The following joint Editorial was originally published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c10979). We confront the terrible reality that systemic racism and discrimination impacts the daily personal and professional lives of many members of the scientific community and broader society. In the U.S., the brutal killing of George Floyd while in police custody is one of the most

The world of molecular nanocarbon science is only limited by our imagination and creativity, and we have a bright future ahead of us! The world of molecular nanocarbon science is only limited by our imagination and creativity, and we have a bright future ahead of us! Carbon is one of the central and essential elements supporting all life on earth. The structure and alignment of carbon atoms in molecules

Nano-Optics, sometimes also called nanophotonics, aims to understand and tame the interaction of light and matter at the nanometer scale. The field, as such, emerged at about the same time as Nano Letters in the wake of the rapidly flourishing activities in nanoscience and nanotechnology. While in the year 1995 the term “nano-optics” (N-O) would have been considered an oxymoron,(1) by the year 2000