Building on a Strong Foundation

Another year of great nanoscience: The ChemNanoMat editorial team reflects on 2017 and looks ahead to 2018. It has been another great year for ChemNanoMat. Our second full year of issues brought many new authors to the journal, and featured even more excellent science at the intersection of chemistry and nanoscience. Submissions to ChemNanoMat continue to increase, and our full-text downloads for 2017 have increased by 36% compared to the same time last year. The journal also continues to attract an international audience of both authors and readers, with 15% of our published papers coming from the USA, 23% coming from Europe, and 59% coming from our Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES) partner countries. Similar trends can be observed in our full-text downloads: 17% of readers were based in the USA, 15% were based in Europe, and 64% were based in ACES partner countries. In addition, we continue to make rapid processing of manuscripts a priority, and are happy to say that manuscripts published were available online even faster in 2017 than in 2016. The number of days from submission to first access (Accepted Article online, before editing and proofing) went down from 35 to 32, and the number of days from submission to the final typeset version appearing online (Early View) went down from 58 to 54. We were also pleased to receive this year a first partial impact factor of 2.937. The publication of a “partial” impact factor indicates that even though the journal is too young to receive a full impact factor, which measures citations for two years of issues, Clarivate Analytics decided the journal was established enough to be included in their annual report. This partial impact factor reflects the citations received by the articles published in just the first eight months of issues. These numbers show that, even as a new journal, ChemNanoMat is publishing research relevant to the nanoscience community and is building a strong reputation from which the journal can further grow and develop. To show the types of papers attracting significant attention, Table 1 lists the top ten most-cited papers in 2017. Given the global search for cleaner and more efficient routes to create and store energy, it is not surprising to see that several of the top-cited papers in 2017 are focused on nanostructured catalysts and electrode materials; two-dimensional materials also feature prominently. However, the scope of the journal and the interest of our readers extend far beyond these hot topics, as can be seen in the most-accessed papers (Table 2). Soft electronics, fundamental studies, sensors, and nanobioscience also feature prominently on this list. Corresponding Author(s) Article Type Title Citation and DOI Yonglan Luo, Xuping Sun Communication Electrodeposited Ni-P Alloy Nanoparticle Films for Efficiently Catalyzing Hydrogen- and Oxygen-Evolution Reactions ChemNanoMat 2015, 1, 558 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201500163 Yujie Xiong Focus Review Surface and Interface Engineering in Photocatalysis ChemNanoMat 2015, 1, 223 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201500069 Zhian Zhang Communication Hierarchical MoSe2 Nanosheets/Reduced Graphene Oxide Composites as Anodes for Lithium-Ion and Sodium-Ion Batteries with Enhanced Electrochemical Performance ChemNanoMat 2015, 1, 409 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201500097 Wingkei Ho, Jiaguo Yu Full Paper Hierarchical Pt/NiO Hollow Microspheres with Enhanced Catalytic Performance ChemNanoMat 2015, 1, 58 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201400013 Jiangfeng Qian, Hanxi Yang Full Paper Vacancy-Free Prussian Blue Nanocrystals with High Capacity and Superior Cyclability for Aqueous Sodium-Ion Batteries ChemNanoMat 2015, 1, 188 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201500021 Yang Zhao, Liangti Qu Focus Review Graphitic Carbon Nitride/Graphene Hybrids as New Active Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage ChemNanoMat 2015, 1, 298 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201500060 Chuanxi Wang, Chi Zhang Full Paper Polyethyleneimine-Functionalized Fluorescent Carbon Dots: Water Stability, pH Sensing, and Cellular Imaging ChemNanoMat 2015, 1, 122 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201500009 Kwan San Hui, Kwun Nam Hui Full Paper 1D Hierarchical MnCo2O4 Nanowire@MnO2 Sheet Core-Shell Arrays on Graphite Paper as Superior Electrodes for Asymmetric Supercapacitors ChemNanoMat 2015, 1, 593 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201500105 Haibo Zeng Focus Review Noncovalent Molecular Doping of Two-Dimensional Materials ChemNanoMat 2015, 1, 543 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201500102 Hui Xia, Jianping Xie Focus Review Nanostructured Iron Oxide/Hydroxide-Based Electrode Materials for Supercapacitors ChemNanoMat 2016, 2, 588 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201600110 Corresponding Author(s) Article Type Title Citation and DOI Lei Fu Focus Review Black Phosphorus: Properties, Synthesis, and Applications in Energy Conversion and Storage ChemNanoMat 2017, 3, 352 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201700030 Haifeng Yuan, Maarten B. J. Roeffaers Communication Facile Morphology-Controlled Synthesis of Organolead Iodide Perovskite Nanocrystals Using Binary Capping Agents ChemNanoMat 2017, 3, 223 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201700006 Yanglong Hou Focus Review Transition Metal (Fe, Co and Ni) Carbide and Nitride Nanomaterials: Structure, Chemical Synthesis and Applications ChemNanoMat 2015, 1, 376 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201500073 Jong-Beom Baek Focus Review Two-Dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks for Optoelectronics and Energy Storage ChemNanoMat 2017, 3, 373 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201700048 Taeghwan Hyeon, Dae-Hyeong Kim Focus Review Nanomaterial-Based Soft Electronics for Healthcare Applications ChemNanoMat 2016, 2, 1006 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201600191 Yang Zhao, Liangti Qu Focus Review Graphitic Carbon Nitride/Graphene Hybrids as New Active Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage ChemNanoMat 2015, 1, 298 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201500060 Paolo Samorì Focus Review Graphene/Polymer Nanocomposites for Supercapacitors ChemNanoMat 2017, 3, 362 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201700055 Jerome Canivet Full Paper Enhanced Ligand-Based Luminescence in Metal-Organic Framework Sensor ChemNanoMat 2016, 2, 866 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201600124 Xiaohu Xia Communication Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP)-Capped Pt Nanocubes with Superior Peroxidase-Like Activity ChemNanoMat 2017, 3, 33 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201600268 Zhaolin Liu, Yun Zong Communication Sheet-on-Sheet Hierarchical Nanostructured C@MnO2 for Zn-Air and Zn-MnO2 Batteries ChemNanoMat 2017, 3, 401 DOI: 10.1002/cnma.201700043 As the number of scientific authors and articles grows ever larger, one of the continuing challenges for the community is correctly connecting articles to authors. One major initiative in this direction is the worldwide drive to encourage broad use of ORCIDs. An ORCID is a unique author identifier that is supported by numerous publishers, funding agencies, and other scholarly organizations. In addition to making it easy to create a freely accessible record of your accomplishments, your ORCID identifier can also be used to log in to the ChemNanoMat submission system and those of the other Wiley-VCH chemistry and materials science journals, including Angewandte Chemie and Advanced Materials. In order to facilitate the connection between researchers and articles, starting in January 2018 these journals will require authors to provide their ORCID identifiers with their manuscripts. Links to the appropriate ORCID profiles are included in both the HTML and PDF versions of the published article, and each paper can be added to the author's ORCID profile with just one click. If you do not yet have an ORCID, we encourage you to sign up for one today! 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Last summer, ACES collaborated with the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh, German Chemical Society) to hold the inaugural ACES & GDCh Symposium during the centenary celebrations of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) in July. The symposium had the theme “Functional Nanomaterials” and featured two ChemNanoMat board members, co-chair Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University, Japan) and international advisory board member Bin Liu (National University of Singapore, Singapore). The symposium also included the presentation of the first ever Ryoji Noyori ACES Award to Chi-Ming Che (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) for his outstanding work in several areas of chemistry and strong contributions to the ACES journal program. Last, but certainly not least, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people who have contributed to the journal's success over the last year. Thank you to our guest editors for helping us highlight interesting topics in nanochemistry. Thank you to our authors for entrusting us with the articles you worked so hard to prepare. And thank you to our production team for their continuous support and for working with us to introduce new features, such as native-language names, to the journal. Finally, thank you to our editorial and advisory board members for all their guidance and for submitting high-quality articles, several of which are featured in this issue: Susumu Kitagawa and colleagues on porous coordination polymers with expanded 1D channels, C.N.R. Rao and colleagues on covalently functionalized metal chalcogenide nanoparticles, and Younan Xia and colleagues on rhodium decahedra. We look forward to working with all of you again in the year to come! Dr. Theresa Kueckmann Editor Dr. Claire M. Cobley Managing Editor P.S. Follow us on Twitter (@ChemNanoMat) or Facebook, or sign up for e-alerts on our homepage to keep up to date with all the latest developments.