We are delighted to announce an open call for papers to our new themed collection on Carbon nanomaterials for smart applications.

Carbon nanomaterials with interesting properties have become more easily accessible with rapid research progress in the field, leading to their increasingly widespread use for materials development and applications. This themed collection broadly focuses on carbon nanomaterials for smart applications including (but not limited to):

• Design and synthesis of carbon nanomaterials
• Assembly of carbon-based smart nanostructured materials
• Fabrication of carbon nanomaterials and polymer composites for smart textiles
• Graphene and CNT-based smart composites for energy harvesting and storage devices
• Smart carbon-based materials for biomedical sensors and drug release systems
• Carbon-based thermochromic and electrochromic hybrid materials
• Carbon-based smart materials and composites for water purification
• Carbon nanomaterials for smart thermal management
• Carbon nanomaterials for actuators (e.g., artificial muscles)

Submit before 1^st June 2024

If you are interested in contributing to this collection, please get in touch with the Editorial Office

Nanoscale Advances publishes quality research across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology. It has an impact factor of 4.7 (Journal Citation Reports 2022, Clarivate Analytics).

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Yours sincerely,

Yeye Wen
Guest Editor,
Beijing Institute of Technology, China
ORCID: 0000-0001-6902-7234

Zhenyuan Xia
Guest Editor,
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
ORCID: 0000-0003-2227-3598

Muqiang Jian
Guest Editor,
Beijing Graphene Institute, China
ORCID: 0009-0006-5380-1962

Zifei Lu
Assistant Editor, Nanoscale Advances
Royal Society of Chemistry
ORCID: 0000-0002-6710-2808

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of NCNST

Guest edited by Xinfeng Liu, Qing Dai, Zhixiang Wei, Chunying Chen and Yuliang Zhao

Last year we were delighted to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) with a special collection in Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances highlighting the breadth of high-quality work from the institute. We’re pleased to share this collection of research and reviews covering the most recent research progress in a wide spectrum of nanoscience and nanotechnology from researchers currently affiliated with NCNST as well as esteemed alumni. You can explore the collection and read the introductory editorial from our guest editors below, with all articles free to access until the end of April 2024. Read the collection

Professor Xinfeng Liu, Professor Qing Dai, Professor Zhixiang Wei, Professor Chunying Chen and Professor Yuliang Zhao served as guest editors for this collection and highlight the history of NCNST and significance of this anniversary in their introductory editorial.

Read the introductory editorial

All of the articles in the collection are free to access until the end of April 2024. Read some of the featured articles below.

Reviews

Material design, development, and trend for surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates Yue Ying, Zhiyong Tang and Yaling Liu Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NR01456H

RNA-cleaving DNAzymes for accurate biosensing and gene therapy Xin Gao, Yixin Liu, Wendi Huo, Yuwei Song, Yu Chen, Jinchao Zhang, Xinjian Yang, Yi Jin and Xing-jie Liang Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NR01482G

Research articles

Scalable engineering of hierarchical layered micro-sized silicon/graphene hybrids via direct foaming for lithium storage Mathar Hamza, Siyuan Zhang, Wenqiang Xu, Denghui Wang, Yingjie Ma and Xianglong Li Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NR02840B

A wearable AuNP enhanced metal–organic gel (Au@MOG) sensor for sweat glucose detection with ultrahigh sensitivity Dengfeng Zhou, Shuangbin Zhang, Atta Ullah Khan, Lan Chen and Guanglu Ge Nanoscale, 2024, DOI: 10.1039/D3NR05179J

Cascade energy transfer boosted near-infrared circularly polarized luminescence of nanofibers from an exclusively achiral system Chen Xiao, Chengxi Li, Kang Huang, Pengfei Duan and Yafei Wang Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NR01515G

Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale are high-impact international journals, publishing high-quality experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Nanoscale Advances is our gold open access member of the nanoscale journal family. Our broad scope covers cross-community research that bridges various disciplines, and the journal series allows full coverage of interdisciplinary advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology. We hope you will consider Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances for your future submissions.

We hope you enjoy reading this collection and look forward to showcasing more work from NCNST in the future. Please continue to submit your exciting work to Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.

Celebrating 25 years of the Key Laboratory for Special Functional Materials at Henan University

Guest edited by Feng Bai, Gang Cheng, Zuliang Du and Guohua Jia

Last year we were delighted to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Key Laboratory for Special Functional Materials of Ministry of Education at Henan University with a special collection in Nanoscale highlighting the breadth of high-quality work from the institute. We’re pleased to share this collection of research and reviews covering the most recent research progress in a wide spectrum of nanoscience and nanotechnology from researchers currently affiliated with the Key Lab as well as esteemed alumni.

You can explore the collection and read the introductory editorial from our guest editors below, with all articles free to access until the end of April 2024.

Read the collection

Professor Feng Bai, Professor Gang Cheng, Professor Zuliang Du and Professor Guohua Jia served as guest editors for this collection and highlight the history of the Key Laboratory for Special Functional Materials of Ministry of Education and significance of this anniversary in their introductory editorial.

Read the introductory editorial

All of the articles in the collection are free to access until the end of April 2024. Read some of the featured articles below.

Reviews

Transformation mechanism of high-valence metal sites for the optimization of Co- and Ni-based OER catalysts in an alkaline environment: recent progress and perspectives Chen Qiao, Yingying Hao, Chuanbao Cao and JiaTao Zhang Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR05783B

Polyoxometalate-based frameworks for photocatalysis and photothermal catalysis Xiaofei Chen, Hongzhuo Wu, Xinjian Shi and Lixin Wu Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NR01176C

Research articles

Selection of an aggregation-caused quenching-based fluorescent tracer for imaging studies in nano drug delivery systems Xin Ji, Yifan Cai, Xiaochun Dong, Wei Wu and Weili Zhao Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NR01018J

A layer-stacked NiO nanowire/nanosheet homostructure for electrochromic smart windows with ultra-large optical modulation Yi Gao, Pengyang Lei, Siyu Zhang, Huanhuan Liu, Chengyu Hu, Zhu Kou, Jinhui Wang and Guofa Cai Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NR01211E

Nanoscale is a high-impact international journal, 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 are always interested in considering high-quality articles and we would be delighted if you would consider the journal for your next submission, which can be made via our online submission service. All submissions will be subject to initial assessment and peer review as appropriate according to the journal’s guidelines.

We hope you enjoy reading this collection and look forward to showcasing more work from the institute in the future. Please continue to submit your exciting work to Nanoscale.

Open call for papers – Targeted biomedical applications of nanomaterials

Submissions deadline on 7 June 2024

We are delighted to announce our latest open call for submissions to a themed collection on Targeted biomedical applications of nanomaterials to be published across Nanoscale, Nanoscale Advances, Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Materials Advances.

This collection is guest edited by Professor Dhiraj Bhatia (IIT Gandhinagar, India), Professor Mukesh Dhanka (IIT Gandhinagar, India), Dr Anjali Awasthi (University of Rajasthan, India), Professor Kamlendra Awasthi (Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India) and Professor Kaushik Chatterjee (IISc Bangalore, India).

Nano-biomaterials, i.e., nanomaterials derived or inspired from biological molecules, have gained substantial influence in the recent times in terms of their fine tunability, scale-up potential, excellent interface and adaptation with biological systems. Multiple different approaches involving physical and computational modelling, chemical structure synthesis and characterization and biological modifications have been used to develop next generation bionanodevices that can interface with biological systems in a very focussed manner. Some of the recent devices have already made their way to clinical trials and many others are in different stages of the pipeline for translational applications.

This new collection in Nanoscale, JMC B, Nanoscale Advances and Materials Advances will focus on the design of multifunctional hybrid nanomaterials for different applications and on interfacing nanomaterials with biological systems for translational studies. The scope of this collection loosely aligns with the 2023 International Conference on Nanomaterials in Biology (ICNB 2023), held at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar along with Soft Materials Research Society, from 19–22 November 2023. Potential topics for the collection include but are not limited to,

• 3D Bioprinting
• Big Data in Nanosciences
• Bioinspired and Biomimetic Materials
• Biological Nanodevices and Sensors
• Engineered Nanomaterials
• Nanomaterials and Environmental Effects
• Nanomaterials for Bioenergy Applications
• Nanomaterials for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Science
• Nanomaterials in Biological Uptake and Nanotoxicology
• Nanomaterials in Gene and Drug Delivery
• Nanomaterials in Tissue Engineering and Medicine
• Polymer Supramolecular Chemistry and Applications
• Scaffold design and fabrication

Submit your work by 7 June 2024

How to submit

Submissions to the collection should fit within the scope of Nanoscale, Nanoscale Advances, Materials Advances or Journal of Materials Chemistry B – Please see the journals’ websites for more information on the journal’s scope, standards, article types and author guidelines. We encourage authors to select the journal most relevant to their research. All manuscripts will undergo the normal initial assessment and peer review processes, if appropriate, in line with the journal’s high standards, managed by the journal editors. Accepted manuscripts will be added to the online collection as soon as they are published and they will be featured in a regular issue of the relevant journal. Please note that peer review or acceptance are not guaranteed. 

If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, please submit your article directly through the journal submissions platform. Please mention that your submission is a contribution to the Targeted biomedical applications of nanomaterials collection in the “Themed issues” section of the submission form and is in response to the Open Call. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of both the journal and the collection, and as such inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed collection is not guaranteed.

If you have any questions about the collection or the submissions process, please do contact the Editorial Office at materialsb-rsc@rsc.org and they will be able to assist.

We look forward to receiving your latest work and considering it for this collection!

Call For Papers: Metal nanoclusters

Guest edited by Sukhendu Mandal, Yuichi Negishi, Di Sun and Anindita Das

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for our latest online themed collection in Nanoscale on metal nanoclusters that is being guest edited by Professor Sukhendu Mandal (IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India), Professor Yuichi Negishi (Tokyo University of Science, Japan), Professor Di Sun (Shandong University, China) and Professor Anindita Das (South Methodist University, USA).

Atomically precise metal nanoclusters are novel materials that have the potential to address everyday needs from energy to health. Luminescent metal clusters can be used for effective and efficient energy harvesting and conversion technologies, while water-soluble luminescent metal clusters offer more efficient and personalized biomedical approaches. Furthermore, nanoclusters can be used as building units to form higher-dimensional cluster-assembled materials and can modulate the optoelectronic properties of desired device materials. To create a hierarchy of structures and applications, a fundamental understanding of the structure-property relationship at the atomic level is vital.

This special collection aims to look at new structures, photophysical, chemical and electrochemical catalysis reactions, and structure-property correlations within the themes of atomically precise metal nanoclusters. We wish to highlight research communicating novel structures, properties and phenomena, where applications for societal needs are appreciated as well as reports of new and exciting basic science. Prospective topics include but are not limited to:

• New nanocluster structures
• Transformation reactions
• Luminescent materials
• Light-matter interactions
• Catalysis
• Electrocatalysis
• Bio-imaging and sensing
• Drug delivery
• Optoelectronic devices
• New techniques for characterization

This call for papers is open for the following article types:

• Communications
• Full papers

Open for submissions until 1 July 2024

If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, you can submit your article directly through the Nanoscale online submission system. Please mention that this submission is an open call contribution to the metal nanoclusters collection in the “Themed issues” section of the submission form and add a “Note to the Editor” that this is from the Open Call. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of both the journal and the collection, and inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed issue is not guaranteed.

Please also note that all submissions will undergo our normal rigorous peer review processes including an initial assessment prior to peer review, and that peer review and acceptance are not guaranteed.

If you have any questions about the journal or the collection, then Edward Gardner, the Development Editor for Nanoscale, would be happy to answer them. You can contact him by emailing the journal inbox.

With best wishes,

Professor Sukhendu Mandal (IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India)
Professor Yuichi Negishi (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
Professor Di Sun (Shandong University, China)
Professor Anindita Das (South Methodist University, USA)