Authors with accepted abstracts are encouraged to submit full manuscripts for proceeding publications. The manuscript deadline is July 24, 2008.

Publication of the VC-NST manuscripts is sponsored by Springer. Nanoscale Research Letters (NRL), the first nanotechnology journal from a major publisher to offer open access, is open for VC-NST submission. NRL is listed in Scientific Citation Index (SCI) with an impact factor of 2.158. When authors submit their manuscript to NRL, they should specify that their manuscripts are VC-NST proceedings in their comments to NRL editors. Through the Springer co-sponsorship for the VC-NST conference, the NRL open access article fee is voluntary, otherwise the introductory fee is US$950 per article.