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Welcome to the inaugural issue of RSC Applied Interfaces.

Our first issue features cutting edge research from around the globe and an editorial from our editor-in-chief, Federico Rosei.

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Our first issue includes:

Introducing RSC Applied Interfaces Federico Rosei RSC Appl. Interfaces, 2024, 1, 9-10.

The role of ceria/precious metal interfaces in catalysis Michele Melchionna and Paolo Fornasiero RSC Appl. Interfaces, 2024, 1, 70-79.

Bias switchable narrowband/broadband NIR organic photodetector fabricated with a scalable technique Lai-Hung Lai, Wei-Hsiang Lin, Chin-Chuan Hsieh and Maria Antonietta Loi RSC Appl. Interfaces, 2024, 1, 122-132.

Understanding improved capacity retention at 4.3 V in modified single crystal Ni-rich NMC//graphite pouch cells at elevated temperature Galo J. Páez Fajardo, Meltiani Belekoukia, Satish Bolloju, Eleni Fiamegkou, Ashok S. Menon, Zachary Ruff, Zonghao Shen, Nickil Shah, Erik Björklund, Mateusz Jan Zuba, Tien-Lin Lee, Pardeep K. Thakur, Robert S. Weatherup, Ainara Aguadero, Melanie J. Loveridge, Clare P. Grey and Louis F. J. Piper RSC Appl. Interfaces, 2024, 1, 133-146.

Developing 3D computational models to capture the spatial, temporal and thermal behavior as laser beams propagate through photo-thermally responsive gels Victor V. Yashin, Fariha Mahmood, Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu and Anna C. Balazs RSC Appl. Interfaces, 2024, 1, 183-193.

Read these papers and more in our first issue.

Find out more about RSC Applied Interfaces on the journal webpage, sign up for email alerts, or submit your manuscript now.

We are delighted to introduce you to our RSC Applied Interfaces Associate Editor, Professor Ryan Richards.

About Professor Ryan Richards

Ryan Richards is a Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science at the Colorado School of Mines (Mines) and holds a joint appointment at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) both in Golden, Colorado USA. Find out more about Professor Richards on our webpage.

Read some of his applied research here:

Nanocrystalline rhenium-doped TiO₂: an efficient catalyst in the one-pot conversion of carbohydrates into levulinic acid. The synergistic effect between Brønsted and Lewis acid sites
Sorin Avramescu, Cristian D. Ene, Madalina Ciobanu, Josefine Schnee, Francois Devred, Cristina Bucur, Eugeniu Vasile, Luke Colaciello, Ryan Richards, Eric M. Gaigneaux and Marian Nicolae Verziu
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2022, 12, 167-180.

Carbon Capture by Metal Oxides: Unleashing the Potential of the (111) Facet
Greg A. Mutch, Sarah Shulda, Alan J. McCue, Martin J. Menart, Cristian V. Ciobanu, Chilan Ngo, James A. Anderson, Ryan M. Richards and David Vega-Maza
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 4736-4742.

Revealing the Dynamics and Roles of Iron Incorporation in Nickel Hydroxide Water Oxidation Catalysts
Chunguang Kuai, Cong Xi, Anyang Hu, Yan Zhang, Zhengrui Xu, Dennis Nordlund, Cheng-Jun Sun, Christopher A. Cadigan, Ryan M. Richards, Luxi Li, Cun-Ku Dong, Xi-Wen Du and Feng Lin
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 18519-18526.

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We are delighted to introduce you to our RSC Applied Interfaces Associate Editor, Professor Serena Margadonna.

About Professor Serena Margadonna

Serena Margadonna joined Swansea University, UK, in 2015 as Chair in Materials Engineering and is currently the Head of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Find out more about Professor Margadonna on our webpage.

Read some of her applied research here:

Synergic effect of Bi, Sb and Te for the increased stability of bulk alloying anodes for sodium-ion batteries
Marcin W. Orzech, Francesco Mazzali, James D. McGettrick, Cameron Pleydell-Pearce, Trystan M. Watson, Wayne Voice, David Jarvis, and Serena Margadonna
J. Mater. Chem. A., 2017, 5, 23198-23208.

Water-Stable DMASnBr3 Lead-Free Perovskite for Effective Solar-Driven Photocatalysis
Lidia Romani, Andrea Speltini, Francesco Ambrosio, Edoardo Mosconi, Antonella Profumo, Marcello Marelli, Serena Margadonna, Antonella Milella, Francesco Fracassi, Andrea Listorti, Filippo De Angelis, and Lorenzo Malavasi
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 3611-3618.

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We are delighted to introduce you to our RSC Applied Interfaces Associate Editor, Professor Jianbin Huang.

About Professor Jianbin Huang

Jianbin Huang is a Professor and Chief of surfactant and colloid research and development at Peking University, China. Find out more about Professor Huang on our webpage.

Read some of his applied research here:

The pressing-induced formation of a large-area supramolecular film for oil capture
Wenkai Wang, Mengqi Xie, Hongjun Jin, Wanwan Zhi, Kaerdun Liu, Cheng Ma, Peilong Liao, Jianbin Huang, and Yun Yan
Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4, 1530-1539.

Folic Acid-Based Coacervate Leading to a Double-Sided Tape for Adhesion of Diverse Wet and Dry Substrates
Shuitao Gao, Wenkai Wang, Tongyue Wu, Shasha Jiang, Jinwan Qi, Zhiyang Zhu, Bin Zhang, Jianbin Huang, and Yun Yan
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2021, 13, 34843-34850.

Surface Hydrophobization Provides Hygroscopic Supramolecular Plastics Based on Polysaccharides with Damage-Specific Healability and Room-Temperature Recyclability
Hongjun Jin, Weilin Lin, Ziyan Wu, Xinyu Cheng, Xinyuan Chen, Yingjie Fan, Wangchuan Xiao, Jianbin Huang, Qingrong Qian, Qinghua Chen, and Yun Yan
Adv. Mater., 2023, 35, 2207688.

Generating circularly polarized luminescence from clusterization‐triggered emission using solid phase molecular self-assembly
Peilong Liao, Shihao Zang, Tongyue Wu, Hongjun Jin, Wenkai Wang, Jianbin Huang, Ben Zhong Tang, and Yun Yan
Nat. Commun., 2021, 12, 5496.

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We are delighted to welcome Professor Serena Margadonna, Swansea University, UK, as an Associate Editor for RSC Applied Interfaces, a new open access journal publishing cutting edge research on the applications of surfaces and interfaces.

Learn more about our new Associate Editor

Serena Margadonna joined Swansea University in 2015 as Chair in Materials Engineering and is currently the Head of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Previously, she has worked in several institutions including the Universities of Cambridge as a Jesus College Research Fellow, Edinburgh as a Dorothy Hodgkin Royal Society Fellow and Oslo as a Professor in Materials Chemistry.

She has been responsible for significant advances in the fields of strongly correlated electron systems, superconductivity and molecular magnetism. More recently she focuses on developing sustainable materials and processes for the manufacturing of electrochemical energy storage solutions with a particular focus on sodium-ion batteries.

Find out more about Professor Margadonna on our webpage.

Read some of her recent papers below:

Synergic effect of Bi, Sb and Te for the increased stability of bulk alloying anodes for sodium-ion batteries

Marcin W. Orzech, Francesco Mazzali, James D. McGettrick, Cameron Pleydell-Pearce, Trystan M. Watson, Wayne Voice, David Jarvis and Serena Margadonna

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017, 5, 23198-23208

Water-Stable DMASnBr3 Lead-Free Perovskite for Effective Solar-Driven Photocatalysis

Lidia Romani, Andrea Speltini, Francesco Ambrosio, Edoardo Mosconi, Antonella Profumo, Marcello Marelli, Serena Margadonna, Antonella Milella, Francesco Fracassi, Andrea Listorti, Filippo De Angelis and Lorenzo Malavasi

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 3611-3618

RSC Applied Interfaces is open for submissions. Find out more on the journal webpage, sign up for email alerts, or submit your manuscript now.

Please join us in welcoming Professor Margadonna to RSC Applied Interfaces.

We are delighted to welcome Professor Ryan M. Richards, Colorado School of Mines & NREL, USA, as Associate Editor for RSC Applied Interfaces, a new open access journal publishing cutting edge research on the applications of surfaces and interfaces.

Learn more about our new Associate Editor

Ryan M. Richards is a Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science at the Colorado School of Mines (Mines) and holds a joint appointment at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) both in Golden, Colorado USA. Additionally, Prof. Richards is the Mines lead for the Mines/NREL Nexus which coordinates, facilitates and promotes all joint activities and appointments. Prof. Richards received his BS from Michigan State University, MS Central Michigan University and PhD from Kansas State University. Prof. Richards was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in November 2023.

Research in the Richards group is focused on new synthetic methods to control the size, shape and composition of nanoscale materials and apply them in systems integral to alternative energy technologies, pharmaceuticals, biomass upgrading, batteries, and environmental remediation.

Find out more about Professor Richards on our webpage.

Read some of his recent papers below:

Nanocrystalline rhenium-doped TiO2: an efficient catalyst in the one-pot conversion of carbohydrates into levulinic acid. The synergistic effect between Brønsted and Lewis acid sites

Sorin Avramescu, Cristian D. Ene, Madalina Ciobanu, Josefine Schnee, Francois Devred, Cristina Bucur, Eugeniu Vasile, Luke Colaciello, Ryan Richards, Eric M. Gaigneaux and Marian Nicolae Verziu

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2022, 12, 167-180

A microwave assisted ionic liquid route to prepare bivalent Mn5O8 nanoplates for 5-hydroxymethylfurfural oxidation

Lifang Chen, Ting Zhang, Hongye Cheng, Ryan M. Richards and Zhiwen Qi

Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 17902-17914

RSC Applied Interfaces is now open for submissions. Find out more on the journal webpage, sign up for email alerts or submit your manuscript now.

Please join us in welcoming Professor Richards to RSC Applied Interfaces.

We are delighted to welcome Professor Jianbin Huang, Peking University, China, as an Associate Editor for RSC Applied Interfaces, a new open access journal publishing cutting edge research on the applications of surfaces and interfaces.

Learn more about our new Associate Editor

Jianbin Huang is a Professor and Chief of surfactant and colloid research and development at Peking University. He is interested in the physical chemistry of surfactants, especially in mixed surfactant systems. His group mainly focuses on molecular organized assemblies in aqueous solutions, such as vesicles or micelles, and the formation, molecular structures and phase behaviours of amphiphilic systems. In the last five years, Professor Huang has published over 40 articles in international and Chinese academic journals.

Read some of his recent papers below:

Cyclodextrin-catalyzed self-assembly of a coordinating fluorescent molecule into microflowers

Ting Gu, Jianbin Huang and Yun Yan

Soft Matter, 2022, 18, 4372-4377

Clusterization-triggered emission (CTE): one for all, all for one

Peilong Liao, Jianbin Huang, Yun Yan and Ben Zhong Tang

Mater. Chem. Front., 2021, 5, 6693-6717

RSC Applied Interfaces is open for submissions. Find out more on the journal webpage, sign up for email alerts, or submit your manuscript now.

Please join us in welcoming Professor Huang to RSC Applied Interfaces.

Welcoming applied interfacial and surface research

RSC Applied Interfaces is your new dedicated, interdisciplinary home for applied interfacial and surface research – and we are now open for submissions.

Submit your research

We are looking for cutting-edge research that identifies the role of interfaces and interfacial processes to determine the properties and functionalities of materials. Our scope is broad – we welcome application-focused manuscripts on protective coatings, surface engineering and functionalisation, 2D materials and so much more. We are also interested in articles that advance several UN Sustainable Development Goals, including the goals on good health and well-being, clean water and sanitation, and affordable and clean energy.

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We are delighted to welcome Professor Federico Rosei, University of Trieste, Italy, as the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of RSC Applied Interfaces, a new gold open access journal publishing interfacial and surface research with an applied focus.

Learn more about our new Editor-in-Chief

Federico Rosei received MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1996 and 2001, respectively. He joined the University of Trieste (Italy) as a Professor of Industrial Chemistry in March 2023.

Previously he was a Professor and Former Director of Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Varennes (QC) Canada.

He has held the Junior Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials (2003-2013) and the Senior Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Materials (2016-2023). He also held the UNESCO Chair in Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Saving and Storage (2013-2023).

Read some of his recent papers below:

Semi-transparent luminescent solar concentrators based on plasmon-enhanced carbon dots
X. Liu, D. Benetti and F. Rosei
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 23345-23352

A colloidal heterostructured quantum dot sensitized carbon nanotube–TiO2 hybrid photoanode for high efficiency hydrogen generation
G.S. Selopal, M. Mohammadnezhad, F. Navarro-Pardo, F. Vidal, H. Zhao, Z.M. Wang, F. Rosei
Nanoscale Horiz., 2019, 4, 404–414

Polyelectrolyte hydrogel: a versatile platform for mechanical-electric conversion and self-powered sensing
X. Pan, Q. Wang, D. Benetti, Y. Ni, F. Rosei
Nano Energy, 2022, 103, 107718

Tunable 0D/2D/2D nanocomposite based on green Zn-doped CuInS2 Quantum Dots and MoS2/rGO as photoelectrodes for solar hydrogen production
F. Li, D. Benetti, M. Zhang, L. Shi, J. Feng, Q. Wei, F. Rosei
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2022, 14, 54790–54802

RSC Applied Interfaces will open for submissions later this month.

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