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“Nanomaterials and the environment is a rapidly emerging and sometimes controversial area, and it is important to have a journal that brings together important developments in this expanding scientific and engineering field, and disseminates new ideas and technical advances to audiences across the globe" says professor Andy Cundy, Chair of Applied Geochemistry at the University of Brighton.

Expected to launch in February 2012, the journal will be online and open access. The journal’s advisory board has gathered a number of key academics in the field of nanoscience and the effect of nanomaterials in the environment, including Professor Sir Harold Kroto, Professor at Florida State University and 1996 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for discovery of buckminster fullerenes (nanoscale all-carbon spheres). Among several of the other leading scientists, Professor Dionysios Dionysiou, who is the Chair for Environmental Engineering at the University of Cincinnati, said “Nanomaterials are now an integral part of our life and the environment.  The launching of Nanomaterials and the Environment (NATE) provides an exciting opportunity for a host journal that focuses specifically on environmental applications, implications, and other issues that link nanomaterials and the environment. This is a unique journal, with tremendous expected impact in the scientific literature and easy accessibility for scientists, stakeholders, and the public interested in the area of nanotechnology and nanomaterials.”

The multidisciplinary nature of the journal will provide opportunities to publish studies that also involve collaboration of scientists and engineers of various disciplines. The Editor of the Journal, Dr Raymond Whitby, who heads the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Group at the University of Brighton, says that the journal is an exciting development, which helps strengthen the position of the University of Brighton in this rapidly advancing field. ”Thanks to a carefully prepared and implemented strategy, the journal will provide exclusively high-quality research articles in the field of NATE. Therefore we pay much attention amongst others to fast and comprehensive peer-review. This will certainly change the perception of Open Access being so far not necessarily associated with qualitative publications. In order to attract submissions during the first two years, no fees will be charged to authors. ”

Jacek Ciesielski, Publishing Manager at Versita, sees a great potential in the new journal: “Nanomaterials and the Environment is a research area which has been experiencing ever-increasing interest among scholars for the last years. For this reason Versita decided to launch a journal which will disseminate and integrate with the latest research results in this field. We are happy that Dr Raymond Whitby assumed the position of the Editor of NATE. We wish him success in this venture.“