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Technology San Sebastian (Donostia in the Basque language) is a beautiful, medium-sized European city of about 200,000 inhabitants located at the heart of the Basque Country, next to the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees. Long known as a tourist and culinary destination, San Sebastian has recently become a city of science and technology, with a strong focus on nanoscience research and characterized by an interdisciplinary approach and the support of intense industrial activity in the region. The San Sebastian nanoscience community has contributed considerably to ACS Nano with more than 100 publications during the past decade, some of which have already had significant impact and are highlighted in this virtual issue. This activity has turned this small point at the Basque coastline into a worldwide “nano”-pole for a variety of focused areas of nanoscience research.