Lei Jiang (L4) at the 2018 Nano Research Award Ceremony in Chengdu on July 1 [Photo/thholding.com.cn]

The fifth Nano Research Award ceremony was held in Chengdu on July 1 to honor the most extinguished scientists who pushed the boundaries of nanoscience in the past year.

This year's winners included two trailblazing researchers: Jiang Lei, professor and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Chad Mirkin, professor and academician of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Since 1999, Jiang Lei has been a member of the "Plan of Hundreds Scientists in CAS" in Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS). He also plays the role of a professor and supervisor for Ph.D students.

He has made ground-breaking innovations in bio-inspired intelligent material and devices, functional interface materials with special wettability, organic/inorganic hybrid nano materials and photo-electric functional interface material.

The award ceremony was hosted by Professor Zong Junfeng, president of Tsinghua University Press (TUP), Professor Arnout Jacobs, president of Springer Nature for Greater China and Dai Hongjie, editor-in-chief of Nano Research.

Established in 2013 by Nano Research, TUP and Springer, the Nano Research Award has become a yearly event highlighting scientists who made the most notable contribution to nanoscience over the past year.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Nano Research, a world-class English journal published by Tsinghua University Press (TUP) and Springer. It is a peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal covering all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Submissions are solicited in all topical areas, ranging from basic aspects of the science of nano-scale materials to their practical applications.

Nano Research offers readers an attractive mix of authoritative and comprehensive reviews, original thinking in communication and full paper formats. Rapid review to ensure quick publication is a major selling point of Nano Research.

According to the latest data, the SCI impact factor of Nano Research was 7.99 in 2017.