The Nano Letters Early Career Board (ECB) was created in 2015 with the mission of developing a channel for early-career scientists to share their experiences and perspectives on scientific publishing. As the future of the field, members also provide insights into emerging disciplines in addition to organizing virtual issues. Now in its fifth year, the […]

TheNano Letters Early Career Board (ECB) was created in 2015 with the mission of developing a channel for early-career scientists to share their experiences and perspectives on scientific publishing. As the future of the field, members also provide insights into emerging disciplines in addition to organizing virtual issues.

Now in its fifth year, the board is led by co-chairs Nicolò Maccaferri and Weiyang (Fiona) Li, with returning members Michael Saliba and Deep Jariwala. The board also added three new members at the end of 2019.

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Early Career Board members contribute to the curation of journal content including virtual issues and the popular #ECBRecommends series on Twitter.

Recently, Early Career Board Members, Umberto Celano, and Nicolo Maccaferri guested edited the Chasing Plasmons in Flatlandvirtual issue in which they, “report the most recent advances on the coupling between the field of plasmonics and 2D materials published in Nano Letters in the past decade.” The issue also discusses, “how [researchers] can exploit this coupling to achieve better performance in some specific areas, above all photodetection.” Check out the virtual issue here.

You can also read previous ECB virtual issues:

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