Bioceramics 33 RSC Poster Prize winners

Bioceramics 33

RSC Poster Prize Winners

Sponsored by Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Biomaterials Science.

Congratulations to our RSC poster prize winners from the Bioceramics 33 conference in Switzerland!

 

 

Winner of the RSC Journal of Materials Chemistry B poster prize:

 

Selase Torkornoo

Poster Title: “Optimizing Parameters for Atom Probe Tomography Analysis of β-Tricalcium Phosphates.”

 

Selase Torkornoo is a PhD candidate at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung & RWTH University, advised by Prof. Baptiste Gault, a professor of atomic scale characterization at Imperial College London. She received her B.S. (2015) in Engineering Science with Nanomedicine concentration from University of Virginia in the USA, and M.S. (2018) in materials science & engineering from University of Leeds in the UK. Prior to her PhD, she worked in industry at multiple semiconductor and display equipment companies, developing surface treatments and thin film coatings. Currently, her PhD research focuses on studying the effect of microstructure and chemical impurities on physio-chemical properties of bioactive materials as part of a collaboration with Dr. Marc Bohner from the RMS Foundation. She is undertaking nanoscale analysis using atom probe tomography (APT), a burgeoning nanoscale composition mapping technique.

 

Winner of the RSC Biomaterials Science poster prize:
 

Johannes Konrad

Poster Title: “Modification of mineral bone substitutes with bisphosphonates.“

 

Johannes Konrad is currently a PhD student at the Department for Functional Materials in Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Würzburg, supervised by Prof. Dr. Uwe Gbureck. He completed both his bachelor’s and master’s degree in Functional Materials at the University of Würzburg. At that time, focusing on the long-term deformation behavior of technical plastics. During his PhD, he has primarily researched the interaction mechanisms of pharmaceutical agents with mineral bone cements for their application as pharmacologically active bone substitutes.

We are delighted to celebrate the successes of early careers researchers and would like to also congratulate all the participants for the Bioceramics 33 poster sessions. It is amazing to see so many diverse and enthusiastic early career researchers all gathered in one place, sharing their passion and desire to play their part in making the world a better place.

We look forward to reading all your future research in materials (bio)chemistry.

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Cryogenic Characterisation of Calcium Phosphate Cement/Hydrolgel Biomaterials

Probing the microporosity and 3D spatial distribution of calcium phosphate cement/hydrogel biomaterials using FIB/SEM at cryogenic temperatures

Mouad Essani, Baptiste Charbonnier, Nicolas Stephant, Hilel Moussi, Pierre Weiss, Jean Le Bideau and Patricia Abellan

Mater. Adv., 2023,4, 2474-2486 DOI: D2MA00966H

 

 

Meet the authors

 

Mouad Essani received his Ph.D. in physics and analytical chemistry from Sorbonne University in Paris in 2020, where he worked on the characterization of uranium microparticles in the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission. His thesis work was mainly focused on the combined use of electron microscopy, X-ray spectroscopy and Monte-Carlo simulation to investigate both the microstructure and elementary composition of powder used in nuclear fuels. In 2021, he was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of materials Jean Rouxel in Nantes under the supervision of Dr. Patricia Abellan. During his postdoc, he investigated the behaviour of synthetic bone substitutes using cryo-electron microscopy. He is currently a research engineer in the University of Paris-Est-Creteil where he applies electron microscopy to study atmospheric particles, aerosols and their impact on the environment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Patricia Abellan joined the Institute of Materials of Nantes (IMN at Nantes University) with a Junior Talent chair of excellence in 2019 and got tenured as a CNRS research scientist in 2020. She received her BSc in Physics from the Aalborg University (Denmark) and her Ph.D. in Materials Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Spain, in 2011. She has held postdoctoral positions at the University of California – Davis and at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA, before taking a staff research scientist position at the SuperSTEM Laboratory (Daresbury, UK) in 2015. Her research focuses on the study of solid-liquid interfaces on hybrid and biomaterials using electron microscopy as well as on the elucidation of the radiation chemistry and radiation physics driving the processes at liquid-solid interfaces induced by the electron beam in an electron microscope.

 

 

 

 

 

 

An interview with the authors

What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment and what do you find most challenging about your research?

I believe that I am particularly excited about the application of electron microscopy and spectroscopy tools to investigate atmospheric particles. I find topics related to this field both very challenging and interesting. Studying the impact of such particles on the environment constitutes an important aspect for our ecosystem.

 

How do you feel about Materials Advances as a place to publish research on this topic?

I believe that environment friendly processes request the development of materials that have lower impact on the environment. These materials should be investigated in terms of their chemistry, microstructure, etc. I think that research in that field fits perfectly within the scope of Materials Advances.

 

Can you share one piece of career-related advice or wisdom with other, early career scientists?

I consider myself as an early career scientist so I don’t think I can provide much wisdom. The only advice I can give is to never abandon ideas (in research of in life in general) that we believe in.

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2023 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship winner: Jovana Milić

Congratulations to Dr Jovana Milić, University of Fribourg, Switzerland for being selected as the recipient of the 2023 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship

The Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship is an annual award, established in 2010, which honours early-career scientists who have made a significant contribution to the fields of materials chemistry. This year we received numerous high-quality nominations from across the world. With help from our Advisory and Editorial Boards, each nomination was assessed and considered for the award. Dr Jovana Milić was selected for the 2023 Lectureship based on her impressive publication record, her establishment as an early-career researcher and her strong engagement in a variety of outreach opportunities to support the chemistry community.

“I am honoured by this recognition and stimulated to further contribute to the materials chemistry community!”

Dr. Jovana V. Milić is Assistant Professor and Smart Energy Materials Group Leader at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland since January 2021. She obtained her Ph.D. in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences of ETH Zurich in 2017. She then worked as a postdoctoral scientist in the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at EPFL until taking on a Group Leader position at the Adolphe Merkle Institute in September 2020 as the Swiss National Science Foundation PRIMA Fellow. Her research is centered around developing (supra)molecular materials for energy conversion, with a particular focus on hybrid photovoltaics. This involves a multidisciplinary approach at the interface of chemistry, material science, and engineering. Her research activities have been recognized by numerous honors and awards, including the CAS Future Leader 2019, Green Talents Award in 2020, and Zeno Karl Schindler Prize in 2021 for research contributions to sustainable development. She has also been awarded ERC Starting Grant in 2023 for the development of smart and sustainable hybrid materials for opto(electro)ionics. In addition to research and international collaborations, she has been invested in science outreach, policy, and diplomacy as a member of the Global Young Academy, Swiss Young Academy, the European Young Chemists’ Network, and International Younger Chemists Network, connecting and supporting young scientists globally.

You can keep up to date with Jovana’s research:

Website: jovanamilic.com

LinkedIn:  linkedin.com/in/jovanavmilic

Twitter/X: @jovana_v_milic

Discover Jovana’s RSC publications in this web collection to find out more about her research

Check out our interview with Jovana below:

How did you feel when you were announced as the winner of the 2023 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship?

I was surprised and honoured by the nomination and selection for the 2023 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship, which further strengthens my motivation to contribute to the community of materials chemistry.

Which of your JMC publications are you most proud of and why?

I am proud of my recent J. Mat. Chem. C 2021 (doi.org/10.1039/D1TC01533H) and our Nanoscale 2022 (doi.org/10.1039/D1NR08311B) publications, as well as Photochemistry 2022 book chapter (doi.org/10.1039/9781839167676-00346), highlighting our research and educational efforts to rely on supramolecular engineering in advancing hybrid materials toward multifunctional materials for energy conversion and smart nanotechnologies. In addition, I am proud of our J. Mat. Chem. A 2021 contribution (doi.org/10.1039/D1TA90183D) with my colleagues at the European Young Chemists’ Network (EYCN), supporting the community of young chemists. I am also grateful for these articles to be highlighted in the Emerging Investigators Issues of the journals.

At which upcoming conferences may our community meet you?

The community can meet me at several upcoming conferences in hybrid and organic electronics, photovoltaics, and supramolecular chemistry, including the Global Conference for Decarbonization of Energy and Materials (GCDM), Asia-Pacific International Conference on Perovskite and Organic Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics (IPEROP), Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS), International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Electronic Materials (ICSM), and International Conference on Noncovalent Interactions (ICNI-III), as well as International Conference in Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV), which I will be chairing next year, among others.

Please join us in congratulating Jovana!

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2023 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship runners-up: Kwabena Bediako and Laure Biniek

Congratulations to our 2023 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship runners-up, Dr Kwabena Bediako and Dr Laure Biniek

This year, Dr Jovana Milić from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland was selected as the recipient of the 2023 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship. While we can only award one winner, we wanted to recognise two runners-up for their impressive contributions to materials chemistry and as emerging leaders in the field.

Congratulations to Dr Kwabena Bediako (University of California, Berkeley, USA) and Dr Laure Biniek (Institut Charles Sadron, CNRS- Strasbourg, France) for being selected as the runners-up of the 2023 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship.

 

 Kwabena Bediako was born in Ghana, West Africa. He moved to the US in 2004 for his undergraduate studies in Chemistry at Calvin College, MI, graduating with honours in 2008. After a year working at UOP Honeywell in IL where he researched new catalysts for the petrochemical and gas processing industries, he travelled from the Midwest to the East Coast to begin his graduate studies in Inorganic Chemistry with Prof. Daniel Nocera at MIT (and later Harvard University). His graduate research focused on structural and mechanistic studies of water splitting electrocatalysis at cobalt and nickel compounds. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2015 from Harvard University, Kwabena began postdoctoral work in Prof. Philip Kim’s group in the Department of Physics at Harvard, where he studied ion intercalation and quantum transport in 2D van der Waals heterostructures. In July 2018, Kwabena joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley Department of Chemistry.

Laure Biniek is a CNRS researcher at the Institut Charles Sadron (ICS, France). She studied chemistry and then polymer science at the University of Lyon. She earned her Ph.D in the chemistry of low band gap polymers from the University of Strasbourg in 2010. Her postdoctoral training, completed at Imperial College London in Iain McCulloch’s group, focused on the synthesis and characterization of semi-conducting polymers for organic photovoltaics and field effect transistors. After gaining experience in structural analysis under the guidance of Martin Brinkmann at the Institut Charles Sadron (as a second postdoc), she contributed to the development of the high-temperature rubbing technique for the alignment of conjugated polymers. Currently, she is focused on researching structure-property correlations and is actively involved in developing bulk porous conducting polymers for thermoelectric applications. Since 2020, she also leads the discussions on societal responsibilities and sustainable development at ICS. Her role is to evaluate the Institute’s environmental impact and to facilitate the implementation of trajectories aimed at reducing green-house gas emission.

 

Discover some of Kwabena and Laure’s RSC publications in this Lectureship runners- up web collection

Check out our interview with Kwabena and Laure below:

How did you feel when you were announced as a runner-up of the 2023 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship?

KB: I was delighted to have been nominated, and so when I received news that I was one of the runners up, I was very honoured. It is a great honour to be counted among those who have received this commendation in the past.

LB: I had to read the announcement email several times, it was a wonderful surprise. There are many excellent young scientists who deserve to be recognized for their contribution to the field of materials science. It was a real honour to have been nominated, and even more to be selected among them.

Which of your Journal of Materials Chemistry publications are you most proud of and why?

LB: If I had to pick just one, it would be the most recent (Q. Weinbach et al., JMCC 2023). It was an exciting and challenging project to implement structural control of conjugated polymer on a few cm scale. Experimenting with ice crystallization (to create patterns on the material, but also to visualize its structure by cryo-electron microscopy) was really enjoyable. It was also a great human experience to guide super dynamic young scientists and work together with material characterization specialists.

 At which upcoming conferences may our community meet you?

KB: I will be attending the Fall Materials Research Society meeting in Boston in November 2023.

LB: I will be happy to meet you at E-MRS (Strasbourg May 2024), ICSM (Dresden, June 2024) or ECT/ICT (Krakow, July 2024).

What do you like to do in your free time?

KB: I enjoy watching soccer and playing with my kids.

LB: I am quite active, even in my spare time. It’s a balanced combination of recharging my batteries in nature (hiking, climbing, sightseeing,…) and working for a more inclusive, cooperative and sustainable society (within various non-profit organizations).

Do you have any advice for Early-Career researchers who wish to be nominated for the 2024 JMC Lectureship award?

KB: Don’t be shy about asking someone to nominate you (and this applies more generally to any awards/honours for which you are eligible). 

LB: Publishing your best works in JMC and communicating your research to your scientific community are certainly important. Do not forget to highlight your communication to the general public and your service to the community. Good luck with the 2024 award.

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Congratulations to our shortlisted candidates for the 2023 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship

Congratulations to our shortlisted candidates for the 2023 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship

The Journal of Materials Chemistry annual lectureship, established in 2010, honours early-career scientists who have made a significant contribution to the field of materials chemistry. We were delighted to have awarded Dr Jovana Milić (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) the 2023 Lectureship.

This year we received numerous high-quality nominations from across the world and we wanted to recognise our shortlisted candidates for their contributions to materials chemistry and as emerging leaders in their fields. We have listed the names of the shortlisted candidates below and have put together a collection featuring some of their recent work published in Royal Society of Chemistry journals.

Read the shortlisted candidates web collection here.

Please note that we have only included candidates who have consented to recognition of their name in this way.

Runners-up

Prof. Kwabena Bediako (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Prof. Laure Biniek (Institut Charles Sadron- Strasbourg, France)

 

Shortlisted Candidates

Prof. Ana Jorge Sobrido (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

Prof. Ariel L. Furst (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Dr Can Avci (ICMAB-CSIC, Spain)

Prof. Christina Li (Purdue University, USA)

Prof. Dongliang Chao (Fudan University, China)

Prof. Daniel Tordera (University of Valencia, Spain)

Prof. Daniel Tabor (Texas A&M University, USA)

Prof. Eleni Stavrinidou (Linköping University, Sweden)

Dr Gemma-Louise Davies (University of Birmingham, UK)

Prof. Guo-Hong Ning (Jinan University, China)

Dr Haegyum Kim (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)

Prof. Huanyu (Larry) Cheng (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Prof. Jianyu Li (McGill University, USA)

Dr Jingwei Hou (The University of Queensland, Australia)

Prof. Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Prof. Khoon Lim (University of Sydney, Australia)

Prof. Lukasz Marciniak (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

Prof. Lauren Nicole McHugh (University of Liverpool, UK)

Prof. Lisa Poulikakos (UC San Diego, USA)

Prof. Ludovic Favereau (Institute of Chemical Sciences of Rennes, France)

Dr Mayank Kumar Gupta (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India)

Dr Lea Nienhaus (Florida State University, USA)

Prof. Rebecca Greenaway (Imperial College London, UK)

Prof. Raphaële Clement (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)

Prof. Robert Macfarlane (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Prof. Robert Hoye (University of Oxford, UK)

Dr Ramendra Sundar Dey (Institute of Nano Science & Technology, India)

Prof. Xian-Kai Chen (Soochow University, China)

Prof. Xue Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

 

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2023 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship runners-up: Kwabena Bediako and Laure Biniek

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Open Call for Papers: Nanoengineered Biomaterials for Anticancer and Antimicrobial Drug Targeting

Open Call For Papers: Nanoengineered Biomaterials for Anticancer and Antimicrobial Drug Targeting

Guest edited by Kavindra K. Kesari, Sabya S. Das and Janne Ruokolainen.

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for our latest online themed collection in Materials Advances on Nanoengineered Biomaterials for Anticancer and Antimicrobial Drug Targeting that is being guest edited by Kavindra K. Kesari (Aalto University, Finland and Lovely Professional University, India), Sabya S. Das (University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, USA and DIT University, India) and Janne Ruokolainen (Aalto University, Finland).

Promotional slide for open call for papers for new themed collection, with photos of the three guest editors.

Nanoengineered biomaterials have been shown to possess enhanced physicochemical and biological properties, leading to their increasingly widespread use for diverse biomedical applications. This themed collection broadly focuses on nanoengineered biomaterials targeting cancer and microbial infections theranostics which includes:

  • Nano-phytotherapeutics
  • Biogenic nano-biomaterials
  • Cancer therapeutic approaches
  • Antimicrobial therapeutic approaches
  • Nano-biomaterials based sensors
  • Overcoming drug resistance
  • Redox biology mechanism
  • Photothermal and photodynamic therapy
  • Toxicological and drug-polymer stability studies
  • Clinical and preclinical aspects.

Open for submissions until 31 March 2024

If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, you can submit your article directly through the Materials Advances online submission system. Please mention that this submission is a contribution to the Nanoengineered Biomaterials for Anticancer and Antimicrobial Drug Targeting 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. All 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.

If you have any questions about the journal or the collection, then our team would be happy to answer them. You can contact us by emailing the journal inbox.

With best wishes,

Kavindra K. Kesari (Aalto University, Finland and Lovely Professional University, India)
Sabya S. Das (University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, USA and DIT University, India)
Janne Ruokolainen (Aalto University, Finland)

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Congratulations to the poster prize winners at ECME 2023

Materials Horizons, Journal of Materials Chemistry C and the Nanoscale journal family were pleased to sponsor poster prizes at the recent ECME 2023 conference held in Bari, Italy. Congratulations to the winners!

Find out more about our winners below:

Siyang Feng

For the poster entitled, ‘Donor–Acceptor–Donor Triads with Flexible Spacers: Deciphering Complex Photophysics for Targeted Materials Design’.

Since January 2021, Siyang Feng is a PhD student (funded by China Scholarship Council) in Prof. Johannes Gierschner’s group and is supervised by Prof. Johannes Gierschner at IMDEA Nanoscience Institute, Madrid, Spain. His research focuses on Photophysics of Innovative Organic Charge-Transfer Systems by Combining Optical Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemistry.

Tran Van Chinh

For the poster entitled, ‘Wood Electrochemical Transistor’

I am Van Chinh Tran, a last-year PhD student at the Lab of Organic Electronics at Linköping University, Sweden.

My PhD studies revolve around the development of organic electronics, including transistors, supercapacitors, and batteries, using forest-based materials.

Sasha Simotko

For the poster entitled, ‘Understanding the Effects of Processing Conditions on Non-Fullerene-Based Organic Photodiode Performances’

My name is Sasha( Alexandra)  Simotko, and I am a 26-year-old Ph.D. candidate at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. I was born in Minsk, Belarus, and moved to Israel when I was three. I studied in Rishon Le Zion and served two years as a dentist assistant during  my military service. After serving, I did my Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, followed by a Master’s degree in the Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP) under the supervision of prof. Gitti Frey, studying the effect of processing conditions on the evolution of the morphology of organic photodiodes. After one year of Master’s studies, I joined the direct track to Ph.D. studies in the Materials Science and Engineering department. My research these days focuses on investigating light and energy-efficient organic systems for light-sensing applications.

Congratulations to all these fantastic winners!

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Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C 10th Anniversary Community Spotlight: Editorial Board

This year we are pleased to celebrate 10 years since Journal of Materials Chemistry was split into three respective journals: Journal of Materials Chemistry AB and C, each focusing on a different aspect of materials chemistry. We are grateful to our fantastic community of authors, reviewers, Board members and readers and wanted to showcase just some of them in a series of ‘Community Spotlight’ blog articles.

Next in our ‘Community Spotlight’ series, we feature some more of our wonderful Editorial Board members who have supported Journal of Materials Chemistry AB or C over the years through guiding the growth and development of the journal and/or actively handling papers in their Associate Editor roles. Check out their interview responses below to find out what they like about being on the Editorial Board and how they think the field of materials chemistry will develop in the next 10 years.

Professor Dan Li

 

 

Dan Li is an Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Materials Advances. He is currently a Professor and the Dean of College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jinan University, and the Director of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications. He received his B. Sc. from Sun Yat-Sen University in 1984 and then worked at Shantou University. He pursued his Ph. D. at The University of Hong Kong with Professor Chi-Ming Che during 1988–1993. Then he returned to Shantou University and became Professor in 2001. He moved to Jinan University in Guangzhou in 2016. His research interest focuses the design and fabrication of supramolecular coordination assemblies and their functions based on photoluminescence, porosity, chirality and energy storage. He has authored and co-authored more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, J. Am. Chem. Soc, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. and J. Mater. Chem. A. He was a recipient of the National Science Found for Distinguished Young Scholars of China in 2008, Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2014, Ding Ying Science & Technology Award in 2019 and Guohua Outstanding Scholar of Jinan University in 2022.

Where do you see the materials chemistry field in the next 10 years?

I would like to see that more and more new materials with diverse functions are developed for a better life and friendly environment. Innovations from Chemistry, Materials Science, Engineering and Artificial Intelligence will help to speed-up materials design, to optimize reaction processes and to create a more sustainable world.

Could you provide a brief summary of your most recent Journal of Materials Chemistry A publication?

In our recent paper (J. Mater. Chem. A, 2023, 11, 12777–12783; DOI: 10.1039/d2ta08797a), we combine the chemistry of MOFs and COFs to successfully fabricate two Cu(I) cyclic trinuclear unit (Cu-CTU)-based covalent metal–organic frameworks (CMOFs) with similar two-dimensional structures. With a strategy of the steric modification of metal nodes, the resulting MOFs show differences in crystallinity, porosity, chemical stability and catalytic activity for hydroboration reactions. The development of advanced CTU-based CMOFs provides new opportunities for designing heterogeneous catalysts and paves a new way to rationally tune the catalytic performance of MOFs.

 

Professor Yusuke Yamauchi

 

 

Professor Yusuke Yamauchi received his Bachelor degree (2003), Master degree (2004), and Ph.D. (2007) from Waseda University (Japan). After receiving his Ph.D., he joined the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) (Japan) to start his own research group. In 2016, he joined the University of Wollongong as a Full Professor. In 2017, he moved to the University of Queensland (UQ). Presently, he is a senior group leader and an ARC Laureate Fellow at AIBN and a full professor at School of Chem. Eng. in UQ. Professor Yamauchi is an Associate Editor of J. Mater. Chem. A and Chem. Eng. J. (Elsevier). He has published ~950 papers with >77,000 citations (h-index of 140) in the field of inorganic materials chemistry and inorganic synthetic chemistry. He has been recognized as Highly Cited Researchers in Chemistry (2016-2022) and Materials Science (2020-2022).

Where do you see the materials chemistry field in the next 10 years?

The preparation of nanomaterials in the past decade has relied on trial-and-error approaches. In particular, for complex alloys, such as multimetallic or high entropy alloys where multiple elements are present in the system, the tuning of the synthesis and properties can be time consuming and costly as it would require hundreds or thousands of experiments to tune/optimize the ratio of the composing elements. In the next 10 years, I predict that artificial intelligence-driven machine learning would play a tremendous role in reducing the number of experiments required for tuning the properties and performance of complex nanomaterials.

As an Associate Editor, do you have any top tips for authors preparing their manuscript?

My tips for preparing manuscripts are:

  1. Identify early the points that you want to discuss in the paper (i.e., make a strong and compelling story)
  2. Prepare a strong abstract by highlighting how your work is novel compared to other studies published in the literature and by pointing out the main findings of the work.
  3. Read your papers multiple times to avoid careless typos and spelling.
  4. Have all the co-authors read and comment on your draft.
  5. Ensure that all your figures are readable and attractive to the readers.
  6. Ensure that you are not simply describing your results but also explain the reasons behind your observations
  7. Ensure that all figures (including Supporting Information figures) are cited and discussed in the text.
  8. Summarize only the most important findings in the Conclusions

 

Professor Oana Jurchescu

 

 

Oana D. Jurchescu is a Baker Professor of Physics at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, USA and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. She received her PhD in 2006 from University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and then was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD. Her expertise is in charge transport in organic and organic/inorganic hybrid semiconductors, device physics and semiconductor processing. She is the recipient of several awards, including the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, NSF (2013), the NSF special creativity award (2022), the Pegram Award from American Physical Society Southeastern Section for excellence in teaching and mentoring (2022) and several university awards. She is an Associate Editor for Journal of Materials Chemistry C since 2019 and serves as a member of the Advisory Board of Chemical Physics Reviews, Organic Electronics, and J. Phys Materials.

What do you think of Journal of Materials Chemistry C as a place to publish impactful materials chemistry research?

Journal of Materials Chemistry C covers a wide range of topics in chemistry, physics, materials science, and engineering. This diversity of scope attracts a diverse readership of scientists from different backgrounds and with different perspectives. This exposure to a variety of viewpoints helps to ensure that the published work is of high quality and has a significant impact on the field.

Could you provide a brief summary of your most recent Journal of Materials Chemistry C publication?

In our manuscript “Charge carrier traps in organic semiconductors: a review on the underlying physics and impact on electronic devices” H. F. Haneef, A. M. Zeidell, O. D Jurchescu, J. Mater. Chem C 8, 759 (2020) we presented a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon of charge carrier trapping in organic semiconductors (OSCs). Trapping is a common occurrence in these materials, and the details of the nature, spatial distribution, and energetics of traps, as well as the timescales of trapping and detrapping events, can have a significant impact on the performance of organic optoelectronic devices.

 

Dr Subrata Kundu

 

 

Dr. Subrata Kundu received his Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India in early 2005. Then he moved to University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA and later to Texas A &M University, College station, Texas, USA as a post-doc fellow (from 2005 to 2010). He is currently working as a Principal Scientist at CSIR-CECRI, Karaikudi, India. Dr. Kundu recently received prestigious FRSC (Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry) from London in 2023. Dr. Kundu is serving as an associate editor of prestigious ‘Journal of Materials Chemistry A’ and ‘Materials Advances’ from RSC publishers since 2022 and ‘Scientific Reports’ from ‘Nature group publishers’ since 2015.  Dr. Kundu and his co-workers are working in the forefront area of Material Sciences with emphasizes on energy, environment, catalysis and electrocatalysis fields.

What do you think of Journal of Materials Chemistry A as a place to publish impactful materials chemistry research?

I think Journal of Materials Chemistry A (JMC A) is a great place to publish impactful materials chemistry research. The journal has a strong editorial board and a rigorous peer-review process, which ensures that only high-quality research can be published.

Could you provide a brief summary of your most recent Journal of Materials Chemistry A publication?

In our last work, Ni3S4-functionalized 2D CoFe-LDH heterostructure nanosheet was designed for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in a wide pH range. The negatively polarized sulfide ions and improved magnetic ordering in active cobalt sites of the heterostructure enhanced the deprotonation of OH* intermediate and O2 desorption, respectively. As a result, the Ni3S4@CoFe-LDH heterostructure showed excellent OER performance with a low overpotential of 262 mV and a high specific turnover frequency (TOF) value of 4.93 s−1 (J. Mater. Chem. A, 2023, 11, 16349-16362).

 

Professor Kasper Moth-Poulsen

Professor Kasper Moth-Poulsen is a research leader in the field of nano-chemistry, energy storage materials and synthetic chemistry. His research activities focus on the development of new solar energy storage technologies. He studied organic chemistry at the University of Copenhagen where he obtained the Cand. Scient. (2003) and Ph.D. (2007). In 2009, he continued his career abroad as a postdoctoral associate at the College of Chemistry at U.C. Berkeley, where he worked with professors Rachel Segalman and Peter Vollhardt. In 2011 Kasper was recruited to Chalmers University of Technology, as an assistant professor. In 2014 he was promoted to associate professor in 2017 to professor and in 2019 full professor. Since October 2021 Kasper has been awarded a professor position at the Catalan Institute of Advanced Studies (ICREA) and joins the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) as an ICREA research professor. In January 2023 he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC). Kasper is an Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry C, and Materials Advances. He is active in several start-ups and spin-out companies from his research group, including Con-Science AB, and NanoScientifica Scandinavica AB.

 

What do you like most about being on the Editorial Board for Journal of Materials Chemistry C?

I am really enjoying contributing to all parts of the global scientific project from research to publishing. The Assoc. editor role give me the opportunity to contribute to the dissemination part. What I really enjoy when I get to handle a new paper is to try to solve the puzzle of identifying the best possible match of reviewers to the new piece of science.

As an Associate Editor, do you have any top tips for authors preparing their manuscript?

The essential thing is of course that you have a story to tell about an exciting piece of materials science. Think about all elements of the manuscript, how the introduction and figures complement this story in the best possible way.

 

Thank you to all of our dedicated Editorial Board members for their support of the Journal of Materials Chemistry family of journals over the years.

We hope you enjoyed finding out more about some of our Editorial Board members. Keep an eye out for our next ‘Community Spotlight’!

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Journal of Materials Chemistry 10th Anniversary Cover Showcase – October

This year, as you may know, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B, and C are celebrating their 10th anniversary! To join in the celebrations, we’ve asked authors to find creative ways to add a ’10’ to the cover artwork and are excited to show you the results in our monthly cover showcase.

To join in the celebration, you can view the #JMCs10Years hashtag on Twitter and follow the posts for the year so far.

Here are this month’s covers:

 

Enhancing thermoelectric performance via relaxed spin polarization upon magnetic impurity doping

 

Urethane functions can reduce metal salts under hydrothermal conditions: synthesis of noble metal nanoparticles on flexible sponges applied in semi-automated organic reduction

Controlled synthesis of highly active bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water splitting using coal-based activated carbons

 

Next-generation materials for RNA–lipid nanoparticles: lyophilization and targeted transfection

 

One-step antibacterial modification of polypropylene non-woven fabrics via oxidation using photo-activated chlorine dioxide radicals

Influence of Cu insertion on the thermoelectric properties of the quaternary cluster compounds Cu3M2Mo15Se19 (M = In, K) and Cu4In2Mo15Se19

Remarkable performance recovery in highly defective perovskite solar cells by photo-oxidation

 

The fluorination effect: the importance of backbone planarity in achieving high performance ambipolar field effect transistors

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Collection Celebrating the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: mRNA vaccines against COVID-19

We are delighted to share a cross-journal themed collection on mRNA vaccines against COVID-19, celebrating the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were jointly awarded a Nobel Prize “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.” Royal Society of Chemistry journals congratulate both Nobel Laureates.

Understanding mRNA’s interaction with the immune system had a crucial role in accelerating vaccine development during one of the most significant health crises in contemporary history. This collection highlights recent advancements in mRNA technologies for vaccine development, covering mRNA delivery strategies, biomaterials, nanoparticles, and click chemistry.

Read the collection here.

A selection of articles from the collection is included below. All articles are free to access until 17th November. All Open Access journal articles are always free to access. We hope you will enjoy reading the articles in this themed collection. Please do share this collection with your colleagues and networks.

Reviews

A comprehensive overview of vaccines developed for pandemic viral pathogens over the past two decades including those in clinical trials for the current novel SARS-CoV-2

Kannan Damodharan, Gandarvakottai Senthilkumar Arumugam, Suresh Ganesan, Mukesh Doble and Sathiah Thennarasu

RSC Adv., 2021, 11, 20006-20035 DOI: 10.1039/D0RA09668G

 

Emerging mRNA technologies: delivery strategies and biomedical applications

Yufen Xiao, Zhongmin Tang, Xiangang Huang, Wei Chen, Jun Zhou, Haijun Liu, Chuang Liu, Na Kong and Wei Tao

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2022, 51, 3828-3845 DOI: 10.1039/D1CS00617G

 

Lipid-based colloidal nanoparticles for applications in targeted vaccine delivery

Muhammad Saad Khan, Sila Appak Baskoy, Celina Yang, Joohye Hong, Jayoung Chae, Heejin Ha, Sungjun Lee, Masayoshi Tanaka, Yonghyun Choi and Jonghoon Choi

Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 1853-1869 DOI: 10.1039/D2NA00795A

 

Articles

A PEG-lipid-free COVID-19 mRNA vaccine triggers robust immune responses in mice

Min Li, Yixuan Huang, Jiacai Wu, Sanpeng Li, Miao Mei, Haixia Chen, Ning Wang, Weigang Wu, Boping Zhou, Xu Tan and Bin Li

Mater. Horiz., 2023, 10, 466-472 DOI: 10.1039/D2MH01260J

 

Towards mRNA with superior translational activity: synthesis and properties of ARCA tetraphosphates with single phosphorothioate modifications

Malwina Strenkowska, Joanna Kowalska, Maciej Lukaszewicz, Joanna Zuberek, Wei Su, Robert E. Rhoads, Edward Darzynkiewicz and Jacek Jemielity

New J. Chem., 2010, 34, 993-1007 DOI: 10.1039/B9NJ00644C

 

Development of a high-throughput platform for screening lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery

Lili Cui, Sara Pereira, Silvia Sonzini, Sally van Pelt, Steven M. Romanelli, Lihuan Liang, David Ulkoski, Venkata R. Krishnamurthy, Emily Brannigan, Christopher Brankin and Arpan S. Desai

Nanoscale, 2022, 14, 1480-1491 DOI: 10.1039/D1NR06858J

 

Enhanced immunogenicity induced by mRNA vaccines with various lipid nanoparticles as carriers for SARS-CoV-2 infection

Yanhao Zhang, Ji Wang, Hanlei Xing, Chao Liu, Wenhui Zha, Shuo Dong, Yuhao Jiang and Xinsong Li

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2023,11, 7454-7465 DOI: 10.1039/D3TB00303E

 

mRNA-carrying lipid nanoparticles that induce lysosomal rupture activate NLRP3 inflammasome and reduce mRNA transfection efficiency

James Forster III, Dipika Nandi and Ashish Kulkarni

Biomater. Sci., 2022, 10, 5566-5582 DOI: 10.1039/D2BM00883A

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