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www.ietdl.org Published in IET Nanobiotechnology Received on 6th December 2013 Accepted on 9th December 2013 doi: 10.1049/iet-nbt.2013.0076

Special Issue for the 8th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (IEEE-NEMS 2013) ISSN 1751-8741

Guest editorial Special Issue for the 8th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (IEEE-NEMS 2013) The IEEE-NEMS 2013 was held in Suzhou, China on April 7-10, 2013. As a flagship conference in the field of nano/micro-engineering and molecular systems, it attracted leading scholars and researchers to publish their latest and advanced findings at this event. This year, IEEE-NEMS 2013 received over 540 submissions from 30 countries and regions worldwide. Finally, 303 papers were selected by 100 members of the Technical Program Committee. After the conference, we received 15 submissions of expanded manuscripts from the conference attendees for this special issue to IET Nanobiotechnology. Note that only the top 30% of scored abstracts were recommended to submit their expanded manuscript to this special issue. After the standard peer review process, 8 manuscripts have been accepted for publication. Among these 8 accepted papers, nano- and micro-sensors for biomedical applications are still one of the major focuses, which may reflects the fact that they still attract extensive interest in this field and may still make substantial impact in the near future. Among them, detection of cancer cells and infectious viruses is especially under extensive investigation. Another promising field is the fabrication of nano- and micro-scale sensors. The increasing trend of the manuscripts focusing on the enabling technologies for fabricating nano- and micro-scale sensors submitted to IEEE-NEMS 2013 indicates that it will still keep growing in this field of nanobiotechnology. We expect to see more exciting papers published in this field in the next few years. As guest editors of this special issue, we would like to thank all the contributors and the reviewers. Especially, we would like to thank Ms. Issy McKenzie from the Editorial Office of IET Nanotechnology for her assistance and remarkable patience.

IET Nanobiotechnol., 2014, Vol. 8, Iss. 1, p. 1 doi: 10.1049/iet-nbt.2013.0076

GWO-BIN LEE National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan HAIXIA ZHANG Peking University, China

Gwo-Bin Lee received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in the Department of Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles, USA in 1998. Dr. Gwo-Bin Lee is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Power Mechanical Engineering at National Tsing Hua University. His research interests lie in nanobiotechnology, micro/nanofluidics and their biomedical applications. Haixia Zhang received her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 1998. She has been a member of the faculty of the Institute of Microelectronics, Peking University since 2001 where she is a full professor now. In 2006, Dr. Zhang won the National Invention Award of Science & Technology. Her research fields include MEMS Design and Fabrication Technology, SiC MEMS and Micro Energy Technology.

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