CEE department head Professor Markus Buehler has accepted a two-year appointment as editor of the Materials: Synthesis or Self Assembly section of the journal Nanotechnology, the first journal dedicated to all aspects of nanoscale science and technology. Since its launch in 1990, Nanotechnology has gone from a quarterly to a weekly publication and is now ranked among the top 10 journals worldwide in the field of nanoscience. The journal is published by the Institute of Physics, a society dating back to 1874.