Welcome to NanoScale 2026 at NPL! Please submit your abstract  and register for participation via the web interfaces. Similar to 2023, the abstract length is again limited to 4000 characters, and you may upload up to 4 figures - please check that the images are large enough and that their resolution is sufficient to display the details of interest. Before you submit your abstract, please ensure that all your co-authors agree with your proposed submission, and observe the rules applicable for abstract submissions at your institute. If you feel that your abstract cannot be submitted via the interface (e. g. if you wish to show many equations, formulae, etc.), please contact Thorsten. All abstracts will be checked by the OrgaTeam. Please indicate whether you prefer a talk or a poster. Usually, by far more abstracts are submitted for oral presentation than timeslots available - the ScieComm will make the selection on oral presentations and posters based on a scoring system.

The registration to the conference is binding, and registered participants are considered to transfer the fee within 14 days after registration.

As NanoScale is hosted on PTB servers, the same tight safety standards apply. Access to the website might be denied when using an old browser or operation system. If you do not succeed with the latest browsers, please contact Thorsten.

Deadlines:
Abstract submission until July 3rd, 2026
Early-bird registration until August 15th, 2026

• The next NanoScale will take place October 20th to 22nd, 2026, at NPL, Teddington, London, UK, organized by the team around Andrew Yacoot, supported by the PTB team around Gaoliang Dai and Thorsten Dziomba. Some working groups of the Consultative Committee Length (CCL) are likely to meet in conjunction with NanoScale. While Tuesday to Thursday are reserved for NanoScale, those CCL-WG meetings will preferably take place on Monday, October 19th, and Friday, October 23rd (delegates only; further information will be given by the chairpersons in due time) 
• It is recommended to check the conditions for entry to the UK. An ID-card is no longer accepted for entry to the UK! Citizens of EU countries need a passport - please consult with your institute's mobility management whether a private passport or an official passport is required.  For German citizens at PTB, a private passport is currently considered sufficient by the PTB mobility management, but this may need to be checked again in early 2026 in light of the tightening of British entry rules. You may already apply for a new passport now, bearing in mind that waiting times may be very long in some countries. In addition to the passport, an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) is needed. It can be obtained a few weeks before the business trip.
   
• Attendees from non-EU countries usually need a visa for the UK. As the UK is neither part of the EU nor a Schengen country, Schengen visa do not help for Britain. Guests from overseas may need two different visas if they wish to attend NanoScale in England and visit institutes in the EU. Please consult with the organizers as early as possible. Due to the increased international tensions since 2022-02-24, both UK and EU countries pursue a rather tight visa policy.

• Proceedings: As of March 13th, 2025, the virtual Special Issue of MST is complete and ready for download! All manuscripts that have successfully completed the review are listed and linked on the landing page of the NanoScale MST special section 

• Most papers of our MST Special Issue are anyway open access. Please feel free to download and read them! Those articles that are not open access were made available for free download to all NanoScale 2023 attendees for a limited time.

NanoScale 2023 took place in the conference centre Technopolis Ruoholahti (location map), just 2 km West of the heart of Helsinki, from October 10th to 12th, 2023. After a break of 4 years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it was generally appreciated that the conference was fully in person (with one hybrid session as open stakeholder meeting). 106 participants from 24 countries on all continents took part at NanoScale in Helsinki, which was nearly as many as in the record-year 2019 before the pandemic! As many as 83 presentations were given (31 of them oral presentations, 52 of them posters). All submissions are included in the Book of Abstracts that was handed out to the participants and made available to them for download as pdf-file. 

NanoScale 2023 included Special Sessions on "High-speed SPM measurements of functional properties of nanostructures" and "3D roughness & dimensional measurements using optical 3D microscopy and optical distance sensors" (EMPIR projects 20IND08 MetExSPM and 20IND07 TracOptic). Furthermore, lab tours at VTT MIKES on the Otaniemi campus in Espoo were organized.

Please find more on NanoScale 2023 under History > NanoScale 2023. The whole program and a lot of further information both on NanoScale 2023 and the Length Metrology Week 2023, into which NanoScale 2023 was embedded, is available there.

A short summarizing report on NanoScale 2023 is available as pdf-file here.