Open call for papers – Materials Chemistry of Fluorescence Bioimaging

Submit your work before 15 August 2024

Journal of Materials Chemistry B is pleased to announce an open call for papers to a themed collection on ‘Materials Chemistry of Fluorescence Bioimaging‘.

This collection is guest edited by Dr Sijie Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Karolinska Institutet), Prof. Tony D. James (University of Bath), Dr Apurba L. Koner (IISER Bhopal) and Prof. Ben Zhong Tang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen).

Fluorescence imaging is a predominant method employed in biological and biomedical research. This powerful technique utilises fluorescent probes that emit light upon excitation, enabling non-invasive and real-time observation of specific targets within the living system. It assists researchers in localizing specific proteins in tissue, visualizing subcellular structures, studying cell organization, monitoring the bio-microenvironment, and even conducting image-guided surgery. From fundamental biological studies to biomedical applications, fluorescence bioimaging continues to facilitate a more comprehensive understanding of the complex biological world and provide us with powerful tools for diagnosis or treatment.

In this context, it is pertinent to compile this themed issue focusing on recent materials developments in the field of fluorescence bioimaging. To this end, this themed collection of Journal of Materials Chemistry B aims to provide a platform for recent developments in this rapidly evolving field of fluorescence bioimaging with topics including, but not limited to, fluorescence bioimaging with novel probes, design or synthetic strategies of fluorescent probes, theoretical understanding of fluorescent probe properties and working mechanisms, and new insights into the materials chemistry of fluorescence bioimaging. We hope that readers find this themed collection informative and useful.

Submissions deadline on 15 August 2024

How to submit

Submissions to the journal should fit within the scope of Journal of Materials Chemistry B – Please see the journal’s website for more information on the journal’s scope, standards, article types and author guidelines. 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.

For this collection, we strongly encourage primary research in the way of Full Papers or Communications. If you are wanting to submit a review-type article, please check with the Editorial Office first for pre-approval and to avoid topic overlap.

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 Materials Chemistry of Fluorescence Bioimaging 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.

Your institute may have a Read & Publish agreement in place with the Royal Society of Chemistry. This means that you may be able to publish gold open access for free in all the hybrid journals we publish – maximising the visibility and impact of your article to the broadest possible audience. Your institution’s agreement may already include the article processing charge for publishing as a corresponding author. Check here to find out more and to see if your institution has an R&P deal in place.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

We are delighted to announce an open call for papers to our new themed collection on Mechanical-induced catalysis and catalysts advances, to be published in Materials Advances.

Mechanical-induced catalysis is gaining increasing attention with its potential to broaden the scope of new catalyst materials, leading to its increasingly widespread use for materials development and applications. This themed collection broadly focuses on mechanical induced catalysis and catalysts advances including (but not limited to):

• Development of nanomaterials with tailored properties (e.g., shape, size, composition) for enhanced mechanical-induced catalytic performance
• Piezo- and tribo-electric nanogenerators for catalysis
• Design and characterisation of single-atom catalysts
• Mechanistic studies of mechanical-induced catalysis (e.g., in situ, computational modelling)
• Novel and/or sustainable approaches for mechanochemical catalyst development
• Scalability of synthesis using mechanochemical techniques

Submit before 1st June 2024

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

Materials Advances publishes quality research across the breadth of materials science. It received its first full impact factor of 5.0 (Journal Citation Reports 2022, Clarivate Analytics).

Please note that accepted manuscripts will be subject to an article-processing charge (APC) unless your institute has an existing agreement with the RSC that covers publications in our gold open access journals. More information about charges, discounts, and waivers are available here. Corresponding authors who are not already members of the Royal Society of Chemistry are entitled to one year’s Affiliate membership as part of their APC. Find out more about our member benefits.

This themed collection is Guest Edited by:

Wei Tang Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wei Tang received his B.S. degree from the Physical Department and Ph.D. degree from the Microelectronic Department from Peking University in 2008 and 2013. He is a professor at the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academic of Sciences. His research interests include interface electron transfer and its applications in wearable electronics, contact-electro-catalysis, and energy harvesting devices.

Christian_Falconi University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Christian Falconi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. He received his M.Sc. (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from the University of Rome Tor Vergata in, respectively, 1998 and 2001. He has contributed as corresponding/co-corresponding author papers on leading journals in nanosystems (NanoEnergy), electronics (IEEE TCAS II), sensors (Sensors and Actuators A / B) and interdisciplinary journals (Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces…). Since 2013 he is Adjunct Professor at the Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU, South Korea). Since 2017 he is Adjunct Professor at the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems – Chinese Academy of Sciences (BINN – CAS, China). He has visited top international Universities worldwide, including the University of Linkoping (1 month), TU Delft (7 months), Georgia Tech (14 months), SKKU (1 month) and BINN – CAS (7 weeks). His research interests include analog electronics, electronic interfaces, sensors, nanogenerators, micro-nano-systems, electronic devices and biomedical engineering.

Ziming Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Ziming Wang is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academic of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. degree in condensed matter physics from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), under the supervision of Prof. Zhong Lin Wang. His research interests include contact-electro-catalysis, self-powered sensors, and energy harvesting.

Sailin Liu University of Adelaide, Australia Dr Sailin Liu is committed to developing high-energy-density batteries with high safety and long cycling lives. During her Ph.D. study, she was specializing in frontier technologies of developing non-flammable electrolytes and stable electrode/electrolyte interface. Her current research interest is non-flammable organic electrolytes, electrolyte/electrode interface, aqueous rechargeable battery technology.

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!

Journal of Materials Chemistry A is pleased to announce an open call for papers, for the upcoming themed collection:

‘Frontiers in electrocatalysis for clean energy’

Guest Edited by:

Huang Yizhong, (NTU, Singapore),

Anders Hagfeldt, (Uppsala University, Sweden),

Kelsey Stoerzinger, (University of Minnesota, USA),

Lead Guest Editor: Ahsan Ul Haq Qurashi, (Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi),

In this themed collection, the major focus will be on materials interplay in the electrochemical microenvironment, long term stability of earth abundant electrocatalysts, frontiers in theoretical understanding of nano-interfaces, role of Operando techniques, Benchmarking C₂ products from CO₂ reduction and outperforming electrocatalytic materials for other electrochemical reactions.

• Electrocatalysts in confined atmosphere (materials interplay and micro-environment),
• Long-term stability of earth-abundant electrocatalysts, Single, Dual (Dimers) and Tri (trimers) atom electrocatalysts and their theoretical investigations.
• Anti-corrosive performance of electrocatalysts, Operando investigations of next generation electrocatalysts, critical role of novel conducting support for electrocatalysts, electrocatalyst structural transformation and influence of micro-environment.
• Long-term electrocatalyst performance in PV integrated reactions.
• Benchmarking electrocatalyst for C₂ products in carbon dioxide conversion.
• Outperforming electrocatalyst for nitrogen & nitrate reduction, hydrogen and hydrogen peroxide production and their overall efficiency.

 Submission deadline extended to 26 April 2024!

Ready to submit your manuscript? Visit our online submissions platform: manuscriptcentral.com/jmchema. Please don’t forget to add that, this submission will be for the themed collection for electrocatalysts, so that we may correctly allocate your paper.

All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer review process, including an initial Editorial assessment as to suitability for the journal before potential peer review.

We are delighted to invite papers for a new themed collection on Advances in nanoporous metal films: production methods and applications, to be published in Materials Advances, a gold open access journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Guest Editors: Prof. Eva Maria Pellicer, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & Prof. Maria Eugenia Toimil-Molares, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH

We are delighted to announce a new themed collection on Advances in nanoporous metal films: production methods and applications, to be published in Materials Advances, a gold open access journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

We welcome submissions that focus on the latest advances in nanoporous metal and semiconductor films including but not limited to:
• synthesis methods (electrodeposition, chemical and electrochemical dealloying, use of sacrificial templates, etc.)
• their characterization, and
• applications in diverse fields, e.g.(electro)catalysis, photocatalysis, spectroscopy, sensing, and drug delivery.

Submit before 31st March 2024!

All submitted papers will go through the standard peer review process of Materials Advances and should meet the journal’s standard requirements as well as fit into the general scope of materials science.

Manuscripts can be submitted here https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ma

Please add a “note to the editor” in the submission form when you submit your manuscript to say that this is a submission for this themed collection. The Editorial Office and Guest Editors reserve the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed. Accepted manuscripts will be added to the collection as soon as they are online, and they will be published in a regular issue of Materials Advances.