期刊名称：ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE-NANO
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About the journal
Scope
Environmental Science: Nano is a comprehensive source of information on nanomaterial interactions with biological and environmental systems, and the design and use of engineered nanomaterials for sustainability.
Sustainable nanotechnology requires the understanding of how nanomaterials enter, migrate and undergo transformations as they move through various environmental and biological media/systems. It also requires that nanotechnology development be carried out in a sustainable manner.
Environmental Science: Nano covers the benefits and implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology on environmental and human health and the sustainable design, development and use of nanotechnologies. This includes the following.
- Design
- Applications
- Life cycle implications
- Characterisation in biological and environmental media
- Environmental and biological interactions
- Fate, reactivity, biological uptake and ecotoxicity
- Other areas of sustainable nanotechnology, including environmental uptake and remediation of pollutants by nanomaterials
Instructions to Authors
Article types
Environmental Science: Nano publishes:
- Communications
- Full papers
- Perspectives
- Critical reviews
- Frontier reviews
- Tutorial reviews
- Comments and Replies
- Highlights
See more information about these article types
Communications
These must report preliminary research findings that are novel and original, of immediate interest and are likely to have a high impact on the Environmental Science: Nano community. Authors must provide a short paragraph explaining why their work justifies rapid publication as a communication.
Full papers
Original research papers within the scope of the journal as outlined above are encouraged and welcomed. All papers should give due attention to overcoming limitations and to underlying principles. All contributions will be judged on the following criteria.
- Novelty and insight
- Quality of scientific work and content
- Clarity of objectives and aims of the work
- Appropriateness of length to content of new science
Perspectives
These may be articles providing a personal view of part of one discipline associated with Environmental Science: Nano or a philosophical look at a topic of relevance. Alternatively, Perspectives may be historical articles covering a particular subject area or the development of particular legislation, technologies, methodologies or other subjects within the scope of Environmental Science: Nano.
Critical reviews
Critical reviews must be a critical evaluation of the existing state of knowledge on a particular facet of nanomaterials or nanotechnologies as they affect environmental science. They should be timely and provide insights based on existing literature. They should be of general interest to the journal's wide readership.
All Critical reviews undergo a rigorous and full peer review procedure, in the same way as regular research papers. Authors are encouraged to identify areas in the field where further developments are imminent or of urgent need, and any areas that may be of significance to the community in general. Critical reviews should not contain any unpublished original research.
Frontier reviews
These are shorter, more focused versions of Critical reviews on a well-defined, specific topic area covering approximately the last two-three years. Articles should cover only the most interesting/significant developments in that specific subject area. The article should be highly critical and selective in referencing published work. One or two paragraphs of speculation about possible future developments may also be appropriate in the conclusion section.
Frontier reviews may also cover techniques/technologies that are too new for a Critical review or may address a subset of technologies available for a given area of research within the journal scope.
Frontier reviews should not contain any unpublished original research.
Tutorial reviews
Tutorial reviews should provide an introduction and overview of an important topic of relevance to the journal readership. The topic should be of relevance to both researchers who are new to the field as well as experts and provide a good introduction to the development of a subject, its current state and indications of future directions the field is expected to take.
Comments and Replies
Comments are a medium for the discussion and exchange of scientific opinions normally concerning material published in Environmental Science: Nano. Submitted Comments will normally be forwarded to the authors of the work being discussed, and these authors will be given the opportunity to submit a Reply for publication together with the Comment. For publication of a Comment or Reply, they must be judged to be scientifically significant and of interest to the Environmental Science: Nano readership.
Comments should not be a personal attack on an individual or group of individuals and will undergo the usual peer-review process. Comments will not normally exceed a length of one printed journal page. Publication will take place only when all parties have had an opportunity to respond appropriately.
Highlights
These articles are written by our Highlights Editor on exciting work of relevance to the Environmental Science: Nano readership. These articles do not undergo peer review.
Journal specific guidelines
Authors must provide a 'nano impact statement' (120 words or less) that states how the work enhances or elucidates our understanding of nanomaterial interactions with natural systems that affect environmental or human health. This statement should aim to answer the following five questions.
- What is the problem?
- Why is it important?
- What is the key finding?
- How can this be generalised?
- What is the Nano impact?
This statement will be seen by the reviewers and will help ascertain the relevance of the article for a broad but technical audience, and authors should use it to show that they have given serious consideration to the positive or negative effects of nanomaterials on either humans or the environment. If the paper is accepted this statement will also be published. Please note that papers cannot be peer-reviewed without this statement.
Papers focusing on applications should include a comparison to the state of the art. Applications papers without a comparison to state of the art may be rejected without review.
Manuscript requirements
Minimum materials characterisation requirements detailed below are essential for all submissions to:
- ensure that strong correlations can be made between the measured effects
- permit comparisons and correlations between studies of analogous nanomaterials.
Exceptions to these requirements will be made only in the event that they cannot be met. In these rare instances, the authors will need to address why these requirements should be waived for the manuscript under consideration and why the conclusions of the paper are fully supported by the (limited) data provided. In this context, reviewers will be asked specifically to assess whether the data provided are adequate to support the conclusions of the manuscript.
- It is the expectation that manuscripts submitted to Environmental Science: Nano will have all experimental procedures and nanomaterial characterisation data warranted for the study.
- Referees will be asked to comment on the quality of nanomaterial characterisation (with guidance from the 'nanomaterials characterisation checklist' (NCC) as listed in the journal-specific guidelines).
See more information about the journal-specific guidelines
Nanomaterials characterisation checklist (NCC)
What does the material look like?
- Particle size/size distribution
- Agglomeration state/aggregation
- Shape
What is the material made of?
- Overall composition (including chemical composition and crystal structure)
- Surface composition
- Purity (including levels of impurities)
Which factors affect how a material interacts with its surroundings?
- Surface area
- Surface chemistry
- Surface charge
Is the material altered during handling and in reaction media?
To the extent possible in the context of the reported studies, authors should describe:
- methods employed for material storage, handling, preparation, and delivery of nanomaterials
- evidence for stability and/or transformations of material properties in experimental media.
Example publications & reports discussing the importance of nanomaterials characterisation
Publications
- K. Lluyts, D. Napierska, B. Nemery, and P.H.M. Hoet, How Physico-Chemical Characteristics of Nanoparticles Cause Their toxicity: Complex and Unresolved Interrelations, Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 2013, 15, 23-38.
- M. E. Pettitt and J. R. Lead, Minimum Physicochemical Characterisation Requirements for Nanomaterial Regulation, Environmental International, 2013, 52, 41-50.
- A. W. Salamon, The Current World of Nanomaterial Charcterization: Discussion of Analytical Instruments for Nanomaterial Characterization, Environmental Engineering Science, 2013, 30, 101-108.
- D. G. Thomas, S. Gaheen, S. L. Harper, M. Fritts, F. Klaessig, E. Hahn-Dantona, D. Paik, S. Pan, G. A. Stafford, E. T. Freund, J. D. Klemm and N. A. Baker, ISA-TAB-Nano: A Specification for Sharing Nanomaterial Research Data in Spreadsheet-Based Format, BMC Biotechnology, 2013, 13, Article No. 2.
- H. Johnston, G. Pojana, S. Zuin, N. R. Jacobsen, P. Moller, S. Loft, Semmler-Behnke, M., McGuiness, C., Balharry, D., A. Marcomini, H. Wallin, W. Kreyling, K. Donaldson, L. Tran and V. Stone, Engineered Nanomaterial Risk. Lessons Learnt from Completed Nanotoxicology Studies: Potential Solutions to Current and Future Challenges, Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 2013, 43, 1-20.
Reports
- National Research Council, A Research Strategy for Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2012.
- Nanomaterials and the Environment & Instrumentation, Metrology, and Analytical Methods: Report of the National Nanotechnology Initiative Workshop October 6-7, 2009.
Submissions should be made via ScholarOne, and should include the following:
- The nano impact statement
- The manuscript
- Artwork in single or double column format
- Copies of any relevant 'in press' references
Electronic supplemetary information (ESI)
This free service enables authors to enhance and increase the impact of their articles, allowing the use of additional diagrams, 3D molecular models, movies, spectra and programs. All information in the ESI is fully reviewed and archived.
Readership information
Environmental Science: Nano is essential reading for academic, industrial and government researchers, engineers, manufacturers and legislators interested in the effects and consequences of nanotechnologies on environmental and human health.
All articles published in Environmental Science: Nano will benefit from wide exposure, with free access upon registration to all content published during 2014 and 2015, giving maximum visibility to your work.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-chief
Vicki Grassian, University of California San Diego, USA
Vice chair
Christy Haynes, University of Minnesota, USA
Associate editors
James Hutchison, University of Oregon, USA
Greg Lowry, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kristin Schirmer, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Eawag, Switzerland
Editorial board members
Robert Hamers, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Michael Hochella, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Barbara Karn, Sustainable Nanotechnology Organisation & George Washington University, USA
Frank von der Kammer, University of Vienna, Austria
Weixian Zhang, UNEP-Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development, China
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