ACS EXCELLEThe ACSN PublicationsCE Magazine Spring 2013 ACS Editors in India p.20 ACS ACS Style New Editors, Take the iPad Challenge >>> ChemWorx: Guide Now New Editorial Your Research Online p.9 Activity in Asia and Rescue p.4 Tool p.12 ACS Publications Most Trusted. Most Cited. Most Read. ACS Publications Most Trusted. Most Cited. Most Read. CONTENTS CURIOUCOOL COSVER ART An array of microposts (diameter = 1SC mm,I heightEN CE= 8 mm) is transformed into a graded array of microcones SNby controlledAPSHOT electrodepositionS Heartof polypyrrole muscle with close nanometer up precision. By varying the deposition conditions, the method can be used to create a variety of tapered, overhanging, and other complex structures from a single parent array of simple geometry. From the cover of Nano Letters, Volume 12, Issue 2. 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INNOVATION Photo-illustration: Jerry Lustan 16 Announcing ActiveView PDF ACS EXCELLENCE Letter FROM The ACS Publications Magazine EDITOR THE EDITOR >>> Joe Graham DESIGN Juana Merlo Welcome to the Spring 2013 issue ACS PUBLICATIONS TEAM CONTRIBUTORS of the ACS Excellence magazine. Sean Abell, J’Nai Baylor, Andrew Clinton, Allison Curis, Greetings to ACS journal authors, reviewers, and readers at the Spring ACS National Renée John, Tara Pritchett, Meeting in New Orleans, the Korean Chemical Society Meeting in Seoul, and the Sara Rouhi, Liesa Ross, many other conferences around the world at which print copies are distributed, & Amanda Clark. along with the increasing number of researchers who read this magazine online. WRITERS Eric Graber, Katharine Sanderson The big story of this 2013 issue is the introduction of ACS ChemWorx, the new & Frances Erlebacher research management and storage system; see page 12. Or better yet, go directly to Questions or comments for the Editor www.acschemworx.org now and experience this free, all-in-one tool for faster, more [email protected] efficient research, collaboration, and publishing. ACS Excellence also welcomes several new ACS journal Editors, all of whom are active researchers and distinguished leaders in their respective fields, able to give your important research the attention it deserves. To help the worldwide author community understand what our Editors are looking Why Authors for in the papers they receive, ACS Editors continue to travel extensively, particu- Choose to Publish larly in Asia, meeting with researchers and giving technical talks. See page 20 to learn about our recent ACS Editor delegation to India. And on page 18 you can meet with ACS Norah Xiao, ACS manager for editorial development in Asia. 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Your contributions have made fast and informed peer review ACS journals the most trusted, most cited, most read journals—#1 in citations process by Editors who are and/or Impact Factor in all 7 chemistry categories and 9 additional subject catego- distinguished, active researchers. ries (see page 30). Broad Dissemination—research- Sincerely, ers at over 5,000 institutions worldwide will have access to your published research. Joe Graham Editor, ACS Excellence Open Access with ACS Author- Choice—immediate unrestricted Web access for a one-time payment. EDITORIAL EXCELLENCE >>> Interview with Interview with the New Editor the New Editor-in- -in-Chief of Chief of Chemical Inorganic Chemistry Research in William B. Tolman is the Distin- Toxicology guished McKnight University Stephen S. Hecht is the Winston Professor and Department of R. and Maxine H. Wallin Land Chemistry Chair at the University Grant Professor of Cancer Pre- of Minnesota and the Editor-in- vention and American Cancer Chief of Inorganic Chemistry, William B. Tolman Society Professor at the Masonic the most cited journal in the field. “ We need to reach Cancer Center at the University Q: What are your future plans as Editor of Minnesota. He was recently -in-Chief of Inorganic Chemistry? out to younger people appointed as the new Editor-in- WT: We need to reach out to younger and capture their Chief of Chemical Research people and capture their imagination and their creativity going forward. We imagination and in Toxicology. need to reach out to the international their creativity Q: Why did you want to be Editor-in-Chief audience and draw more of those folks of Chemical Research in Toxicology? in as authors, reviewers, and readers of going forward.” SH: Being Editor-in-Chief of your favorite our journal. I think the way we do this is journal is very exciting and a great opportu- through bringing greater international gets me feeling good about what I am do- nity. I want to see the journal flourish, presence into our editorial advisory board, ing, because at the end of the day it is the I think there is great research being pub- and we need to have a stronger presence training of other people that is at the heart lished there that is interesting, relevant, and in social media to bring in the younger of what I do as an academic chemist. important, and I want to see that continue. community of inorganic chemists. Q: What’s the best advice anyone ever Q: What do you find most important about Q: How does the journal serve authors gave you? being an active researcher in your role and the community? WT: To enjoy what you are doing, to have as Editor-in-Chief? WT: The journal serves authors and the fun with it. When things get rough and SH: It is very important to be active in community in a number of different ways. things do not go your way, if you are really research in order to be a successful editor. Not only through our normal articles, but having fun with it and it is something you As an active researcher, you are always also through forums which are wonderful really care and are passionate about, you looking at new techniques and new collections of articles focused on a very will be able to solve those problems and developments, you are going to meetings. specific topic that usually have a guest meet those challenges the best. You are talking to other researchers in the editor. We also do it through virtual issues Q: What are the current challenges facing field. You are continually trying to keep where we collect articles from a variety researchers in your field? up with the literature, and at the same of different time points on a selected time, looking at the results in your own WT: Probably the greatest challenge facing topic. They are particularly useful for lab and trying to fit these into the bigger humanity right now is the energy problem. teaching purposes where you can assign picture. It is the same thing with publish- This is going to be, I think, the challenging a subset of articles on a topic to a group ing. You have to be on the top of the latest problem going forward into the future and of students. trends and see where the field is going. our field is at the center of it. Q: What’s the achievement you’re most Q: What is your vision for the future proud of? Visit the journal homepage and view of the journal? the video interview at pubs.acs.org/ic WT: When I find out that a postdoc of mine SH: I think we have to broaden our ap- has gotten a new job or has been promoted proach to include more biology. All biology or has gotten an award. That’s what really is based on chemistry so we can’t just stick 4 / The ACS Publications Magazine Interview with the Editor-in-Chief of Chemistry of Materials Leonard V. Interrante is a Pro- fessor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Department Stephen S. Hecht of Chemistry and Chemical Leonard V. Interrante Biology. He is the founding Q: How has the field of materials science “ You have to be Editor-in-Chief of Chemistry changed since the journal was introduced? on the top of the of Materials and is pleased LI: There is a greater recognition of the latest trends and to see the journal celebrate its central role of ‘chemistry’ as a source 25th year of publication in 2013.