Introduction

Editorial Board

• Ai-Qun Liu — The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
• Mohsen Akbari — University of Victoria, Canada
• Mehmet Remzi Dokmeci — Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, USA
• Nam-Trung Nguyen — Griffith University, Australia
• Giancarlo C. Righini — National Research Council, Italy
• Eiichi Tamiya — National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
• Huikai Xie — Beijing Institute of Technology, China
• Xiangchun Xuan — Clemson University, USA
• Arnaud Bertsch — EPFL, Switzerland
• Ryuji Kawano — Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
• Rui A. Lima — Minho University, Portugal
• Joost Lötters — University of Twente, Netherlands
• Ha Duong Ngo — Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Germany
• Stephen Edward Saddow — University of South Florida, USA
• Guido Tosello — Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
• Limin Xiao — Fudan University, China
• Yi Zhang — University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
• Andrew J. deMello — ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Naser El-Sheimy — University of Calgary, Canada
• Peer Fischer — Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany
• Martin A. M. Gijs — EPFL, Switzerland
• Kenji Uchino — Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Albert van den Berg — University of Twente, Netherlands

Aims & Scope

Fundamentals and Physics

• Micro/nanoscale multiphysics phenomena
• Nano/Microelectromechanical Systems (N/MEMS)
• Mechanical and electrical transducers, sensors, and actuators
• Optic and optoelectronic devices (including plasmonic and metal-based)
• Micro/nano-scale energy harvesting
• Piezoelectric, triboelectric, and pyroelectric nanogenerators
• Flexible, stretchable, and wearable electronics/sensors
• Microbots (swarm robotics), nanorobots, and micro air vehicles

Biology and Biomedicine

• BioMEMS
• Miniaturized biosensors, microarrays, DNA chips, PCR chips
• Electronic noses
• Organ-on-a-chip
• Microfluidic cell culture
• Point-of-care diagnostic chips
• Micro total analysis systems (μ-TAS)
• Molecular imprinting
• Applications in nanomedicine, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, drug discovery, environment, food, health, security, and safety

Chemistry

• Microreactors and lab-on-a-chip systems
• Microfluidic chemical synthesis
• Analytical chemistry at the micro/nano scale