Editorial - Langmuir (ACS Publications)

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Editorial Dear Langmuir authors, readers, and reviewers, Thanks for all of your inputs to Langmuir during the past year. In this editorial, I’d like to share some news about new Langmuir activities that I hope will be of interest to you. We have completed our first year of publishing Langmuir weekly. The expanded publication to 51 issues has provided many new opportunities: more Feature Articles, covers for more authors, and chances to expand with new manuscript types. With the increase in the number of submissions, we have added a new editorial office. We welcome new Senior Editor Frank H. Quina, who is a professor at the Instituto Química at the Universidade de São Paulo. Over the years, Frank has been an outstanding reviewer and a frequent contributor to Langmuir. The new office in Brazil is our first in Latin America and gives us the opportunity for a presence in the rapidly developing science and engineering community in South America. With Executive Editor Francoise Winnik’s new scientific activities in Japan and Finland, we have editorial offices in seven countries and on four continents. Editor Luis Liz-Marzan has moved to the Basque Centre for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials, CIC biomaGUNE, and is located in the city of San Sebastián; however, he remains in Spain. We congratulate him on his selection as a Langmuir Lecturer in 2012 as well as winning an inaugural ACS Nano Award. We have added two new categories of short review articles that we anticipate will be of great interest and utility to our readership; these are Instructional Reviews and Historical Reviews. Initially, authorship will be by invitation only and the submissions will be mostly handled by Senior Editor Richard Weiss. We encourage individuals who would be interested in contributing to write Professor Weiss or the Editor-in-Chief. (Please see our Web page for a description of the format for these reviews.) Finally, we have provided potential authors new, detailed, and slightly revised guidelines for all manuscript types. We anticipate that these new guidelines will clarify and settle several issues and be helpful to our authors. We welcome input and suggestions from all of our reviewers, readers, and authors. David G. Whitten Editor-in-Chief

Published: January 8, 2013 © 2013 American Chemical Society

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dx.doi.org/10.1021/la304894u | Langmuir 2013, 29, 1−1