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Congratulations to the winners of the Nanoscale Horizons Presentation Award at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nano Science and Technology

The 17th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nano Science and Technology took place from 9 – 11th May 2019 in Kagoshima, Japan. Nanoscale Horizons was delighted to support a Presentation Award at this event, intended for early career researchers, and we would like to congratulate the two winners!

Professor Shinjiro Takano (University of Tokyo)
Presentation Title: “Development of a Precise Transformation Reaction of Gold Superatoms by Hydride Doping: Chemical Modification of Surface ”

Professor Tetsuya Kambe (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Presentation Title: “Superatom Synthesis from Typical Elements Using Dendrimer Templates”

Both winners received a Royal Society of Chemistry book voucher as well as an invitation to join the Royal Society of Chemistry as Members.

from left; Professor Tatsuya Tsukuda (University of Tokyo, President of the Society of Nano Science and Technology), Professor Shinjiro Takano, Professor Tetsuya Kambe, Dr Hiromitsu Urakami (Royal Society of Chemistry).

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Nanoscale Horizons most popular articles published in 2018

We wanted to share with you some of the most popular articles published in Nanoscale Horizons from last year. These articles are some of the most highly cited, most read, or most highly shared articles published in 2018.

 

Our community have published some fantastic research in Nanoscale Horizons during 2018 and we wanted to make it even easier for you to find the best articles.

 

Nanoscale Horizons most popular articles, 2018

 

Here are just a few picks from the collection. We hope you enjoy them.

 

Reviews

Review on nanoscale Bi-based photocatalysts

Rongan He, Difa Xu, Bei Cheng, Jiaguo Yu and Wingkei Ho

Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, 3, 464-504

 

Group 6 transition metal dichalcogenide nanomaterials: synthesis, applications and future perspectives

Morasae Samadi, Navid Sarikhani, Mohammad Zirak, Hua Zhang, Hao-Li Zhang and Alireza Z. Moshfegh

Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, 3, 90-204

 

Communications

Nanoscale membrane architecture of healthy and pathological red blood cells

Andra C. Dumitru, Mégane A. Poncin, Louise Conrard, Yves F. Dufrêne, Donatienne Tyteca and David Alsteens

Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, 3, 293-304

 

MBene (MnB): a new type of 2D metallic ferromagnet with high Curie temperature

Zhou Jiang, Peng Wang, Xue Jiang and Jijun Zhao

Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, 3, 335-341

 

A tumor treatment strategy based on biodegradable BSA@ZIF-8 for simultaneously ablating tumors and inhibiting infection

Qiong Wu, Mei Li, Longfei Tan, Jie Yu, Zengzhen Chen, Liuhui Su, Xiangling Ren, Changhui Fu, Jun Ren, Laifeng Li, Feng Cao, Ping Liang, Yu Zhang and Xianwei Meng

Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, 3, 606-615

 

For more articles, see the full collection here.

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Welcome Yves Dufrene and Anna Fontcuberta i Morral – New Scientific Editors

We are delighted to welcome two new Scientific Editors to the journal: Yves Dufrêne from Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and Anna Fontcuberta i Morral from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

 

Yves Dufrêne

Yves Dufrêne

Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Professor Yves Dufrêne is a Research Director of the National Fund for Scientific Research and a Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium. He obtained his Bioengineering degree and Ph.D at UCL, and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Naval Research Laboratory, USA, before returning to UCL. He is interested in nanobioscience and nanobiotechnology, specifically in the development and use of advanced nanoscale techniques for analysing biological systems. His research focuses on studying the nanoscale surface architecture, biophysical properties and molecular interactions of living cells – particularly microbial pathogens – using atomic force microscopy (AFM). The goals are to further understand key cellular functions, like cell adhesion, and to contribute to the development of nanoscopy techniques for the life sciences. He is also an Associate Editor for our sister journals Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.

 

 

Recent articles:

Nanoscale antiadhesion properties of sophorolipid-coated surfaces against pathogenic bacteria, Nanoscale Horiz., 2019, Advance Article

Nanoscale membrane architecture of healthy and pathological red blood cells, Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, 3, 293-304

Forces between Staphylococcus aureus and human skin, Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, 1, 298-303

 

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Anna is an Associate Professor at the Institut des Matériaux, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Anna received her BA in Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona and went on to receive her PhD in Materials Science from École Polytechnique in France working with Pere Roca i Cabarrocas. She then moved to work with Harry Atwater at Caltech as a postdoctoral fellow, where she also co-founded the company Aonex Technologies. She was also a group leader in the Walter Schottky Institute of the Technical University of Munich. Anna joined the faculty at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2008. Her research activities are centered on the materials science and engineering of semiconductor nanostructures, specifically nanowires.

 

 

 

Recent articles:

Optimizing the yield of A-polar GaAs nanowires to achieve defect-free zinc blende structure and enhanced optical functionality, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 17080-17091

Photophysics behind highly luminescent two-dimensional hybrid perovskite (CH3(CH2)2NH3)2(CH3NH3)2Pb3Br10 thin films, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018, 6, 6216-6221

Towards higher electron mobility in modulation doped GaAs/AlGaAs core shell nanowires, Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 7839-7846

 

 

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Horizons Community Board Collection – Nanobiomedicine

New in 2019, we are delighted to announce a series of post-publication online article collections, led by our Community Board members across both Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons.

 

The Community Boards that support both Horizons journals aim to provide a platform for early career researchers to share their experiences and ideas on scientific publishing. Working together and sharing their unique expertise, our Community Board members have recommended several key topics where significant, rapid progress has been made in the last 2 years. They have selected top articles published in the Horizons journals to showcase the most important advances in each topic area.

 

Nanobiomedicine

To kick things off, Chandra Kumar Dixit and Christopher M. Proctor present the first Horizons Community Board Collection:

 

Horizons Community Board Collection – Nanobiomedicine

 

“Advancements in nanotechnology are impacting biology and medicine. In this themed collection, we are compiling some noteworthy articles in the areas related to targeted delivery, vaccines, diagnostics, wound healing, and self-healing scaffolds & materials. Theranostics, which is a new branch specifically dealing with point-of-care, involves diagnostics and therapy in a single agent. Carbon-based materials are proving to be effective agents in this quest, as indicated by Kapil Patel et al. in their research published in Materials Horizons (DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00966J). Anand et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00174J) emphasized in their review article the potential of carbon-based nanomaterials as antimicrobial agents. Scaffolds and matrices based on nanomaterials, as illustrated through the research works of Yu et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00647D), Singh et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C8MH01298A), Ooi (DOI: 10.1039/C7MH00373K), and Liu (DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00704G) have shown tremendous potential in surgery, wound healing, controlled release skin patches, etc. Given how all of these materials show potential in their respective fields, it will be important to see how these will shape the future of biomedicine. We hope that the readers find this themed collection informative and useful.”

Chandra Kumar Dixit and Christopher M. Proctor

 

Guest Editors

Chandra Kumar Dixit

Nanoscale Horizons Community Board Member, Chandra Kumar Dixit is a Scientist at Qiagen Sciences working in the areas of IVD and nanodiagnostics. He received a BSc degree in Biology from Bundelkhand University, an MSc degree in Biotechnology from CCS University and was awarded a PhD in Biotechnology from Dublin City University in 2012. His postdoctoral training spanned from Dublin City University, Ireland, Technion IIT, Israel, and University of Connecticut, USA, in areas of microfluidic tools, glycobiology, cell biology, disease diagnosis, electrochemistry, prostate cancer, 3D-printed tools for fluidic devices, and novel nanomaterials. He has published over 40 international research papers including reviews, books, and book chapters in the areas of biosensors, conventional and 3D-printed microfluidics, and disease diagnostics, and has won several international fellowships including the Marie-Curie grant.

 

 

 

 

Christopher M. Proctor

Materials Horizons Community Board member Christopher M. Proctor received a BSc in Interdisciplinary Physics from the University of Michigan in 2008. Following two years as a general scientist at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, he earned a PhD in Materials from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he investigated loss mechanisms in organic photovoltaics (2015). Subsequently, Chris was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from Whitaker International to develop implantable bioelectronic devices for treating neurological disorders at the Ecole des Mines de St Etienne. He is now a Research Associate and Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellow at the University of Cambridge where his research is focused on engineering devices and developing materials to enable a seamless connection between electronics and living tissue for applications including epilepsy, cancer and pain management.

 

 

 

We hope you enjoy reading this collection.

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Congratulations to the Prize Winners from the Nanoscale Horizons Symposium

Congratulations to the winners of the Nanoscale Horizons poster awards at the Nanoscale Horizons Symposium which was held at the University of California, San Diego on 5th October 2018.

Well done to Geoffrey Hollett (University of California, San Diego – Professor Michael Sailor’s group), Yue Zhang (University of California, San Diego – Professor Liangfang Zhang’s group), and Roberto Brea Fernandez (University of California, San Diego – Neal Devaraj’s group).

Geoffrey Hollett, Yue Zhang, and Roberto Brea Fernandez receive their poster prize awards from Professor Michael Sailor.

The one-day symposium showcased a variety of cutting-edge work in and around the areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology, presented by members of the Nanoscale Horizons Editorial Board and local researchers. Thank you to everyone who attended.

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Nanoscale Horizons Symposium at UCSD on 5th October 2018

You are invited to a Nanoscale Horizons Symposium on 5th October 2018 at University of California, San Diego. Registration is free so we hope to see you there.

The one-day symposium will showcase a variety of cutting-edge work in and around the areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology, presented by members of the Nanoscale Horizons Editorial Board and local researchers – all leading names from across their fields:

  • Xiaodong Chen
  • Sarah Tolbert
  • Darren Lipomi
  • Jang-Kyo Kim
  • Harold Craighead
  • Jesse Jokerst
  • Michael Sailor
  • Dirk Guldi

The program will also feature some time for poster discussions throughout the day if you would like to bring your own research along.

Registration is free and we welcome students, researchers and Professors from universities and companies who have an interest in nanoscience and related fields.

Register before 26th September 2018

Along with local host, Professor Michael Sailor, the event will be attended by Nanoscale Horizons’ Executive Editor Sam Keltie, Deputy Editor Michaela Muehlberg, and Editorial Board Chair Harold Craighead.

We warmly invite you to take part in this event and looks forward to welcoming you in San Diego. Further information is available on the event webpage


Nanoscale Horizons is a premier journal publishing first reports of exceptionally significant new concepts in nanoscience & nanotechnology.

It is part of the nanoscale family, which also includes Nanoscale – a high impact international journal, publishing high quality research across nanoscience & nanotechnology – and Nanoscale Advances – a new open access journal publishing important advances in nanoscience & nanotechnology.

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Executive Editor, Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale, Nanoscale Advances

 

Nanoscale Advances: a new addition to our nanoscale family.

Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and gold open access. APCs are waived until mid-2021. Find out more at http://rsc.li/nanoscale-advances

 

*2017 Journal Citation Reports, Clarivate Analytics June 2018.

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Professor Miqin Zhang joins our Editorial Board

We are delighted to welcome Professor Miqin Zhang to the Nanoscale Horizons Editorial Board!

Miqin is Kyocera Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery, and adjunct Professor in the Departments of Radiology, Bioengineering, and Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, at the University of Washington. Dr Zhang received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and joined the University of Washington in 1999. She has been a full Professor since 2008.

Dr Zhang’s research focuses on nanomaterials for cancer diagnosis and therapy, biomaterials for regenerative medicine and stem cell research, and cell-based biosensors for anti-cancer drug screening and toxin detection.

 

Check out some of her recent work (free to access until the end of August)

Mesoporous carbon nanoshells for high hydrophobic drug loading, multimodal optical imaging, controlled drug release, and synergistic therapy, Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 1434-1442. (HOT article)

Chitosan–poly(caprolactone) nanofibers for skin repair, J. Mater. Chem. B, 2017, 5, 1822-1833.

Modeling the tumor microenvironment using chitosan-alginate scaffolds to control the stem-like state of glioblastoma cells, Biomater. Sci., 2016, 4, 610-613.#

 


Nanoscale Horizons is a premier journal publishing first reports of exceptionally significant new concepts in nanoscience & nanotechnology.

It is part of the nanoscale family, which also includes Nanoscale – a high impact international journal, publishing high quality research across nanoscience & nanotechnology – and Nanoscale Advances – a new open access journal publishing important advances in nanoscience & nanotechnology.

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The journal series allows full coverage of interdisciplinary advances in nanoscience & nanotechnology.

Follow the nanoscale family on Facebook and Twitter, or sign up for e-alerts.

 

(Access to articles through login via your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account)

 

Find Nanoscale Horizons updates and more on the RSC China Wechat account:

 

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Nanoscale Horizons first Impact Factor released as 9.391

Nanoscale Horizons is delighted to announce its first Impact Factor is 9.391*.

We are delighted to see the support from the community over the last two years, contributing outstanding articles showcasing new concepts of exceptional significance to the nanoscience readership – thank you!

This first impressive Impact Factor of 9.391*, is a strong indication that Nanoscale Horizons is a leading journal within nanoscience & nanotechnology.

To celebrate we have selected a few recent articles and made these free to access until the end of August – we hope you enjoy reading them.

 

Far-field plasmonic coupling in 2-dimensional polycrystalline plasmonic arrays enables wide tunability with low-cost nanofabrication by Fusheng Zhao, Md Masud Parvez Arnob, Oussama Zenasni, Jingting Li and Wei-Chuan Shih

 

Size dependent surface reconstruction in detonation nanodiamonds by Shery L. Y. Chang, Christian Dwyer, Eiji Ōsawa and Amanda S. Barnard

 

Nanometric building blocks for robust multifunctional molecular junctions by David D. James, Akhtar Bayat, Scott R. Smith, Jean-Christophe Lacroix and Richard L. McCreery

 

pH-Triggered self-assembly and hydrogelation of cyclic peptide nanotubes confined in water micro-droplets by Alejandro Méndez-Ardoy, Juan R. Granja and Javier Montenegro

 

Visible light active nanofibrous membrane for antibacterial wound dressing by Shuai Jiang, Beatriz Chiyin Ma, Wei Huang, Anke Kaltbeitzel, Gönül Kizisavas, Daniel Crespy, Kai A. I. Zhang and Katharina Landfester

 

Read more of our latest articles here.

 


Nanoscale Horizons is a premier journal publishing first reports of exceptionally significant new concepts in nanoscience & nanotechnology.

It is part of the nanoscale family, which also includes Nanoscale (a high impact international journal, publishing high quality research across nanoscience & nanotechnology) and Nanoscale Advances (a new open access journal publishing important advances in nanoscience & nanotechnology).

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The journal series allows full coverage of interdisciplinary advances in nanoscience & nanotechnology.

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Click here to read recent articles describing new concepts in materials science in our sister-journal Materials Horizons (impact factor 13.183*) or sign up to our newsletters for more regular journal-specific updates.

 

*2017 Journal Citation Reports (June 2018) © Clarivate Analytics.

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Congratulations to the prize winners at ESRW 2018

On 13-14 June 2018 the 8th Early Stage Researchers Workshop on Nanoscience was held at IMDEA nanociencia.

The workshop is organized by and for young researchers with the purpose of bringing together early carreer scientists from different disciplines to present their research work in the field of Nanoscience to the public for the first time.

More than 80 young researchers attended the meeting and it was a great success, promoting discussions and creating lots of new academic links between attendees. More information can be found on the IMDEA nanociencia website: http://www.nanociencia.imdea.org/home-en/news/item/8th-edition-of-the-early-stage-researchers-workshop-on-nanoscience 

Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale sponsored several prizes at the meeting for both oral presentations and poster presentations.

We are delighted to congratulate Leyre De Juan and María Salvador Fernández for their excellent posters, and both Fernando Jiménez and Julia Villalva for their fantastic talks!

 

Well done to everyone involved!

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RSC Chemical Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Group Annual Symposium 2018: Nanotechnology for Energy and Environment

Chemical Science, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Horizons are delighted to sponsor the RSC Chemical Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (RSC-CNN) Group Annual Symposium 2018, taking place on 6 – 7 September 2018 in London, UK. This event on nanotechnology for energy and environment is organised by the RSC-CNN Group and chaired by Professor Junwan Tang (UCL) and Professor Radim Beranek (Ulm University).

The symposium covers recent developments in fundamental studies, novel material development and reactor engineering in the field, and aims to provide a forum for researchers to exchange ideas as well as discuss recent advances and challenges. A program consisting of international experts in the field will cover topics from thermal catalysis to water splitting.

Don’t miss out on your chance to attend this exciting symposium – find out more and register here!

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