February 2024 RSC Advances Review Articles

Welcome to February’s Review round up!

Every month we update our 2024 Reviews in RSC Advances collection to showcase all of the review articles published in RSC Advances in 2024. Don’t forget to come back next month to check out our latest reviews.

We hope you enjoy reading and as always, all of our articles are open access so you can easily share your favourites online and with your colleagues.

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Browse a selection of our February reviews below:

All-inorganic lead halide perovskites for photocatalysis: a review
Yajie Huang, Jiaxing Yu, Zhiyuan Wu, Borui Li and Ming Li
RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 4946-4965

Recent advances in microwave-assisted multicomponent synthesis of spiro heterocycles
Ramin Javahershenas, Ata Makarem and Karel D. Klika
RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 5547-5565

Challenges and progress in oxygen evolution reaction catalyst development for seawater electrolysis for hydrogen production
Jack Corbin, Mikey Jones, Cheng Lyu, Adeline Loh, Zhenyu Zhang, Yanqui Zhu and Xiaohong Li
RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 6416-6442

Hydrogen production, storage, and transportation: recent advances
M. M. Rampai, C. B. Mtshali, N. S. Seroka and L. Khotseng
RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 6699-6718

Current status of research on composite bipolar plates for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs): nanofillers and structure optimization
Li Wenkai, Xie Zhiyong and Zeng Haodong
RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 7172-7194

 

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February 2024 Popular Advances Articles

Welcome to February’s Popular Advances article round up!

Every month we update our 2024 RSC Advances Popular Advances Article Collection to showcase all of the articles selected by our reviewers and handling editors as Popular Advances in 2024. Don’t forget to come back next month to check out our latest Popular articles.

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Experimental study of the effects of a magnetic field/magnetic field-ferromagnetic nanocomposite pour point depressant on wax deposition
Chuanshuo Wang, Yang Liu, Shanwei Hu, Xiaofang Lv, Biao Zhao, Qianli Ma and Shidong Zhou
RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 6234-6245

Stereochemical insights into β-amino-N-acylhydrazones and their impact on DPP-4 inhibition
Eduardo Reina, Lucas Silva Franco, Teiliane Rodrigues Carneiro, Eliezer J. Barreiro and Lidia Moreira Lima
RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 6617-6626

 

 

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Themed collection: New Insights into Biomolecular Systems from Large-Scale Simulations

RSC Advances is delighted to present this themed collection titled ‘New Insights into Biomolecular Systems from Large-Scale Simulations’.

This themed collection in RSC Advances highlights recent applications of computer simulations to understand the structural and functional dynamics of biomolecular systems, with the goal to extract insights from large datasets and permit direct comparisons to experimental data. An emphasis is placed on the application of large-scale models to address unexplored areas in protein folding, intrinsically disordered proteins, protein aggregation, nucleic acid structure and function, membrane proteins, signaling molecules crossing membranes, and ligand interactions, among other topics.

This collection was Guest Edited by RSC Advances Editorial Board member Professor Stacey Wetmore (University of Lethbridge, Canada), RSC Advances Associate Editor Professor Megan O’Mara (Australian National University) and Dr Sarah Rauscher (University of Toronto). They provide an overview of the collection in this accompanying Editorial.

A selection of articles have been highlighted below, and you can view the full collection here.

Partial peptide dissociation and binding groove plasticity in two major histocompatibility complex class I alleles – differences between alleles versus force field and sampling effects
Sebastian Wingbermühle and Lars V. Schäfer
RSC Adv., 2022, 12, 29908-29914

Polar/apolar interfaces modulate the conformational behavior of cyclic peptides with impact on their passive membrane permeability
Stephanie M. Linker, Christian Schellhaas, Benjamin Ries, Hans-Jörg Roth, Marianne Fouché, Stephane Rodde and Sereina Riniker
RSC Adv., 2022, 12, 5782-5796

How a single mutation alters the protein structure: a simulation investigation on protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP2
Yingnan Hou, Xiaoli Lu, Ziyao Xu, Jiarun Qu and Jing Huang
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 4263-4274

Simulation of defects, flexibility and rupture in biopolymer networks
Matthew H. J. Bailey and Mark Wilson
RSC Adv., 2022, 12, 2171-2180

View the full collection here

We welcome you to contribute to this collection. Please contact the Editorial Office to highlight your interest in submitting to this collection.

 

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RSC Fellows collection: contributions from RSC Advances

Welcome to the RSC Fellows collection!

As part of the RSC Fellows collection, a growing collection highlights the scientific accomplishments of RSC Fellows and features cutting-edge developments and future prospects across our journals portfolio, we want to highlight contributions published by authors in RSC Advances!

We hope you enjoy reading and as always, all of our articles are open access so you can easily share your favourites online and with your colleagues.

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Boric acid catalysed hydrolysis of peroxyacids
Michael E. Deary
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 11826-11837

Carbon dots using a household cleaning liquid as a dopant for iron detection in hydroponic systems
Robert G. Hjort, Cícero C. Pola, Lisseth Casso-Hartmann, Diana C. Vanegas, Eric McLamore and Carmen L. Gomes
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 17244-17252

Type-II ternary Bi2WO6/rGO/SnFe2O4 heterojunction nanocomposites and their photocatalytic efficiency towards 4-nitrophenol reduction
Vani Narayanan and Badal Kumar Mandal
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 22616-22629

Journey of micronanoplastics with blood components
Durgalakshmi Rajendran and Natarajan Chandrasekaran
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 31435-31459

Crafting mono- and novel bis-methylated pyrroloquinoxaline derivatives from a shared precursor and its application in the total synthesis of marinoquinoline A
Margarita Damai, Norman Guzzardi, Viliyana Lewis, Zenobia X. Rao, Daniel Sykes and Bhaven Patel
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 29561-29567

 

 

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Bioinorganic Chemistry (GRS) – Interview with Caitlin Palmer

On 19th – 22nd January 2024, the Bioinorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) took place. This annual seminar provides an opportunity for young doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to present and discuss their work. GRS encourages active participation and engaged discussion from all attendees, in order to encourage scientific collaboration.

This year, the conference focused on Elucidating the Influence of Metals on Biological Processes and RSC Advances were lucky enough to sponsor the event and support attendance of early career researcher! Caitlin Palmer is a graduate student at Northwestern University, United States. She completed her BS in Chemistry and Biochemistry and MS in Inorganic Chemistry at East Carolina University.

Caitlin Palmer

At the conference, Caitlin presented her research on “Uncovering the Role of CopD in Methanotroph Copper Homeostasis”.

Caitlin has told us about her research and discussed the triumphs and challenges she has faced throughout her career so far. She also provided some advice for other students and early career researchers.

What is the focus of your research and why it is of current interest?

The focus of my research is how metals are trafficked, stored, and delivered to essential enzymes in bacteria. Specifically, I work on a new class of copper transport proteins that are only found in bacteria, and potentially deliver copper to enzymes involved in carbon metabolism and antibiotic resistance pathways. Because of this, my lab is very interested in studying the mechanism of how this class of proteins is involved in copper homeostasis, and how they can be targeted for drug therapies down the line.

What are the key design considerations for your study?

The key design considerations for my study include finding ample controls for some of the in vivo assays I’ve created to monitor a copper transport in bacteria. In addition, since this class of proteins is a membrane protein, it’s been very important to optimize its stable expression and purification for in vitro assays.

Which part of the research so far has proved to be the most challenging?

I think the most challenging portion of my research so far was the switch to membrane proteins – during my undergraduate and masters, I worked with soluble metal binding proteins that had been established in the literature for many years, which were relatively easy to purify and characterize for my experiments. Now in my PhD, working with membrane proteins has been a challenge due to their solubility and instability issues during purification. I’ve had to work with numerous constructs (+30 homologs and tag configurations) in order to optimize stable expression and purification of these proteins.

What aspect of the work are you most excited about?

I think I’m most excited about the structural aspect of my project – I’ve been working on collecting cryoEM data recently, so I am very excited to start my foray into structural characterization, especially since cryoEM is such a hot field right now.

What advice would you give to students and early career researchers in a similar situation to yourself?

The best advice I was given came from a postdoctoral scholar in our lab – she told me that the best way to get through some of the lows and “failed experiments” in grad school is to keep your energy and excitement up throughout it, even when it feels like everything is going horribly. My project has been really difficult, and at times when I’ve felt like nothing is going right, I’ve really leaned into this thought of staying excited about my research and why it is so exciting for me to do.

What are some of the challenges you have faced as a researcher starting out in your career and what positive progress have you seen throughout your career so far?

Since I’m a graduate student, I’m not too far into my career just yet, but at least from my transition from undergraduate to graduate studies, I’ve noticed my confidence in my research and my technical abilities has really increased – during my undergraduate research experience, I had the unfortunate experience of being viewed as only a tech and someone who only ran data for others (rather than contributing to science and doing thoughtful experiments), so that really hurt my confidence in my abilities. However, as I’ve grown my skills and spent more time in the lab as a graduate student, I’ve gained more confidence and respect as a researcher, which has been a very restorative experience.

Do you have any recommendations for improving the STEM workforce to create an environment that better supports early career researchers? Is there anything publishers such as the RSC can do to help?

I think the biggest advice I can give is to provide more funding and support for early career researchers, especially from minority and LGBT/queer communities, because these researchers represent more of the type of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars that are being attracted to STEM careers, including myself. One of the biggest influences on my career was an early career faculty member at my undergraduate institution who is queer and a minority – seeing him thrive in the face of adversity really shaped my perspective as a young queer researcher, and gave me the spark to love my research even more and continue on my graduate school career. To the second part of your question, I think journals and publishers should strive to publish articles and thought pieces from a diverse range of researchers, and really try to support these historically underrepresented communities (in the form of publishing, scholarships, travel awards, funding, etc) to help them achieve greater success. It really takes a village to support early career researchers, so any support from the community is paramount to their success.

Anything else to note?

I also love to plug my cat in any interview I do, so please find attached to this email a copy of my cat (Miss Sammie) who keeps me sane during graduate school. She has also donated many whiskers to our lab for crystallography experiments, so she is an active “researcher” in my lab as well!

Miss Sammie

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January 2024 RSC Advances Review Articles

Welcome to January’s Review round up!

Every month we update our 2024 Reviews in RSC Advances collection to showcase all of the review articles published in RSC Advances in 2024. Don’t forget to come back next month to check out our latest reviews.

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Browse a selection of our January reviews below:

Recent progress in TiO2–biochar-based photocatalysts for water contaminants treatment: strategies to improve photocatalytic performance
Yunfang Liu, Xiaowei Dai, Jia Li, Shaoheng Cheng, Jian Zhang and Yibo Ma
RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 478-491

A comprehensive review of synthesis kinetics and formation mechanism of geopolymers
Ahmer Ali Siyal, Radin Maya Saphira Radin Mohamed, Rashid Shamsuddin and Mohd Baharudin Ridzuan
RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 446-462

Pyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinoline scaffolds for developing anti-cancer agents
Leidy J. García Maza, Arturo Mendoza Salgado, Vladimir V. Kouznetsov and Carlos M. Meléndez
RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 1710-1728

Current perspectives, challenges, and future directions in the electrochemical detection of microplastics
Ayman H. Kamel, A. Hefnawy, Layla J. Hazeem, Suad A. Rashdan and Hisham S. M. Abd-Rabboh
RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 2134-2158

Advances in metal–organic frameworks for water remediation applications
Seema Lal, Parul Singh, Anchal Singhal, Sanjay Kumar, Ajay Pratap Singh Gahlot, Namita Gandhi and Pratibha Kumari
RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 3413-3446

 

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January 2024 Popular Advances Articles

Welcome to January’s Popular Advances article round up!

Every month we update our 2024 RSC Advances Popular Advances Article Collection to showcase all of the articles selected by our reviewers and handling editors as Popular Advances in 2024. Don’t forget to come back next month to check out our latest Popular articles.

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Preparation of high-performance monoazo disperse dyes bearing ester groups based on benzisothiazole and their dyeing performance on polyester fabrics
Xiyu Song, Chuang Dai, Mingda Li, Min Li, Liu Hu, Yu Wang, Aiqin Hou and Hongfei Qian
RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 67-74

Urea-rich porous organic polymer as a hydrogen bond catalyst for Knoevenagel condensation reaction and synthesis of 2,3-dihydroquinazolin-4(1H)-ones
Narges Zarei, Meysam Yarie, Morteza Torabi and Mohammad Ali Zolfigol
RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 1094-1105

Synthesis, molecular docking analysis and in vitro evaluation of new heterocyclic hybrids of 4-aza-podophyllotoxin as potent cytotoxic agents
Ha Thanh Nguyen, Ket Tran Van, Hai Pham-The, Julien Braire, Phuong Hoang Thi, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Quynh Giang Nguyen Thi,a Tuyet Anh Dang Thi, Giang Le-Nhat-Thuy, Tu Anh Le Thi, Doan Vu Ngo and Tuyen Nguyen Van
RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 1838-1853

Facile modular synthesis of jasmonoyl-l-isoleucine analogs possessing a pyrazolidin-3-one core
Samuel Vizcaíno Páez, Diego Durango, Christian Jürgen Müller, Matthias Breuning and Wiston Quiñones Fletcher
RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 3790-3797

 

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Research Technology Platforms – Global Access

RSC Advances is excited to spread awareness for a research technology platform that is freely available for researchers from less well-resourced geographical regions, subject to application.

The University of Warwick recognise that excellent science is carried out in areas of the world that might not have access to the type of analytical facilities that are often required by many international journals, referees and editors. This can sometimes obstruct publication and dissemination.

To support this, the University of Warwick is offering up their analytical facilities for free short-term projects globally, subject to application. This opportunity is open to everyone from a less well-resourced geographical region at all stages of their career.

The Research Technology Platform at University of Warwick is a cross university facility providing an integrated network of world-class technologies needed to carry out outstanding research. This platform provides wide ranging polymer characterisation technology including GPC, TGA, DSC, etc. It is part of a suite of analytical facilities supported by the University of Warwick, which also includes a suite of X-Ray diffractometers from single crystal and powder to SAXS, microscopy high resolution TEM, SEM and spectroscopy. The equipment is managed by highly trained technical staff.

Follow the links below to find out more information on the Research Technology Platform, how to apply for Global RTP Access, and important things to consider before the application:

Research Technology Platform

Global RTP Access

For successful applicants, there will be no cost for use of the facility if the application is approved. However, this does not include travel or shipping costs. All they ask is that where technical staff have contributed to the research, they are acknowledged in the most appropriate way to recognise their contribution.

For further information on Research Technology Platforms email: rtp@warwick.ac.uk, or follow them on X: @RTP_Warwick

 

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MASC Meeting 2023 – RSC Poster Prize Winners

The RSC Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (MASC) Group meeting took place at the University of Birmingham on the 18th and 19th December 2023. The meeting brought together researchers working in the diverse and growing field of modern macrocyclic and supramolecular chemistry, and included an exciting collection of invited talks from leaders in the field, as well as oral and poster presentations.

We are delighted that the conference was such a success and we would like to wish a huge congratulations to the poster prize winners, Ben Barber, Francis Crick Institute (Chemical Communications), Sophie Patrick, University of Oxford (RSC Advances), and Jiarong Wu, Universität Würzburg and (Chemical Science).

Sophie Patrick, University of Oxford

A group photo of the poster prize winners

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Open Call for Papers: CRISPR-Based Diagnostics Methods, Devices, and Applications

RSC Advances is delighted to announce a new themed collection on CRISPR-Based Diagnostics Methods, Devices, and Applications. 

This collection is Guest Edited by Dr Zhen Rong (Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, China), Prof Wataru Nomura (Hiroshima University, Japan) and Prof Weihua Guan (Pennsylvania State University, USA).

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat (CRISPR)-based diagnostics have been widely applied to sensitive and accurate nucleic acid analysis based on its highly efficient trans-cleavage activity. CRISPR assays can be integrated with nucleic acid amplification testing methods, microfluidic devices, and novel biosensors to simplify operation workflow and improve analytical performance, thus making it more applicable at point-of-care needs. Current challenges focus on the development of single-step nucleic acid amplification cascade CRISPR assays, “sample-in, answer-out” devices, and multiplex CRISPR assays.

This themed collection focuses on the development and applications of novel CRISPR-based diagnostics methods and devices. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  1. CRISPR-based diagnostics methods: nucleic acid amplification cascade CRISPR assays, amplification-free CRISPR assays, and digital CRISPR assays.
  2. CRISPR-based diagnostics devices: CRISPR-integrated microfluidic devices, paper-based analytical devices, field-effect transistors, surface plasmon resonance biosensors, and other novel analytical devices.
  3. CRISPR-based diagnostics applications: point-of-care detection of emerging pathogens, molecular diagnosis of genetic diseases, genotyping of variants, and discrimination of drug resistance mutations.
  4. Chemistry-oriented CRISPR research for analytical and diagnostic applications.

This collection welcomes primary research articles as well as review articles in related fields to contribute to our special issue. To be suitable for consideration, RSC Advances submissions should provide insight that advances the chemistry field.

We welcome your submission to the collection!

The deadline for manuscript submission is 21st September 2024. 

Please note our data requirements and guidelines here. If your manuscript contains electrophoresis data, please be aware we require images of the full, raw, and uncropped images.

All manuscripts will be subject to the journal’s usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be published in a regular issue of the journal as soon as possible and then added to the themed collection on the journal webpage.

RSC Advances’ article processing charge (APC) is among the lowest in chemistry and waivers are also available for authors who meet the eligibility criteria outlined here. We have a number of Read & Publish deals in place with institutions, please see Chronoshub for more information on specific institutions and funders.

If you would like to submit to this themed collection the manuscript should be prepared according to our article guidelines and submitted via our online system any time before the submission deadline of 21st September 2024. During submission, authors will be asked if they are submitting for a themed collection and should include the name of the themed collection. If you would like to submit but require additional time to prepare your article, please do let us know by contacting the journal.

 

 

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