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Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series – Saptarshi Das

15 Sep 2023

Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series

Congratulations to our latest Emerging Investigator Dr Saptarshi Das (Pennsylvania State University, USA)!

Since the launch of Nanoscale Horizons, the journal has had a clear vision to publish exceptionally high-quality work whilst acting as a resource to researchers working at all career levels. We continue to be impressed by the quality of the research published and at the same time are looking for new ways of recognising and promoting the outstanding authors behind articles published in the journal.

Last year we launched an Emerging Investigator Series to showcase the exceptional work published by early-career researchers in the journal. We will regularly select a recently published Communication article and publish an interview-style Editorial article featuring the corresponding author. We hope that the series will also benefit the nanoscience community by highlighting the exciting work being done by its early-career members.

We are excited to share our latest Emerging Investigator, Dr Saptarshi Das (Pennsylvania State University, USA)!

Dr Saptarshi Das is an Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He earned his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2013 and his BE in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, India, in 2007.

Dr Das’s primary focus resides in pioneering materials research and innovation, with significant impact on neuromorphic computing, hardware security, and bio-inspired sensing devices. At the heart of the Das Research Group’s mission is the development of groundbreaking technologies inspired by nature, aiming to enhance energy efficiency and ensure a sustainable future for society.

Read our interview with Saptarshi here

Congratulations to Dr Saptarshi Das for his excellent work! You can read his featured Emerging Investigator article from Nanoscale Horizons below, which is free to access until the end of October 2023.

Graphical abstract image for Hardware Trojans based on two-dimensional memtransistors.

Hardware Trojans based on two-dimensional memtransistors
Akshay Wali, Harikrishnan Ravichandran and Saptarshi Das
Nanoscale Horizons, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00568A

We hope you enjoy reading our interview and featured article and are looking forward to sharing our future Emerging Investigators with you!

Do you publish innovative nanoscience and nanotechnology research? Submit your latest work to Nanoscale Horizons now. If you are eligible for the Emerging Investigators series, you could be considered to feature in one of our future interviews! Find out more about the eligibility criteria and the process in this editorial introducing the series.

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Call For Papers: Memristors and Neuromorphic Systems

11 Sep 2023

Call For Papers: Memristors and Neuromorphic Systems

Submit your latest work to Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons now!

We are delighted to announce an open call for submissions to our Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons cross-journal themed collection on Memristors and Neuromorphic Systems, guest edited by Professor Xiaodong Chen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Professor Cheol Seong Hwang (Seoul National University, South Korea), Professor Francesca Santoro (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) and Professor Yoeri Van de Burgt (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands).

Memristors and neuromorphic systems open call graphic. Includes photos of the guest editors Xiaodong Chen, Cheol Seong Hwang, Francesca Santoro and Yoeri Van de Burgt.

The research field dedicated to mimicking the brain is called neuromorphic engineering, and covers a wide range of disciplines, including electrical engineering, computing, materials science, chemistry, physics, and even psychology. Yet, conventional CMOS-based hardwares are based on the von-Neumann architecture which operates sequentially (instead of in parallel) shuffling data back and forth between processing and memory, and thus barely fulfil the low-energy requirements for neuromorphic engineering. Memristors, which can be synaptic, neural, or even a combination of both, offer a potential solution and as such have been the focus of enhanced research efforts. In addition to their low-energy cost requirements, new materials properties employed by memristors may lead to new algorithms or help solve conventionally challenging tasks, such as NP-hard problems.

This themed collection in Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons aims to report the latest developments in memristive materials. Exploring their fabrication, characterization, circuit design, and performance for applications in the future of neuromorphics. Collaborative work between diverse fields is especially encouraged.

This call for papers is open for original research articles only. Please note that primary research is accepted in the form of Communications for both journals and require a ‘New Concepts statement’ to help ascertain the significance of the research. General guidance and examples can be found here.

Open for submissions until 30 November 2023

If you wish to contribute, please submit your manuscript directly to the submissions platform through the Nanoscale Horizons submission system or the Materials Horizons submission system. Please mention that this submission is a contribution to the Memristors and Neuromorphic Systems 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 the normal peer review processes including an initial assessment prior to peer review, and that peer review and acceptance are not guaranteed.

We sincerely hope that you will be able to submit some of your latest work to this themed collection. If you have any questions, please contact the Editorial Office.

With best wishes,

Professor Xiaodong Chen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Professor Cheol Seong Hwang (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Professor Francesca Santoro (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
Professor Yoeri Van de Burgt (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

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Congratulations to the winners of the RSC prizes at NaNaX 10

07 Sep 2023

NaNaX10 took place in Klosterneuburg, Austria from 3–7 July 2023. Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale, Nanoscale Advances, ChemComm and Chemical Science were delighted to provide poster prizes for the excellent posters shared during the conference. Please join us in congratulating our winners!

Nanoscale Horizons Poster Prize

Christine Fiedler (Institute of Science and Technology (ISTA), Austria)
Poster Title: “Defects Matter: The role of different processing parameters on solution-processed thermoelectric materials”

Christine Fiedler is a PhD student at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, under the supervision of Asst. Prof. Maria Ibáñez. She obtained her bachelor’s from the University of the West Indies Cave Hill, Barbados, with First Class Honours in Chemistry with Biochemistry. Her academic journey continued at Johannes Kepler University in Austria, where she earned a master’s degree in Polymer Chemistry, with a focus on synthesis and engineering of Janus micro/nanomotors and nanoparticle synthesis. Currently, Christine’s research concentrates on processing of semiconductors via solution methods for thermoelectric applications.

Nanoscale Poster Prize

Oleksandra Yeromina (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France)
Poster Title: “Synthesis of III-V quantum dots using indium monohalides and aminopnictogen precursors”

Oleksandra Yeromina is a postdoctoral research fellow at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in Grenoble, France in the group of Dr Peter Reiss in the field of semiconductor nanocrystals. She obtained her PhD in Organic and Material Chemistry from the University of Namur (Belgium) in collaboration with Cardiff University (Wales, UK) in 2022. Prior to this, she obtained her double MSc in Organic and Green Chemistry from Kharkiv National University (Ukraine) and Nice Sophia Antipolis University (France) in 2017. Currently, her research interests are focused on the development of more sustainable synthetic routes for emissive III-V quantum dots for the optoelectronic application in the near-infrared light region.

Nanoscale Advances Poster Prize

Dietger Van den Eynden (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Poster Title: “Atomically precise group 4 oxo clusters as smallest conceivable nanocrystals”

Dietger Van den Eynden was born in Sint-Niklaas (Belgium) in 1995. In 2019, he graduated with a Master in chemistry from Ghent University. During his master thesis, he studied nanocrystal-vitrimers under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Isabel Van Driessche and Prof. Dr. Filip Du Prez. He is currently pursuing a joint PhD between the University of Basel (CH) and Ghent University (BE) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jonathan De Roo and Prof. Dr. Klaartje De Buysser. The subject of his PhD is atomically precise group 4 metal oxo clusters. He has developed novel zirconium and hafnium clusters as improved catalysts for esterification reactions. Additionally, he is studying the formation mechanism of these clusters and their use as inorganic monomers in recyclable polymers.

ChemComm Poster Prize

Ezat Kheradmand (Ghent University, Belgium)
Poster Title: “Ligand exchange quantification on colloidal InAs quantum dots”

Ezat Kheradmand is a PhD student in the Physics and Chemistry Department at Ghent University. She studied Materials Science during her Bachelor’s and Nanotechnology in the Nanomaterials Department at Tarbiat Modares University (M.Sc). Her current research interests are studying surface chemistry of III-V colloidal quantum dots as well as IR optoelectronic device fabrication, which is pursued under the supervision of Professor Zeger Hens.

Chemical Science Poster Prize

Jack Howley (University of Oxford, UK)
Poster Title: “Bench Stable Phosphorus Precursors to Indium Phosphide Quantum Dots”

Jack Howley is a PhD student at the University of Oxford, UK, under the joint supervision of Prof. Jose Goicoechea and Prof. Jason Davis. Jack obtained his MChem in 2019 from the University of Edinburgh, UK, under the supervision of Dr Michael Cowley. His doctoral research is supported by the Inorganic Chemistry for Future Manufacturing Centre for Doctoral Training (OxICFM CDT) and focusses on the development of novel air-stable phosphorus precursors to indium phosphide quantum dots. Prior to this he worked on earth-abundant catalysts for (de)hydroboration reactions, in addition to spending a year in industry within the mining solutions business unit at Solvay.

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Nanoparticle synthesis

06 Sep 2023

Nanoparticle synthesis

A collection of recent articles from Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale

Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale are pleased to present a collection highlighting the latest research published in the journals on nanoparticle synthesis.

Read the collection

Check out this selection of articles from the collection, with many more available online.

Role of carboxylates in the phase determination of metal sulfide nanoparticles (Open Access)
Andrey A. Shults, Guanyu Lu, Joshua D. Caldwell and Janet E. Macdonald
Nanoscale Horiz., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NH00227F

Oleic acid/oleylamine ligand pair: a versatile combination in the synthesis of colloidal nanoparticles
Stefanos Mourdikoudis, Melita Menelaou, Nadesh Fiuza-Maneiro, Guangchao Zheng, Shuangying Wei, Jorge Pérez-Juste, Lakshminarayana Polavarapu and Zdeněk Sofer
Nanoscale Horiz., 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00111J

Peptoid-directed assembly of CdSe nanoparticles
Madison Monahan, Bin Cai, Tengyue Jian, Shuai Zhang, Guomin Zhu, Chun-Long Chen, James J. De Yoreo and Brandi M. Cossairt
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D0NR07509D

Intelligent control of nanoparticle synthesis through machine learning
Honglin Lv and Xueye Chen
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR00124A

We would be delighted if you would consider Nanoscale Horizons or Nanoscale for your next submission, which can be made using the link below.

Submit your research

Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale are high-impact international journals, publishing high-quality experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Our broad scope covers cross-community research that bridges the various disciplines involved with nanoscience and nanotechnology.

We hope you enjoy reading this collection and will consider Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale for your future submissions.

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