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Released on the internet 2010 November 22.doi: 10.3762/bjnano.1.1
PMID: 22013556
Thomas Schimmel,Editor-in-Chief
Nanotechnology is usually regarded one of the crucial technologies of the 21stcenturies. Increasingly smaller sized structures are gaining technological and economic significance. The range of applications ranges from top of the line components and films to car paints and catalysis, from bionic areas to clinical applications, from nano-electronics to data storage gadgets, to mention just a few illustrations.
Rapid progress in nanotechnology is usually powered by two major factors. On the one hands, scientific progress enables the advancement of completely new items, procedures and technology. On the other hand, more progress in present key systems increasingly depends on the understanding and handle of functional constructions on the nanometer size. Frequently, technological progress is definitely hampered by a absence of knowing of buildings on this size scale. To become effective, nanotechnology offers to depend on a shut assistance of a amount of different procedures - like physics, chemistry and chemistry and biology as properly as engineering sciences and materials research.
At the exact same period, the nanosciences are usually a stunning and quickly developing region of study, continuously locating and understanding brand-new phenomena and results related to the little length level. Things do not just become smaller, they behave differently, starting fascinating points of views for brand-new technology and story applications and technology. Nano-photonics, quantum electronics, the lotus effect and the interesting properties of graphene are just a several well-known examples.
The Beilstein Log of Nanotechnology provides a platform for the effective swap and dissemination of cutting-edge results in the wide region of nanosciences and nanotechnology, including nanoscale physics, hormone balance and chemistry and biology, as well as executive sciences, surface sciences, components analysis and semiconductor technology. It contains synthetic techniques and fresh work mainly because nicely as computational nanoscience and theoretical factors.
The Beilstein Newspaper of Nanotechnology will be unique in various values:
- It is usually both an Open up Accessibility journal and a printed journal.
- It will be freely obtainable worldwide - thanks to the Open up Access technique.
- There are usually no distribution charges for the writers and no costs for the readers.
- The copyright of the articles and figures is maintained by the writers - they are usually permitted to use posts or the materials included in their posts freely, elizabeth. h., for addition on their web site.
- Who pays? - The Beilstein Log of Nanotechnology is completely funded by the Beilstein-Institut (http://www.beilstein-institut.de), a exclusive non-profit foundation for the advancement of science. The Beilstein-Institut offers a lengthy tradition and background in technological publishing, and a high reputation, specifically in the area of chemical substance sciences, dating back to 1951.
- There can be no industrial curiosity behind the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology or the Beilstein-Institut. The purpose of the journal can be to support researchers in the industry of nanoscience and nanotechnology and to offer the widest achievable system for cutting-edge research.
- All articles are peer-reviewed. The major criteria for approval of an write-up for distribution are high quality, originality, originality and significance.
- The people of the Editorial Table and the Advisory Table are top scientists in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology worldwide, including Jean-Marie Lehn and Sir Harold Kroto as Nobel laureates.
In this way, the Beilstein Newspaper of Nanotechnology, collectively with its aunt journal, the Beilstein Newspaper of Natural Chemistry (http://www.bjoc.org), offers unique possibilities for the quick and most effective dissemination of novel outcomes. In add-on to submitted articles, the concept of Thematic Series provides collections of invited, peer-reviewed advantages on chosen focal locations of present interest, written by leading researchers in the particular field. If you are usually fascinated to start a Thematic Collection, please get in touch with the Editor-in-Chief.
It is my honour to say thanks to all those who possess led and who will contribute to the success of this journal. I would like to give thanks to the authors of the posts - and our referees, renowned analysts in the field of nanotechnology, who assure the medical high quality of the journal. Several thanks go to the associates of the Advisory Table and the Content Board for their great support. Above all, and furthermore on behalf of the writers, the Advisory Board and the Content Board, I would including to give thanks to the Beilstein-Institut for introducing and financing this exclusive journal.
It is certainly my enjoyment to request you to become an active component in our journal and to benefit from its benefits - as readers, as writers and as publishers of Thematic Collection.
Thomas Schimmel
Editor-in-Chief
Karlsruhe, Nov 2010
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