Consortium member Alex Shard was selected as guest editor for a special issue of the journal ‘Biointerphases’ focussed on the properties and measurement of nanoparticle interfaces. Such interfaces play a critical role in the development of new medical diagnostics and treatments. Consortium members NPL and BAM as well as many Innanopart collaborators contributed papers to the volume which was published in December 2016. http://avs.scitation.org/toc/bip/11/4?expanded=11