Editors’ choice for the thematic issue “Modern methods of electron and scanning probe microscopy and complementary methods in the investigations of nanostructures and nanomaterials” is the paper Yu. V. Petrov, O. F. Vyvenko, O. A. Gogina, T. V. Sharov, S. Kovalchuk and K. Bolotin, Electron Beam-Stimulated Luminescence of Helium Ion-Irradiated Hexagonal Boron Nitride // Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics, 2023, Volume 87, Issue 10, P. 1455-1461.