Plans for Special Issues of Selected FNANO05 Papers in Journals

Selection Committee: The selection committee will determine which FNANO05 papers to invite to which special issues. The selection committee will provide each Journal with a list of authors/articles, expected submission date, and suggested referees.

Selection Committee Members:

-John Reif <reif@cs.duke.edu>, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham,, NC 27708

-Mehmet Sarikaya <sarikaya@u.washington.edu>, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seatle, WA

-Francesco Stellacci <frstella@mit.edu>, MIT, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Room 13-4053, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139
Andrew Turberfield <a.turberfield@physics.ox.ac.uk>, Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, and

- three others to be determined.

Journals with Plans for Special Issues:

(1) Plans for a Special Issue of the new "Journal of Experimental Nanoscience" to be published by Taylor and Francis

Contact Person on Editorial Board: Francesco Stellacci <frstella@mit.edu>, MIT, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Room 13-4053, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, tel. 617-452-3704

Guest Editor: T.B.D.

Plans: The first issue of the journal will be published in January 2006 and they are willing to devote it to FNANO05

(2) Plans for a FNANO Special Issue of Biomolecular Engineering

Contact person: Cassandra Smith, Editor-in-Chief, Biomolecular Engineering <biomole@bu.edu> and her Assistant Ashley Y Martin

Plans: Special Issue of 15-25 papers is assigned to Paper Symposium BME 04-105 for Biomolecular Engineering.

Guest Editors: T.B.D.

(3) Plans for a FNANO Special Issues of Nature-Materials and/or Nanoletters

Guest Editors: Mehmet Sarikaya <sarikaya@u.washington.edu>, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA and John Reif

Plans and Needs: Mehmet Sarikaya has spoken to the editors/co-editors of journals (Nature-Materials and Nanoletters). In principle, they would like to have 15-25 short papers (letters of 1600 words) submitted. These short papers will reviewed by the editors/co-editors of these journals, and coordinated by us.

(4) Plans for a Special Issue of the journal in the field of DNA Technology in the IEEE Journal of Nanobiotechnology (NBT):

URL: http://www.iee.org/Publish/Journals/ProfJourn/Proc/NBT/Index.cfm

Contact person: Lee Baldwin <LBaldwin@iee.org.uk>, Managing Editor of IEEE Journal of Nanobiotechnology (NBT)

Guest Editors: Andrew Turberfield <a.turberfield@physics.ox.ac.uk>, Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK and John Reif

Plans: A Special Issue of the journal in the field of DNA Technology in areas: 3D DNA nanostructures, DNA arrays, DNA-templated devices, DNA nanomachines, DNA nanostructures as sensors, Algorithmic self-assembly, DNA computation.