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Journal of Materials Chemistry C is planning to produce a themed issue on Flexible Electronics in 2014.  Please e-mail the Editorial Office at materialsC-rsc@rsc.org if you are interested in contributing an article. The Guest Editors for this issue are Guozhen Shen (Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Chongwu Zhou (University of Southern California, USA), Yoshio Bando (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan) and Lei Liao (Wuhan University, China).

This themed issue will cover all the aspects of the recent exciting progress in flexible electronics, including the synthesis, characterisation, and nanostructure of functional materials for flexible electronics applications including flexible displays, electronic textiles, sensory skins and active antennas. Our aim is to highlight the remarkable contributions made by the leading scientists in this important research area and the broad impact of flexible electronics.

PLEASE NOTE THAT INVITATIONS TO THIS ISSUE HAVE NOW CLOSED

Manuscripts can be submitted using the RSC’s online article submission service. Please clearly state that the manuscript is submitted in response to the call for papers for the themed issue on Flexible Electronics.

We’re delighted to announce that the Rising Stars and Young Nanoarchitects in Materials Science web collection has now been published!

Guest Edited by Katsuhiko Ariga (MANA National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan) and Martin Pumera (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), the collection highlights the activities of rising stars in nanomaterials chemistry. All the articles in the collection have been made free to access for a short time. The collection can be found here.

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Porous carbon materials are at the heart of many energy-related and environmental applications.  This themed issue in Journal of Materials Chemistry A covers all aspects of the recent exciting progress in the field, including the synthesis, functionalization, nanostructure, characterization, and application of porous carbons.

Guest editors An-Hui Lu and Sheng Dai introduce the issue in their editorial. The full issue can be found here.

Below is a sample of the Papers, Communications, Highlights and Feature Articles that can be found in the porous carbon materials themed issue:

Feature Articles

Functionalization of porous carbons for catalytic applications
José Luís Figueiredo

Advanced porous carbon electrodes for electrochemical capacitors
Li Li Zhang, Yi Gu and X. S. Zhao

Highlights

Dynamic electrosorption analysis: a viable liquid-phase characterization method for porous carbon?
Chi Cheng, Junwu Zhu, Xiaowei Yang, Ling Qiu, Yufei Wang and Dan Li  

Communications

Salt and sugar: direct synthesis of high surface area carbon materials at low temperatures via hydrothermal carbonization of glucose under hypersaline conditions
Nina Fechler, Stephanie-Angelika Wohlgemuth, Philipp Jäker and Markus Antonietti  

Papers

Synthesis of hierarchical porous carbons for supercapacitors from coal tar pitch with nano-Fe2O3 as template and activation agent coupled with KOH activation
Xiaojun He, Nan Zhao, Jieshan Qiu, Nan Xiao, Moxin Yu, Chang Yu, Xiaoyong Zhang and Mingdong Zheng

Preparation of a freestanding, macroporous reduced graphene oxide film as an efficient and recyclable sorbent for oils and organic solvents
Seung Jae Yang, Jong Hun Kang, Haesol Jung, Taehoon Kim and Chong Rae Park  
 

Magnetic hollow carbon nanospheres for removal of chromium ions
Lu-Hua Zhang, Qiang Sun, Dong-Hai Liu and An-Hui Lu

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The Journal of Materials Chemistry B themed issue on Carbon Bioelectronics has now been published online.
This themed issue highlights the unique advantages carbon-based electronic materials bring to the field of bioelectronics. Guest editors Mohammad Reza Abidian, Andrew T. S. Wee and George G. Malliaras introduce the issue in their editorial. The full issue can be found here.

Below is a sample of the Papers, Communications, Applications and Feature Articles that can be found in the Carbon Bioelectronics themed issue:

Feature Articles:
Hydrogen-bonds in molecular solids- from biological systems to organic electronics
Eric Daniel Głowacki, Mihai Irimia-Vladu, Siegfried Bauer and Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci

Applications:
Water-gated organic field effect transistors – opportunities for biochemical sensing and extracellular signal transduction
T. Cramer, A. Campana, F. Leonardi, S. Casalini, A. Kyndiah, M. Murgia and F. Biscarini 

Communications:
Self-deployable current sources fabricated from edible materials
Young Jo Kim, Sang-Eun Chun, Jay Whitacre and Christopher J. Bettinger

Papers:
Thin film hydrophilic electroactive polymer coatings for bioelectrodes
Sungchul Baek, Rylie Green, Anthony Granville, Penny Martens and Laura Poole-Warren 

PEDOT:gelatin composites mediate brain endothelial cell adhesion
Manuelle Bongo, Orawan Winther-Jensen, Scott Himmelberger, Xenofon Strakosas, Marc Ramuz, Adel Hama, Eleni Stavrinidou, George G. Malliaras, Alberto Salleo, Bjorn Winther-Jensen and Roisin M. Owens

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Journal of Materials Chemistry C is planning to produce a themed issue on Nanotechnology of Multifunctional Materials in 2013. Please e-mail the editorial office at materialsC-rsc@rsc.org, if you are interested in contributing an article.

The Guest Editors of the issue will be Professor Fabio Biscarini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) and Dr Massimiliano Cavallini (Institute of Nanostructured Materials, CNR Bologna, Italy).

Molecular and polymeric multifunctional materials are relevant to many fields of technology, from optoelectronics, spintronics, information storage, magnetism, biosensing and energy production. They are designed to combine multiple properties and functional groups to control their self-organisation into a variety of supramolecular architectures. The technological control should not be limited to either the molecular level or in bulk, instead should span the different length scales. Devices require the control of size and position, and the integration of different materials.

The deadline for the receipt of manuscripts for this themed issue is 1 July 2013

Manuscripts can be submitted using the RSC’s online submissions service. Please clearly mark that the manuscript is submitted for the themed issue on ‘Nanotechnology of Multifunctional Materials’.

Please would you inform the editorial office by e-mail at materialsC-rsc@rsc.org as soon as possible if you plan to submit to the issue and whether your contribution will be original research or a review-type article. We would like to have a list of authors who intend to contribute as soon as possible.

Journal of Materials Chemistry B is planning to produce a themed issue on Nanoparticles in Biology in 2013. Please e-mail the editorial office at materialsB-rsc@rsc.org, if you are interested in contributing an article.

The Guest Editors of the issue will be Professors Dan Luo (Dalian Cornell University, USA) Nathan Gianneschi (University of California, San Diego, USA) and Dan Peer (Tel Aviv University, Israel).

Advances in nanoscale science and bio-nanoengineering are revolutionizing our understanding and ability to manipulate complex biological processes as well as the way health care is administered. These approaches and innovations, collectively termed as nanomedicine, are on the verge of improving disease prevention, detection, treatment and management. It is perceivable that future developments in biopharmaceuticals will increasingly become driven by advances in enabling technologies such as genomics, proteomics, pharmacogenomics, and toxicogenomics and combine it with nano-scaled based technologies to enhance diagnosis and therapeutics of various diseases. This themed issue of Journal of Materials Chemistry B will focus on original papers detailing novel generation, characterization, applications and toxicity of different types of nanocarriers for various biomedical applications.

The deadline for the receipt of manuscripts for this themed issue is 15 April 2013.

Manuscripts can be submitted using the RSC’s online submissions service. Please clearly mark that the manuscript is submitted for the themed issue on ‘Nanoparticles in Biology’.

Please would you inform the editorial office by e-mail at materialsB-rsc@rsc.org as soon as possible if you plan to submit to the issue and whether your contribution will be original research or a review-type article. We would like to have a list of authors who intend to contribute as soon as possible.

The Journal of Materials Chemistry themed collection on the ‘Australia-India Joint Symposium on Smart Nanomaterials’ has been published. The papers in this themed collection are based on contributions from this symposium which was a forum for discussion about all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Find the full collection description by Professor C.N.R. Rao (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India) and the rest of the collection here.

The themed collection contains the following Application article:

Methane storage in metal organic frameworks

Kristina Konstas, Theresa Osl, Yunxia Yang, Michael Batten, Nick Burke, Anita J. Hill and Matthew R. Hill

J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 16698-16708

And the front cover paper of Journal of Materials Chemistry Volume 22, Number 40:

Mercury vapor sensor enhancement by nanostructured gold deposited on nickel surfaces using galvanic replacement reactions

Ylias M. Sabri, Samuel J. Ippolito, Armand J. Atanacio, Vipul Bansal and Suresh K. Bhargava

J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 21395-21404

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The 2012 Journal of Materials Chemistry part-themed issue on ‘Materials for Biosurfaces’ has now been published online. View the full issue here.

Guest Editors for the themed issue were Professor Christ Ober, Ms. M. Elizabeth Welch and Dr Christian Ohm and their Editorial can be found here. A number of reviews were also published:

Utilizing click chemistry to design functional interfaces through post-polymerization modification
Rachelle M. Arnold, N. Eric Huddleston and Jason Locklin
Biomimetic 3D self-assembling biomicroconstructs by spontaneous deformation of thin polymer films
Leonid Ionov
Cell and cell sheet recovery from pNIPAm coatings; motivation and history to present day approaches
Maria E. Nash, Deirdre Healy, William M. Carroll, Carlos Elvira and Yury A. Rochev
Switchable adhesion by chemical functionality and topography
Marleen Kamperman and Alla Synytska

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Recent Appointees in Polymer Science is an organization of, and for, people in the early stages of their independent career. They aim to provide a forum for recent appointees in all sectors of UK polymer science in academia as well as in industry. They are also open to interaction with recent appointees outside of the UK and would be delighted to interact with similar organizations abroad.

This RAPS Web Theme highlights work from members published in RSC journals and new articles will be added as they appear. To see the papers, click here.

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The 2012 Journal of Materials Chemistry themed issue on ‘Integrating functionality into metal-organic frameworks’ has now been published on-line. View the full issue here.

Guest Editors for the themed issue were Professors Stephen Kaskel and Roland Fischer, and their Editorial can be found here.  A number of reviews were also published:

• Metal–organic framework-based devices: separation and sensors
  Bo Liu
• Metal–organic frameworks as scaffolds for the encapsulation of active species: state of the art and future perspectives
  Jana Juan-Alcañiz ,  Jorge Gascon and Freek Kapteijn
• Synthetic routes toward MOF nanomorphologies
  Erik A. Flügel,  Annekathrin Ranft,  Frederik Haase and Bettina V. Lotsch
• Nanosponges for hydrogen storage
  Maurice Schlichtenmayer and Michael Hirscher