There is still plenty of room at the bottom: Nanostructured Materials 2010

This issue contains a collection of papers presented at the X International Conference on Nanostructured Materials (NANO 2010), which was held in Rome on September 13-17, 2010. The Nanostructured Materials is a biannual conference series, organized under the auspices of the International Committee on Nanostructured Materials, initiated in 1992, and the oldest conference series in the field. The Conference has a very interdisciplinary character, since facing the demanding societal challenges of the future will need more and more multidisciplinary approach, with teams where materials scientists, physicists, chemists, engineers, biologists, and physicians will work together side by side. The special issue dedicated to the Conference contains 67 selected manuscripts out of 168 papers submitted. The impact factor of the journal for 2011 was 3.253.