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ISACS21: Challenges in Nanoscience

ISACS21: Challenges in Nanoscience

We are delighted to announce the upcoming Challenges in Nanoscience (ISACS21) meeting, to be held on 10–12 November 2016 in Beijing, China.

The themes for Challenges in Nanoscience will be synthetic methodology, self-assembly, catalysis, energy and nano-biology/medicine. Confirmed speakers include:

  • Raffaella Buonsanti (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
  • Xiong Wen (David) Lou (Nanyang Technological University)
  • Joachim Spatz (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)
  • Brian Trewyn (Colorado School of Mines)
  • Jianfang Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • Yadong Yin (University of California Riverside)
  • Hua Zhang (Nanyang Technological University)
  • Xi Zhang (Tsinghua University)
  • and many more

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Submit your oral abstract by 29 August and get involved

Registration now open: receive a discount by signing up before 19 September!

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Check out these recent reviews and original research articles on related topics in Chemical Science. As of 2015 Chemical Science is fully Gold Open Access, and publication charges are waived until the end of 2018, so all articles published since then are free to read and free to publish:

Perspective

Bing Ni and Xun Wang
Chem. Sci., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6SC00432F
Open Access

Minireview

Zhanxi Fan, Xiao Huang, Chaoliang Tan and Hua Zhang
Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 95-111
Open Access

Edge Articles

Zeng-Wen Hu, Liang Xu, Yuan Yang, Hong-Bin Yao, Hong-Wu Zhu, Bi-Cheng Hu and Shu-Hong Yu
Chem. Sci., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6SC00674D
Open Access

Ved Prakash, Sonali Saha, Kasturi Chakraborty and Yamuna Krishnan
Chem. Sci., 2016,7, 1946-1953
Open Access

Guangtong Wang, Bohan Tang, Yang Liu, Qingyu Gao, Zhiqiang Wang and Xi Zhang
Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 1151-1155
Open Access

Peilei He, Biao Xu, Xiaobin Xu, Li Song and Xun Wang
Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 1011-1015
Open Access

Wei Cheng, Felix Rechberger, Gabriele Ilari, Huan Ma, Wan-Ing Lin and Markus Niederberger
Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 6908-6915
Open Access

Zhaorui Zhang, Zhenni Wang, Shengnan He, Chaoqi Wang, Mingshang Jin and Yadong Yin
Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 5197-5203
Open Access

Xianjun Lang, Wei Hao, Wan Ru Leow, Shuzhou Li, Jincai Zhao and Xiaodong Chen
Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 5000-5005
Open Access

Xiangrui Yang, Shichao Wu, Yang Li, Yu Huang, Jinyan Lin, Di Chang, Shefang Ye, Liya Xie, Yuan Jiang and Zhenqing Hou
Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 1650-1654
Open Access

Xianjun Lang, Wan Ru Leow, Jincai Zhao and Xiaodong Chen
Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 1075-1082
Open Access

We hope you can join us for Challenges in Nanoscience (ISACS21). Xun Wang and the rest of the Scientific Committee look forward to welcoming you and your colleagues to Beijing.

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ISACS19: Challenges in Organic Chemistry – deadline extended

We are excited to announce that the deadline for oral abstract submission for Challenges in Organic Chemistry (ISACS19) has been extended to 22 November.

Join Chemical Science Associate Editor Vy Dong and an excellent line-up of invited speakers at University of California, Irvine, USA from 20–23 March to discuss challenges in organic chemistry, from catalysis, proteins, sugars and total synthesis to theory and mechanisms.

Confirmed speakers include:

  • Ashraf Brik, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
  • Seth Herzon, Yale University, United States
  • Kami Hull, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States
  • James Nowick, University of California, Irvine, United States
  • RB Sunoj, IIT, Mumbai, India
  • Jin-Quan Yu, Scripps University, United States
  • Darren Dixon, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Ning Jiao, Peking University, China
  • Nicola Pohl, Indiana University, United States
  • Peter Seeberger, Max-Planck Institute, Germany
  • Kyoko Nozaki, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Michelle Chang, University of California, Berkeley, United States
  • Yamuna Krishnan, University of Chicago, United States

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Submit your oral abstract by 22 November and get involved

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Check out these recent reviews and original research articles on related topics in Chemical Science. As of 2015 Chemical Science is fully Gold Open Access so all articles published since then are free to read:

Macrocycles: lessons from the distant past, recent developments, and future directions
Andrei K. Yudin
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 30-49
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC03089C, Perspective
Open Access

A catalytic asymmetric total synthesis of (−)-perophoramidine
B. M. Trost, M. Osipov, S. Krüger and Y. Zhang
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 349-353
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC01826E, Edge Article
Open Access

NHC-catalysed benzoin condensation – is it all down to the Breslow intermediate?
Julia Rehbein, Stephanie-M. Ruser and Jenny Phan
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 6013-6018
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC02186C, Edge Article
Open Access

Stereocontrolled 1,2-cis glycosylation as the driving force of progress in synthetic carbohydrate chemistry
Swati S. Nigudkar and Alexei V. Demchenko
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 2687-2704
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC00280J, Perspective
Open Access

Organocatalytic asymmetric chlorinative dearomatization of naphthols
Qin Yin, Shou-Guo Wang, Xiao-Wei Liang, De-Wei Gao, Jun Zheng and Shu-Li You
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 4179-4183
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC00494B, Edge Article
From themed collection Celebrating the 2015 RSC Prize and Award Winners
Open Access

Azidophenyl as a click-transformable redox label of DNA suitable for electrochemical detection of DNA–protein interactions
Jana Balintová, Jan Špaček, Radek Pohl, Marie Brázdová, Luděk Havran, Miroslav Fojta and Michal Hocek
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 575-587
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC01906G, Edge Article
Open Access

Mechanistic investigation of aziridine aldehyde-driven peptide macrocyclization: the imidoanhydride pathway
Serge Zaretsky, Jennifer L. Hickey, Joanne Tan, Dmitry Pichugin, Megan A. St. Denis, Spencer Ler, Benjamin K. W. Chung, Conor C. G. Scully and Andrei K. Yudin
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 5446-5455
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC01958C
Open Access

Mechanisms and energetics of free radical initiated disulfide bond cleavage in model peptides and insulin by mass spectrometry
Chang Ho Sohn, Jinshan Gao, Daniel A. Thomas, Tae-Young Kim, William A. Goddard III and J. L. Beauchamp
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 4550-4560
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC01305D
Open Access

The effect of host structure on the selectivity and mechanism of supramolecular catalysis of Prins cyclizations
William M. Hart-Cooper, Chen Zhao, Rebecca M. Triano, Parastou Yaghoubi, Haxel Lionel Ozores, Kristen N. Burford, F. Dean Toste, Robert G. Bergman and Kenneth N. Raymond
Chem. Sci., 2015,6, 1383-1393
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC02735C, Edge Article
Open Access


We hope you can join us for Challenges in Organic Chemistry (ISACS19). Vy Dong and the rest of the Scientific Committee look forward to welcoming you and your colleagues to California.

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A sensor array with a nose for explosives

A portable optoelectronic device for accurately detecting a wide array of explosives has been reported in a recently published Chemical Science article.

Kenneth Suslick and co-workers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, have combined responsive dyes to differentiate between explosive compound groups with sensitivity up to ten times that of currently used methods.

This detection kit was able to distinguish:

  • common explosives
  • compounds related to home-made explosives
  • compounds found in improvised explosive devices
  • signature non-explosive compounds found in military-grade explosives

Integration of the colorimetric array with a hand-held reader based on business card scanners means there is no need for specialist expertise by the user. Its fast scan rates, portability and lack of moving parts could find use in accompanying existing security technology.


Read the original article in Chemical Science – it’s open access:

An optoelectronic nose for identification of explosives
Jon R. Askim, Zheng Li, Maria K. LaGasse, Jaqueline M. Rankin and Kenneth S. Suslick
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC02632F, Edge Article
Open Access

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