Dear Colleagues,

Authors are increasingly interested in publishing their manuscripts as cover stories in Nanomaterials. A total of 24 cover stories are expected to be published between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022. These cover stories will report important research results or innovative methods and present impressive images. In recognition of the authors who publish their important research results in Nanomaterials, we are pleased to announce the Nanomaterials 2022 Best Cover Award. This award was established by Nanomaterials in 2021. Nanomaterials has been a semimonthly journal since 2022. Therefore, the Nanomaterials Best Cover Award will be organized yearly.

Prize
Two cover stories will be chosen from the stories published in Nanomaterials between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022, and each will receive CHF 500. The criteria that will be considered for selection are as follows:
– Importance or innovation of the research;
– Quality of the cover image.

In addition, we will be randomly selecting the votes of 10 participants, and to show our appreciation of their involvement in the voting process, they will each receive a CHF 50 voucher. Voting will be open from 10 January 2022 to 10 February 2023.

The winners will be announced on the journal website by the end of February 2023.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers, who generously devote their time to reviewing the papers submitted to Nanomaterials, by presenting an award to the reviewers who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for Nanomaterials.

What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for this award?
All the reviewers for Nanomaterials in 2022 will be automatically considered for this award.

Select Criteria:
– Number of review reports (only first review reports are considered);
– Review quality, based on the rating given on SuSy;
– Review speed.

What will the winners receive?
There will be three winners this year, and each will receive the following:
– CHF 500 (Swiss francs);
– An opportunity to publish a paper, as a corresponding author, free of charge, in 2023;
– A certificate.

When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced on the journal website on 15 February 2023.

How can I make myself eligible?
If you have not yet reviewed papers for Nanomaterials, but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer via the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Dear Colleagues,

The journal Nanomaterials (MDPI, Switzerland, ISSN: 2079-4991; mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials) is currently inviting applications for the Nanomaterials 2022 Best PhD Thesis Award. The Nanomaterials 2022 Best PhD Thesis Award was established in 2018 by the Nanomaterials journal. This prize will be awarded to a PhD student who is intending to graduate or participate in a graduation thesis. The applications will be assessed by an evaluation committee consisting of senior scholars from the Nanomaterials Editorial Board.

Eligibility Requirements:
(a) The candidate must be a PhD student who is intending to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses.
(b) The PhD thesis must be the candidate’s original work.
(c) The PhD thesis must be defended between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022.
(d) Applicants are required to submit the following documents:
– An executive summary of the PhD thesis in English, of approximately 3000 words;
– A letter from the candidate’s PhD supervisor recommending the candidate for consideration for this award;
– The candidate’s CV, including a list of publications associated with the thesis;
– An electronic copy of the PhD thesis;
– A scanned copy of the PhD diploma (or certificate indicating that the candidate is studying at a school or research institute as a PhD student intending to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses).

Selection Criteria:
– Quality of resume and publications;
– Relevance of the candidate and research description;
– Novelty of the candidate’s PhD thesis;
– Strength of the recommendation letter;
– Anticipated academic potential;
– Originality and impact of the research.

Prizes:
– Bonus (CHF 800);
– Certificate;
– Offer to publish a featured paper as a corresponding author in Nanomaterials before the end of 2023, with the article processing charge (APC) waived.

How to apply?
Please submit your application online.

The application deadline is 31 December 2022. The winner will be announced on the Nanomaterials website by the end of March 2023.

Please feel free to contact us at [email protected] with any questions.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Nanomaterials is now inviting nominations for the Nanomaterials 2022 Young Investigator Award. Nanomaterials Young Investigator Award is an award established since 2018 by Nanomaterials Journal. The award is awarded to young investigators in recognition of their excellence in the field of nanoscience and technology.

This year the prize will be given to three young investigators. All nominations will be assessed by an Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang.

The Prize:
− One first prize: CHF 2000 (Swiss Francs);
− Two second prizes: CHF 800 (Swiss Francs);
– Each winner will have the option to publish one paper, as a corresponding author, free of charge, in Nanomaterials in 2023, following peer review;
− Each winner will receive an engraved plaque.

Eligibility and Requirements:
− Hold a Ph.D. degree and be below 40 years of age prior to 31 December 2022;
− Must have ground-breaking research and made a significant contribution to the advancement of this research field;
− Candidates must be nominated by senior researchers, research directors, or department heads.

List of Documents for Nomination
– Detailed curriculum vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants;
− Birth certificate or other proof of age;
− Scanned copy of doctorate certificate;
− Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists.

Schedule
Open for nominations: 1 February 2022.
Nomination deadline: 30 November 2022.
Winners announced: 30 December 2022.

How to submit nominations?
The nominations must be submitted online.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/journalabbr/award/submit/awardID.

For any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected]. We look forward to receiving your nominations.

Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang
Editor-in-Chief, Nanomaterials

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Nanomaterials 2022 Best Paper Award”, which will be presented to research and review articles published in Nanomaterials in 2020. This award was established by Nanomaterials in 2020, and is awarded annually to papers published in the journal that have made outstanding contributions to the field of nanoscience and technology.

Three review and three research articles will receive an award each. The papers will be selected after thorough evaluation by the journal award committee, which will be led by the EiCs, and the winners will be announced at the end of August 2022.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in Nanomaterials in 2020;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal award committee, according to the following criteria (data source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)):
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Relevance to the journal’s field;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of the presentation;
– Citation and download rates in 2021.

Prizes:
– First Prize: one review and one research article, CHF 500 each;
– Second Prize: one review and one research article, CHF 300 each;
– Third Prize: one review and one research article, CHF 200 each；
– Additionally, each winner will receive a certificate, and an offer to publish a paper as a corresponding author free of charge in Nanomaterials before 30 June 2023.

The winners will be announced on the journal website at the end of August 2022.

Kind regards,
Nanomaterials Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Nanomaterials, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Nanomaterials 2022 Travel Award.

The awards have been granted to the following scholars: Arun Kumar, a postdoctoral fellow from CNR—Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems, Rome, Italy; Elena Blundo, a PhD student at the Optical Spectroscopy of Nanostructured Materials Laboratory, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the Assessment Committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang
Editor-in-Chief, Nanomaterials

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Nanomaterials 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Nanomaterials Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Nanomaterials. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

Dr. George Kenanakis
Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, N. Plastira 100, 70013 Heraklion, Greece
Research Interests: metamaterials; photonic crystal devices; perfect absorbers; electromagnetic shielding; energy harvesting; fused deposition modeling (FDM)

Dr. Goshtasp Cheraghian
Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Research Interests: nanofluids; nanoparticle synthesis and applications; nanoclay; enhanced oil recovery methods; polymer nanocomposites; asphalt materials recycling

Dr. Oana Cadar
INCDO-INOE 2000, Research Institute for Analytical Instrumentation, 400293 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Research Interests: nanomaterials; nanocomposites; characterization techniques; applications

Kind regards,

Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang
Editor-in-Chief, Nanomaterials

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce the winner of the “Nanomaterials 2020–2021 Best Cover Award”, the corresponding author of which will receive 500 CHF.

– Issue 1 (1 January 2021)

Bimetallic Ni-Based Catalysts for CO₂ Methanation: A Review

Anastasios I. Tsiotsias, Nikolaos D. Charisiou, Ioannis V. Yentekakis and Maria A. Goula*

Nanomaterials 2021, 11(1), 28; doi:10.3390/nano11010028

You can find the cover and story here: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/1

Please join us in congratulating the authors for their impressive achievement.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for your participation in voting for this award.

Kind regards
Nanomaterials Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Nanomaterials, it is my great pleasure to announce the winner of the Nanomaterials 2021 Best PhD Thesis Award.

The award has been granted to:

Nanobiosensing platforms with SERS and MIP-based technologies
By Ana Carolina Marques
Ph.D. in Nanotechnologies and Nanosciences, CENIMAT/i3N, Materials Science Department, Faculdade de Ciência e Tecnologia–Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Lisbon, Portugal

The winner will receive 800 CHF, a certificate, and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Nanomaterials in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate Ana Carolina Marques on her accomplishment. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional thesis for their contributions to Nanomaterials, and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang
Editor-in-Chief, Nanomaterials

Dear colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce the winners of the Nanomaterials 2021 Young Investigator Award, who are Andres Castellanos-Gomez, Takuya Isono, and Panbo Liu. Dr. Andres Castellanos-Gomez will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000. Both Dr. Takuya Isono and Dr. Panbo Liu will receive an honorarium of CHF 800. Each of the winners will receive an offer to publish a paper, free of charge, in Nanomaterials before 31 December 2022, following peer review, as well as an engraved plaque.

Dr. Andres Castellanos-Gomez is a Senior Tenured Scientist of Instituto de Ciencia de los Materiales de Madrid (Madrid, Spain). His research interests include two-dimensional materials, nanomechanics, strain engineering, optoelectronics, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), transition metal dichalcogenides, and black phosphorus. Dr. Andres Castellanos-Gomez received his Ph.D. in 2011 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 166 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Andres Castellanos-Gomez’s Scopus Scientific Citations number is 14,911, and his Hirsch index is 55.

Dr. Takuya Isono is an Associate Professor of Faculty of Engineering (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan). His research interests include precise polymer synthesis and developing novel block copolymer-based nanomaterials for a variety of applications. Dr. Takuya Isono received his Ph.D. in 2014 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 90 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Takuya Isono’s Scopus Scientific Citations number is 1,461, and his Hirsch index is 20.

Dr. Panbo Liu is an Associate Professor of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China). His research interests include structural design, synthesis and applications on carbonbased composites and derived carbon composites for microwave absorption, as well as electrochemistry. Dr. Panbo Liu received his Ph.D. in 2015 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 107 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Panbo Liu’s Scopus Scientific Citations number is 5,999, and his Hirsch index is 42.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation, as well as all the award committee members for their evaluation of the numerous excellent nominations.

Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang
Editor-in-Chief, Nanomaterials

Dear colleagues,

As the editor-in-chief of Nanomaterials, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Nanomaterials 2021 Best Paper Awards.
The awards have been granted to:

First Award—500 CHF:
Nanomaterials for the Removal of Heavy Metals from Wastewater
Yang, J.; Hou, B.; Wang, J.; Tian, B.; Bi, J.; Wang, N.; Li, X.; Huang, X.
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(3), 424; doi:10.3390/nano9030424

Injectable Alginate-Peptide Composite Hydrogel as a Scaffold for Bone Tissue Regeneration
Ghosh, M.; Halperin-Sternfeld, M.; Grinberg, I.; Adler-Abramovich, L.
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(4), 497; doi:10.3390/nano9040497

Second Award—300 CHF:
Carbon Dots and Graphene Quantum Dots in Electrochemical Biosensing
Campuzano, S.; Yáñez-Sedeño, P.; Pingarrón, J.M.
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(4), 634; doi:10.3390/nano9040634

A Smart Nanovector for Cancer Targeted Drug Delivery Based on Graphene Quantum Dots
Iannazzo, D.; Pistone, A.; Celesti, C.; Triolo, C.; Patané, S.; Giofré, S.V.; Romeo, R.; Ziccarelli, I.; Mancuso, R.; Gabriele, B.; Visalli, G.; Facciolà, A.; Di Pietro, A.
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(2), 282; doi:10.3390/nano9020282

Third Award—200 CHF:
Evolution of Wearable Devices with Real-Time Disease Monitoring for Personalized Healthcare
Guk, K.; Han, G.; Lim, J.; Jeong, K.; Kang, T.; Lim, E.-K.; Jung, J.
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(6), 813; doi:10.3390/nano9060813

An Ultra-High-Energy Density Supercapacitor; Fabrication Based on Thiolfunctionalized Graphene
Rani, J.R.; Thangavel, R.; Oh, S.-I.; Lee, Y.S.; Jang, J.-H.
Nanomaterials 2019, 9(2), 148; doi:10.3390/nano9020148

These winners (corresponding author) will each receive the bonus and a chance to publish a paper, free of charge, in Nanomaterials before 30 June 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Nanomaterials, and thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with these awards.

Nanomaterials Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the two winners of Nanomaterials 2021 Travel Award (800 Swiss Francs each), given to Dr. Aleksandrs Leitis, a Ph.D. student at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and Dr. Ekaterina Kolesova, a postdoctoral fellow at ITMO University.

Dr. Leitis’s work focuses on the fields of optics, photonics nanofabrication and data analysis. He plans to attend 15th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena METAMATERIALS 2021 in New York, USA, to present his work entitled “Functional Metasurfaces for Mid-infrared Optical Wavefront Manipulation, Sensing and Dynamic Phase Control”.

Dr. Kolesova’s research focuses on colloidal nanostructures, formation of multilayer structures, antibacterial therapy, photo- and sonodynamic therapy. She plans to attend Global Summit on Metamaterials, Nanophotonics and Plasmonics (METAMAT2021) in London, UK, to present her work entitled “Bactericidal Activity of Hybrid Nanostructures Based on Titania Nanoparticles”.

Congratulations to Dr. Leitis and Dr. Kolesova. We are grateful to all who submitted applications.

Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang
Editor-in-Chief, Nanomaterials

Dear colleagues,

As the editor-in-chief of Nanomaterials, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Nanomaterials 2020 Best Paper Awards.

The awards have been granted to:

First Award—500 CHF:

Production of Curcumin-Loaded Silk Fibroin Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy

By Mercedes G. Montalbán et al.

Nanomaterials 2018, 8(2), 126; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8020126

Biomedical Applications of Silver Nanoparticles: An Up-to-Date Overview

By Ecaterina Andronescu et al.

Nanomaterials 2018, 8(9), 681; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8090681

Second Award—300 CHF:

Lipid-Coated Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles as Innovative ROS-Generators for Photodynamic Therapy in Cancer Cells

By Hanna Engelke and Valentina Cauda et al.

Nanomaterials 2018, 8(3), 143; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8030143

Graphene-Based Nanomaterials for Tissue Engineering in the Dental Field

By Letizia Ferroni and Barbara Zavan et.al.

Nanomaterials 2018, 8(5), 349; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8050349

Third Award—200 CHF:

Cyclodextrin-Based Magnetic Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy

By Radosław Mrówczyński and Kosma Szutkowski et.al.

Nanomaterials 2018, 8(3), 170; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8030170

Magnetic Nanoparticles Applications for Amyloidosis Study and Detection: A Review

By Christel Marquette et.al.

Nanomaterials 2018, 8(9), 740; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8090740

On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Nanomaterials, and thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with these awards.

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang, Nanomaterials

Dear Colleagues,

The evaluation committee, consisting of several members of the Editorial Board of the Nanomaterials, is pleased to announce the winners of the Nanomaterials 2020 Young Investigator Award. Since the nominees were very impressive, the journal has decided to give three awards: Dr. Ya Yang will receive an honorarium of 2000 CHF. Both Dr. Loredana Protesescu and Dr. João Conde will receive an honorarium of 800 CHF. All of them are with an offer to publish a paper free of charge before 31 December 2021 in Nanomaterials after peer-review, and an engraved plaque.

Dr. Ya Yang is an Professor of the Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China). Dr. Ya Yang’s research interests are in the ferroelectric nanomaterials and devices, hybridized and coupled nanogenerators, ferro-pyro-phototronic devices, and thermo-phototronic devices. Dr. Ya Yang received his PhD in 2011 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 180 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Ya Yang’s Scopus Scientific Citations number is 10,000 and his Hirsch index is 61.

Dr. João Conde is an Associate Professor (under assessment) of the NOVA Medical School, (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal). Dr. João Conde’s research interests are in the cancer nanomedicine, nanotechnology and materials science, biomedical engineering, multifunctional nanomaterials for cancer therapy and diagnostics – nanotheranostics, biofunctionalization of nanoparticles with DNA/RNA, siRNA/miRNA, drugs, fluorescent dyes, polymers, proteins/peptides and antibodies. Dr. João Conde received his PhD in 2014 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 70 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. João Conde’s Scopus Scientific Citations number is 4,500 and his Hirsch index is 36.

Dr. Loredana Protesescu is an Associate Professor (under assessment) of the Faculty of Science and Engineering Materials Chemistry (University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands). Dr. Loredana Protesescu’s research interests are novel colloidal nano-materials, to develop synthetic strategies and to study their structural particularities and their surface chemistry in a relationship with their properties and potential applications in energy, extreme environment, bio-applications. Dr. Loredana Protesescu received her PhD in 2016 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 49 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Loredana Protesescu’s Scopus Scientific Citations number is 9,353 and her Hirsch index is 31.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the abundant excellent nominations.

Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang
Editor-in-Chief, Nanomaterials

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Nanomaterials 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Awards. The Nanomaterials Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Nanomaterials. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

Dr. Burak Gerislioglu
Affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, 6100 Main St, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Research Interests: Plasmonics; Metamaterials; Nanophotonics; Phase-Change Materials; Nonlinear Optics; Biosensors; Nanomedicine; Reconfigurable Antennae

Dr. Václav Ranc
Affiliation: Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Palacký University Olomouc, 17. Listopadu 12, 77146 Olomouc, Czech Republic
Research Interests: Raman Spectroscopy; nanostructures; nanomaterials; 3D hybrid systems; magnetic nanocomposites; surface enhanced raman scattering; raman imaging; chiral analysis; low-dimensional materials

Dr. Denis Garoli
Affiliation: Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy
Research Interests: plasmonics; 2d materials; Nanofabrication; single molecule spectroscopy; thin films; nanoporous materials; biosensors; metamaterials; surface-enhanced spectroscopy

Kind regards,
Editor-in-Chief, Nanomaterials

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Nanomaterials, it gives me great pleasure to announce the winners of the Nanomaterials Travel Awards for 2020:

Travel Awards were granted to Manish Kumar, Ph.D. student in Engineering Physics, working under the direction of Dr. Luiz Pereira at the Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, Portugal, and Dr. Kenry, postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Moritz Kircher, Department of Imaging, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, USA.

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.

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, photoacoustic, and Raman imaging and 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.

Congratulations to both winners of the 2020 Nanomaterials Travel Awards!

Shirley Chiang
Editor-in-Chief

Nanomaterials Editorial Office
MDPI, St. Alban-Anlage 66
CH-4052, Basel, Switzerland
[email protected]
www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials

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 publication process are maintained.

The following referees are receiving “Nanomaterials 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of their reviews in 2019. Each of them will receive 500 CHF, a certificate for their outstanding review work, and a waiver enabling them to publish a paper free of charge in 2020.

Dawid Janas
Head of Functional Nanomaterials Group, Department of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, B. Krzywoustego 4, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland

Constantin Apetrei
Department of Chemistry, Physics and Environment, “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Galati 800008, Romania

Katsuhiko Ariga
NIMS, WPI MANA, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050044, Japan

Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991; CODEN: NANOKO) is an international, peerreviewed, open-access journal published monthly online by MDPI. 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 evaluation committee, consisting of several members of the Editorial Board of the Nanomaterials, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Nanomaterials Young Investigator Awards. Since the nominees were very impressive, the journal has decided to give three awards: the first-place award of 2000 CHF as originally announced, a second-place award of 800 CHF, and a third-place award to publish an accepted article in Nanomaterials free of charge within the next year. The selection process involved consideration of all the submitted materials, with special emphasis on the number and quality of the publications, their citations, and the significance and innovation of the research. We are therefore pleased to announce that the first-place winner is Dr. Deep M. Jariwala, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. The second-place winner is Dr. Jiajia Zhou of the Institute for Biomedical Materials and Devices (IBMD), Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. The third-place winner is Dr. Edoardo Albisetti of the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA and the Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.

Dr. Jariwala’s impressive work combines novel nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes and 2D transition metal dichalcogenides, into heterostructures and electronic and optoelectronic devices. His work encompasses synthesis of nanomaterials, characterization of their electronic and optical properties, and then fabrication of them into devices, such as diodes, FETs, and photodetectors.

Dr. Zhou discovered that certain heat-favorable phonons, which exist at the surface of nanoparticles, can combat thermal quenching. Her patented Thermal DotTM technology can intelligently harvest heat to obtain emitted visible light from the nanoparticles, with enhanced intensity by as much as a factor of 2000. This technology has numerous applications, from photovoltaic solar cells to nanoscale temperature sensors.

Dr. Albisetti conceived and demonstrated thermally assisted magnetic scanning probe lithography (tam-SPL) for nanopatterning reconfigurable magnetic nanostructures in ferromagnetic thin films. This patented technique has applications in the design of novel nanomaterials and devices for nanomagnetism, spintronics, and magnonics. The related technique of thermochemical scanning probe lithography (tc-SPL) even allows the definition of nanoscale patterns with precisely controlled protein concentration.

Congratulations to all three of these extraordinary 2018 Nanomaterials Young Investigators!

--- Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang, Editor-in-Chief, Nanomaterials, and the Evaluation Committee: Prof. Dr. Yuan Chen, Dr. habil. Yogendra Kumar Mishra, Prof. Dr. Jordi Sort, and Dr. Vijay Kumar Thakur.

The Nanomaterials Editorial Office 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 following referees have been selected by the Editor-in-Chief of Nanomaterials, Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang, to receive “Nanomaterials 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness and quality of their reviews in 2018. For their outstanding review work, each will receive 500 CHF and a certificate:

Giuseppe Lazzara

University of Palermo, Italy

Katsuhiko Ariga

National Institute for Materials Science Tsukuba, Japan

Gyorgy Szekely

University of Manchester, UK

Giuseppe Cavallaro

University of Palermo, Italy

Noel Rodriguez

University of Granada, Spain

The Nanomaterials Editorial Office 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 following referees have been selected by the Editor-in-Chief of Nanomaterials, Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang, to receive “Nanomaterials 2017 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness and quality of their reviews in 2017. For their outstanding review work, each will receive 500 CHF, a certificate and a 10% discount for one paper published in Nanomaterials:

Eiji Yuba
Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

Grégory Barbillon
EPF-Ecole d’Ingénieurs, France

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Nanomaterials, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Nanomaterials Travel Awards for 2016:

Travel Awards were granted to Steven Swasey, a PhD candidate in Dr. Beth Gwinn’s lab at The University of California Santa Barbara, USA, and to Dr. Albert Serrà i Ramos, a post-doctoral researcher in Dr. Elisa Vallés’s group at Barcelona University, Spain.

Steven Swasey studies DNA nanotechnology. His research is focuses on understanding the structural impact and rules of Ag⁺-mediated base pairing in mixed and homobase DNA and the formation and structure of DNA-stabilized silver clusters (Ag^N-DNA), with particular focus on involvement of Ag⁺. He will give an oral presentation on “Clusters with a Twist: DNA-Stabilized Fluorescent Silver Clusters” at the upcoming Fall Meeting of the American Chemical Society.

Dr. Albert Serrà i Ramos has been working in the areas of nanomaterials and electrochemistry. His research focuses mainly on the generalization of novel electrochemical shape-controlled approaches for the development or improvement of electrochemical micro- and nano-fabrication strategies. He will present his work in a communication on the electrochemical synthesis of mesoporous nanorods for electrocatalytic applications at the 67^th Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry.

It is my great pleasure to congratulate both winners to the very well deserved Nanomaterials Travel Awards.

Thomas Nann
Editor-in-Chief