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Sections Twice each year, the ACS Nano team of editors meets formally to discuss various aspects of the journal and the fields that we cover. One theme that always comes up is how we can best serve our community by bringing together diverse groups of researchers across the large number of fields that nanoscience and nanotechnology impact. At our most recent editors’meeting, which took place just prior to the start of the ACS National Meeting in Orlando, we held breakout sessions in several topical areas. Here, we brainstormed and discussed forward-looking initiatives that would be most useful to our broad community of researchers and readers. A recurring theme across all topical areas is the need for reproducibility, so that we can build on each other’s work and thereby move the field forward; it was the reason that we started ACS Nano and it was discussed on our very first published page. These ideas have also been noted by others. For research to have longevity and the greatest impact, others must be able to replicate it so that they can build on it and take it in new directions. Reproducibility is important across all areas of research, and it includes (but is not limited to) synthetic protocols, characterization methods, property testing, device fabrication, data analyses, calculations, and simulations.