Connecting the Dots

High five: ChemNanoMat′s fifth volume begins this year and marks a new high point for the journal. At its heart, publishing is about building connections. A published paper is a bridge between authors and readers—a way to share ideas, inspire new studies, or even spark a new collaboration. Publishers work hard behind the scenes to make these connections as smooth and easy as possible so that science can continue its rapid rate of progress. The importance of international connections is also part of why we believe so strongly in the mission of the Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES), the collection of 13 chemical societies from across Asia and the Pacific that co-owns ChemNanoMat, Chemistry-An Asian Journal, and the Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry. By bringing together leading chemical societies across the entire region, we have created strong journals that serve their local communities while still attracting international attention and authors. Publishing relies on so many other connections as well. A journal is only as strong as its ties to the scientific community, and we greatly enjoy the opportunity to meet so many of our authors and readers face to face when attending conferences and visiting institutes during our travels. It was a particular pleasure to connect with next generation of scientists earlier this year as a career mentor at the Gordon Research Seminar for Noble Metals in Mount Holyoke (USA). Another way the journal connects with the community is through our editorial board members, who act as ambassadors for the journal and help us stay up to date on the latest developments in the field. We are delighted to welcome fresh faces to our editorial and advisory boards this year. Our editorial board will be expanded to include Tetsu Tatsuma (University of Tokyo, Japan), Javier Vela (Iowa State University, USA), Jinlan Wang (Southeast University, China), and Xinbo Zhang (Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China). Their biographies can be found at the end of this editorial. Our international advisory board will also be further strengthened by the addition of Katsuhiko Ariga, Chunying Chen, Donglei (Emma) Fan, Zaiping Guo, Ghim Wei Ho, Guntae Kim, Maksym Kovalenko, Nazario Martín, Leonard Prins, Kanyi Pu, Bart Jan Ravoo, Paolo Samorì, Richard Tilley, Magdalena Titirici, Jan van Hest, Yujie Xiong, and Qiang Xu. Their full information can be found on our website. Please join us in welcoming these new members! Our connections with reviewers are also of critical importance. Along with numerous Wiley-VCH journals in the Angewandte Chemie and Advanced Materials families, we will shortly begin partnering with ORCID to recognize reviewers in a formal way for the priceless work they do in assuring the high-quality and accuracy of research published in ChemNanoMat. Through this system, it will be possible to automatically add peer review activity for a publication to your ORCID profile through a link in our submission system, Editorial Manager. You will be asked to approve of the transfer of your first review by responding “Yes” to an authorization request on the review form. You can either deposit a single review or provide authorization to deposit all future reviews as well. We hope you find this feature useful and welcome your feedback on how this impacts your career. This year marks our 5th volume, an exciting milestone in the development of the journal. Not only that, we hit the milestone of our 1000th submission in February of this year, and the number of articles submitted has been climbing rapidly ever since. As of the end of November, ChemNanoMat is on track to receive over 75% more submissions compared to last year. The continuing growth of the journal is also reflected in the increase of the impact factor to 3.173 (Clarivate Analytics, 2017 Journal Citation Report). This (almost1) full impact factor puts the journal on strong footing for further growth. If you enjoy the issue on Supramolecular Nanostructures be sure to check out the newest Wiley-VCH chemistry journal: ChemSystemsChem. Systems chemistry is an emerging field of chemistry centered around the properties of interacting networks of chemicals or molecular assemblies/components, mostly out of equilibrium, and their emergent functions. ChemSystemsChem is now open for submissions and welcomes papers on relevant topics including out-of-equilibrium self-assembly, chemical networks and chemical ensembles with emergent properties, such as movement, communication and collective behavior, artificial cells and self-synthesizing chemical factories, and method development and theoretical modelling. Last but not least, we are also pleased to announce that it is now possible to directly transfer manuscripts submitted to the recently launched chemistry preprint server, ChemRxiv, to ChemNanoMat. We look forward to receiving your submissions through this new system! There is a lot to look forward to in 2019, from special issues on Perovskite Nanocrystals and Hot Carrier Chemistry to reaching new milestones and even more cutting-edge submissions. Our heartfelt thanks go out to all of the authors, board members, reviewers, readers, and staff that have helped us make ChemNanoMat the home for high-quality nanoscience it is today. We couldn′t do it without you and we look forward to working with you in 2019! 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. Tetsu Tatsuma received his PhD degree in electrochemistry from The University of Tokyo in 1993. He held the position of Assistant Professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology before joining Prof. Akira Fujishima′s group at The University of Tokyo as Lecturer in 1998. After the promotion to Associate Professor in 2000, he joined Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo in 2001. He has been a Full Professor since 2008. He received Award for Creative Work from the Chemical Society of Japan in 2011, Award for Scientific Achievement from the Electrochemical Society of Japan in 2012, and The Japanese Photochemistry Association Award in 2014. His current research interests include photoelectrochemistry and nanophotonics related to plasmonic nanomaterials, and focus in particular on mechanistic studies and applications of plasmon-induced charge separation, which he reported in 2005. Javier Vela is a professor of chemistry at Iowa State University (Ames, USA). He completed his undergraduate degree (Licenciatura) with Honors at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2001. He earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Rochester (New York, USA) in 2003 and 2005, respectively, where he worked with Patrick L. Holland—now at Yale—on low coordinate iron chemistry.1 He was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Chicago (Illinois, USA) from 2005 to 2006, where he worked with Richard F. Jordan on catalytic polymerization. He was a Director′s Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory's Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (New Mexico, USA) from 2007 to 2009, where he worked with Jennifer A. Hollingsworth and Victor I. Klimov on non-blinking quantum dot fluorophores.2 Author of over 70 peer reviewed journal articles and patents in synthetic inorganic and materials chemistry, Vela's current research focuses on new nanostructured and optical materials for energy, catalysis, and imaging applications. Some of his most recent work emphasizes the development of technologically relevant semiconductors made of Earth-abundant and biocompatible elements.3 Vela has been a faculty member at Iowa State University since 2009. In addition to his editorial role with ChemNanoMat, he serves in the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Energy Letters. He also serves as Councilor for the Ames Local Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS), is Chair-Elect of the Solid-State Subdivision of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry, and was Program Chair for the 2018 ACS Midwest Regional Meeting in Ames (Iowa, USA), and 2017 IUPAC Young Observer (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Vela is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, 2018), has received the Cassling Innovator Award from Iowa State′s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2018), and a CAREER Award from the US National Science Foundation (2013). Jinlan Wang received her Ph.D. from the Department of Physics, Nanjing University, China in 2002, followed by a three-year postdoctoral experience in the Chemistry Division of Argonne National Laboratory, USA. Since 2006, she has worked at Southeast University in China as a full professor and developed the computational physics and chemistry group. She is currently a distinguished professor in the School of Physics at Southeast University. Her current research interests mainly focus on computational studies and design of two-dimensional materials and new energy materials. The techniques involved range from machine learning to classical molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo simulations to different level first-principles methods. She has published over 180 papers in high-impact journals, including Science, Nat. Commun, JACS, Angew Chem, Adv. Mater., Nano Lett., with total citations of over 6000 and an H-index of 40. She was also the recipient of the Distinguished Young Scholars award of National Science Foundation of China (2015) and “333 project for Distinguished Scholars” in Jiangsu Province (2016) and Experts on Special Allowances of the State Council of China (2018). Xinbo Zhang is a Full Professor at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He obtained his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from CIAC and was granted the CAS Presidential Scholarship Award in 2005. He worked as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellow (2005–2007) and a New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) research associate (2007–2009) at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. His main interests are functional inorganic materials for batteries, fuel cells, electrochemical water splitting and carbon dioxide reduction. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed papers with citations over 15000 times and H-index of 68. Selected awards include “Hundred Talents Program” of CAS (2011), the Excellent Young Scholars of NSFC (2014), Distinguished Young Scholars of NSFC (2017), and Young Top-Notch Talent (2015), National Young and Middle-aged Leading Scientists, Engineers and Innovators (2018), and Clarivate Analytics′ Highly Cited Researchers.