American Chemical Society announces editor appointment for new full-article nanoscience and nanotechnology journal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Released 2/5/07
The American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications Division has announced the appointment of Paul S. Weiss, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Physics at The Pennsylvania State University, as editor of a new peer-reviewed journal, ACS Nano. Beginning publication third-quarter 2007, ACS Nano will publish full–length articles, perspectives, and editorial commentary.
The journal will be featured in an online community that will highlight the Society’s activities in the nano area and will foster collaboration within the international nano community through special Web features for researchers in the dynamic and interdisciplinary field of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Areas of interest covered by the new journal will range from synthesis and assembly to functional devices and nanolithography, including chemistry, physics, biology, materials science and engineering. Editorial features will report on issues and thoughts in the field, including "conversations" with key scientists and public figures.
ACS Nano will complement the ACS’ highly successful rapid communication journal Nano Letters, which received a 9.847 ISI® impact factor as reported in the 2005 ISI® Journal Citation Reports® and ranks number one in the ISI® category of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology.
Professor Weiss, who was born in Ithaca, N.Y., received his S.B. and S.M. degrees in chemistry from MIT in 1980 and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1986. He was a post–doctoral member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories from 1986-1988 and a Visiting Scientist at IBM Almaden Research Center from 1988–1989. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Physics at The Pennsylvania State University, where he began his academic career as an assistant professor in 1989. He is also a member of Penn State’s Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Institute of Neuroscience, and Materials Research Institute.
His interdisciplinary research group includes chemists, physicists, biologists, materials scientists, electrical and mechanical engineers, and computer scientists. Their work focuses on the atomic–scale chemical, physical, optical, mechanical and electronic properties of surfaces and supramolecular assemblies. He and his students have developed new techniques to expand the applicability and chemical specificity of scanning probe microscopies. They have applied these and other tools to the study of catalysis, self- and directed- assembly, physical models of biological systems, and molecular and nano-scale electronics. They work to advance nanofabrication down to ever smaller scales and greater chemical specificity in order to connect, operate, and test molecular devices.
Some of the awards Professor Weiss has received include an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1995-1997), the American Chemical Society Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry (1996), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1997), and a National Science Foundation Creativity Award (1997–1999). He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000) and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2002) and was named one of two Nanofabrication Fellows at Penn State (2005). Professor Weiss was the senior editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters for molecular and organic electronics and is the technical co–chair of the Foundations of Nanoscience Meetings and the chair of the next International Meeting on Molecular Electronics.
The American Chemical Society—the world’s largest scientific society—is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer–reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio. The ACS Publications Division currently publishes 35 leading peer-reviewed journals in the chemical and related sciences, including the Journal of the American Chemical Society, as well as Chemical & Engineering News, the Society's weekly news magazine.
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Released 2/5/2007
Summary
The American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications Division has announced the appointment of Paul S. Weiss, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Physics at The Pennsylvania State University, as editor of a new peer-reviewed journal, ACS Nano. Beginning publication third-quarter 2007, ACS Nano will publish full-length articles, perspectives, and editorial commentary.
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Chemistry, Physics, Materials, Science, Education, Science, and Math
