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Congratulations to our Emerging Investigator, Pengzhan Sun

07 Nov 2024

Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series

Congratulations to our latest Emerging Investigator Pengzhan Sun, University of Macau, China!

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.

We launched our Emerging Investigator Series to showcase the exceptional work published by early-career researchers in the journal and regularly select a recently published Communication article to feature in an interview-style Editorial article with 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, Pengzhan Sun, University of Macau, China !

Dr Pengzhan Sun is an assistant professor at the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and automation (2012) and PhD in materials science and engineering (2016), from Tsinghua University. From 2016 to 2022, he was a research associate working at the Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Graphene Institute (NGI) at the University of Manchester. His research interests include the fundamental understanding of molecular transport under confinement, the synthesis and processing of 2D crystals building blocks and their rationally designed assemblies for emerging technologies in the environment, energy, informatics, etc. He has published many papers as first/corresponding author in journals including Nature, PNAS, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Nanoscale Horizons, etc. Also, he has been awarded important prizes including the MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 (China), Materials Research Society (MRS, USA) Graduate Student Award (Silver), NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Fund, etc.

Read our interview with Pengzhan here

Congratulations to Dr. Pengzhan Sun for his excellent work! You can read his featured Emerging Investigator article from Nanoscale Horizons below, which is free to access.

Catalytic selectivity of nanorippled graphene
Yu Liu, Wenqi Xiong, Achintya Bera, Yu Ji,a Miao Yu,a Shi Chen, Li Lin, Shengjun Yuan and Pengzhan Sun
Nanoscale Horiz., 2024, DOI: 10.1039/D3NH00462G

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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Our new Editorial Board member, Mark MacLachlan

06 Nov 2024

Join us in welcoming our new Editorial Board member, Mark MacLachlan!

We are delighted to welcome Mark MacLachlan as a new Scientific Editor to Nanoscale Horizons ! Mark’s expertise will support us to better inform editorial decisions on Nanoscale Horizons.

Mark MacLachlan, The University of British Columbia, Canada

a photo of the new scientific editor, Mark MacLachlan

“I look forward to seeing the exciting science underway by colleagues around the globe in the field of nanomaterials.”

Mark MacLachlan is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Supramolecular Materials and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He obtained his BSc degree in chemistry from UBC in 1995 and his PhD degree in inorganic materials chemistry from the University of Toronto in 1999. Following a 2-year postdoc at MIT, he returned to UBC to begin as an assistant professor in 2001. In 2009-2010, he spent a sabbatical year as a Humboldt Fellow at the RWTH in Aachen and he was a JSPS Invited Fellow at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan in 2013. Since 2016, he has served as an international PI at the Nano Life Science Institute in Kanazawa. Mark’s research interests span different areas of supramolecular and materials chemistry, especially coordination chemistry, macrocycles, graphene oxide photonic materials and cellulose nanocrystal-based materials.

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Welcoming our new Editorial Board member, Xiaohui Qiu.

01 Nov 2024

Join us in welcoming our new Editorial Board member, Xiaohui Qiu!

We are delighted to welcome Xiaohui Qiu as a new Scientific Editor to Nanoscale Horizons ! Xiaohui’s expertise will support us to better inform editorial decisions on Nanoscale Horizons.

Xiaohui Qiu, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China

A photo of the new NH Editorial Board Member, Xiaohui Qiu

“I’m excited to contribute to the dissemination of cutting-edge research through this esteemed journal. I look forward to collaborating with authors to enhance the quality and impact of their work, promoting innovative findings that will push the boundaries of knowledge”

Xiaohui Qiu is a professor at the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2000. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Irvine, and became a visiting scientist at IBM Research Center in Yorktown Heights and Ohio State University before joining NCNST in 2006. His research interests include advancing scanning probe microscopy and optical spectroscopy techniques to study various properties of low-dimensional materials, down to single molecules and atoms. He has published more than 190 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

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Congratulations to the winners of the RSC poster prize winners at the 2nd Sino-German Workshop on Optical Spectroscopy of van der Waals Semiconductors

21 Oct 2024

The 2^nd Sino-German Workshop on Optical Spectroscopy of van der Waals Semiconductors took place in Ettal Abbey, Germany, from 2–5 October 2024. Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale, Nanoscale Advances and Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) were delighted to support poster prizes at the event and we would like to congratulate our winners! You can find out more about the event in the overview on the Lupton group website.

Photos of the poster prizes being awarded at the Sino-German Workshop to Andreas Beer (right) and Yao Lu (left)

Photos of the poster prizes being awarded by conference organisers Kai-Qiang Lin and John Lupton to Andreas Beer (left) and Yao Lu (right).

Learn more about our poster prize awardees below:

Andreas Beer (University of Regensburg, Germany)

Poster title: “Proximity-induced exchange interaction in MoSe₂/CrSBr van-der-Waals heterostructure with orthogonal spin textures”

Andreas Beer completed his BSc studying ultrathin superconductors and his MSc on topological insulators under the guidance of Prof. Ruppert Huber at the University of Regensburg. He is now finishing his PhD at the same university under the supervision of Prof. Christian Schüller. His PhD research focuses on ultrafast temporal dynamics in semiconducting van-der-Waals heterostructures, with a particular emphasis on spin dynamics to explore the fundamental interactions in these advanced materials. Currently, he is investigating the interaction between MoSe₂, which shows out-of-plane spin-valley locking, and CrSBr, an in-plane antiferromagnet, both exhibit large exciton binding energies. When combined they create a unique system with orthogonal spin textures.

A photo of the poster prize runner up, Yao Lu

Yao Lu (Xiamen University, China)

Poster title: “Bilayer MoS₂ interlayer intersubband transition”

Yao Lu received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Zhejiang Normal University. She is currently in the second year of her Ph.D. studies under the supervision of Prof. Kai-Qiang Lin in the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Xiamen University. Her current research focuses on exploring novel electronic excitations and excitonic transitions in van der Waals semiconductors, with the aim of developing innovative optoelectronic devices. Her presentation shows a previously unreported interlayer intersubband transition in bilayer MoS₂. This discovery has significant implications, as it provides insight into the spin-orbit splitting energy in MoS₂ and shows promise for potential application in infrared detection.

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