As ACS Measurement Science Au starts its second year, I want to wish all of our readers a very Happy New Year and give special thanks to our editorial advisory board (EAB) and reviewers. Over this last year, our inaugural EAB (Table 1) has been very helpful in providing great ideas to the associate editors and me. Some of the results you may have already seen in the form of educational activities to help the community learn more about Open Access, Plan S, Read + Publish agreements, and the goals of the Au journals. More will be coming in 2022, including several tutorial-style reviews that can be helpful course materials for all of us teaching analytical courses at the upper-division undergraduate and graduate levels. Therefore, I would like to take this time to acknowledge and thank the EAB for their creative ideas and support over the first year of the journal.
Table 1. Members of the Inaugural Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Measurement Science Au.
| name | institution | country |
|---|---|---|
| W. Russ Algar | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| Jordi Arbiol | ICREA and Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2), CSIC & BIST | Spain |
| Lane A. Baker | Indiana University | United States |
| Priscilla Baker | University of the Western Cape | South Africa |
| Antje Bäumner | University of Regensburg | Germany |
| Stefano Cinti | University of Naples Federico II | Italy |
| Livia S. Eberlin | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| Ariel L. Furst | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| Emily Hilder | University of South Australia | Australia |
| Lauro Kubota | State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) | Brazil |
| Alexander Leitner | ETH Zürich | Switzerland |
| Matthew Lockett | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States |
| Lanqun Mao | Beijing Normal University | China |
| Boris Mizaikoff | Ulm University; Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft fur angewandte Forschung e.V. | Germany |
| Kerri Pratt | University of Michigan | United States |
| Jan Preisler | Masaryk University | Czech Republic |
| Bin Ren | Xiamen University | China |
| Renã A. S. Robinson | Vanderbilt University | United States |
| Ester Segal | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | Israel |
| Jacob T. Shelley | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | United States |
| Yi-Lun Ying | Nanjing University | China |
| Juyoung Yoon | Ewha Womans University | Republic of Korea |
Excitingly, we also have two articles in this first issue of Volume 2 from our EAB. Russ Algar’s group developed a 3-D printed smartphone-based device for flow cytometry utilizing semiconductor quantum dots, which has great potential for clinical applications (DOI: 10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.1c00033). Russ’s group also contributed the cover art for this issue. The second contribution from the EAB is from Boris Mizaikoff, João Flávio da Silveira Petruci, and co-workers (DOI: 10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.1c00028). This article focuses on the detection of ozone in the UV range utilizing a portable substrate-integrated hollow waveguide. As you can see from just these first two articles, Issue 1 of 2022 really shows the breadth of measurement science from environmental applications to biomedical applications and beyond.
Also, check out the supplementary cover from Erin Baker’s group. This work focuses on utilizing multidimensional liquid chromatography, ion mobility spectrometry, collision-induced dissociation, and mass spectrometry techniques to study lipidomics of cortical brain tissue collected via micropunch histology methods (DOI: 10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.1c00035). Another new mass spectrometry technique was developed by Tomasz Ruman’s group, who developed a new method for the production of silver-109 nanoparticles for application in laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry and mass spectrometry imaging (DOI: 10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.1c00020).
The Baker group’s article showed the importance of sampling, and this is further demonstrated in an article from Charles Mace’s group that develops patterned dried blood spot cards for minimizing sampling bias in dried blood spot cards used for a variety of biomedical assays (DOI: 10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.1c00031). In the bioanalytical research area, an article by Christy Haynes’ group on developing analytical measurements for studying how the treatment of pain with opioids alters our cellular biology develops new tools for studying the presence and function of opioid receptors in platelets, which are known to be critical for maintaining homeostasis (DOI: 10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.1c00012).
In the sensor area, Parameswar Krishnan Iyer’s group has developed a new type of sensor combining dual static and dynamic fluorescence quenching that improves the limit of detection and can be utilized for a wide variety of sensing applications for environmental pollution to biomedical applications (DOI: 10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.1c00023).
Also, in this issue is an exciting contribution from Robert Hamers’ group on the direct detection of solvated electrons (DOI: 10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.1c00025). Electrochemists have been discussing solvated electrons in a variety of (photo)electrochemical systems for years. Still, it has been challenging to detect the solvated electron directly. The Hamers group developed a new technique to address this problem.
Finally, I wish to take this opportunity to thank all of the reviewers for ACS Measurement Science Au from 2021 (Table 2). None of the publications and issues of ACS Measurement Science Au in 2021 and 2022 would exist without the help from each and every one of our dedicated reviewers, as shown in the list. Thank you for all of your help and support!
Table 2. Reviewer List: List of ACS Measurement Science Au Peer Reviewers Who Returned a Referee Report between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021.
| Christian Amatore |
| Vincenzo Amendola |
| Robbyn K. Anand |
| Anne M. Andrews |
| Netzahualcoyotl Arroyo-Curras |
| Gary Attard |
| Erin S. Baker |
| Lane A. Baker |
| Arvind Balijepalli |
| Craig E. Banks |
| Mark P. Barrow |
| Martyn G. Boutelle |
| Philippe Bühlmann |
| Taek Dong Chung |
| Samuel William Coles |
| Trevor P. Creamer |
| Brian T. Cunningham |
| Cristina E. Davis |
| Luca De Stefano |
| Jeffrey E. Dick |
| Petra S. Dittrich |
| Bastien Doumèche |
| David C. Duffy |
| Atul Kumar Dwivedi |
| Martin A. Edwards |
| Johanna Eichhorn |
| Qun Fang |
| Sabine L. Flitsch |
| Joseph A. Fournier |
| Ariel L. Furst |
| Erin M. Gaffney |
| Ning Gan |
| John M. Gregoire |
| Stephen Guest |
| Burcu Gurkan |
| Xiao-Peng He |
| Albert J. R. Heck |
| Jason Heikenfeld |
| Charles S. Henry |
| Andrew M. Herring |
| Caleb M. Hill |
| Kelly M. Hines |
| Yaovi Holade |
| Lisa A. Holland |
| Christian W. Huck |
| Julijana Ivanisevic |
| Bruno Janegitz |
| G. Kane Jennings |
| Michael A. Johnson |
| Sara R. Jones |
| Evgeny Katz |
| Benjamin Keitz |
| Hilkka I. Kenttämaa |
| Arminja N. Kettenbach |
| Jong Seung Kim |
| Dietmar Knopp |
| Sergey N. Krylov |
| Lauro T. Kubota |
| Julia Kunze-Liebhäuser |
| Johna Leddy |
| Jingsong Li |
| Zhong’an Li |
| Tom Lindfors |
| Grzegorz Lisak |
| Dan Little |
| Bi-Feng Liu |
| Eduard Llobet |
| Larisa Lvova |
| Sara Mahshid |
| Krzysztof Maksymiuk |
| Jonathan Martens |
| R. Scott Martin |
| Kim McKelvey |
| Niranjan Meher |
| Fiona C. Meldrum |
| Adrian C. Michael |
| Ross D. Milton |
| Gregg B. Morin |
| Kermit King Murray |
| Trung Van Nguyen |
| Yet Nguyen |
| Evgeny N. Nikolaev |
| Petr Novák |
| Yukihiro Ozaki |
| Thiago Paixão |
| Madhavi L. Pali |
| Vincenzo Palleschi |
| Gary J. Patti |
| Steen U. Pedersen |
| Clara Pérez-Ràfols |
| Ivan Miguel Pires |
| Sahar Pishgar |
| John C. Poutsma |
| Craig Priest |
| Beatriz Prieto Simon |
| Wei Qin |
| Md. Asadur Rahman |
| Nuno M. Reis |
| Hang Ren |
| Ashley E. Ross |
| Serge Rudaz |
| Romana Schirhagl |
| Carla Schmidt |
| Stephen Semancik |
| Jianliang Shen |
| Neso Sojic |
| Leslie A. Sombers |
| Alice H. Suroviec |
| Greg M. Swain |
| Martin Thuo |
| Matteo Valt |
| Markus Valtiner |
| Gert von Helden |
| Glenn Walker |
| Shouyu Wang |
| Leyi Wei |
| Qingshan Wei |
| Susan Weintraub |
| Ryan J. White |
| Fei Wu |
| Libin Xu |
| Nianjun Yang |
| Takashi Yatsui |
| Ken K.-C. Yeung |
| Lin Yuan |
| Alexander G. Zestos |
| Bo Zhang |
| Guan Zhang |
| Wenwan Zhong |
| Sheng Zhou |
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