Special Seminar
November 11, 2025
11:00 a.m. ET
5201 Scott Hall
"Behind the Scenes with an ACS Editor: Insights into Scholarly Publishing and Manuscript Preparation"
ACS Nanoscience Au and ACS Nano are part of the nanoscience portfolio of journals published by the American Chemical Society. In his role as an editor working with both journals, Dr. Shaak will provide an overview of the scope of research and manuscript types that are considered, as well as highlights of recent published papers. He will then offer a behind-the-scenes look at the publication process from an editor’s perspective, including manuscript evaluation, peer review, and decisions. In the final part of the talk, he will dissect key components of a manuscript and discuss what stands out most to editors, reviewers, and readers. Emphasis will be placed on how to generate manuscripts that appeal to interdisciplinary audiences. Such considerations are especially important in nanoscience, given the many fields of science and engineering that are an integral part of nanoscale science and technology.
Dr. Raymond Schaak
DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry, Penn State University
In addition to his faculty role in the Chemistry Department at Penn State University, Dr. Schaak also has a Courtesy appointment in the Chemical Engineering Department and is part of the Penn State Materials Research Institute. Dr. Schaak received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Lebanon Valley College in 1998. In 2001, he received a Ph.D. in materials chemistry from Penn State University under the direction of Professor Thomas Mallouk, where he demonstrated the concept of solid-state retrosynthesis for the stepwise and predictable topotactic synthesis of bulk and nanostructured perovskite oxide materials. In 2003, Dr. Schaak began his independent career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Texas A&M University. In 2007, he moved to Penn State University as an Associate Professor of Chemistry and was promoted to Professor in 2011. Dr. Schaak was appointed as the DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry in 2013. His research group focuses on developing new chemical strategies for the synthesis of nanoscale solid-state materials and applying these materials to problems at the forefront of modern materials research. Dr. Schaak has received several prestigious awards, including an NSF CAREER Award (2006), a Sloan Research Fellowship (2007), the National Fresenius Award (2011), the Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal in the Physical Sciences (2012), the ACS Inorganic Nanoscience Award (2016), the ACS Akron Section Award (2020), and the F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry (2025). In 2017, Dr. Schaak was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and in 2022, Dr. Schaak received the Lebanon Valley College Distinguished Alumnus Award, which is one of LVC’s highest honors. Dr. Schaak is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Solid State Chemistry, and is both an Associate Editor of ACS Nano (since 2010) and the inaugural Deputy Editor of ACS Nanoscience Au, which launched in 2021.
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