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

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.

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.

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).

Name: Prof. Dr. Marco Stoller Affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, University Sapienza of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, Rome, Italy Interests: chemical engineering; process development and control; process intensification; wastewater treatment processes; nanoparticles production; membrane processes; membrane fouling; photocatalysis

We look forward to his contribution to the continued success of Nanomaterials.

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

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.

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!

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 Researchers^TM 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. Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi Izzo, Angelo A. Jacobson, Kenneth A. Jain, Atul Jankovic, Joseph Jelezko, Fedor Ji, Xiaobo Ji, Guangbin Jiang, Hai-Long Jiang, Lei Jiang, Junjun Jiang, Qing Jiang, Shibo Jin, Shi Jones, Peter A. Kalantar-zadeh, Kourosh Kaner, Richard B. Kannan, Kurunthachalam Kappos, Ludwig Karagiannidis, George K. Karimi, Hamid Reza Karimi-Maleh, Hassan Karp, Peter D. Kataoka, Kazunori Katritch, Vsevolod Kawi, Sibudjing Keesstra, Saskia Kepp, Oliver Keyzers, Robert A. Khademhosseini, Ali Khan, Nafees A. Kiessling, Fabian Kim, Ki-Hyun Kim, Haegyeom Kim, Jeonghun Kim, Jong Seung Kirkwood, John M. Kisi, Ozgur Kivshar, Yuri Klenk, Hans-Peter Ko, Wen-Chien Konopleva, Marina Y. Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P. Koonin, Eugene V. Kou, Gang Krausmann, Fridolin Krebs, Frederik C. Kroemer, Guido Kuca, Kamil Kudo, Masatoshi Kuhn, Jens H. Kumar, Devendra Kumar, Alan Prem Kumar, Sudhir Kumar Sangaiah, Arun Kurths, Juergen Kuznetsov, Nikolay V. Kuzyakov, Yakov Kwan, Mei-Po Kyrpides, Nikos C. La Vecchia, Carlo Lai, Yuekun Lam, James Lammers, Twan Lamuela-Raventos, Rosa M. Lancellotti, Patrizio Landi, Francesco Laurent, Sophie Lavie, Carl J. Laxminarayan, Ramanan Lee, Sang Soo Lee, Jin-Wook Lee, Pooi See Lehmann, Johannes Lei, Yaguo Lei, Ting Leng, Lijian Leung, Dennis Y. C. Leung, Victor C. M. Levine, Ross Li, Wei Li, Jie Li, Jinghong Li, Jun Li, Heng Li, Gang Li, Yat Li, Peng Li, Hailong Li, Changpin Li, Yan Li, Yurui Li, Xiaodi Li, Hong Li, Shutao Li, Hongyi Li, Zhijun Li, Peiyue Lin, Yuehe Lin, Hongjun Lin, Lin Lip, Gregory Y. H. Liu, Jian Liu, Meng Liu, Hong Liu, Tao Liu, Lei Liu, Jianxing Liu, Wei Liu, Gang Liu, Yang Liu, Peide Lockhart, Shawn R. Long, Hualou Löscher, Wolfgang Lu, Jun Lu, Jianquan Lu, Nanshu Lucey, Brian Luigi Russo, Gian Lund, Henrik Luo, Jun Luo, Yi Luo, Jingshan Luo, Yangchao Lupton, Deborah Luque, Rafael Lv, Wei Lvov, Yuri M. Lyons, Timothy W. Ma, Tianyi Ma, Jun Ma, Jiayi Ma, Wen-Xiu Ma, Yanming Maggioni, Aldo Pietro Mahmood, Nasir Mahmoudi, Morteza Mai, Liqiang Mallavarapu, Megharaj Mandala, Mario Mardani, Abbas Marengo, Jose Maria Rossolini, Gian Martinoia, Enrico Mathiesen, Brian Vad Mathivanan, Suresh Mattick, John S. Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof McCabe, Matthew E. McCauley, Darren McClements, David Julian Melcher, Karsten Melenhorst, Jan Joseph Melero, Ignacio Mezzetti, Bruno Mirjalili, Seyedali Mishchenko, Artem Mittler, Ron Moreau, Philippe Motohashi, Hozumi Mousavi Khaneghah, Amin Mu, Shichun Mueller, Lukas A. Mueller-Roeber, Bernd Muenzel, Thomas Muhammad, Khan Munger, J. William Nauen, Ralf Naushad, Mu. Negri, Eva Nemeroff, Charles B. Newman, David J. Niaura, Raymond S. Nie, Feiping Nieto, Juan J. Novara, Agata Nunkoo, Robin Ogino, Shuji Olabi, Abdul-Ghani Ong, Hwai Chyuan O'Regan, Donal Orsini, Nicola Ouyang, Minggao Ozcan, Aydogan Pacher, Pal Pan, Xiaoqing Pan, Likun Pan, Quan-Ke Pang, Huan Pavela, Roman Pedrycz, Witold Pei, Yanzhong Peng, Shushi Peng, Qing Peng, Mugen Perc, Matjaz Perez-Alvarez, Jose Angel Perlin, David S. Piquero, Alex R. Polasky, Stephen Pommier, Yves Poor, H. Vincent Postolache, Mihai Potenza, Marc N. Poulter, Benjamin Preat, Veronique Prinsep, Michele R. Pu, Hong-Bin Putnik, Predrag Qiu, Jieshan Qu, Xiaogang Quiles, José L. Rabczuk, Timon Ramakrishna, Seeram Ramkissoon, Haywantee Ran, Jingrun Recio, Isidra Reiter, Russel J. Remuzzi, Giuseppe Ren, Jinsong Ren, Jun Riahi, Keywan Richardson, Paul G. Rignot, Eric Rimm, David Rinn, John L. Robert, Caroline Rodriguez, Rosa M. Rojo, Teofilo Ros, Emilio Rosen, Marc A. Roubaud, David Russo, Alessandro Saad, Fred Saad, Walid Sadorsky, Perry Sander, Chris Santamouris, Mattheos

Santoro, Gabriele Saraiva, Jorge A. Sarchiapone, Marco Scalbert, Augustin Schloter, Michael Schneider, Gisbert Schubert, Ulrich S. Schulz, Rainer Schwab, Matthias Schweizer, Frank Scolyer, Richard A. Scorrano, Luca Scott, David Scott, Stuart A. Scott, Daniel Serra-Majem, Lluis Sethi, Gautam Shabala, Sergey Shaheen, Sabry M. Shao, Zongping Sharma, Gaurav Shen, Guozhen Shen, Hao Sheremet, Mikhail A. Shi, Peng Shi, Yumeng Shoenfeld, Yehuda Siano, Pierluigi Sillanpaa, Mika Simões, Manuel Simpson, Richard J. Singh, Bhupinder Pal Singh, Vijay P. Smagghe, Guy Song, Yu Song, Houbing Sood, Anil K. Srivastava, Hari M. Stadler, Marc Stadler, Peter F. Stanley, H. Eugene Stoumpos, Constantinos C. Strano, Michael S. Stunnenberg, Hendrik G. Su, [email protected] Su, Chun-Yi Subramanian, S. V. Sun, Zhipei Sun, Fengchun Sun, Hongqi Sunderland, Elsie M. Suzuki, Nobuhiro Svenning, Jens-Christian Szabo, Csaba Szallasi, Arpad Szolnoki, Attila Tacke, Frank Tan, Weihong Tan, Chaoliang Tang, Hua Tang, Chuyang Tang, Chuan-He Tanzi, Rudolph E. Teichmann, Sarah Telenti, Amalio Thakur, Vijay Kumar Thiele, Holger Tian, Jie Tohge, Takayuki Tran, Lam-Son Phan Truhlar, Donald G. Tsao, Rong Tsuda, Kenichi Tukker, Arnold Tung, Chen-Ho Turskis, Zenonas Urquhart, Andrew Valko, Marian Van Breusegem, Frank Van de Wiele, Tom van der Werf, Guido van Wesemael, Bas Vangronsveld, Jaco Varma, Rajender S. Varsani, Arvind Varshney, Rajeev K. Vasilakis, Nikos Vasilakos, Athanasios V. Vasquez, Juan C. Vatanen, Tommi Ventura, Marco Vermote, Eric Veronese, Nicola Verpoorte, Robert Vethaak, A. Dick Vieta, Eduard Vincent, Jean-Louis Wagner, Wolfgang Walton, Vaughn M. Wan, Jiafu Wan, Shaohua Wang, Qi Wang, Joseph Wang, Meng Wang, Tao Wang, Yuan Wang, Xin Wang, Chao Wang, Yong Wang, Jun Wang, Erkang Wang, Sibo Wang, Jian Wang, Ning Wang, John Wang, Qin Wang, Shaojian Wang, Guoxiu Wang, Huanting Wang, Chunsheng Wang, Gongming Wang, Zhong Lin Wang, Lianzhou Wang, Shaobin Wang, Yang Wang, Zifa Wei, Zhixiang Wei, Leyi Weissleder, Ralph Wen, Guanghui Wiens, John J. Wigneron, Jean-Pierre Willerslev, Eske Wishart, David S. Witlox, Frank Wu, Jun Wu, Tom Wu, Hao Bin Wu, Hui Wu, Haijun Wu, Zhongbiao Wu, Zhong-Shuai Wu, Zheng-Guang Xia, Meimei Xia, Xinhui Xiang, Quanjun Xiao, Jianbo Xiao, Jie Xie, Jian-Hua Xin, Sen Xing, Baoshan Xiong, Rui Xu, Bin Xu, Li Da Xu, Yi-Jun Xu, Hui Xu, Zeshui Yamauchi, Yusuke Yan, Huaicheng Yan, Kai Yang, Chenguang Yang, Xiao-Jun Yang, Bing Yang, Yun-Gui Yang, Jie Yang, Jian Yang, Xinsong Yang, Shihe Yang, Yi Yang, Yang Yao, Jen-Chih Yao, Yonggang Yazyev, Oleg Yin, Yulong Yin, Zongyou Yin, Shen Yin, Ya-xia Yin, Shou-Wei Ying, Guang-Guo Young, Allan H. Yu, Shu-Hong Yu, Jun Yu, Guihua Yu, Wenwu Yu, Guocan Yu, Minghao Zarco-Tejada, Pablo J. Zavadskas, Edmundas Kazimieras Zeadally, Sherali Zhai, Tianyou Zhang, Wei Zhang, Binlin Zhang, Shujun Zhang, Guoping Zhang, Zengqiang Zhang, Yu Shrike Zhang, Qichun Zhang, Xian-Ming Zhang, Guowen Zhang, Min Zhang, Yue-Jun Zhang, Shaoqing Zhang, Fan Zhang, Weili Zhang, Xiaodong Zhang, Zhien Zhang, Tierui Zhang, Hongjie Zhang, Dengsong Zhang, Liangpei Zhang, Dan Zhang, Yu-Dong Zhang, Fusuo Zhao, Yi Zhao, Guochun Zhao, Li-Dong Zheng, Hao Zheng, Gengfeng Zhong, Cheng Zhou, Weiqi Zhou, Qi Zhou, Jizhong Zhu, Hongwei Zhu, Chengzhou Zhu, Junfa Zhu, Zhe Zhu, Quanxin Zhuang, Xiaodong Zhuang, Xiaoying Zou, Quan

The full list of 2021 Highly Cited Researchers  can be accessed at the following webpage in the Web of Science^TM https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2021/.

--- Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) is a Clarivate product.

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.

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.

Read our anniversary blog post: "Sharing 'Collective Human Knowledge': The Benefits of Open Access Publication"

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.

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.

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]

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/.

“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.

“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.

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:

• Photonics
• Nanomaterials
• Electronics
• Remote Sensing

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.

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!

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

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

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:

• Energies
• Nanomaterials
• Buildings
• Atmosphere
• Clean Technologies
• Processes
• Materials
• Sustainability

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.

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)

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.

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]).

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:

1. Perform pre-review checks for new submissions. Only novel submissions with good presentation will be granted a chance for peer review;
2. Make recommendations based on review reports. If there is a rejection, review the report received for a submission;
3. Make final decisions when the review process is complete;
4. 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;
5. Promote the Section via conferences or your own network;
6. 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.

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).

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 "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

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:

1. Perform pre-review checks for new submissions. Only novel submissions with good presentation will be granted a chance for peer review;
2. Make recommendations based on review reports. If there is a rejection, review the report received for a submission;
3. Make final decisions when the review process is complete;
4. 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;
5. Promote the Section via conferences or your own network;
6. 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.

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:

1. Perform pre-review checks for new submissions. Only novel submissions with good presentation will be granted a chance for peer review;
2. Make recommendations based on review reports. If there is a rejection, review the report received for a submission;
3. Make final decisions when the review process is complete;
4. 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;
5. Promote the Section via conferences or your own network;
6. 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.

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:

1. 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);
2. Promote this Section on social media, at conferences, and recommend senior scholars;
3. Propose hot topics in this field, and choose to edit a Special Issue on a topic related to your research;
4. 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.

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.

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]).

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:

1. Perform pre-review checks for new submissions. Only novel submissions with good presentation will be granted a chance for peer review;
2. Make recommendations based on review reports; if there is a rejection, review the report received for a submission;
3. Make final decisions when the review process is complete;
4. 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;
5. Promote the Section via conferences or your own network;
6. 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.

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]).

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.

 

Why choose MDPI Books?

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)

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

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.

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)

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]).

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.

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.

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.

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. Rossolini, Gian Maria Saad, Fred Saad, Walid Sadorsky, Perry Sakthivel, Rathinasamy Schwab, Matthias Scolyer, Richard A. Serra-Majem, Lluis Sethi, Gautam Seto, Karen C. Settele, Josef Seymour, John F. Shi, Peng Siano, Pierluigi Sillanpää, Mika Simal-Gandara, Jesus Smagghe, Guy Srivastava, Hari M. Stadler, Peter F. Sun, Fengchun Sunderland, Elsie M. Suzuki, Nobuhiro Svenning, Jens-Christian Tan, Weihong Teixeira, José António Thakur, Vijay Kumar Tong, Shilu Tornabene, Francesco Tsao, Rong Tukker, Arnold Turskis, Zenonas Uversky, Vladimir N. van Wesemael, Bas Van Zwieten, Lukas Vangronsveld, Jaco Varma, Rajender S. Varshney, Rajeev K. Vasquez, Juan C. Velicogna, Isabella Vieta, Eduard Wade, Timothy J. Wagner, Wolfgang Wamba, Samuel Fosso Wang, Chunsheng Wang, Guoxiu Wang, Joseph Wang, Qi Wang, Tao Wang, Yuan Wiens, John J. Wu, Hao Bin Wu, Hui Wu, Tom Wu, Zhongbiao Xia, Xinhui Xiao, Wenjiao Xin, Sen Xiong, Rui Xu, Bin Xu, Zeshui Yan, Huaicheng Yang, Bing Yang, Hongxing Yang, Jie Yang, Xiao-Jun Yin, Shen Ying, Guang-Guo Young, Allan H. Yu, Guihua Zarco-Tejada, Pablo J. Zavadskas, EdmundasKazimieras Zeadally, Sherali Zhang, Fan Zhang, Liangpei Zhang, Qichun Zhang, Xian-Ming Zhang, Yue-Jun Zhao, Guochun Zhao, Li-Dong Zhu, Zhe Zhuang, Xiaodong Zou, Quan

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.

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/

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.

	Prof. Constantin Apetrei Department of Chemistry, Physics and Environment, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Romania
	Prof. Dawid Janas Head of Functional Nanomaterials Group, Department of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
	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.

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:

	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:

	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”
	Prof. Dr. Victor A. Eremeyev
	Presentation: "Anti-plane surface waves in media with surface structures and surface interfaces. Discrete and continuum models”

For any questions about the webinar, please send an email to [email protected].

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:

	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:

	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”
	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]

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]).

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.

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]).

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.

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:

1. Perform pre-review checks for new submissions. Only novel submissions with good presentation will be granted a chance for peer review;
2. Make recommendations based on review reports; if there is a rejection, review the report received for a submission;
3. Make final decisions when the review process is complete;
4. 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;
5. Promote the Section via conferences or your own network;
6. 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.

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]).

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]).

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

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About MDPI

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For any questions about this agreement, please contact the MDPI IOAP team at [email protected].

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	Link
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	Link
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	Link

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	Link
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)	Link
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	Link
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®.

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.

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.

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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.

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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:

1. Periodically leading Special Issues related to your research field;
2. Suggesting new topics, and recommending or inviting other scholars to serve as Guest Editors;
3. Supervising the editorial process, for example, pre-screening submissions and making final decisions on papers;
4. Reviewing manuscripts related to your research interests;
5. Promoting Nanomaterials at conferences that you attend or organize.

The following benefits are available to Topic Editors of Nanomaterials:

1. 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;
2. Discounts of 400 CHF for your paper in the Special Issues you recommend;
3. 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]).

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

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(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]).

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.

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

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

1. An official certificate;
2. 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

1. Have a Ph.D. degree;
2. Have more than three qualified entries published in Encyclopedia in 2020.

Evaluation Standards

1. Number of entries published in Encyclopedia in 2020;
2. Quality of entries online (including length, figure quality, and novelty);
3. 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.

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:

Metals

Coatings

Materials

Applied Sciences

Nanomaterials

Energies

Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing

Entropy

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Encyclopedia is pleased to announce that certain well-prepared entries are eligible for a 100 CHF voucher, which can be used for paper publication in any journals in MDPI. We believe that your contribution would be a great help in keeping up with scientific developments. Do not miss the chance to publish with us. Please clink here to find the detailed guideline.

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].

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.

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.

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

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:

Crystals

Minerals

Symmetry

Nanomaterials

Materials

Magnetochemistry

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/.

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.

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/.

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:

Nanomaterials

Micromachines

Safety

Coatings

Biosensors

Applied Sciences

Chemosensors

Electronics

Energies

Materials

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/.

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

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.

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/

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:

• Catalysts
• Materials
• Energies
• Processes
• Molecules
• Inorganics
• Nanomaterials

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

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.

James Madison University (JMU), Harrisonburg	USA
Loughborough University	UK
Lublin University of Technology	Poland
Marquette University, Milwaukee	USA
Massey University, Palmerston North	New Zealand
Medical College of Wisconsin	USA
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń	Poland
Poznań University of Life Sciences	Poland
Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin	Germany
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden	UK
Santa Clara University (SCU)	USA
Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau	Germany
University of Aveiro	Portugal
University of Brasília	Brazil
University of Duisburg-Essen	Germany
University of Greifswald	Germany
University of Molise	Italy
University of Naples Parthenope	Italy
University of São Paulo (USP) - São Carlos Institute of Physics	Brazil
University of Szczecin	Poland
University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn	Poland
University West, Trollhättan	Sweden
UTP University of Science and Technology, Bydgoszcz	Poland
VTT - Technical Research Centre of Finland	Finland

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].

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.

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

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]).

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.

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.

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/

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:

Metals

Materials

Coatings

Applied Sciences

Nanomaterials

Micromachines

Journal of Composites Science

Energies

QuBS

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.