Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the editor-in-chief, Prof. Dr. Shirley Chiang, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously give their time to review 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 of the reviewers for Nanomaterials in 2021 will be automatically included.

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

What will the winners receive?
There will be three winners this year, and each will receive the following:
– 500 Swiss francs;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in 2022;
– A certificate.

When will the winners be announced?
– The winners will be announced in the end of January 2022 on the journal website.

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 at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

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

Dear Colleague,

Nanomaterials will highlight a paper in the form of an issue cover for each issue. Many cover stories report important research results or innovative methods with impressive images. To reward those authors who have published important research results in Nanomaterials, we are announcing the Nanomaterials 2020–2021 Best Cover Award.

There will be 24 covers in 2020–2021.

This award will be granted to one of the cover stories, and the winner will receive 500 CHF. The criteria are as follows:
– Important or innovative research.
– Impressive cover image.

The voting line will be open to all of Nanomaterials’ followers, subscribers, and other scholars in the nanomaterials science research area.

Voting will be open from 15 January 2022 to 15 February 2022.

The winner will be announced on the journal website by the end of March 2022.

Kind regards,

Nanomaterials Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

The journal Nanomaterials (MDPI, Switzerland, ISSN 2079-4991, mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials) is inviting applications for the Nanomaterials 2021 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award. This prize will be awarded to a Ph.D. student who is about to graduate or participate in the graduation thesis. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Nanomaterials Editorial Board.

Eligibility Requirements:
– The candidate must be a Ph.D. student who is going to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses.
– The PhD thesis must be original work.
– The PhD thesis must be defended between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2021.
– Applicants are required to submit the following documents:
  – An executive summary of the PhD thesis in English, of around 3000 words;
  – A letter from PhD supervisor recommending the candidate for consideration for this award;
  – The candidate’s CV, including a list of publications connected with the thesis;
  – An electronic copy of the PhD thesis;
  – A scanned copy of the PhD diploma.

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 (800 CHF);
– Certificate.

Please submit your applications and materials through the apply button on the journal award website by 31 January 2022. The winner will be announced on the journal website in 15 March 2022.

Kind regards,

Nanomoaterials Editorial Office

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Nanomaterials 2021 Best Paper Awards” for research and review articles published in Nanomaterials from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019. Three review and three research articles will receive an award each. The papers will be selected after thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee led by the EiCs, and the winners will be announced in 30 June 2021.

Eligibility for the Awards:
– Papers published in Nanomaterials from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019;
– 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 presentation;
– Citation and download rates in 2020.

Prizes:
– First Award: 1 review and 1 research articles, 500 CHF each.
– Second Award: 1 review and 1 research articles, 300 CHF each.
– Third Award: 1 review and 1 research articles, 200 CHF each.
Additionally, each winner will receive a certificate, and an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Nanomaterials before 30 June 2022.

Additionally, each winner will receive a certificate, and an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Nanomaterials before 30 June 2022.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in 30 June 2021.

Under the global pandemic, academic exchanges have been greatly restricted, and many academic conferences have been forced to cancel or transform into online formats. Therefore, in order to maximize the promotion of academic exchange and give the academic community the greatest support, Nanomaterials has specially set up this Grant to encourage or commend innovation in global academic exchange.

The winners (two awardees) will each be granted 2500 CHF. The grant should be used to promote academic exchanges, forms unlimited.

Candidate Requirements:
– Associated with or are the primary academic conference organizer in the science and technology of nanomaterials;
– Planning to organize online or offline academic conferences during the period of 1 June 2021 to 31 May 2022;
– The scale of the conference should be over 500 people;
– Successfully organized at least three academic conferences.

Required Application Documents:
– Information of previous conferences (website, number of participants, organizer, address, and date);
– Information about upcoming conferences, workshops, or similar events (website, introduction of chair, program if available, and sponsors if available);
– Brief introduction of the association, and if the organizer is a scholar, provide the scholar’s curriculum vitae and list of publications;
– Cover letter (describe the importance of your conference, why you are eligible to receive this award, your plan to use the grant, etc.).

Accordingly, we request the winners acknowledge the grant in their conference brochure, website, and opening/closing remarks. Meanwhile, if the conference has the need to publish conference papers, Nanomaterials should be given priority.

Please send the application to the Nanomaterials Editorial Office <[email protected]> before 31 May 2021. The winners will be informed via email and announced on the Nanomaterials webpage by the end of June 2021.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Nanomaterials will be awarding 2021 Travel Awards for junior scientists. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Nanomaterials Editorial Board.

This prize provides financial support for the winners to attend an international conference in the field of nanomaterials to be held in 2021, in order to hold a presentation, present a poster, or both.

Candidate Requirements:
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students.
– Plans to attend an international conference in 2021 (oral presentation or poster).

Required Application Documents:
– Information of the conference the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted.
– Curriculum Vitae and list of publications.
– Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words).
– Letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director, or department head, which also confirms the applicant’s status as a postdoctoral fellow/PhD student.

The winners (two awardees) will each be awarded 800 CHF and a certificate.

Please submit your applications for the Nanomaterials 2021 Travel Awards online by 28 February 2021. Prizes will be awarded at the end of March 2021 and announced on the Nanomaterials website.

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 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,

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 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 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 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