper 50% of the distribution (Q1 or Q2) in at least one of the research areas. The following titles rank in the top 25% cited journals based on CiteScore: Actuators; Biomedicines; Coatings; Cosmetics; Fermentation; Journal of Fungi; Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity; Nanomaterials; and Publications.
To access the full data for MDPI journals, please see here. More data can also be found in SJR Scimago Journal & Country Rank.
New CiteScore for MDPI Journals
Journal | Rank (Quartile) |
Category | Link | CiteScore 2018 | SNIP 2018 |
Actuators | 9/92 (Q1) 60/232 (Q2) |
• Control and Optimization • Control and Systems Engineering |
Link | 2.80 | 1.542 |
Atmosphere | 26/71 (Q2) | • Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | Link | 2.27 | 0.855 |
Atoms | 36/69 (Q3) 105/173 (Q3) 239/397 (Q3) |
• Nuclear and High Energy Physics • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics • Condensed Matter Physics |
Link | 1.20 | 0.707 |
Axioms | 25/91 (Q2) 26/78 (Q2) 11/27 (Q2) 55/135 (Q2) 35/58 (Q3) |
• Algebra and Number Theory • Geometry and Topology • Logic • Analysis • Mathematical Physics |
Link | 0.99 | 0.670 |
Bioengineering | 42/139 (Q2) | • Bioengineering | Link | 3.14 | - |
Biomedicines | 40/189 (Q1) 47/206 (Q1) |
• General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology • Medicine (miscellaneous) |
Link | 3.33 | 0.908 |
Chemosensors | 34/110 (Q2) 50/160 (Q2) |
• Analytical Chemistry • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry |
Link | 2.77 | 0.770 |
Climate | 53/109 (Q2) | • Atmospheric Science | Link | 1.95 | 0.864 |
Coatings | 27/116 (Q1) 63/271 (Q1) 15/53 (Q2) |
• Surfaces, Coatings and Films • Materials Chemistry • Surfaces and Interfaces |
Link | 2.42 | 1.186 |
Computation | 74/204 (Q2) 171/460 (Q2) 58/118 (Q2) 127/259 (Q3) |
• General Computer Science • Applied Mathematics • Theoretical Computer Science • Modeling and Simulation |
Link | 1.40 | 0.552 |
Computers | 128/274 (Q2) 52/89 (Q3) |
• Computer Networks and Communications • Human-Computer Interaction |
Link | 1.59 | - |
Cosmetics | 92/390 (Q1) 38/128 (Q2) 67/164 (Q2) 11/23 (Q2) 23/30 (Q4) |
• Surgery • Dermatology • Pharmaceutical Science • Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) • Aging |
Link | 1.81 | 1.689 |
Econometrics | 339/595 (Q3) | • Economics and Econometrics | Link | 0.82 | - |
Fermentation | 91/404 (Q1) 76/273 (Q2) 10/24 (Q2) |
• Plant Science • Food Science • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) |
Link | 2.24 | - |
Fibers | 86/288 (Q2) 34/103 (Q2) 118/352 (Q2) 49/83 (Q3) |
• Civil and Structural Engineering • Ceramics and Composites • Mechanics of Materials • Biomaterials |
Link | 2.01 | 0.889 |
Galaxies | 46/76 (Q3) | • Astronomy and Astrophysics | Link | 1.08 | 0.308 |
High-Throughput | 181/257 (Q3) 153/205 (Q4) 108/139 (Q4) 340/407 (Q4) |
• Biotechnology • Biomedical Engineering • Bioengineering • Biochemistry |
Link | 0.88 | 0.295 |
Inorganics | 35/69 (Q3) | • Inorganic Chemistry | Link | 1.90 | 0.474 |
International Journal of Neonatal Screening | 138/277 (Q3) 3/5 (Q3) 95/166 (Q3) |
• Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health • Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) • Obstetrics and Gynecology |
Link | 1.07 | 0.240 |
Journal of Developmental Biology | 39/76 (Q3) 224/375 (Q3) 164/265 (Q3) |
• Developmental Biology • Molecular Biology • Cell Biology |
Link | 2.36 | 0.813 |
Journal of Functional Biomaterials | 11/83 (Q1) 26/205 (Q1) |
• Biomaterials • Biomedical Engineering |
Link | 5.10 | 2.234 |
Journal of Fungi | 90/591 (Q1) 62/404 (Q1) |
• Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics • Plant Science |
Link | 2.84 | 0.982 |
Journal of Imaging | 291/661 (Q2) 136/272 (Q3) 36/70 (Q3) 40/75 (Q3) |
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
Link | 1.47 | - |
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering | 30/92 (Q2) 105/288 (Q2) 77/203 (Q2) |
• Ocean Engineering • Civil and Structural Engineering • Water Science and Technology |
Link | 1.76 | 0.955 |
Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity | 4/202 (Q1) 27/1111 (Q1) 9/214 (Q1) |
• General Economics, Econometrics and Finance • Sociology and Political Science • Development |
Link | 4.26 | 2.138 |
Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks | 13/92 (Q1) 27/123 (Q1) 70/274 (Q2) |
• Control and Optimization • Instrumentation • Computer Networks and Communications |
Link | 2.58 | 1.036 |
Lubricants | 182/579 (Q2) 42/116 (Q2) |
• Mechanical Engineering • Surfaces, Coatings and Films |
Link | 1.87 | 1.321 |
Machines | 104/323 (Q2) 33/92 (Q2) 214/579 (Q2) 21/53 (Q2) 262/661 (Q2) 109/232 (Q2) |
• Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering • Control and Optimization • Mechanical Engineering • Computer Science (miscellaneous) • Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Control and Systems Engineering |
Link | 1.63 | 0.769 |
Mathematics | 86/339 (Q2) | • General Mathematics | Link | 1.04 | 0.739 |
Nanomaterials | 29/272 (Q1) 66/439 (Q1) |
• General Chemical Engineering • General Materials Science |
Link | 4.21 | 1.112 |
Processes | 9/23 (Q2) 25/59 (Q2) 68/139 (Q2) |
• Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) • Process Chemistry and Technology • Bioengineering |
Link | 2.05 | 1.049 |
Proteomes | 54/115 (Q2) 23/46 (Q2) 213/407 (Q3) 229/375 (Q3) |
• Clinical Biochemistry • Structural Biology • Biochemistry • Molecular Biology |
Link | 2.32 | 0.445 |
Publications | 11/66 (Q1) 51/312 (Q1) 83/351 (Q1) 233/569 (Q2) |
• Media Technology • Communication • Business and International Management • Computer Science Applications |
Link | 1.96 | 1.068 |
Robotics | 234/579 (Q2) 38/92 (Q2) |
• Mechanical Engineering • Control and Optimization |
Link | 1.53 | 0.722 |
Toxics | 32/117 (Q2) 3/8 (Q2) 40/114 (Q2) |
• Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis • Chemical Health and Safety • Toxicology |
Link | 2.84 | 0.896 |
8 May 2019
Meet us at the 46th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC 46) in Chicago, Illinois, USA

MDPI will attend PVSC 46 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, from 16−21 June 2019.
As the signature event in the burgeoning solar power technology and market sector, the PVSCs have a rich tradition of bringing together students, innovators, researchers and PV leaders in a vibrant and highly integrative forum to share information, gain knowledge, strengthen collaborations and move forward photovoltaic science and technology from basic and applied research into large scale manufacturing and deployments.
Our representatives will be exhibiting our open access journals Energies, Coatings, Sustainability, Catalysts, Nanomaterials, Materials, Electronics, and Applied System Innovation (ASI).
If you will also be in attendance, please stop by our booth (# 110). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have regarding open access publishing or our journals. For more information about this conference, please visit https://www.ieee-pvsc.org/PVSC46/index.php.
11 April 2019
Meet Us at the 46th Controlled Release Society Annual Meeting & Exposition

We will be attending the 46th Controlled Release Society Annual Meeting & Exposition. It is one of the biggest events in pharmaceutical field. Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:
Pharmaceutics
JCM
Biomolecules
Materials
IJMS
Molecules
Nanomaterials
Pharmaceuticals
Scientia Pharmaceutica
Vaccines
JPM
Genes
JFB
IJERPH
Biomedicines
Healthcare
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #303). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://2019.controlledreleasesociety.org/
2 April 2019
Meet Us at NAM26, the 2019 North American Catalysis Society Meeting in Chicago, USA, 23–28 June 2019

MDPI will be attending the 26th meeting of the North American Catalysis Society (NAM 26), to be held in Chicago, USA, 23-28 June 2019.
The 26th meeting of the North American Catalysis Society, NAM26, is the premier scientific event in the field of catalysis research and development in 2019. It will feature technological challenges, breakthrough discoveries, and state-of-the art academic and industrial research.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #108). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://isen.northwestern.edu/nam262019-north-american-catalysis-society-meeting
20 March 2019
Fostering Open Access Publishing Worldwide: New IOAP Participants in February and March 2019
We are pleased to welcome more universities from Poland, Italy, Germany, Brazil and other parts of the world to MDPI's Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP). A warm welcome to the institutions listed below, who have joined the Program in February and March this year.
Authors affiliated with these institutions can now enjoy a discount on the APC for papers accepted for publication in any MDPI journal. If you would like to learn more about our program, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap or email us at [email protected].
5 March 2019
MDPI Joins Jisc’s Publications Router Service
We are delighted to announce our participation in Jisc’s Publication Router project, as of March 2019.
Publications Router is a Jisc service that automatically sends notifications about research articles to institutions' systems such as their repositories or CRISs, since May 2015. Through this agreement, MDPI will provide Jisc with daily feeds and information regarding published articles, which will be gathered by their system and delivered to institutions also registered to this service. Nearly all of our articles are published within 15 days of acceptance, so institutions will receive them quite promptly.
The feed will include the full text of the published version of record, with no embargo, so the articles can be exposed immediately for public view. They are accompanied by rich metadata, including confirmation of the immediate CC BY licence, minimising the need for any manual intervention or checking.
For more information about Publications Router, you may contact Jisc’s central helpdesk at [email protected]. For any queries about MDPI’s institutional agreements and collaborations, you may get in touch with MDPI’s Institutional Engagement team at [email protected], which would be very happy to hear from further UK institutions.
1 February 2019
2018 MDPI Top Reviewer Award—Winners Announced
Rigorous peer-review is the cornerstone of high quality academic publishing. Over 97,000 scholars served as reviewers for MDPI journals in 2018. We are extremely appreciative of all those who made a contribution to the editorial process in this capacity. At the beginning of every year, journal editorial offices publish a list all reviewers’ names to express our gratitude. In addition, this year the “MDPI Top Reviewer Awards” are announced, to recognize the very best reviewers for their expertise, dedication, high quality, and timely review reports. We are pleased to announce the following winners of the 2018 MDPI Top Reviewer Awards:
- Ali Behnood
- Andrea Pezzuolo
- Angela Gorgoglione
- Anna D'Auria
- Antonio D'Andrea
- Azhar Abbas
- Bogdan Zagajewski
- Chunhui Chen
- Dominika Głąbska
- Dominika Guzek
- Dragan Pamucar
- Francisco J. G. Silva
- Frank Li
- Gianluca Serafini
- Gyorgy Szekely
- Haozhi Pan
- Helvi Heinonen-Tanski
- José Manuel Gómez-Soberón
- Kathy Lewis
- Klara Kosova
- Luis N. López De Lacalle
- M. Z. Naser
- Malwina Tytła
- Masoume Amirkhani
- Matteo Ghidelli
- Moretti Laura
- Petra Schneider
- Roberto Cerchione
- Spyros Papaefthymiou
- Ştefan Cristian Gherghina
24 January 2019
JAMS Journals: A Low-Cost Publishing Platform

Since 2010, MDPI has run its own online submission system. More recently, we have made the software, with accompanying publishing services, available to other publishers as JAMS (Journal and Article Management System). We are now delighted to announce the launch of JAMS Journals, a standardized platform for operating open access journals at low cost.
JAMS Journals provides a comprehensive service, including a shared submission website, journal websites hosted at a URL provided by the publisher, and a full production service. There is a small setup fee and the cost for each published paper is just a few hundred Swiss francs.
The platform demonstrates that running an open access journal can be straightforward and affordable. The JAMS Journals platform is suitable for
- small publishers or groups of scholars looking to launch their own journal;
- existing publishers or societies seeking to explore open access options;
- publishers looking to convert an existing subscription journal to open access.
JAMS journals launches with two journals from Canadian-based publisher Etcetera Publications:
- Canadian Journal of Pesticides & Pest Management (http://www.cjppm.ca)
- Nanotechnology in Agriculture, Food & Environment (http://www.nanoafe.ca)
Dr AJ Al-Rajab (President of Etcetera Publications) comments:
“In the past few months, we were working on our project to launch new open access scientific journals in the field of agricultural and environmental sciences. We decided to go with JAMS for this venture because of the high quality of their services, reasonable prices, professionalism and easy communication. Our portfolio is expected to grow rapidly during 2019 to include more titles covering different areas in agriculture and environment. MDPI earned already our complete satisfaction and we are looking for a long term cooperation.”
Alongside the new platform, we continue to provide flexible, tailored journal management solutions for existing publishers. For any questions or to request a quotation, contact Dr. Constanze Schelhorn ([email protected]).
24 January 2019
Popularity of Preprints Continues to Grow
2018 was a great year for preprints, with increasing numbers of authors looking to make their papers available online before peer review. Along with other preprint servers, our platform Preprints.org saw an increase in the uptake from authors, and more than double the number of announced papers compared to 2017. In fact, we recently passed two important milestones: 8000 preprints online and 30,000 authors.
We believe that the whole research community has the opportunity to benefit from work being available online as early as possible. We thank and congratulate our authors for supporting us to make this goal a reality.
In 2019, we will be looking carefully at how to provide better value for authors, maintain efficiency while growing in size, and make sure we remain well-connected with the research community.
If you want to participate, you can consider screening preprints or joining our advisory board. And, of course, posting your own work.
9 January 2019
Open Access Agreement between the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ), the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), and MDPI
We are delighted to announce the establishment of our national Open Access agreement with the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Through this national agreement, the Austrian institutions listed below as well as FWF will cover the Article Processing Charges (APC) of manuscripts published by eligible corresponding or funded authors in MDPI journals as long as central funds are available.
All participating institutions have gained access to the MDPI online submission system where they can find full article metadata and pricing information as well as Funder and Grant ID details for easy identification and additional transparency. At the same time eligible authors are benefited from an APC discount which comes at no cost for the institutions.
Eligible corresponding authors affiliated with the participating institutions are prompted to choose the corresponding Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) when they submit an article via our online submission system. The program will be selected automatically if authors submit their papers using their institutional email address. To claim their discount, FWF funded authors should choose the particular funder and add their Grant ID upon online submission of their manuscript. The institutions will then crosscheck the information and confirm the APC funding.
Eligible authors that have their APC covered by their institution or funder are advised to include the following sentence in their acknowledgments: "Open Access Funding by the [name of the institution/funder]".
The full text of the agreement is openly available online at: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2536007
For any questions about the agreement, please contact the KEMÖ Consortium at [email protected], FWF at [email protected], or the MDPI IOAP team at [email protected]
The Austrian institutions participating in this agreement are:
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- University for Continuing Education Krems
- University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna
- University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
- University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien
- Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
- Institute of Science and Technology Austria
- MCI Management Center Innsbruck
- University of Graz
- University of Linz
- University of Salzburg
- Graz University of Technology
- TU Wien
- University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
- University of Vienna
This is our first collective agreement with a national library consortium, while the individual institutions around the world participating in our IOAP are now more than 500 - see details here: https://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap. We would be mostly interested in discussing about possible collaborations with other consortia, funders, and institutions in our mutual efforts to accelerate Open Access.
2 January 2019
Encyclopedia—the Scholarly Community Encyclopedia

We are pleased to announce the new platform Encyclopedia, which is an online reference created and curated by active scholars. It aims to highlight the latest research results as well as providing benchmark information for researchers and the general public interested in accurate and advanced knowledge on specific topics.
We encourage authors of review articles to quote and adapt the content of their published papers to create Encyclopedia entries. You can create completely new entries on topics in which you have knowledge and expertise. There is no limit on the topics or research fields. All of science and the humanities are included. Each entry will be published directly after submission.
We also have prepared a DOI application function in Encyclopedia. Once a DOI application is approved, the entry website will announce the DOI number and a pdf version with DOI information will be automatically created.
We look forward to your contributions and hope you will make use of this service. Find more about the service at: https://encyclopedia.pub/
15 November 2018
Meet Us at the TMS 2019 Annual Meeting and Exhibition at San Antonio, TX, USA, 10–14 March 2019

Our colleagues and editors will be attending the TMS 2019 Annual Meeting and Exhibition, to be held in San Antonio, TX, USA, 10–14 March 2019. The following MDPI journals will be represented:
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (#137). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have.
The TMS meeting will bring together more than 4,000 engineers, scientists, and other professionals in the materials field for a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary exchange of technical knowledge leading to solutions in the workplace and in society. For more information about the conference, please visit https://www.tms.org/tms2019.
30 October 2018
Institutional Open Access Agreement between Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and MDPI

We are delighted to announce that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is now a participant of our Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP). Authors funded by the BMGF can enjoy discounts on the APC, while the funder covers the costs of eligible articles centrally. BMGF also has access to the MDPI online submission system where they can find full article metadata and pricing information as well as Grant ID details for easy identification and additional transparency.
We hope that funded authors find the programme beneficial and we are happy to offer our IOAP to other funders that need a streamlined workflow of compliance checking and APC coverage.
To claim their discount, BMGF funded authors should choose the particular funder and add their Grant ID upon online submission of their manuscript.
For any questions about the BMGF agreement, please contact the funder at [email protected] or the MDPI IOAP team at [email protected].
2 October 2018
MDPI Welcomes Plan S
Recently, it was announced that a group of European funders supported 10 principles that will help to expand open access, known as Plan S. MDPI warmly welcomes this move as a step towards achieving more open and accessible communication of research across all disciplines. Some aspects remain to be clarified, however the details given so far match the aims and values that MDPI has held over the past two decades.
We believe that open access publishers should be active participants in discussions around Plan S, particularly regarding potential new business models and practical aspects of implementation. MDPI supports APCs as a transparent unit of payment for article publishing, however we are committed to exploring other measures and recently signed the Jussieu Call. Sustainability is a key value for MDPI, and future funding models should have at their heart the sustainability of knowledge and research dissemination. Plan S provides an opportunity for funders and publishers to directly discuss funding of open access journals in ways that are beneficial to all parties involved.
7 September 2018
Meet Us at ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Pittsburgh, USA (9–15 November 2018)

MDPI will be represented at IMECE 2018 in Pittsburgh, USA, from 9–15 November 2018.
ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) is the largest interdisciplinary mechanical engineering conference in the world. IMECE plays a significant role in stimulating innovation from basic discovery to translational application. It fosters new collaborations that engage stakeholders and partners not only from academia, but also from national laboratories, industry, research settings, and funding bodies.
The following MDPI open access journals will be represented:
If you are planning to attend this conference, please stop by our booth #202. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person, and will be happy to answer any questions you may have regarding open access publishing or our journals. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://www.asme.org/events/imece
5 September 2018
Meet Us at MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, USA, 25–30 November 2018

MDPI will be attending 2018 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, to be held in Boston, USA, 25–30 November 2018.
This conference is the key forum to present research to an interdisciplinary and international audience. It provides a window on the future of materials science and offers an opportunity for researchers—from students and postdoctoral fellows, to Nobel and Kavli Prize Laureates—to exchange technical information and network with colleagues.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
- Materials
- Polymers
- Energies
- Nanomaterials
- Metals
- Journal of Functional Biomaterials (JFB)
- Processes
- Sensors
- Sustainability
- C
- Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (JMMP)
- Biomimetics
- Methods and Protocols (MPs)
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #123). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://www.mrs.org/fall2018
30 August 2018
MDPI establishes Open Access agreement with Qatar National Library
We are happy to announce the establishment of an Open Access (OA) agreement with Qatar National Library (QNL). QNL is committed to supporting and helping Qatar authors publish OA at no cost. Through this national agreement, QNL will cover the Article Processing Charges (APC) of manuscripts published by Qatar-based corresponding authors in MDPI journals.
Eligible corresponding authors affiliated with Qatar research centers and universities are prompted to choose QNL as part of our Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) when they submit an article via our online submission system. The program will be selected automatically if authors submit their papers using their institutional email and/or a computer registered with the institution’s IP range. QNL will then crosscheck the information and confirm the APC funding.
Qatar authors that have their APC covered by QNL are advised to include the following sentence in their acknowledgments: "The publication of this article was funded by Qatar National Library".
For more information, please visit Open Access at QNL or email the QNL Open Access team at [email protected].
26 June 2018
2017 Impact Factor Released for Nanomaterials: 3.504
We are pleased to inform that Nanomaterials received an updated Journal Impact Factor of 3.504 in the June 2018 release of the Journal Citation Reports®. The journal's 5-Year Impact Factor is 3.811. Nanomaterials now ranks 71/285 (Q1) in the category 'Materials Science, Multidisciplinary' and 39/92 (Q2) in 'Nanoscience & Nanotechnology.'
Evolution of Impact Factor, Citations and Publications for Nanomaterials:
Source: data according to Journal Citation Reports®, 2018 release, a Clarivate Analytics product; and Scopus journal metrics.
31 May 2018
2017 CiteScore™ Metrics Released
The 2017 CiteScore™ data is available now, based on citation data in the Scopus® database. The current CiteScore reflects citation activity in 2017 for articles published in 2014‒2016. Please note that the list below includes journals assigned a CiteScore in this year’s release. For a full list of journals indexed in Scopus, please see our journal list.
Thirteen of our journals received a CiteScore which is in the top 10% of the distribution in at least one of the categories (marked with * in the table below), while a further 32 journals exhibit scores that are in the first quartile of the respective categories.
To access the full data for MDPI journals, please see here. More data can also be found in SJR Scimago Journal & Country Rank.
Unlike CiteScores and the widely used Journal Impact Factors, the Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) metrics are normalized in order to correct for differences in citation practices between scientific fields. Therefore, the SNIP allows direct comparison between journals specialized in different fields.
According to 2017 data, MDPI publishes six journals with an average citation impact, or SNIP, in excess of 1.500. These journals are Biomolecules, Cancers, Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM), Marine Drugs, Remote Sensing and Sensors (see the last column in the table below).
CiteScore Data for MDPI Journals
Journal | Rank (Quartile) |
Category | Link | CiteScore 2017 | 2016 |
2015 |
SNIP 2017 |
Aerospace | 43/116 (Q2) | • Aerospace Engineering | Link | 1.23 | - | - | 1.152 |
Agriculture | 69/309 (Q1) 91/398 (Q1) 78/255 (Q2) |
• Agronomy and Crop Science • Plant Science • Food Science |
Link | 1.93 | - | - | 1.133 |
Agronomy | 46/309 (Q1) | • Agronomy and Crop Science | Link | 2.38 | - | - | 1.115 |
Algorithms | 22/46 (Q2) 61/125 (Q2) 60/107 (Q3) 64/114 (Q3) |
• Numerical Analysis • Computational Mathematics • Computational Theory and Mathematics • Theoretical Computer Science |
Link | 1.03 | 1.15 | 1.07 | 0.749 |
Animals | 12/154 (Q1) * 48/367 (Q1) |
• General Veterinary • Animal Science and Zoology |
Link | 2.02 | 1.46 | 1.66 | 1.099 |
Antibiotics | 6/68 (Q1) * 62/263 (Q1) 55/230 (Q1) 31/108 (Q2) 47/134 (Q2) 139/398 (Q2) |
• General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics • Infectious Diseases • Pharmacology (medical) • Microbiology (medical) • Microbiology • Biochemistry |
Link | 2.85 | 1.65 | - | 0.975 |
Antibodies | 43/143 (Q2) 61/164 (Q2) 85/189 (Q2) |
• Drug Discovery • Immunology and Allergy • Immunology |
Link | 2.85 | - | - | 0.844 |
Antioxidants | 23/119 (Q1) 35/169 (Q2) 100/398 (Q2) 119/367 (Q2) 102/264 (Q2) |
• Clinical Biochemistry • Physiology • Biochemistry • Molecular Biology • Cell Biology |
Link | 3.42 | - | - | 1.361 |
Applied Sciences | 48/270 (Q1) 15/66 (Q1) 31/116 (Q2) 18/53 (Q2) 151/434 (Q2) 186/535 (Q2) |
• General Engineering • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes • Instrumentation • Process Chemistry and Technology • General Materials Science • Computer Science Applications |
Link | 1.90 | - | - | 0.801 |
Biology | 12/177 (Q1)* 32/186 (Q1) 10/40 (Q1) |
• General Agricultural and Biological Sciences • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology • General Immunology and Microbiology |
Link | 3.48 | 3.02 | 2.78 | 0.961 |
Biomolecules | 31/398 (Q1) * 41/367 (Q1) |
• Biochemistry • Molecular Biology |
Link | 5.72 | 1.67 | 3.08 | 1.542 |
Biosensors | 20/119 (Q1) | • Clinical Biochemistry | Link | 3.59 | 2.83 | 2.37 | 1.122 |
Brain Sciences | 47/111 (Q2) | • General Neuroscience | Link | 2.56 | - | - | 0.695 |
Cancers | 26/323 (Q1) * 23/191 (Q1) |
• Oncology • Cancer Research |
Link | 5.82 | 5.02 | 4.07 | 1.567 |
Catalysts | 32/151 (Q1) 21/46 (Q2) |
• Physical and Theoretical Chemistry • Catalysis |
Link | 3.23 | 3.44 | 3.45 | 0.954 |
Crystals | 76/272 (Q2) 140/434 (Q2) 127/398 (Q2) 26/64 (Q2) |
• General Chemical Engineering • General Materials Science • Condensed Matter Physics • Inorganic Chemistry |
Link | 1.97 | 1.89 | 1.47 | 0.745 |
Diagnostics | 49/119 (Q2) | • Clinical Biochemistry | Link | 2.43 | - | - | 0.788 |
Diversity | 30/124 (Q1) 14/52 (Q2) 83/306 (Q2) 11/29 (Q2) |
• Nature and Landscape Conservation • Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) • Ecology • Ecological Modelling |
Link | 2.15 | 2.03 | 1.96 | 1.300 |
Electronics | 109/644 (Q1) 26/148 (Q1) 42/224 (Q1) 50/259 (Q1) 23/96 (Q1) |
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Hardware and Architecture • Control and Systems Engineering • Computer Networks and Communications • Signal Processing |
Link | 2.97 | - | - | 1.227 |
Energies | 6/73 (Q1) * 31/192 (Q1) 103/644 (Q1) 4/16 (Q1) 47/140 (Q2) |
• Control and Optimization • Energy Engineering and Power Technology • Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Energy (miscellaneous) • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment |
Link | 3.11 | 2.50 | 2.87 | 1.340 |
Entropy | 35/202 (Q1) | • General Physics and Astronomy | Link | 2.41 | 1.87 | 1.99 | 1.189 |
Forests | 17/129 (Q1) | • Forestry | Link | 2.31 | 2.06 | 1.76 | 0.990 |
Future Internet | 132/259 (Q3) | • Computer Networks and Communications | Link | 1.25 | - | - | - |
Games | 132/187 (Q3) 78/110 (Q3) 305/418 (Q3) |
• Statistics and Probability • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty • Applied Mathematics |
Link | 0.61 | 0.87 | 0.57 | 1.038 |
Genes | 21/91 (Q1) 74/311 (Q1) |
• Genetics (clinical) • Genetics |
Link | 3.49 | 3.62 | 3.18 | 0.374 |
Geosciences | 32/182 (Q1) |
• General Earth and Planetary Sciences | Link | 1.97 | 1.67 | 1.29 | 0.856 |
Information | 143/251 (Q3) | • Information Systems | Link | 1.16 | 0.78 | 0.94 | 1.146 |
Insects | 27/135 (Q1) | • Insect Science | Link | 1.85 | 1.81 | 1.38 | 0.719 |
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) | 80/478 (Q1) 34/106 (Q2) |
• Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis |
Link | 2.41 | 2.38 | 2.42 | 0.931 |
International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) | 7/69 (Q1) * 61/535 (Q1) 20/163 (Q1) 9/64 (Q1) 26/151 (Q1) 89/367 (Q2) 17/46 (Q2) |
• Spectroscopy • Computer Science Applications • Organic Chemistry • Inorganic Chemistry • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry • Molecular Biology • Catalysis |
Link | 3.86 | 3.73 | 3.37 | 0.998 |
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI) | 79/605 (Q1) 22/82 (Q2) 13/36 (Q2) |
• Geography, Planning and Development • Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) • Computers in Earth Sciences |
Link | 2.10 | 1.62 | 1.52 | 1.062 |
Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM) | 10/841 (Q1) * | • General Medicine | Link | 7.07 | - | - | 1.535 |
Journal of Functional Biomaterials (JFB) | 43/199 (Q1) 23/77 (Q2) |
• Biomedical Engineering • Biomaterials |
Link | 3.47 | - | - | 1.344 |
Journal of Low Po- wer Electronics and Applications (JLPEA) |
301/644 (Q2) | • Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Link | 1.12 | 0.98 | 0.83 | 0.367 |
Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM) | 54/189 (Q2) | • Medicine (miscellaneous) | Link | 2.61 | - | - | 0.944 |
Land | 50/124 (Q2) 129/306 (Q2) 36/65 (Q3) |
• Nature and Landscape Conservation • Ecology • Global and Planetary Change |
Link | 1.44 | - | - | 0.658 |
Life | 4/94 (Q1) * 70/561 (Q1) 40/186 (Q1) 20/80 (Q2) |
• Palaeontology • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology • Space and Planetary Science |
Link | 3.16 | 2.95 | 1.68 | 0.935 |
Marine Drugs | 17/146 (Q1) | • Drug Discovery | Link | 4.58 | 3.83 | 3.66 | 1.537 |
Materials | 83/434 (Q1) | • General Materials Science | Link | 3.02 | 3.26 | 3.11 | 1.285 |
Membranes | 5/18 (Q2) 15/53 (Q2) 4/10 (Q2) |
• Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) • Process Chemistry and Technology • Filtration and Separation |
Link | 2.69 | 2.19 | 2.95 | 0.880 |
Metabolites | 47/209 (Q1) 103/398 (Q2) 127/367 (Q2) |
• Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism • Biochemistry • Molecular Biology |
Link | 3.35 | - | - | 0.925 |
Metals | 155/434 (Q2) | • General Materials Science | Link | 1.87 | - | - | 0.955 |
Micromachines | 105/554 (Q1) 154/644 (Q1) 64/224 (Q2) |
• Mechanical Engineering • Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Control and Systems Engineering |
Link | 2.31 | 1.83 | 1.78 | 0.987 |
Minerals | 33/175 (Q1) 45/208 (Q1) |
• Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology • Geology |
Link | 2.21 | 2.13 | 1.77 | 1.149 |
Molecules | 4/25 (Q1) 25/172 (Q1) 18/104 (Q1) 31/163 (Q1) 30/151 (Q1) 31/146 (Q1) 55/160 (Q2) |
• Chemistry (miscellaneous) • Pharmaceutical Science • Analytical Chemistry • Organic Chemistry • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry • Drug Discovery • Molecular Medicine |
Link | 3.27 | 3.09 | 2.65 | 1.146 |
Nutrients | 11/255 (Q1) * 9/112 (Q1) * |
• Food Science • Nutrition and Dietetics |
Link | 4.35 | 4.29 | 4.07 | 1.403 |
Pathogens | 38/263 (Q1) 20/108 (Q1) 9/40 (Q1) 40/164 (Q1) 110/367 (Q2) |
• Infectious Diseases • Microbiology (medical) • General Immunology and Microbiology • Immunology and Allergy • Molecular Biology |
Link | 3.52 | - | - | 1.166 |
Pharmaceuticals | 14/172 (Q1) * 33/160 (Q1) |
• Pharmaceutical Science • Molecular Medicine |
Link | 4.12 | 4.90 | 3.64 | 1.370 |
Pharmaceutics | 21/172 (Q1) | • Pharmaceutical Science | Link | 3.68 | 3.83 | 2.68 | 1.092 |
Photonics | 30/116 (Q1) 80/270 (Q2) 53/160 (Q2) |
• Instrumentation • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and Imaging • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics |
Link | 1.96 | - | - | 0.817 |
Plants | 73/561 (Q1) 48/389 (Q1) 44/306 (Q1) |
• Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics • Plant Science • Ecology |
Link | 3.13 | - | - | 0.969 |
Polymers | 17/142 (Q1) 63/359 (Q1) |
• Polymers and Plastics • General Chemistry |
Link | 3.30 | 3.74 | 3.37 | 1.213 |
Religions | 26/389 (Q1) * | • Religious Studies | Link | 0.56 | - | - | 0.676 |
Remote Sensing | 13/182 (Q1) * | • General Earth and Planetary Sciences | Link | 4.03 | 3.56 | 3.76 | 1.559 |
Resources | 19/142 (Q1) 39/261 (Q1) |
• Nature and Landscape Conservation • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law |
Link | 2.69 | - | - | 1.387 |
Scientia Pharmaceutica | 92/172 (Q3) | • Pharmaceutical Science | Link | 0.86 | - | - | 0.513 |
Sensors | 9/116 (Q1) * 25/160 (Q1) 100/644 (Q1) 19/104 (Q1) 113/398 (Q2) |
• Instrumentation • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics • Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Analytical Chemistry • Biochemistry |
Link | 3.23 | 2.78 | 2.21 | 1.550 |
Social Sciences | 81/213 (Q2) | • General Social Sciences | Link | 0.60 | - | - | 0.445 |
Sustainability | 61/605 (Q1) * 55/261 (Q1) 60/140 (Q2) |
• Geography, Planning and Development • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment |
Link | 2.37 | 1.96 | 1.78 | 1.030 |
Symmetry | 44/327 (Q1) 17/45 (Q2) 16/40 (Q2) 14/25 (Q2) |
• General Mathematics • Computer Science (miscellaneous) • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) • Chemistry (miscellaneous) |
Link | 1.32 | 1.12 | 0.95 | 0.802 |
Toxins | 18/106 (Q1) 21/111 (Q1) |
• Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis • Toxicology |
Link | 3.32 | 3.34 | 3.76 | 1.136 |
Vaccines | 5/230 (Q1) * 13/263 (Q1) * 18/302 (Q1) * 11/146 (Q1) * 32/189 (Q1) |
• Pharmacology (medical) • Infectious Diseases • Pharmacology • Drug Discovery • Immunology |
Link | 4.88 | 1.23 | 3.76 | 1.255 |
Viruses | 29/263 (Q1) 16/68 (Q1) |
• Virology • Infectious Diseases |
Link | 3.88 | 3.60 | 3.74 | 1.130 |
Water | 66/605 (Q1) 37/191 (Q1) 43/199 (Q1) 193/398 (Q2) |
• Geography, Planning and Development • Water Science and Technology • Aquatic Science • Biochemistry |
Link | 2.29 | 2.05 | 1.96 | 1.007 |
30 April 2018
Winners of the First MDPI Writing Prize
We are pleased to announce the results of the first MDPI Writing Prize. We received a large number of entries from across the globe on the theme of “The Global Benefits of Open Research”. It was a pleasure to read so many original, well-researched and well-presented ideas, and the final choice was not an easy one. We are pleased to announce that the winners are as follows:
1st prize (500 CHF, Swiss knife and certificate)
Edmond Sanganyado, Shantou University, China
2nd prizes (250 CHF, Swiss knife and certificate)
Kamala T. Rajahgopal, Asia e University, Malaysia
Yin Zhixuan, Qingdao University of Technology, China
3rd prizes (100 CHF, Swiss knife and certificate)
Alexandra Ticea, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania
Ankur Sarker, University of Virginia, USA
Daniel Attoye, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Congratulations to all of them! The winning entries can be downloaded by clicking on the names above. A compilation of all entries will soon be available as an open access book.
The writing prize is sponsored by the MDPI English editing service.
23 March 2018
Check for Updates: A New Function in the Article PDF Version
At MDPI, we always want to keep you up to date. Even for already published articles, some corrections or minor changes may occur. To prevent you from missing any updates, from now on you will be able to access the latest version of any manuscript by clicking on the “check for updates” logo that you can find in the PDF file, even if you have saved the file on your computer.
13 March 2018
MDPI Becoming a Member of UKSG
We are proud to announce that MDPI is now a member of UKSG, the UK´s largest scholarly communications community. Through UKSG, different stakeholders share their knowledge and experience in order to improve the knowledge and information environment for researchers. UKSG´s members include universities, publishers, content providers, intermediaries, and other similar organisations. Members participate in discussions and events on issues around scholarly communications.
The UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition is a flagship initiative from the UKSG and one of the most stimulating events in the scholarly communications calendar. It is held annually and attracts a large number of delegates. More information is available at https://www.uksg.org/events/annualconference
MDPI is delighted to be a part of this active community and we look forward to making our own contribution. We will continue to support organisations and initiatives that boost collaboration and vision within scholarly communication.
More information about UKSG can be found at https://www.uksg.org/. The full membership list is available at: https://www.uksg.org/members.
12 March 2018
Meet Us at the 2018 E-MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit in Strasbourg, France, 18–22 June 2018

MDPI will be attending the 2018 E-MRS Spring Meeting and Exhibit. The conference is a plenary session to provide an international forum for discussing recent advances in the field of materials science. It will consist of 29 parallel symposia with invited speakers, oral and poster presentations. Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:
Applied Sciences
Biomimetics
Clean Technologies
Coatings
Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (JMMP)
Materials
Metals
Nanomaterials
Polymers
Processes
Quantum Beam Science (QuBS)
8 March 2018
Meet Us at NANOTECH 2018 in Anaheim, CA, USA, 13–16 May 2018

We will be attending the 20th annual Nanotech 2018 Conference & Expo (NANOTECH 2018), co-located with the TechConnect World Innovation Conference, Defense TechConnect Summit and Spring SBIR/STTR Conference. The event will attract more than 350 featured exhibitors and an expected crowd of more than 4000 attendees, including business executives, venture capitalists, politicians, s cientists and researchers from over 70 countries. Nanotech contains 38 symposiums and brings together specialists from a wide range of scientific fields, technology and business.
Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:
Sensors
Materials
Nanomaterials
Journal of Functional Biomaterials (JFB)
Journal of Imaging
Sustainability
Fluids
Photonics
Electronics
Catalysts
Applied Sciences
Inventions
Diagnostics
Cancers
Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications (JLPEA)
Designs
Pharmaceuticals
C
Inorganics
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)
Machines
Pharmaceutics
Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (JMMP)
Actuators
Robotics
Energies
Biosensors
Chemosensors
Membranes
Coatings
Micromachines
If you will also attend this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth # 317). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit:
https://www.techconnectworld.com/Nanotech2018/
Conference Location:
Anaheim Convention Center,
800 W Katella Avenue
Anaheim CA 92802
USA
13 February 2018
Announcing the 1st International Online Conference on Nanomaterials

After decades of intense research, nanomaterials are now an integral part of many applications and enjoy the attention of a large research community. Intrinsically multi-disciplinary, research activities are spanning from engineering, over physics and chemistry to biology and medicine. Likewise, current applications may differ, from contrast agents for medical imaging to touch screens for mobile phones.
The scope of this online conference covers the whole breadth of nanomaterials research and provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of new results.
The conference will be free of charge for presenters and visitors. There will be an opportunity to publish peer-reviewed and accepted papers in a Special Issue in Nanomaterials (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials). MDPI offers a 20% discount on the publication fees for this Special Issue.
Important dates:
15 May 2018: | Abstract Deadline |
25 May 2018: | Abstract Acceptance Notification Deadline |
1-15 July 2018: | Conference Date |
15 August 2018: | Special Issue Paper Submission Deadline |
We hope that this conference will be an inspiring and exciting event.
Clemens Burda and Thomas Nann
Conference Chairs
Website: https://sciforum.net/conference/IOCN%202018-1
E-Mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
1 February 2018
MDPI Signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
The DORA initiative addresses the need for advanced approaches in the evaluation and measurement of the quality of scientific research outputs. It is a worldwide initiative covering all scholarly disciplines. MDPI proudly joins a list of more than 400 organizations around the world which support DORA’s recommendations for improving the way the quality of research results is evaluated.
More info can be found at http://www.ascb.org/dora/
25 January 2018
Meet Us at the ACS National Meeting & Exposition in New Orleans, USA, 18–22 March 2018

We will be attending the 255th ACS National Meeting & Exposition. It is an interdisciplinary forum open to anyone with an interest in Chemistry and the related disciplines. Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:
Agronomy
Applied Sciences
Beverages
Biomimetics
Biosensors
C
Catalysts
ChemEngineering
Chemosensors
Coatings
Energies
Environments
Fibers
Foods
Gels
Inorganics
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (JMSE)
Lubricants
Materials
Mathematics
Metals
Molecules
Nanomaterials
Polymers
Processes
Resources
Safety
Sensors
Separations
Sustainability
Symmetry
Toxins
Water
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #640). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/meetings/national-meeting.html?sc=home_meetings_170818_mtg_NO18_od
4 January 2018
Meet Us at the 2018 MRS Spring Meeting in Phoenix, AZ, USA
We will be attending the 2018 MRS Spring Meeting, which will be held in Phoenix, AZ, USA, 2 to 6 April 2018, representing the following open access journals:
Materials
Metals
Nanomaterials
Polymers
Coatings
Journal of Functional Biomaterials (JFB)
Quantum Beam Science (QuBS)
Biomimetics
Please come along to our booth to chat with our delegates about our journals. Our delegates will also answer any questions about online publishing and our journals. We look forward to meeting you in person in Phoenix!
For more information on the conference, please visit:
http://www.mrs.org/spring2018
28 December 2017
6th International Symposium on Sensor Science (I3S 2018) and 4th SPINTECH Technology Thesis Award, 6–8 August 2018, Kenting, Taiwan

Sensors are vital components of smart manufacturing, artificial Intelligence, Cyber–Physical System (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT) for industry 4.0. For more advanced creations, biologists, engineers, physicists and chemists are all endeavoring to provide innovative technical sensors. In 2018, the journal Sensors is going to hold an international conference in Kenting, which is located in the south of Taiwan; the conference is taking place in Asia for the first time.
I3S embraces all professionals from industry, academia and government to discuss the latest developments and breakthroughs of sensor technology and related subjects. During the conference, attendees, from a range of research areas, will all gather together to share different aspects and establish new mutually beneficial collaborations across different fields.
Conference scope: Physical Sensors; Sensor Networks; Sensors Application; Biosensors; Chemical Sensors; IOT sensor and application.
We sincerely look forward to your participation in I3S2018.
19 December 2017
Announcing the MDPI English Writing Prize
The competition is still open until end of March! Please check out the banner for more details: https://mdpi-res.com/data/english-prize.pdf
15 December 2017
UCL Press Adopts the MDPI Editorial Platform JAMS

We are delighted to announce that UCL Press has adopted MDPI's Journal Article & Management System, JAMS, including production services. JAMS is a modular, integrated editorial platform for academic publishers. It offers flexibility, ease-of-use, and is a fully integrated solution for the end-to-end management of scholarly journals. JAMS is based on the software used to publish MDPI’s portfolio of journals.
Ian Caswell, UCL Press Journals Manager, says he is "excited to see UCL Press and MDPI partner together to implement the JAMS submission system for all UCL Press journals. The system offered a flexible, efficient and straightforward solution for our processes from author submission to ready for publication. I am grateful for the valuable experience and support MDPI have offered and look forward to developing our programme with an effective submission system in place.” Dr Martyn Rittman, MDPI’s Publishing Services Manager, adds, “We are proud to support one of the UK’s premier university presses in their publishing operation. This is an excellent way for us at MDPI to share our experience and knowledge, and benefit the research community beyond our own journals.”
JAMS combines services that are kept separate for many publishers. The entire editorial process, production and invoicing (e.g. for open access article processing charges) are fully integrated into a single platform. This allows for efficient, fast manuscript processing. For further information about JAMS, see https://www.mdpi.com/publishing_services.
23 November 2017
New Participants in the Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP)
We are pleased to welcome new participants to MDPI's Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), designed to help institutions manage the transition to the Open Access publishing model. Researchers affiliated with participating universites benefit from a 10% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APC) for any paper published in an MDPI journal, while the participating library or university incurs no basic fee for participating in the program.
The IOAP set of free services, provided by MDPI to institutions that sign up, include:- No fee for participants and no obligation to prolong after the initial 12 months. The participants may withdraw from the programme at any time, and we will also keep it free for the library for as long as they continue in the programme.
- Authors affiliated with the university will receive a 10% discount on the APC.
- The institution is granted free access to the MDPI submission system and can receive free alerts of new submissions to our journals.
- By default, authors from the institution will continue to be invoiced directly unless the institution opts for central billing.
- Auto-archiving of papers into the institutions´ repository as long as it supports SWORD 1.3.
More details about the programme and a list of our current participant institutions can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap
Institutions which are interested to participate may do so online at: https://www.mdpi.com/ioap-form
The following North American universities have signed up to the IOAP program recently:
Connecticut College, USA
Emory University, USA
Florida International University, USA
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Mississippi State University, USA
Northeastern University, USA
Rice University, USA
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
University of Rhode Island, USA
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
University of Toronto, Canada
University of Windsor, Canada
University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
Wellesley College, USA
West Virginia University, USA
Many prestigious institutions from Europe and Asia have joined as well:
Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation, Malaysia
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Newcastle University, UK
Northumbria University, UK
Southwest University, China
Technical University of Crete, Greece
University Malaya, Malaysia
University of Antwerp, Belgium
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
University of Manchester, UK
University of Reading, UK
University of Sussex, UK
University of Warwick, UK
West Pomeranian University of Technology Szczecin, Poland
We offer a warm welcome to the new participants!
10 November 2017
Available Journal Awards at MDPI
In order to reward the academic community, especially young researchers, and enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals regularly offer various awards to researchers in specific fields, for example, Young Investigator Awards, Travel Awards, Best Paper Awards, and Best Poster Awards, etc. The awardees range from PhD students to junior scientists.
Currently, the following 44 awards given by MDPI journals are accepting applications. Please click on the award title below to check whether you are eligible for it and start the application process.
Subject |
Journal |
Award |
Intended Awardee |
Biology & Life Sciences |
Animals |
PhD students or postdoctoral researchers |
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Antioxidants |
Postdoctoral researchers or PhD students |
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Biology |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Forests |
Postdocs or PhD students |
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) |
Ground-breaking contribution in the fields of Molecular Biology, and Molecular Pathology |
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Journal of Fungi (JoF) |
PhD graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows |
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Life |
PhD students or postdoctoral fellows |
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Metabolites |
PhD students |
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Pharmaceuticals |
PhD students |
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Toxins |
Postdoctoral fellows |
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Viruses |
Viruses 2018 participants |
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Viruses |
Viruses 2018 participants |
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Water |
Young investigators |
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Chemistry & Materials Science |
Biomimetics
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Graduate Student or Postdoctoral Trainee / Research Associate |
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Catalysts |
PhD students |
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Chemosensors |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Entropy |
Young investigators |
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Fibers |
Postdocs or PhD students |
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Magnetochemistry |
Postdocs |
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Materials |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Metals |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Minerals |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Sensors |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Sensors |
Sensors' reviewers in 2017 |
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Sensors |
Young investigators |
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Technologies |
PhD students |
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Computer Science & Mathematics |
Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (MTI) |
Postdoctoral researchers or PhD students |
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information(IJGI) |
Postdocs |
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Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks (JSAN) |
Postdoctoral fellows and PhD students |
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Journal of Imaging |
Postdoctoral fellows and PhD students |
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Engineering |
Actuators |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Remote Sensing |
Authors |
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Machines |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Micromachines |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Fluids |
Postdoctoral fellows and PhD students |
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ChemEngineering |
Postdoctoral researchers and PhD students |
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Environmental & Earth Sciences |
Diversity |
Postdoctoral fellows |
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) |
Authors who submit from 1 Nov 2017 to 31 Oct 2018 |
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Resources |
Postdocs or PhD students |
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Geosciences |
Postdoctoral fellows and PhD students |
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Physical Sciences & Astronomy |
Galaxies |
Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows, or lecturers in cosmology or galaxies physics |
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Applied Science |
Postdocs |
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Medicine & Pharmacology; Public Health & Healthcare |
Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM) |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Medicines |
Postdocs |
7 November 2017
MDPI has signed the Jussieu Call for Open Science and Bibliodiversity
The Jussieu Call aims to develop and implement alternative models to meet the aims of open science while promoting bibliodiversity. In particular it wishes to promote new business models for funding open access publication. It was drafted on the Jussieu campus in Paris by a group of French researchers and scientific publishing professionals.
MDPI supports scholarly communities and initiatives that innovate and further promote Open Access publishing. There is a need to explore different frameworks to fund open access in ways that ensure that excessive funds are not diverted from research towards publishing. Many fair funding models already exist, and they can be further developed and extended. These include institutional support, library contributions or subsidies, premium services, participatory funding, etc. For this reason, MDPI has signed up to the Jussieu call and welcomes its aims.
More information can be found at http://jussieucall.org/ (archived here)
6 October 2017
Dr. Franck Vazquez, MDPI CEO, Interviewed by Scholarly Kitchen
The Society for Scholarly Publishing’s popular blog about topics in academic publishing, Scholarly Kitchen, recently interviewed MDPI’s CEO, Dr. Franck Vazquez. He shared some thoughts and information on the past and future of MDPI and open access publishing in general:
“In the long run, we aim to anchor MDPI in research communities. We recently developed and launched the preprint platform Preprints, revamped our free-to-use conference hosting platform Sciforum, and are working on other projects, such as Scilit, our bibliographic database.”
Read the full interview here.
19 September 2017
Meet Us at the 2017 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston
We will be attending the 2017 MRS Fall Meeting which will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, from November 26–December 1, 2017, and representing the following open access journals:
Materials
Nanomaterials
Energies
Metals
Applied Sciences
Crystals
Minerals
Journal of Functional Biomaterials
Coatings
Robotics
Biosensors
Chemosensors
Polymers
Bioengineering
Please come along to our booth (booth number: #122) to chat with our delegates about our journals and hear about our travel awards offered to Postdocs and PhD students. Our delegates will also answer any questions about online publishing and our journals. We look forward to meeting you in person in Boston!
For more information on the conference, please visit:
www.mrs.org/fall2017
19 September 2017
A Warm Welcome to the New IOAP Participants
We are delighted to have welcomed 24 new participants to our Institutional Open Access Programme (IOAP) since the beginning of September this year. These are University libraries and Research Institutions located around the world; from the USA and Canada to the UK, and from Norway and Spain to Greece. Well respected Universities, such as the University of Denver, the University of Colorado Boulder, and the University of Arizona in the US, have signed up, while their researchers can now benefit from a 10% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APC) for any papers they publish in MDPI journals, at no cost for the library or the University.
We are more than happy to see the Open Access movement growing stronger and wider every day and we appreciate the vital role which librarians, repository managers, and other scholarly communications professionals play in the field. Our communication with and service to this community is, therefore, one of our principal priorities. The IOAP is our way to support academic and scientific Institutions as well as their scholars in managing, administrating, and publishing research in an Open Access world.
The IOAP set of free services, provided by MDPI to institutions that sign up, include:
- No fee for participants and no obligation to prolong after the initial 12 months. The participants may withdraw from the programme at any time, and we will also keep it free for the library for as long as they continue in the programme.
- Authors affiliated with the university will receive a discount on the article processing charge (APC).
- The institution is granted free access to the MDPI submission system and can receive free alerts of new submissions to our journals.
- By default, authors from the institution will continue to be invoiced directly unless the institution opts for central billing.
- Auto-archiving of papers into the institutions´ repository as long as it supports SWORD 1.3.
More details about the programme and a list of our current participant institutions can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap
Institutions which are interested to participate may do so online at: https://www.mdpi.com/ioap-form
The full list of the Institutions that signed up in September is as follows:
- University of Denver, USA
- University of Colorado Boulder, USA
- University of Arizona, USA
- Institute of Metrology of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Middlebury College, USA
- Touro College, USA
- University of New Orleans, USA
- University of Leicester, UK
- Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
- University of Strathclyde, UK
- Cranfield University, UK
- Hope College, USA
- Oregon State University, USA
- Drew University, USA
- Swansea University, UK
- University of South Florida, USA
- University of Georgia, USA
- Arizona State University, USA
- University of Southern Mississippi, USA
- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
- Grinnell College, USA
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- University of Patras, Greece
- Public University of Navarre, Spain
23 June 2017
Congratulations for Publishing the 100,000th Peer-Reviewed Article
Congratulations to the authors Javier Monroy and Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez from Universidad de Malaga, Spain, Victor Hernandez-Bennets, Han Fan and Achim Lilienthal from Örebro University, Sweden for publishing the 100,000th peer-reviewed article.
The article is published in the Chemical Sensors section of Sensors.
GADEN: A 3D Gas Dispersion Simulator for Mobile Robot Olfaction in Realistic Environments
Evermore pressing environmental concerns have led global actors and decision-makers to search for stricter emission monitoring approaches. As part of novel monitoring systems, robots with gas and environmental sensors are a promising solution. However, validation of such robotic inspectors is expensive, time consuming, and plagued by repeatability issues. In this article, we present GADEN (the short form for Gas Dispersion Simulator for Mobile Robot Olfaction in Realistic Environments), which combines gas dispersion and robotics simulation in a common framework. Developed under the widely used Robot Operating System (ROS), GADEN enables validation of sensing strategies with gas dispersion being simulated using computational fluid dynamics and filament dispersion theory. GADEN allows simulating complex, realistic, 3D environments for reproducible testing of robotic gas sensing algorithms. Through qualitative and quantitative evaluations, we show that GADEN is a versatile and user-friendly evaluation tool and emphasize its enormous potential for the mobile robot olfaction community.
Read the full article here: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/7/1479/htm
14 June 2017
2016 Impact Factor Released for Nanomaterials – 3.553
Nanomaterials now ranks 58/275 (Q1) in the category ‘Materials Science, Multidisciplinary’ and 33/87 (Q2) in ‘Nanoscience & Nanotechnology’.
Evolution of Impact Factor, Citations and Publications for Nanomaterials:
6 June 2017
CiteScore™ Metrics Released for Scopus Journals
The CiteScore, the new citation metric for journals covered in the Scopus® database, was released on 1 June 2017, reflecting the citation activity in 2016 for articles published during the three previous years. Please note that the list below does not contain all MDPI journals covered in Scopus. For the CiteScore to serve as a reliable metric at least three volumes of articles need to be indexed in Scopus; journals which have not met this criterion have been omitted here.
Ten MDPI journals received a CiteScore which is in the Top 10% of scores in at least one of the categories, while a further 21 journals exhibit scores that are in the first quartile of the respective categories.
CiteScore Data for MDPI Journals
Journal | Rank | Category | Link | CiteScore 2016 | 2015 |
2014 |
Algorithms | 44/112 (Q2) 49/111 (Q2) 19/42 (Q2) 52/113 (Q2) |
• Numerical Analysis • Computational Mathematics • Computational Theory and Mathematics • Theoretical Computer Science |
Link | 1.15 | 1.07 | 1.06 |
Animals | 69/343 (Q1) 21/146 (Q1) |
• Animal Science and Zoology • General Veterinary |
Link | 1.46 | 1.66 | 0.74 |
Biology | 13/92 (Q1) 34/81 (Q1) 10/75 (Q1) |
• General Agricultural and Biological Sciences • General Biochemistry, Gene- tics and Molecular Biology • General Immunology and Microbiology |
Link | 3.02 | 2.78 | 1.74 |
Biomolecules | 234/382 (Q3) 260/353 (Q3) |
• Biochemistry • Molecular Biology |
Link | 1.67 | 3.08 | 1.00 |
Biosensors | 36/118 (Q2) 209/2156 (Q1) |
• Clinical Biochemistry • General Medicine |
Link | 2.83 | 2.37 | 2.04 |
Cancers | 29/196 (Q1) 27/321 (Q1) |
• Cancer Research • Oncology |
Link | 5.02 | 4.07 | 2.31 |
Catalysts | 18/44 (Q2) 27/144 (Q1) |
• Catalysis • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry |
Link | 3.44 | 3.45 | 2.17 |
Crystals | 70/270 (Q2) 25/64 (Q2) 118/398 (Q2) 131/424 (Q2) |
• General Chemical Engineering • Inorganic Chemistry • Condensed Matter Physics • General Materials Science |
Link | 1.89 | 1.47 | 1.03 |
Diversity | 10/41 (Q1) 9/25 (Q2) 76/291 (Q2) 24/109 (Q1) |
• Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) • Ecological Modelling • Ecology • Nature and Landscape Conservation |
Link | 2.03 | 1.96 | 1.82 |
Energies | - | - | Link | 2.50 | 2.87 | 2.66 |
Entropy | 51/198 (Q2) | • General Physics and Astronomy | Link | 1.87 | 1.99 | 1.69 |
Forests | 17/127 (Q1) | • Forestry | Link | 2.06 | 1.76 | 1.84 |
Games | 204/398 (Q3) 83/181 (Q2) 48/105 (Q2) |
• Applied Mathematics • Statistics and Probability • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty |
Link | 0.87 | 0.57 | 0.64 |
Genes | 62/300 (Q1) 18/90 (Q1) |
• Genetics • Genetics (clinical) |
Link | 3.62 | 3.18 | 1.33 |
Geosciences | 36/169 (Q1) |
• General Earth and Planetary Sciences | Link | 1.67 | 1.29 | 1.13 |
Information | 156/237 (Q3) | • Information Systems | Link | 0.78 | 0.94 | 0.74 |
Insects | 28/131 (Q1) | • Insect Science | Link | 1.81 | 1.38 | 1.23 |
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) | 67/446 (Q1) 31/102 (Q2) |
• Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis |
Link | 2.38 | 2.42 | 2.47 |
International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) | 23/157 (Q1) 8/64 (Q1) 90/353 (Q1) 22/144 (Q1) 16/44 (Q1) 8/62 (Q1) |
• Organic Chemistry • Inorganic Chemistry • Molecular Biology • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry • Catalysis • Spectroscopy |
Link | 3.73 | 3.37 | 3.06 |
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information | 12/29 (Q2) 28/79 (Q2) 96/587 (Q1) |
• Computers in Earth Sciences • Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) • Geography, Planning and Development |
Link | 1.62 | 1.52 | - |
Journal of Low Power Electronic Applications (JLPEA) | 301/645 (Q2) | • Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Link | 0.98 | 0.83 | 0.83 |
Life | 65/525 (Q1) 36/186 (Q1) 5/92 (Q1) 20/80 (Q2) |
• Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics • General Biochemistry, Gene- tics and Molecular Biology • Palaeontology • Space and Planetary Science |
Link | 2.95 | 1.68 | 1.20 |
Marine Drugs | 18/145 (Q1) | • Drug Discovery | Link | 3.83 | 3.66 | 3.59 |
Materials | 63/424 (Q1) | • General Materials Science | Link | 3.26 | 3.11 | 2.69 |
Membranes | 103/424 (Q1) | • Materials Science | Link | 2.19 | 2.95 | 2.42 |
Micromachines | 173/645 (Q2) 69/211 (Q2) 113/526 (Q1) |
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Control and Systems Engineering • Mechanical Engineering |
Link | 1.83 | 1.78 | 2.10 |
Minerals | 45/206 (Q1) 29/167 (Q1) |
• Geology • Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology |
Link | 2.13 | 1.77 | - |
Molecules | 32/157 (Q1) | • Organic Chemistry | Link | 3.09 | 2.65 | 2.62 |
Nutrients | 12/247 (Q1) | • Food Science | Link | 4.29 | 4.07 | 3.78 |
Pharmaceuticals | 8/168 (Q1) 21/158 (Q1) |
• Pharmaceutical Science • Molecular Medicine |
Link | 4.90 | 3.64 | 1.92 |
Pharmaceutics | 19/168 (Q1) | • Pharmaceutical Science | Link | 3.83 | 2.68 | 2.46 |
Polymers | 13/138 (Q1) 44/354 (Q1) |
• Polymers and Plastics • General Chemistry |
Link | 3.74 | 3.37 | 4.10 |
Remote Sensing | 13/169 (Q1) | • General Earth and Planetary Sciences | Link | 3.56 | 3.76 | 3.23 |
Sensors | 25/96 (Q2) 25/159 (Q1) 124/382 (Q2) 103/645 (Q1) |
• Analytical Chemistry • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics • Biochemistry • Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
Link | 2.78 | 2.21 | 2.40 |
Sustainability | 49/129 (Q2) 68/587 (Q1) 56/236 (Q1) |
• Renewable Energy, Sustai-nability and the Environment • Geography, Planning and Development • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law |
Link | 1.96 | 1.78 | 1.52 |
Symmetry | 17/42 (Q2) 49/111 (Q2) |
• Numerical Analysis • Computational Mathematics |
Link | 1.12 | 0.95 | 1.02 |
Toxins | 16/102 (Q1) 16/108 (Q1) |
• Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis • Toxicology |
Link | 3.34 | 3.76 | 2.85 |
Vaccines | 146/184 (Q4) 151/250 (Q3) 93/145 (Q3) 186/299 (Q3) 130/232 (Q3) |
• Immunology • Infectious Diseases • Drug Discovery • Pharmacology • Pharmacology (medical) |
Link | 1.23 | 3.76 | 2.85 |
Viruses | 15/68 (Q1) 34/250 (Q1) |
• Virology • Infectious Diseases |
Link | 3.60 | 3.74 | 3.80 |
Water | 33/184 (Q1) 48/195 (Q1) 62/587 (Q1) 198/382 (Q3) |
• Water Science and Technology • Aquatic Science • Geography, Planning and Development • Biochemistry |
Link | 2.05 | 1.96 | 1.45 |
23 May 2017
Meet Us at 25th North American Meeting of the Catalysis Society
We will be attending the 25th North American Meeting (NAM) of the Catalysis Society, which takes place June 4-9, 2017, representing the following open access journals:
Please come along to our stand, booth number #211, to talk to our delegates about our journals and travel awards you could apply. We also would like to invite you to our ‘Meet and Greet’ session at 12:00 pm on 7th June! Catalysts Professor Keith Hohn, the Editor-in-Chief of Catalysts, and the Editorial Board Member Professor Calvin Bartholomew will be there to answer your questions about the Open Access publishing.
Food and refreshments will be provided and we look forward to meeting you in person to answer your questions.
Conference address:
MDPI booth - number #211
25th North American Meeting of the Catalysis Society
June 4-9, 2017
Hyatt Regency Hotel and Convention Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
For more information on the conference, please visit
http://www.nam25.org/
17 May 2017
Three New Institutional Memberships Established
We are pleased to announce that the Goethe University of Frankfurt, the Technical University of Hamburg (TU Hamburg-Harburg), as well as the Humboldt University of Berlin, in Germany, have joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Primary authors from these instititions will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
4 May 2017
MDPI Supports the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC)
As an open access publisher, we are keen to support openness and transparency in the research process. Citation data is very important for assessing the value of individual papers and the contribution of researchers. As such, we support the recently launched Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC). The initiative recognizes that citations should be freely available and machine-readable. By doing so, authors gain the maximum benefit from having their work cited.
MDPI now uploads citation data with metadata uploaded to Crossref when registering digital object identifiers (DOIs) for published papers. We are delighted to take this step to support a truly open research environment.
2 May 2017
Publons Peer Review Academy Goes Live
Getting high quality review reports is critical for any journal’s editorial process. At MDPI we have put in place several measures to motivate reviewers and reward them for their work. We are proud of the quality of reviewer reports we receive and grateful for the hours put in by active researchers from across the globe.
Reviewers of MDPI’s largest journals can get recognition via Publons, a website dedicated to rewarding peer reviewers. They have now taken this one step further and launched the Publons Reviewer Academy to help train reviewers to provide useful feedback. Through the academy, researchers can be trained and tutored in various aspects of how to provide structured feedback that will be of genuine help to editors and authors. We support this initiative and recommend it to potential MDPI reviewers, especially early career researchers. See the Publons announcement for further information.
More information on reviewing for MDPI, including how to volunteer as a reviewer, can be found here.
24 April 2017
Two New Institutional Memberships Established
We are pleased to announce that the following universities have joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA and the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. Primary authors from these instititions will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
30 March 2017
Credit for Preprints Comments via Publons
Preprints.org is a platform run by MDPI that allows authors to make early versions of manuscripts available before peer review has been completed.
One of the major benefits of putting a preprint online is to get feedback before journal submission. Until now, however, the feedback has been on a voluntary basis. Preprints is delighted to be the first preprint server to collaborate with Publons to acknowledge substantial comments as reviews and give commentators the opportunity to receive credit for their efforts.
When you add a comment to any article, there is a check box to click for it to appear on Publons. If you have already linked your account it will be passed on automatically. If you don't already have a Publons account, you will be contacted soon afterwards with instructions on how to create one.
We appreciate the enthusiasm and cooperation of Publons in this project and expect it to be of great benefit to authors and commenters alike.
28 March 2017
Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991) is now in PubMed and PubMed Central
20 March 2017
MDPI 2016 Annual Report Released
We are pleased to announce that our annual report for the year 2016 has now been published.
It contains information regarding company and journal performance, conferences and other publishing services that we provided throughout 2016.
To read the report in full or download a copy, please click here.
16 March 2017
Meet MDPI at the 253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition
MDPI will be attending the 253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, which takes place 2–6 April 2017, representing the following open access journals:
Molecules
Materials
Energies
Nanomaterials
Catalysts
Applied Sciences
Batteries
Coatings
Metals
Magnetochemistry
Marine Drugs
Processes
Pharmaceuticals
Symmetry
If you are planning to attend, please visit our booth (Number 1618) to talk to our delegates about our journals and open access publishing. Also feel free to attend our ‘Meet and Greet’ session at 12:30pm on 3 April with Dr. Derek J. McPhee, the Editor-in-Chief of our journal Molecules. Food and refreshments will be provided.
Conference address:
MDPI - Booth 1618
253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition
The Moscone Center, 747 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
USA
15 March 2017
Our 100,000th Article Could be Yours!
After the 20th anniversary of MDPI in 2016, we will reach another milestone this year and will publish the 100,000th peer-reviewed article in one of our 170+ open access journals.
We would like you to be part of this great achievement and so are offering to publish the 100,000th accepted paper free of charge.
To be in with a chance, select a journal in one of our 10 scientific subject areas and submit your paper.
Access the live tracker on published articles here.
3 March 2017
1000 Preprints Online
We are delighted that Preprints now has 1000 papers online since its launch on 3 May 2016.
For more information, see the editorial here.
9 February 2017
Minister and State Secretaries Visit MDPI Office at STP, Belgrade, Serbia
Earlier this week the Science Technology Park in Belgrade, Serbia was visited by Swiss Secretary of State Dr. Mauro Dell’Ambrogio, as well as Serbian Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Ana Brnabic, State Secretary Dr. Vladimir Popovic and Mayor of Belgrade Mr. Siniša Mali.
During the visit to the STP they had a short presentation from MDPI’s CEO Dr. Franck Vazquez and IT Manager Mr. Miloš Čučulović, and further discussed important issues such as Open Access and Open education. Dr. Dell'Ambrogio said he was impressed with the potential for development and ideas for business.
For more information please see:
http://bit.ly/2kpIu7k and http://bit.ly/2kpUQfz
7 February 2017
The 6th World Sustainability Forum: Final Press Release
Basel, 29 January 2017
The 6th World Sustainability Forum #WSF2017SA: African universities critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Jeffrey and Sonia Sachs win first World Sustainability Award.
Universities need to take the lead in solving the greatest challenges the world faces today, particularly in Africa. They need to do this not only through education – teaching the next generation to think critically and creatively to find sustainable solutions – but also through research that cuts across a range of disciplines. To ensure these solutions are implemented, they need to partner with the private sector and with government.
This was the key message from the 6th World Sustainability Forum (WSF2017), which took place in Cape Town on 27 and 28 January 2017. Sponsored by MDPI and the journal Sustainability under the patronage of the Universities of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town (UCT), University of Basel and the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa, the conference was attended by key national and international speakers, including world-leading economist Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, senior United Nations (UN) advisor and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
The WSF is an annual sustainability conference which addresses research in a range of areas related to sustainable development and sustainability globally. This was the first WSF to take place on the African continent. Discussions at the 2017 conference were driven by the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) adopted as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the UN in September 2015.
Achieving the SDGs “is the moonshot for our generation,” said Sachs. “Like the moonshot [moon landing] of the 1960s, these are tough, bold and achievable objectives.”
“This is a nasty, tough world we live in, and our world agrees on very little. So when 193 governments agree on something, that is important. And when they agree on something as important as sustainable development, that is really something for us to grab hold of – that is a lifeline.”
There was agreement at the WSF that the SDGs are particularly important for Africa, and that African universities in particular have a role to play in achieving them.
Said Professor Tyrone Pretorius, vice-chancellor of UWC: “The quest for sustainable development can only be met through education. Universities today are the oil that fuels the knowledge economy.”
As part of the drive to develop academic capacity to provide the knowledge needed to meet the SDGs, WSF2017 was preceded by the 1st Postgraduate Forum on Sustainability. “A series of workshops for postgraduate education linked to WSF are important, in order to equip postgraduates with the skills necessary to promote sustainability,” said Professor Thandi Mgwebi, director for research at UWC. A second postgraduate forum will take place alongside the WSF2018 in Beijing.
This capacity development is particularly critical to Africa. Said Sachs: “African universities need to do research to find solutions to Africa’s development challenges, because no other university will.”
The UN set a target of achieving the SDGs by 2030: “I regard this as the breakthrough period to end extreme poverty on the continent,” said Sachs, “and for Africa to become one of the most dynamic centres of the world economy.”
It is a critical time for South African universities, said Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, deputy vice-chancellor for research and internationalisation at UCT: “Higher education is at a crossroads, and there is much polarisation. We need to think carefully about how this sustainable development agenda is owned by all so that it is inclusionary.”
There was also strong emphasis on public–private partnerships – for universities, business and government to work together to achieve the goals.
Said Professor Francis Petersen, deputy vice-chancellor at UCT and vice-chancellor designate at the University of the Free State: “Business sustainability has become critical, because there is increasing demand and complexity of demand on business from the natural, social and economic environment. Sustainability cannot be a standalone issue, divorced from business as usual. Sustainability needs to be embedded into business.”
Environmental crises and climate change was also high on the WSF agenda. In his keynote address, Sachs noted the irreversibility of the climate- and environmental-related challenges.
“If we don’t get our act together, we lose the chance of safety,” he said.
Said Professor Mark New, pro vice-chancellor and director of the African Climate and Development Initiative at UCT: “We have a fundamental challenge in responding to climate change, and we must go further than just putting a plaster on a wound. We need to address the deep structural issues, to move from our current model of development into climate-compatible development.”
“This requires researchers to find the evidence for the correct development pathways to take, and then support the ability of policymakers at all levels to enable the shift to climate-compatible development planning.”
Said Dr. Aldo Stroebel, executive director of international relations and cooperation at the NRF, in closing: “We have seen over the past two days an urgency towards the next step of thinking, that critical type of framework that we all must engage with, not only from an academic perspective, but further up into the policy environment and into rural-based environments where one can clearly see the links and effectiveness of the work.”
World Sustainability Awards
The first World Sustainability Award and the first Emerging Sustainability Leader Awards were presented by Prof. Thandi Mgwebi, Director of Research at UWC, and Dr. Franck Vazquez, CEO of MDPI, during the ceremony on 27 January 2017 as part of the gala dinner of the 6th World Sustainability Forum in South Africa.after day one of proceedings of the 2017 World Sustainability Forum South Africa.
Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs and Dr. Sonia Ehrlich Sachs are the joint recipients of the first World Sustainability Award. Jeffrey Sachs is a world-renowned economist and senior United Nations (UN) advisor and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Sonia Sachs is a paediatrician and public health specialist, and director of the Health Centre at the Centre for Sustainable Development, also at Columbia University.
The joint recipients of the first Emerging Sustainability Leader Award are Dr. Esther Ngumbi and Dr. Xiaosong Hu. Esther Ngumbi is a postdoctoral researcher at Auburn University in Alabama USA and serves as a 2015 Clinton Global University Mentor for agriculture. Xiaosong Hu is a professor at the Chongqing University in China and specialises in automotive control systems and mechanical engineering.
The World Sustainability Award and the Emerging Sustainability Leader Awards are funded to encourage new initiatives and developments in sustainability with the ultimate aim of fostering the transition to sustainable practices and societies.
The World Sustainability Award is funded by the MDPI Sustainability Foundation, and included a monetary prize of USD 100,000 to Jeffrey and Sonia Sachs. The Emerging Sustainability Leader Award is funded by the journal Sustainability, awarded to researchers under 40, and included a monetary prize of USD10,000.
Issued jointly by: UCT Global Strategy and Visibility, Research Office, UWC Communications & Media and MDPI AG
Conference photos are free available at: https://sciforum.net/conference/wsf-6/page/175 Photo credit: Matthias Burkhalter
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Luthando Tyhalibongo |
Matthias Burkhalter |
31 January 2017
Three New Institutional Memberships Established
We are pleased to announce that the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, the University of Manitoba, Canada and the Technical University of Cartagena, Spain, have joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Primary authors from these institutions will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.