NRL Advances is a select, open access forum for the latest results in theoretical and applied nanoscience and nanotechnology. As a companion journal to Nanoscale Research Letters (NRL), published articles come from two sources. Submissions are encouraged on the fundamental structure-property relationships of nanomaterials systems as well as materials and device development in key and emerging applications areas such as molecular recognition and energy conversion. Methods articles describing instrumentation and experimental design that enabled important results to be achieved are also welcome. In addition, the Editors will select articles from among submissions to NRL that are considered to be of the greatest interest to the interdisciplinary nanotechnology community.