Grand Plans for Nano

Grand Plans for Nano T his year, nanoscience and nanotechnology have been called front and center to help address the grand challenges that the world faces.Our community has been asked to suggest future challenges, and the first such crowd-sourced grand challenge has been announced by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.15 As we have said on these pages, we believe that nanoscientists and nanotechnologists around the world have special roles to play in bringing together expertise from diverse fields in order to tackle important tasks both large and small. 2Indeed, our higher perspectives and communication across fields have great value globally in key areas such as devices, energy, health, and safety.610 As these Grand Challenge projects and other opportunities emerge, we will work with the leading and rising researchers in the relevant and potentially impacted communities to lay out the challenges and opportunities for nanoscience, nanotechnology, and other fields.710 We see key roles for ACS Nano as a community forum to guide both nanoscience and nanoscience policy, to improve the impact of research by coordinating how it is reported, 11,12 and to showcase innovative work from around the world.We are looking forward to an exciting year in 2016, which will mark ACS Nano's tenth volume.It has already been quite an adventure, and much more is to come.We note that you will see some changes in our "look" next year.We will keep our forward-looking posture, our in-depth science and engineering, and the identifying markings that let you know right away when you are reading an article in ACS Nano.We have made subtle design changes that will enable us to speed up production in order to accelerate our already fast turn-around times of your work.We want to thank our production team and staff for this collaboration and all of the iterations that went into this optimization effort.Finally, we want to thank you, our readers, authors, and referees for moving ACS Nano and our field to ever higher impact on our world.We wish you a safe and peaceful holiday season and look forward to hearing from you and working with you in the year and years ahead.