The Best of the Best in 2014!

摘要

Manuscripts submitted to ES&T Letters undergo rigorous reviews by the associate editors and multiple reviewers, and even after the manuscripts have passed the technical review stage, we accept only studies that merit urgent publication. The quality of the papers we publish, and the importance of these papers, are therefore both very high. Among these outstanding papers, a few seemed to shine a bit brighter than the others. This year, and in our inaugural year for awards, we have identified five of these studies as “best papers”.At ES&T Letters, we do not select our best papers from specifictopical categories, and we do not rank these papers in any order (other than listing them alphabetically by first author). We also have no fixed number of papers that will receive this extra level of recognition. The papers chosen from publications in 2014 span a variety of important topics, ranging from green energy to pollutants in water and air, with important implications for scientists and engineers, as well as our understanding and relation to our environment.