Congratulations to the winners of the RSC prizes at chem2Dmat 2023

chem2Dmat 2023 took place in Bologna, Italy from 15–18 May 2023. Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale, Nanoscale Advances , Materials Horizons and RSC Applied Interfaces were delighted to support prizes at this event and we would like to congratulate our winners!

Alberto Brambilla, Roberta Fabbri, Mirette Fawzy, Anastasiia Bazylevska and Antonio Bianchi holding their poster prize certificates next to a chem2Dmat banner.

The winners of the RSC (left of the banner) and Graphene-XT (right of the banner) poster prizes at chem2Dmat. From left to right: Alberto Brambilla, Roberta Fabbri, Mirette Fawzy, Anastasiia Bazylevska and Antonio Bianchi.

 

Mirette Fawzy.

 

 

Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances Poster Prize

Mirette Fawzy (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Poster Title: “Ultrasensitive Rapid Cytokine Sensors Based on Asymmetric Geometry MoS2 Diodes”

Mirette Fawzy is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada under the supervision of Professor Karen Kavanagh and Assistant Professor Michael Adachi. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Physics from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt and the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa respectively. Her research interests include two-dimensional materials (TMDCs), biosensors, and nanoelectronics.

Roberta Fabbri.

 

 

Materials Horizons Poster Prize

Roberta Fabbri (National Research Council, Italy)
Poster Title: “Graphene-Glial interfaces for the selective modulation of brain signaling”

Roberta Fabbri is a PhD student in Bioengineering, at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”, University of Bologna, Italy. She is carrying out her PhD research activity at the Institute for Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity (ISOF), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Bologna, under the supervision of Dr. Valentina Benfenati and Prof. Mauro Ursino, in collaboration with Prof. Vincenzo Palermo. She obtained her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Bologna. Her current research focuses on the development and validation of advanced Graphene-based interfaces and devices to study brain glial cells, for future neuroscience and neuroengineering applications targeting the diagnosis and therapy of neurological disorders.

 

Alberto Brambilla.

 

 

RSC Applied Interfaces Poster Prize

Alberto Brambilla (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Poster Title: “Hybrid spinterfaces for organic antiferromagnetic spintronics”

Alberto Brambilla is currently Associate Professor of Experimental Physics at the Physics Department of Politecnico di Milano. He received his Master degree in Physics at the Università degli Studi of Milano and his PhD in Physics at Politecnico di Milano. His research activity focuses on: growth and characterization of nanostructured surfaces and ultrathin films for magnetic and electronic applications; microscopy and spectroscopy of surfaces and nanostructures; magnetic properties of surfaces, interfaces and nanostructures. He is currently coordinating the European project “Selectively Activated INFOmation technology by hybrid Organic Interfaces (SINFONIA)”, which aims to develop Organic Antiferromagnetic Spintronics.

 

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Join our Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons Community Board!

Call for nominations

We are looking for engaged and interested early career researchers to assist in the development of high quality and innovative journals, from a learned society publisher, in rapidly expanding areas of science. 

The purpose of the Community Board for both Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons is to provide a channel for communication and engagement between the materials and nanoscience student, postdoctoral and early career researcher community and the journals’ Executive Editor and Editorial Boards.

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Guidelines for Nominators

We are inviting nominations for both journals at this time, please do feel free to state a preference of journal in your nomination, however this is not mandatory, and each nomination will be assessed for suitability for both Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons.

  • Nominations are open to PhD candidates and active researchers who received their PhD (or equivalent degree, if applicable) no more than eight years prior to 1 January 2023. Appropriate consideration will be given to candidates from all research backgrounds (academic or industrial) and to those who have taken a career break or followed a different study path. Please do reach out to the editorial office to discuss any eligibility considerations.
  • Any Principal Investigator can nominate someone for the Community Board. Candidates may self-nominate but all nominations should include a separate supporting statement from an active Principal Investigator as outlined below.

To make a nomination please provide the information below to materialshorizons-rsc@rsc.org using this Community Board Nomination Form.

  • The candidate’s name, affiliation, research group, position and contact details, along with a brief CV
  • The nominator’s name, affiliation, position and contact details.
  • A short personal statement from the candidate describing what they will bring to the role in terms of advising and being an advocate for the journal. This must be no longer than 500 words.
  • A supporting statement from an active Principal Investigator (no more than 500 words) addressing the selection criteria (see below).

Selection criteria for Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons Community Boards

The Executive Editor and members of the Editorial Boards will consider the following aspects of all nominations for the Community Boards as appropriate:

  • Profile within institute and/or community
  • Service to the community
  • Area and quality of research
  • Motivation to join Community Board

The deadline for submission of nominations is 19th July 2023.

For more information, please refer to the Materials and Nanoscale Horizons Community Board FAQs.

To find out more about the journal and for a list of current Community Board members, please visit the journal webpages at: rsc.li/materials-horizons and rsc.li/nanoscale-horizons.

 

 

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Nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine

Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine

A collection of recent articles from Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale

Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale are pleased to present a collection highlighting the latest research published in the journals on nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine.

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Check out this selection of articles from the collection. All articles are free to access until the end of April 2023.

A novel electrochemical lung cancer biomarker cytokeratin 19 fragment antigen 21-1 immunosensor based on Si3N4/MoS2 incorporated MWCNTs and core–shell type magnetic nanoparticles
Mehmet Lütfi Yola, Necip Atar and Nermin Özcan
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1NR00244A

Cell-free exosome-laden scaffolds for tissue repair (Open Access)
Jianghong Huang, Jianyi Xiong, Lei Yang, Jun Zhang, Shuqing Sun and Yujie Liang
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1NR01314A

Innovative transdermal delivery of insulin using gelatin methacrylate-based microneedle patches in mice and mini-pigs
Bilal Demir, Lea Rosselle, Anna Voronova, Quentin Pagneux, Audrey Quenon, Valery Gmyr, Dorothee Jary, Nathalie Hennuyer, Bart Staels, Thomas Hubert, Amar Abderrahmani, Valerie Plaisance, Valerie Pawlowski, Rabah Boukherroub, Severine Vignoud and Sabine Szunerits
Nanoscale Horizons, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D1NH00596K

Encapsulation of polyprodrugs enables an efficient and controlled release of dexamethasone (Open Access)
Mengyi Li, Shuai Jiang, Adelina Haller, Sebastian Wirsching, Michael Fichter, Johanna Simon, Manfred Wagner, Volker Mailänder, Stephan Gehring, Daniel Crespy and Katharina Landfester
Nanoscale Horizons, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1NH00266J

We would be delighted if you would consider Nanoscale or Nanoscale Horizons for your next submission, which can be made using the button below.

Submit your research to Nanoscale Horizons or submit your research to Nanoscale

Nanoscale and Nanoscale Horizons are high-impact international journals, publishing high-quality experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Our broad scope covers cross-community research that bridges the various disciplines involved with nanoscience and nanotechnology.

We hope you enjoy reading this collection and will consider Nanoscale and Nanoscale Horizons for your future submissions.

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Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series – Kayoko Kobayashi

Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series

Congratulations to our latest Emerging Investigator Dr Kayoko Kobayashi (Kyoto University, Japan)!

Since the launch of Nanoscale Horizons, the journal has had a clear vision to publish exceptionally high-quality work whilst acting as a resource to researchers working at all career levels. We continue to be impressed by the quality of the research published and at the same time are looking for new ways of recognising and promoting the outstanding authors behind articles published in the journal.

Last year we launched an Emerging Investigator Series to showcase the exceptional work published by early-career researchers in the journal. We will regularly select a recently published Communication article and publish an interview-style Editorial article featuring the corresponding author. We hope that the series will also benefit the nanoscience community by highlighting the exciting work being done by its early-career members.

We are excited to share our our latest Emerging Investigators, Dr Kayoko Kobayashi (Kyoto University, Japan)!

Dr Kayoko Kobayashi.

 

Dr Kayoko Kobayashi is an Assistant Professor at the Division of Forest and Biomaterials Science of Kyoto University. Her main research interests are the solid-state structure of wood and other biomaterials and their relationships with physical properties. She earned her PhD from the University of Tokyo in 2014 for her study on crystal structure of hydrated polysaccharides. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Kyoto University, where she focused on image processing and machine learning applied to wood anatomy. Before being appointed to her current position, she returned to the University of Tokyo as a Project Assistant Professor.

Read our interview with Kayoko here

Congratulations to Dr Kayoko Kobayashi for her excellent work! You can read her featured Emerging Investigator article from Nanoscale Horizons below, which is full open access and free to read.

Atomic-scale dents on cellulose nanofibers: the origin of diverse defects in sustainable fibrillar materials
Tomoki Ito, Kazuho Daicho, Shuji Fujisawa, Tsuguyuki Saito and Kayoko Kobayashi
Nanoscale Horizons, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00355D

We hope you enjoy reading our interview and featured article and are looking forward to sharing our future Emerging Investigators with you!

Do you publish innovative nanoscience and nanotechnology research? Submit your latest work to Nanoscale Horizons now. If you are eligible for the Emerging Investigators series, you could be considered to feature in one of our future interviews! Find out more about the eligibility criteria and the process in this editorial introducing the series.

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Congratulations to the winners of the RSC poster prizes at AsiaNANO 2022

The 2022 Asian Conference on Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (AsiaNANO 2022) took place in Busan, South Korea from 9–11 November 2022. Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale, Nanoscale Advances, Materials Horizons, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, Materials Advances, Energy Advances and EES Catalysis, and were delighted to support poster prizes at this event and we would like to congratulate the eight winners!

 

Youngdo Jeong.

 

Nanoscale Horizons Poster Prize

Youngdo Jeong (Korea Institute of Science and Technology)
Poster Title: “Direct cellular penetration of supramolecular nanomachine via molecular movements”

Youngdo Jeong is a Senior Research Scientist at Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2014), US. After 4 years of industrial research career developing biosensors at LG Chem, he moved to KIST. His recent research focuses on the development of diagnostic kits, bio-adhesives, and nanozymes by mimicking biological functional modules such as genes, proteins, and enzymes.

Joungpyo Lim.

 

Nanoscale Poster Prize

Joungpyo Lim (Sogang University)
Poster Title: “Bionanohybrid Structure for Spatiotemporal Control of Cell Differentiation and Spatial Input Signal Recognition of Neurospheroid”

Joungpyo Lim is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Sogang University, under the supervision of Professor Jeong-Woo Choi. He obtained his B. S. (2018) and M. S. (2020) from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Sogang University. His current research focused on the development and characterization of light-responsive biohybrid materials for bioelectronic applications, such as bio-solar cells and biohybrid robots with nanomaterial-introduced organoids.

Hyeonjin Park.

 

Nanoscale Advances Poster Prize

Hyeonjin Park (Sungkyunkwan University)
Poster Title: “Multivalency-Induced Shape Deformation of Nanoscale Lipid Vesicles: Size-Dependent Membrane Bending Effects”

Hyeonjin Park is a Ph.D. student in the school of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, under the supervision of Assist. Prof. Jackman Joshua A. She is in the Dual-Ph. D. program in Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, under the supervision of Prof. Cho Nam-Joon. She also serves as a member of the Translational Nanobioscience Research Center at Sungkyunkwan University. She got her B. S. degree from the school of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (2020). Her current research has focused on developing lipid nanoparticle platfroms with engineered biophysical and nanomechanical membrane properities for pharmaceutical drug and vaccine delivery.

Jongwoo Nam.

 

Materials Horizons Poster Prize

Jongwoo Nam (Seoul National University)
Poster Title: “Observation of orbital gating in Ferrocene-alkanethiolate self-assembled monolayer-based molecular junctions with ion gel”

Jongwoo Nam is Ph.D student in Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University (SNU), under the supervision of Professor Takhee Lee. He received his B.S. in Physics and Astronomy, Computer Science and Engineering at SNU, Korea. His current research interests are the electrical properties of self-assembled monolayers molecular junctions and their development into neuromorphic devices.

Minkyu Shin.

 

Journal of Materials Chemistry B Poster Prize

Minkyu Shin (Sogang University)
Poster Title: “Nanobiohybrid electroactive actuator for the motion performance enhancement using gold nanoparticle-embedded muscle bundle and electrochemical actuator”

Minkyu Shin is a Ph. D. Candidate in Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Sogang University, South Korea. He received his M. S. in Sogang University, South Korea, under the supervision of Prof. Jeong-Woo Choi. His recent research mainly focuses on the development of bio-actuators composed of muscle cells and inorganic materials, biohybrid robot with nanomaterial-based brain organoid, and electrophysiological signal control of brain organoid. Prior to his current work, he worked on electrochemical enzymatic biosensors and bioelectronic devices to demonstrate the specific electronic functions by using the hybridization of biomolecules and nanomaterials.

Chan Jae Shin.

 

Materials Advances Poster Prize

Chan Jae Shin (Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology)
Poster Title: “Stench odor measurement and reduction technology based on ICT”

Chan Jae Shin is an MS student at the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) where he is studying biosensors that detect environmental substances using 2D material field-effect transistors. Recently, research is being conducted to fabricate a sensitive sensor that can detect blue-green algae early. Prior to this he was a BS student in the Department of Optics and Mechatronics Engineering, Pusan National University, where their undergraduate studies were conducted to detect neurotransmitters using electrochemical sensors. He wishes to learn more various things as a student and do research that is helpful for real life in the future.

Yunsoo Kim.

 

Energy Advances Poster Prize

Yunsoo Kim (Hanyang University)
Poster Title: “Platinum-based EUV mask absorber for high-NA EUV lith”

Yunsoo Kim is in the integrated master and doctor course in the Division of Materials Science and Engineering at Hanyang university of South Korea, under the supervision of Professor Jinho Ahn. She received her Bachelor of Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Hanyang university (2020). In her undergraduate studies, she studied electronic device materials such as MOSFET and semiconductor device fabrication including lithography. Her recent research focuses on EUV mask for the next generation EUV lithography, especially optical simulation of imaging by material and structural characteristics, and fabrication evaluation of mask absorbers.

Hungu Kang.

 

EES Catalysis  Poster Prize

Hungu Kang (Korea University)
Poster Title: “Resistive Random Access Memory Device Based on Coordinative Molecular Junction”

Hungu Kang received B.Sc. in chemistry from the Hanyang University in 2007. After finishing his Ph.D. at Hanyang University in 2014, he pursued postdoctoral course at Leibniz University, Germany from 2015 to 2016. After pursuing postdoctoral studies at Hanyang University until 2018, he joined the Prof. Hyo Jae Yoon group in 2018. His current research interests lie on surface engineering and molecular electronics.

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Nanoscale Horizons 2023 Lunar New Year Collection

Lunar New Year collection

A collection of our most popular articles from Asia

To celebrate the Lunar New Year, we are delighted to highlight some of the most popular articles, determined by their citations and page views, published in Nanoscale Horizons last year by corresponding authors based in countries celebrating the Lunar New Year.

Read the collection now

Nanoscale Horizons Chinese New Year promotional graphic with a red background and an image of a gold rabbit surrounded by flowers. Text reads: "Nanoscale Horizons Wishes you a Happy Chinese New Year 2023, May you enjoy a very prosperous and productive year of the rabbit".

Professor Katharina Landfester (Nanoscale Horizons Editorial Board Chair) and Professor Dirk Guldi (Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances Editor-in-Chief) have recorded messages to welcome us into the Year of the Rabbit!

Watch our Editors-in-Chief’s new year greeting

All of the articles in the collection are free to access until the end of February 2023. Read some of the featured articles below.

Integrated therapy platform of exosomal system: hybrid inorganic/organic nanoparticles with exosomes for cancer treatment
Ming-Hsien Chan, Zhi-Xuan Chang, Chi-Ying F. Huang, L. James Lee, Ru-Shi Liu and Michael Hsiao
Nanoscale Horiz., 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D1NH00637A

Computational design of double transition metal MXenes with intrinsic magnetic properties
Yinggan Zhang, Zhou Cui, Baisheng Sa, Naihua Miao, Jian Zhou and Zhimei Sun
Nanoscale Horiz., 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D1NH00621E

Single atomic Fe–N4 active sites and neighboring graphitic nitrogen for efficient and stable electrochemical CO2 reduction
Leta Takele Menisa, Ping Cheng, Xueying Qiu, Yonglong Zheng, Xuewei Huang, Yan Gao and Zhiyong Tang
Nanoscale Horiz., 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00143H

Nanoscale biophysical properties of small extracellular vesicles from senescent cells using atomic force microscopy, surface potential microscopy, and Raman spectroscopy
Hyo Gyeong Lee, Seokbeom Roh, Hyun Jung Kim, Seokho Kim, Yoochan Hong, Gyudo Lee and Ok Hee Jeon
Nanoscale Horiz., 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00220E

Defect-engineered room temperature negative differential resistance in monolayer MoS2 transistors
Wen-Hao Chang, Chun-I Lu, Tilo H. Yang, Shu-Ting Yang, Kristan Bryan Simbulan, Chih-Pin Lin, Shang-Hsien Hsieh, Jyun-Hong Chen, Kai-Shin Li, Chia-Hao Chen, Tuo-Hung Hou, Ting-Hua Lu and Yann-Wen Lan
Nanoscale Horiz., 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00396A

We hope you enjoy reading these popular articles and wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous year of the rabbit!

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Nanoscale Horizons: Looking back at 2022

Looking back at 2022

An overview of the exciting events, activities and news for Nanoscale Horizons from 2022

Now that 2022 has come to an end, we look back at some of the exciting events, activities and news from Nanoscale Horizons. We are continually thankful for the nano community’s engagement, which has enabled the journal to continue to support our growing community. We look forward to another great year for the journal in 2023.

Read our editorial looking back at 2022

 

Board updates

Professor Michael Sailor (University of California, San Diego, USA) and Professor Sarah Tolbert (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) completed their final terms as members of the Nanoscale Horizons Editorial Board and joined our Advisory Board. We would like to thank them both for their excellent service to the journal and community over many years and look forward to continuing to work with them in their new role.Professor Michael Sailor and Professor Sarah Tolbert.

 

Outstanding paper award

We were delighted to announce Sara E. Skrabalak and her team, Jin-Hong Park and his team, and Katsuhiko Ariga as the winners of our 2021 Outstanding Paper Awards earlier this year.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the 2021 Outstanding Paper Award and we hope that you enjoy reading their outstanding articles as much as we did.

Nanoscale Horizons Outstanding Paper Award promotional graphic.

Outstanding reviewers

We recognized the significant contributions that our reviewers have made to the journal and highlighted the 2021 Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale Horizons. We once again thank all of Nanoscale Horizons’ reviewers and acknowledge their invaluable support in providing high quality, timely and helpful reports on submissions to the journal, thereby, ensuring that we continue to publish high quality articles.

We sincerely thank our top reviewers for taking their valuable time to provide high quality reports on the papers and, therefore, ensure a high quality of publications for the journal. Only with their contributions can Nanoscale Horizons belong among the top journals in the field.” – Professor Dr Katharina Landfester, Editorial Board Chair

Community board collections

This year we featured research on antimicrobial materials and surfaces in a collection guest edited by Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons Community Board members Ignacio Insua (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) and Ignacio Martín-Fabiani (Loughborough University, UK).

Dr Ignacio Insua and Dr Ignacio Martín-Fabiani.

Emerging investigator series

In 2022 we launched a new series on Nanoscale Horizons to showcase the exceptional work published by early-career (i.e., less than ten years post PhD) researchers in the journal. The series will regularly highlight the corresponding author of a recently published Communication article through an interview-style Editorial.

Our first Emerging Investigator in the series, Dr Huiyuan Zhu (University of Virginia, USA) spoke to us about her research, career advice and hobbies in our first Emerging Investigator interview. We then spoke to Dr Sukjoon Hong and Dr Joonmyung Choi (Hanyang University, South Korea) in our second Emerging Investigator interview.

Dr Huiyuan Zhu, Dr Sukjoon Hong and Dr Joonmyung Choi.

If you are eligible and interested in submitting a paper for potential inclusion in the series, please do contact the Editorial office (nanoscalehorizons-rsc@rsc.org) for details.

Journal metrics

This year we were pleased to see that the Nanoscale Horizons’ impact factor increased to 11.684 in the 2021 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2022), with over 19.5k monthly downloads and 50% open access content. These are just a few of the many metrics that can be used to measure the journal’s reach, quality and impact.

Nanoscale Horizons metrics based on 2021 data promotional graphic.

Focus articles

Finally, discover our latest educational articles, addressing topic areas that are often misunderstood or require greater explanation, in the Nanoscale Horizons Focus Article Collection.

 

The Nanoscale Horizons team wish you a Happy New Year!

With best wishes,
Professor Dr Katharina Landfester, Editorial Board Chair
Professor Wenlong Cheng, Scientific Editor
Professor Yves Dufrêne, Scientific Editor
Professor Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Scientific Editor
Professor Dr Dirk Guldi, Scientific Editor
Professor Zhiyong Tang, Scientific Editor
Professor Jinlan Wang, Scientific Editor
Professor Miqin Zhang, Editorial Board Member
Dr Heather Montgomery, Managing Editor
Mr Edward Gardner, Development Editor

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Celebrating the 120th anniversary of Southeast University with a collection on new horizons in materials for energy conversion, optics and electronics

New horizons in materials for energy conversion, optics and electronics

Guest edited by Jinlan Wang, Yuanjian Zhang, Seeram Ramakrishna and Guihua Yu

We are delighted to introduce a new online collection published in Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons in conjunction with the Emerging Investigator Forum celebrating the 120th anniversary of Southeast University, China. The first articles are now online, with many more to come!

Read the collection so far

Energy materials, particularly those with nanoscale features, present unique physicochemical properties that make them perfect to be explored in diverse manners, paving the way towards renewable energy systems via continuous breakthroughs. Meanwhile, theoretical calculations, such as machine learning methods, have been widely applied to solve complex problems.

Professor Jinlan Wang, Professor Yuanjian Zhang, Professor Seeram Ramakrishna and Professor Guihua Yu.

Guest edited by Professor Jinlan Wang (Southeast University, China), Professor Yuanjian Zhang (Southeast University, China), Professor Seeram Ramakrishna (National University of Singapore, Singapore) and Professor Guihua Yu (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) , this collection focuses on energy conversion, optics, and electronics applications of (nano)materials and provides an overview of the most frequently used experimental approaches and theoretical methods for energy conversion and storage, intending to connect different communities and identify common challenges in the field.

We hope you enjoy reading this collection so far and look forward to sharing more articles with you soon.

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Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series – Sukjoon Hong and Joonmyung Choi

Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series

Congratulations to our latest Emerging Investigators Dr Sukjoon Hong and Dr Joonmyung Choi (Hanyang University, South Korea)!

Since the launch of Nanoscale Horizons, the journal has had a clear vision to publish exceptionally high-quality work whilst acting as a resource to researchers working at all career levels. We continue to be impressed by the quality of the research published and at the same time are looking for new ways of recognising and promoting the outstanding authors behind articles published in the journal.

This year we launched an Emerging Investigator Series to showcase the exceptional work published by early-career researchers in the journal. We will regularly select a recently published Communication article and publish an interview-style Editorial article featuring the corresponding author. We hope that the series will also benefit the nanoscience community by highlighting the exciting work being done by its early-career members. More details about the Emerging Investigator Series can be found in this editorial.

We are excited to share our our latest Emerging Investigators, Dr Sukjoon Hong and Dr Joonmyung Choi (Hanyang University, South Korea)!

Dr Sukjoon Hong.

 

Dr Sukjoon Hong received a BS and MS degree from the Department of Physics at Seoul National University, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2014. After postdoctoral studies at UC Berkeley in 2015, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Hanyang University, ERICA Campus, in South Korea as an Assistant Professor in 2016 and now serves as an Associate Professor at the same department. His research interests emphasize the development of various processing techniques, especially for nanomaterials using optical methods, such as selective laser sintering/ablation of nanoparticles, laser nanowelding/transfer of nanowires, and laser pyrolysis of polymeric substrates for transformative generation of carbon-based nanomaterials.

Dr Joonmyung Choi

 

Dr Joonmyung Choi is an assistant professor at Hanyang University, Ansan, South Korea. He received his BS degree (2010) and PhD (2016) from Seoul National University. Prior to his current position, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at Seoul National University (2016–2017) and a senior researcher at Samsung Electronics (2017–2019). From 2020 to the present, he has served as the editorial director of the CAE and Applied Mechanics Division of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers. Since 2022, he has also served as the associate editor of Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A. His research interests are in the field of structural mechanics, surface and interface characterization, and multiscale modeling.

 

Read our interview with Sukjoon and Joonmyung here

Congratulations to Dr Sukjoon Hong and Dr Joonmyung Choi for their excellent work! You can read their featured Emerging Investigator article from Nanoscale Horizons below.

Molecular mechanics of Ag nanowire transfer processes subjected to contact loading by a PDMS substrate
Minseok Kang, Hyunkoo Lee, Sukjoon Hong and Joonmyung Choi
Nanoscale Horizons, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00212D

We hope you enjoy reading our interview and featured article and are looking forward to sharing our future Emerging Investigators with you!

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Zhiyong Tang receives a Highly Cited Researcher Award

We are delighted to announce that Nanoscale Horizons Scientific Editor Zhiyong Tang has been included in Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list!

The Highly Cited Researchers™ is an annual program which recognises those who have published several highly cited papers over the last ten years, and thereby have a wide and significant influence on their respective field. Zhiyong has received a 2022 Highly Cited Researcher Award in the field of Chemistry. In fact, since 2018, he has received 6 Highly Cited Researcher Awards in Chemistry, Materials Science, and Cross-Field!

Meet Zhiyong Tang

Professor Zhiyong Tang

 

Zhiyong is a Professor at the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology in China. He received his B.S. and M.S. from the Department of Environmental Chemistry at Wuhan University before receiving his PhD from the Changchu Institute of Applied Chemistry in Dr Erkang Wang’s group. Zhiyong was a research Fellow in the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University and University of Michigan, respectively, working with Nicholas Kotov. He joined the National Center for Nanoscience and technology in 2008 and his research interests are centred on the fabrication and application of functional inorganic nanomaterials in the fields of energy and the environment.

 

We asked Zhiyong some questions about his recent work and his latest achievement.

Please could you provide a short summary of your most recent work?

My recent research interest focuses on self-limited assembly of crystalline porous materials including metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs) as well as their applications in catalysis and separation. My most recent work reported COF monolayer membranes with short interpore distance along with high pore density and ultimate low membrane resistance, which endowed strong pore-pore coupling effect. These features successfully debottleneck the concentration polarization phenomenon and thus greatly improve the membrane-based osmotic power generation.

 

What is the current biggest challenge you face in your field?

It is known that the natural enzymatic reaction process often involves auto-tandem steps of catalysis and separation with high activity and specific selectivity. By comparison, the current biggest challenge is that the artificial chemical process is often performed with multiple steps to achieve catalysis, separation, and purification, thus leading to the much lower efficiency.

 

What advances in your field are you most excited about?

The most exciting advance will be to precisely fabricate the well-defined multifunctional porous membranes for achieving consecutive catalysis and separation in one-pot process with high efficiency.

 

What does it mean to you to be a Highly Cited Researcher?

For me, being a Highly Cited Researcher means two things: On one hand, my research direction has received attention from colleagues, which encourages my research group to continuously explore the unknown and challenging issues in this field. Secondly, my research works may be followed by scientists, who could provide potential support for the development of this field.

 

Why is your work important and what advice would you give to up-and-coming scientists hoping to increase their visibility?

My research works mainly focus on exploring and illustrating the fundamental issues in the self-limited assembly of crystalline porous materials, which have exhibited some unique properties and could provide the solid foundation for their applications in the fields of energy and catalysis. My advice for up-and-coming scientists is to first grasp the development frontiers and challenging issues of this field, and then carry out scientific research while guided by their practical applications.

 

Congratulations Zhiyong!

Zhiyong's research group.

Zhiyong’s research group

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