Call for Papers - Invitation to Authors

Special Issue in physica status solidi (a)
Nanotechnology, Organic & Printed Electronics, Artificial Intelligence and Nanomedicine (NANOTEXNOLOGY 2025)

Guest Editors
Argiris Laskarakis and Spyros Kassavetis

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025

Submission at
www.editorialmanager.com/pssa-journal

Select Section/Category
NANOTEXNOLOGY 2025

Dear NANOTEXNOLOGY 2025 presenters,

The conference organizers and physica status solidi are committed to publish a special issue highlighting the most exciting new results that are scheduled for presentation at this year’s NANOTEXNOLOGY 2025 events, namely the ISFOE25 as well as the NN25 and AI3D25 International Conferences that will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece on July 5-12. This will make your important work available to a large international audience quickly. Following a long line of successful special issue publications in the journal family, in collaboration with the Guest Editors and the Editorial Office we cordially invite you to contribute a Review, Perspective (for invited speakers) or Research Articles manuscript based on, or related to your presentation for publication as regular articles (no conference proceedings).

The pss journals are designed to reach a broad audience. It is one of the largest and well- established publication platforms in broad scope solid state, materials, applied and device physics as well as materials science with close to 1000 articles per year - now over 60 years in business - and is widely accessible with many hundreds of thousands of article downloads annually.

Submitted manuscripts undergo editorial evaluation and, if considered appropriate, subsequent peer review. According to the editorial policy, two positive recommendations by independent reviewers are a prerequisite of acceptance. Peer review and publication occur rapidly on individual manuscript basis. Published in Wiley Online Library Early View shortly after acceptance, your article is citable with DOI or article number immediately.

pss (a) is a hybrid Open Access (OA)/subscription journal. The Open Access option is compliant with national or funder mandates, supported by an ever increasing number of countries and institutions. Wiley has OA agreements, e.g. with HEAL-Link in Greece, for more details see Wiley Author Services and contact pss with questions.

If your institution or funder has no OA funds available, you may publish your article at no costs as subscription article with Copyright Transfer Agreement. The visibility of these articles has also been significantly improved due to many additional access licenses and publish-and-read agreements worldwide.

When all articles are complete, the topical section will be assembled in a regular monthly issue of pss (a). The clustering of related articles raises the visibility of these articles significantly, and we are confident that this will become a quality publication reflected by high article access and citation numbers.

We look forward to receiving your contributions!
Argiris Laskarakis, Spyros Kassavetis, Iosifina Sarrou, Gaia Tomasello, and Stefan Hildebrandt

Submission information:

Please refer to the author instructions available on our homepage www.pss-a.com → Author Guidelines (including optional Word template and LaTeX style files and the link to online submission through Editorial Manager - please mention the submission to the NANOTEXNOLOGY special issue in your cover letter and select the appropriate section/category NANOTEXNOLOGY 2025 to expedite handling). Manuscripts received after the deadline may be considered for regular publication in the journal.

Reviews should provide an overview of a current topic in the format of a topical review of about 10-12 (max. 15) journal pages. Due to this length restriction, a complete bibliographic overview on the existing literature cannot be expected, but referencing should be well-balanced. The manuscript should represent a snapshot of most recent progress, the state of research and particularly relevant aspects, with focus on the highlights and possibly open or controversially discussed questions. They are intended to inform an audience not immediately familiar with the specific topic. Original, previously unpublished results may also be included to a certain extent.

Perspectives are peer-reviewed and provide a forum to present personal opinions and backgrounds on topics of interest to the research communities. They may, for example, discuss the latest developments at the forefront of science to inform non-specialist readers, debate points of controversy within a field of research, or even speculate on possible future academic and technological advancements.

Research Articles expose original and previously unpublished work of general interest to the community. Manuscripts do not have a strict length limit (typical lengths vary from 6 to 10 journal pages). Articles must fulfil the standards and requirements of the journal. Acceptance of a contribution for presentation at the workshop does not automatically include publication in the special issue. The main criteria for consideration by pss are:

• The importance, relevance, and novelty of the results match those expected for a regular journal paper.
• The general quality of the manuscript and the amount of information provided is appropriate for an international journal. Serial or incremental, pure self-referential and lab-report-style work is discouraged.
• Main results have not yet been published (also not in conference proceedings) and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Further benefits for pss authors include:

• No page charges or publication costs for authors of subscription articles
• Modern article formats (PDF, Enhanced PDF, HTML compatible also with mobile devices)
• Supporting information, e.g. additional data, figures, videos or animations can be published online
• Author suggestions for journal cover figures or frontispiece pages, especially for Reviews
• High-resolution PDFs, color reprints with cover page, posters etc. are available for purchase
• pss is indexed in Web of Science and all other major abstracting databases
• Promotion of selected content via web portals, newsletters, and press releases