Successful collaborations and their authorship
Ai Lin Chun, one of the editors of Nature Nanotechnology, writes about the column in the journal Top Down Bottom Up (example at this link), which highlights the multidisciplinary nature of nanoscience and nanotechnology by going “behind the scenes” to explore how collaborations occur and work together. Collaborations could be between two or more different disciplines (for example, physical scientists and biomedical researchers) or between academic departments and industrial researchers. The name of the section is intended to suggest how researchers with different expertise come at a problem from different directions.
If you have an interesting collaboration, please drop Ai Lin a line at her Nature Nanotechnology network group -- and she might pick your collaboration to highlight in the journal.
