Nanomaterials

Nanomaterials is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal founded in 2011 and published semimonthly by MDPI of Basel, Switzerland, covering any field of study that involves nanomaterials with respect to their science and applications, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 4.8（Nanomaterials）是 2011 年创办、瑞士巴塞尔（MDPI）出版的国际性跨学科同行评审开放获取期刊，现为半月刊，涵盖涉及纳米材料及其科学与应用的各个研究领域，2025 年影响因子为 4.8。

Scope

• The journal publishes reviews, regular research papers, communications, and short notes relevant to any field of study that involves nanomaterials with respect to their science and applications该刊发表与涉及纳米材料及其科学与应用的任何研究领域相关的综述、常规研究论文、通讯与短篇札记。
• Its sections cover the synthesis, interfaces, and nanostructures of nanomaterials as well as the theory and simulation of nanostructures其学科板块涵盖纳米材料的合成、界面与纳米结构，以及纳米结构的理论与模拟。
• Further sections address physical chemistry at the nanoscale and nanocomposite materials其他板块涉及纳米尺度物理化学与纳米复合材料。
• It also covers nanophotonics materials and devices, nanoelectronics, nanosensors and devices, and nanofabrication and nanomanufacturing该刊同时涵盖纳米光子材料与器件、纳米电子学、纳米传感器与器件以及纳米制造。
• Solar energy and solar cells, energy and catalysis, and environmental nanoscience and nanotechnology form additional sections太阳能与太阳能电池、能源与催化以及环境纳米科学与技术另设板块。
• Biology and medicines, inorganic materials and metal-organic frameworks, and two-dimensional and carbon nanomaterials complete the section structure生物学与医学、无机材料与金属有机框架以及二维与碳纳米材料构成其余板块。
• The Spanish Carbon Group and the Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology are affiliated with the journal, and their members receive discounts on the article processing charges西班牙碳素协会（Spanish Carbon Group）与中国微米纳米技术学会（Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology）为该刊关联学会，其会员可享受文章处理费折扣。

History

• The journal was founded in 2011, and Volume 1, Issue 1 appeared in April 2011 with papers such as the first issue article on films, buckypapers, and fibers from clay, chitosan, and carbon nanotubes该刊创办于 2011 年，第 1 卷第 1 期于 2011 年 4 月出版，首期刊有黏土、壳聚糖与碳纳米管制膜、纸状材料与纤维等论文。^[1]
• It has been published by MDPI AG of Basel, Switzerland as a fully open access journal under a Creative Commons license since its launch创刊以来该刊一直由瑞士巴塞尔的 MDPI AG 以完全开放获取方式出版，全文采用知识共享许可。
• The journal appears semimonthly, twenty-four issues a year, and has grown into one of the highest-output titles in nanoscience, with more than twenty thousand papers recorded in Crossref to date该刊为半月刊，每年 24 期，已发展为纳米科学领域发文量最大的期刊之一，Crossref 迄今记录的论文超过两万篇。
• It is indexed within Scopus, the Science Citation Index Expanded of the Web of Science, PubMed, PubMed Central, Inspec, and CAPlus and SciFinder该刊被 Scopus、Web of Science 科学引文索引扩展版、PubMed、PubMed Central、Inspec 以及 CAPlus 与 SciFinder 收录。
• Its Journal Impact Factor moved from 5.076 in 2021 and 5.719 in 2022 to 4.3 in 2024 and 4.8 in 2025, and it holds Q2 positions in four Journal Citation Reports categories, including Physics, Applied其期刊影响因子由 2021 年的 5.076 与 2022 年的 5.719 变化为 2024 年的 4.3 与 2025 年的 4.8，在期刊引用报告四个学科类别中均居 Q2，包括应用物理。
• The journal reports a median of about 12.5 days from submission to first decision and 2.7 days from acceptance to publication for papers published in the first half of 2026该刊报告 2026 年上半年发表论文的投稿至首次决定中位数约 12.5 天、接受至发表 2.7 天。

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief is Eugenia Valsami-Jones of the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, with interests in nanomaterial properties, reactivity, toxicity, solubility, and bio-nano interactions主编为英国伯明翰大学地理、地球与环境科学学院的 Eugenia Valsami-Jones，研究方向包括纳米材料性质、反应性、毒性、溶解度与生物纳米相互作用。
• The board is organized into thirteen subject sections, each led by a Section Editor-in-Chief, including Sotirios Baskoutas at the University of Patras, Barbara Bonelli at the Politecnico di Torino, and Felix Zamora at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid编委会按十三个学科板块组建，各板块设一名板块主编，包括帕特雷大学的 Sotirios Baskoutas、都灵理工大学的 Barbara Bonelli 与马德里自治大学的 Felix Zamora 等。
• Section editors also include Li Cao of the University of Dayton, Huanjun Chen of Sun Yat-sen University, Chang-Hwan Choi of Stevens Institute of Technology, Kwang Leong Choy of Duke Kunshan University, Nikolaos Dimitratos of the University of Bologna, and Eleonore Frohlich of the Medical University of Graz板块主编还包括代顿大学的 Li Cao、中山大学的 Huanjun Chen、斯蒂文斯理工学院的 Chang-Hwan Choi、昆山杜克大学的 Kwang Leong Choy、博洛尼亚大学的 Nikolaos Dimitratos 与格拉茨医科大学的 Eleonore Frohlich 等。
• The associate editors include Marco Anni of the Universita del Salento, Jose L. Arias of the University of Granada, Dennis K. P. Ng of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tierui Zhang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Yiping Zhao of the University of Georgia副编辑包括萨伦托大学的 Marco Anni、格拉纳达大学的 Jose L. Arias、香港中文大学的 Dennis K. P. Ng、中国科学院理化技术研究所的 Tierui Zhang 与佐治亚大学的 Yiping Zhao 等。
• The journal operates a single-anonymized peer review system in which reviewers know the identities of the authors, and authors may opt for open peer review in which the reports are published with the article该刊实行单匿名同行评审，审稿人知晓作者身份，作者也可选择开放同行评审，将审稿报告随文章一并发表。
• Reviewers are asked to return reports within seven to ten days, minor revisions are answered in about five days and major revisions in about ten days, and reviewers with timely high-quality reports receive a discount voucher审稿人通常需在七至十天内提交报告，小修约五天、大修约十天返回修改稿，及时且高质量完成评审的审稿人可获费用折扣券。