The structure, formation and dynamics of both animate and inanimate matter on the nanoscale are a highly interdisciplinary field of rapidly emerging research engaging a broad community encompassing experimentalists, theorists, and technologists. It is relevant for a large variety of molecular and nanosystems of different origin and composition and concerns numerous phenomena originating from physics, chemistry, biology, or materials science. This Topical Issue presents a collection of original research papers devoted to different aspects of structure and dynamics on the nanoscale. Some of the contributions discuss specific applications of the research results in several modern technologies and in next generation medicine. Most of the works of this topical issue were reported at the Fifth International Conference on Dynamics of Systems on the Nanoscale (DySoN) – the premier forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research in this field that was held in Potsdam, Germany in October of 2018.

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特刊：纳米系统动力学（2018）。社论

纳米级有生命和无生命物质的结构，形成和动力学是迅速发展的研究的一个高度跨学科领域，吸引了包括实验学家，理论家和技术专家在内的广泛团体。它与起源和组成不同的各种分子和纳米系统有关，并涉及源自物理学，化学，生物学或材料科学的众多现象。本期主题提供了一系列原始研究论文，这些论文致力于纳米尺度上结构和动力学的不同方面。其中一些贡献讨论了研究结果在几种现代技术和下一代医学中的具体应用。