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Join our Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons Community Board!

30 May 2023

Call for nominations

We are looking for engaged and interested early career researchers to assist in the development of high quality and innovative journals, from a learned society publisher, in rapidly expanding areas of science.

The purpose of the Community Board for both Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons is to provide a channel for communication and engagement between the materials and nanoscience student, postdoctoral and early career researcher community and the journals’ Executive Editor and Editorial Boards.

Guidelines for Nominators

We are inviting nominations for both journals at this time, please do feel free to state a preference of journal in your nomination, however this is not mandatory, and each nomination will be assessed for suitability for both Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons.

Nominations are open to PhD candidates and active researchers who received their PhD (or equivalent degree, if applicable) no more than eight years prior to 1 January 2023. Appropriate consideration will be given to candidates from all research backgrounds (academic or industrial) and to those who have taken a career break or followed a different study path. Please do reach out to the editorial office to discuss any eligibility considerations.
Any Principal Investigator can nominate someone for the Community Board. Candidates may self-nominate but all nominations should include a separate supporting statement from an active Principal Investigator as outlined below.

To make a nomination please provide the information below to materialshorizons-rsc@rsc.org using this Community Board Nomination Form.

The candidate’s name, affiliation, research group, position and contact details, along with a brief CV
The nominator’s name, affiliation, position and contact details.
A short personal statement from the candidate describing what they will bring to the role in terms of advising and being an advocate for the journal. This must be no longer than 500 words.
A supporting statement from an active Principal Investigator (no more than 500 words) addressing the selection criteria (see below).

**Selection criteria for Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons Community Boards**

The Executive Editor and members of the Editorial Boards will consider the following aspects of all nominations for the Community Boards as appropriate:

Profile within institute and/or community
Service to the community
Area and quality of research
Motivation to join Community Board

The deadline for submission of nominations is 19^th July 2023.

For more information, please refer to the Materials and Nanoscale Horizons Community Board FAQs.

To find out more about the journal and for a list of current Community Board members, please visit the journal webpages at: rsc.li/materials-horizons and rsc.li/nanoscale-horizons.

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Horizons Community Board collection: Antimicrobial Materials and Surfaces

31 May 2022

Antimicrobial Materials and Surfaces

A new online article collection guest edited by members of the Horizons Community Boards

The Community Boards that support Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons provide a platform for early career researchers to share their experiences and ideas on scientific publishing. Working together and sharing their unique expertise, our Community Board members have recommended several key topics where significant, rapid progress has been made in the last two years. Today we are delighted to share their selected top articles published in the Horizons journals showcasing the most important advances in antimicrobial materials and surfaces.

Ignacio Insua and Nacho Martin-Fabiani

This collection is guest edited by Ignacio Insua (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) and Nacho Martin-Fabiani (Loughborough University, UK). To get to know our guest editors, check out their Editorial article introducing this collection.

Read the collection

Read the introductory editorial

We hope you enjoy reading this collection.

With best wishes,

Dr Heather Montgomery

Managing Editor, Nanoscale Horizons

Dr Michaela Muehlberg

Executive Editor, Materials Horizons

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Horizons Community Board collection: Optical and Photonic Materials

18 Nov 2021

Optical and Photonic Materials

A new online article collection guest edited by members of the Horizons Community Boards

The Community Boards that support Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons provide a platform for early career researchers to share their experiences and ideas on scientific publishing. Working together and sharing their unique expertise, our Community Board members have recommended several key topics where significant, rapid progress has been made in the last two years. Today we are delighted to share their selected top articles published in the Horizons journals showcasing the most important advances in optical and photonic materials and devices.

This collection is guest edited by Xiaolu Zhuo (CIC biomaGUNE, Spain), Li Na Quan (Virginia Tech, USA), and Qingchen Dong (Shanghai University, China). To get to know our guest editors, check out their Editorial article introducing this collection.

Read the collection

Read the introductory editorial

We hope you enjoy reading this collection.

With best wishes,

Dr Heather Montgomery

Managing Editor, Nanoscale Horizons

Dr Michaela Muehlberg

Executive Editor, Materials Horizons

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Horizons Community Board collection: Solar Energy Conversion

14 Oct 2021

Solar Energy Conversion

A new online article collection guest edited by members of the Horizons Community Boards

This collection is guest edited by Rebecca Gieseking (Brandeis University, USA), Alexandra Ramadan (University of Oxford, UK), and Jungki Ryu (UNIST, Republic of Korea). To get to know our guest editors, check out their Editorial article introducing this collection.

Read the collection

Read the introductory editorial

We hope you enjoy reading this collection.

With best wishes,

Dr Heather Montgomery

Managing Editor, Nanoscale Horizons

Dr Michaela Mühlberg

Executive Editor, Materials Horizons

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Welcome to our new Community Board members

12 Nov 2020

Introducing two new members to the Nanoscale Horizons Community Board

Welcome to the team!

We are delighted to welcome Dr Jungki Ryu, UNIST, South Korea, and Dr Yanlong Wang, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, to the Community Board of Nanoscale Horizons.

Jungki Ryu is an associate professor in the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, South Korea. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Yonsei University in 2006 and KAIST in 2011, respectively. Before joining UNIST in 2014, he spent 3 years for his postdoctoral research about bio-inspired functional materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently interested in (1) the synthesis of electrocatalysts for water splitting, biomass conversion, and CO2 utilization, (2) the development of efficient electrochemical and photoelectrochemical systems, and (3) the design of bio-inspired functional materials for energy conversion and storage.

Dr Yanlong Wang received his B.Sc. degree from Jilin University (China) in 2011 and Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) (Singapore) in 2016. After working at NTU as a postdoctoral fellow for one year, he joined the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a researcher in 2017. His current research interests include optical properties of 2D materials and functional properties of optical thin ﬁlms.

We look forward to working with Dr Ryu and Dr Wang as they provide us with the valuable feedback and insights needed to continue the success of the journal in future

Please join us in welcoming our new Community Board members.

With best wishes,

Dr Charlotte Marshall

Managing Editor, Nanoscale Horizons

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Community Board collection: Biosensors

12 Nov 2020

Biosensors

A new online article collection guest edited by members of the Horizons Community Boards

The Community Boards that support both Horizons journals provide a platform for early career researchers to share their experiences and ideas on scientific publishing. Working together and sharing their unique expertise, our Community Board members have recommended several key topics where significant, rapid progress has been made in the last 2 years. They have selected top articles published in the Horizons journals to showcase the most important advances in each topic area.

This collection is guest edited by Zhiyuan Liu, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS, China, Gift Mehlana, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe, and Arun Richard Chandrasekaran, The RNA Institute, University at Albany, USA.

Read the collection here.

To get to know our guest editors, check out the Editorial article.

We hope you enjoy reading this collection.

Best wishes,

Dr Charlotte Marshall

Managing Editor, Nanoscale Horizons

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Advanced Memory Technologies – Community Board collection

14 Sep 2020

Advanced Memory Technologies

A new online article collection guest edited by members of the Horizons Community Boards

This collection is guest edited by Ye Zhou (Shenzhen University and Materials Horizons Community Board member) and Pengzhan Sun (University of Manchester and Nanoscale Horizons Community Board member.)

Read the collection here.

To get to know our guest editors, check out the Editorial article.

All articles are free to access until the end of October 2020.^* We hope you enjoy reading this collection.

* Free access to articles via your free Royal Society of Chemistry publishing personal account

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Materials Horizons & Nanoscale Horizons Community Boards

19 Nov 2019

General information

The purpose of the Community Board for both Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons is to provide a channel for communication between the materials and nanoscience student and early career researcher community and the journals’ Executive Editor and Editorial Boards, and also to facilitate student and postdoctoral (or equivalent) engagement with Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons. We are looking for engaged and interested early career researchers who will see this as an opportunity to assist in the development of an innovative journal, from a learned society publisher, in rapidly expanding areas of science. We are inviting nominations for both journals at this time, please do feel free to state a preference of journal in your nomination, however this is not mandatory and each nomination will be assessed for suitability for both Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons Community Boards.

Guidelines for Nominators

We are inviting nominations for both journals at this time, please do feel free to state a preference of journal in your nomination, however this is not mandatory and each nomination will be assessed for suitability for both Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons Community Boards.

Any Principle Investigator can nominate someone for the Community Board of either Materials Horizons or Nanoscale Horizons. Candidates must not nominate themselves.
Nominations are open to PhD candidates and active researchers who received their PhD (or equivalent degree, if applicable) no more than eight years prior to 1 November 2019. Appropriate consideration will be given to candidates from all research backgrounds (academic or industrial) and to those who have taken a career break or followed a different study path.

To make a nomination please provide the information outlined below to nanoscalehorizons-rsc@rsc.org.

The nominator’s name, affiliation, position and contact details
The candidate’s name, affiliation, research group, position and contact details
A supporting statement from the nominator (no more than 750 words) addressing the selection criteria (see below)
A short personal statement from the candidate describing what they will bring to the role in terms of advising and being an advocate for the journal. This must be no longer than 250 words.
An up-to-date CV for the candidate, including publication history (if any)

Selection criteria for Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons Community Boards

The Executive Editor and members of the Editorial Boards will consider the following aspects of all nominations for the Community Boards as appropriate:

Impact of research
Quality of publications and/or patents and/or software
Profile within institute and/or community
Service to the community

Materials and Nanoscale Horizons Community Board_FAQs

The deadline for submission of nominations is 27th January, 2020.

For more information about the journal and for a list of current Community Board members, please visit the journal webpage at: rsc.li/nanoscale-horizons

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Horizons Community Board Collection – Advanced Energy Storage Technologies

24 Sep 2019

New in 2019, we are delighted to continue a series of post-publication online article collections, led by our Community Board members across both Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons.

The Community Boards that support both Horizons journals aim to provide a platform for early career researchers to share their experiences and ideas on scientific publishing. Working together and sharing their unique expertise, our Community Board members have recommended several key topics where significant, rapid progress has been made in the last 2 years. They have selected top articles published in the Horizons journals to showcase the most important advances in each topic area.

Advanced Energy Storage Technologies

Vipin Kumar and Kai Zhu present the third Horizons Community Board Collection:

Horizons Community Board Collection – Advanced Energy Storage Technologies

“The ever-increasing demand for energy has driven the development of energy-storage technologies to go beyond Li-ion batteries. As a consequence, a plethora of advanced energy storage technologies have emerged in recent years, for instance Li-S, Na-air, and Zn-air, as well as other flexible/wearable supercapacitors. Li-S batteries promise ultra-high energy density (e.g., many-fold higher than that of commercial Li-ion batteries), while the next-generation supercapacitors offer improved performance with additional functionality and could be a potential contender for future energy intensive applications.

This themed collection compiles recent research and review articles focused mainly on electrochemical energy storage using batteries, i.e., post Li-ion batteries, and flexible/wearable supercapacitors beyond H-ion and Li-ion. These reports show that the high performance energy storage solutions are urgently required to satisfy the growing demand for portable energy. We hope that this themed collection will provide valuable information to the readers, and could help to drive future developments in the field of energy storage.”

Vipin Kumar and Kai Zhu

Guest Editors

Materials Horizons Community Board member Dr Vipin Kumar received his PhD in Materials Science from School of Materials Science and Engineering in NTU Singapore in 2016. He then worked as a research fellow from 2016 to 2017 in NTU Singapore. He was awarded Inspire Faculty Award, from Department of Science & Technology (DST) India in 2017. He moved to Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR) Singapore in 2017, and worked as a Scientist for nearly 2 years. He is currently working as Assistant Professor in Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar (IIT BBS), India. He has contributed in various research projects, including electrochemical energy storage using oxide-nanomaterials, miniaturized gas sensors devices based on nanowires and nanosheets assembly, and alkali metal anodes for high performance batteries. His current research interests lie in electrochemical energy storage using metal-sulfur batteries (e.g., Na-S), and flexible and stretchable chemical vapour sensors based on layered materials for environmental applications.

Materials Horizons Community Board member Dr Kai Zhu received his Ph.D. from Jilin University, China and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan in 2016. At present, he is an Assistant Professor at College of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Engineering University. His research interests mainly focus on design and synthesis of advanced materials for electrochemical energy storage.

We hope you enjoy reading this collection.

See our other Horizons Community Board Collections:

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Horizons Community Board Collection – Emerging 2D Materials for Energy and Electronics Applications

09 Jul 2019

New in 2019, we are delighted to continue a series of post-publication online article collections, led by our Community Board members across both Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons.

Emerging 2D Materials for Energy and Electronics Applications

Li Li, Tianyi Ma, and Nan Zhang present the second Horizons Community Board Collection:

Horizons Community Board Collection – Emerging 2D Materials for Energy and Electronics Applications

“2D nanomaterials, including carbon-based materials, metal, metal oxide (sulfide), and black phosphorus (BP) et al., have aroused extensive interests in energy and electronics applications due to their attractive structure-dependent properties.

In this themed collection, we are compiling some noteworthy articles focused on sensors, lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors, photo(electro)catalysis, photodetector, electronics and optoelectronics. As typical 2D carbon materials, graphene and doping graphene exhibit high performance in these fields, as indicated by Li et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C6MH00587J) and Chua et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C7MH00068E) in their research works published in Materials Horizons. 2D metal and metal sulfide materials as illustrated through the research works of Chen et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00091J) and Li et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00419F) have shown two-dimensional geometric structure together with unique physical properties, which make the material quite a promising candidate for applications in electronics and optoelectronics. Lou et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C3MH00077J) provided an effective approach with SnO₂ nanosheets to increase the energy density of the integrated electrodes. A review article about 2D BP published by Zhou et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C6MH00358C) summarized the recent developments in the study of BP, which covered the state-of-the-art synthesis methods for preparing single-layer or few-layer BP, the recent advances in characterizing its electronic, optical and mechanical properties, and the reported functional devices utilizing such properties. Since these research works show that these emerging 2D materials have excellent performance and prospect, it will be important to see how they enrich the future of energy and electronics applications.

We hope that readers will obtain valuable information from this themed collection.”

Li Li, Tianyi Ma, and Nan Zhang

Guest Editors

Nanoscale Horizons Community Board Member Dr Li Li received his Ph.D. degree from Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 2012 and finished his two-year postdoc work in Cornell University in 2014. His current research interests include advanced nanomaterials fabrication technology and its applications for energy storage/conversion. He was awarded with 2015 TMS Yong Leader Professional Development Award and serves in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Nanoscale Horizons Community Board and Editorial Board of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions.

Materials Horizons Community Board member Dr Tianyi Ma received his PhD in Physical Chemistry in 2013 from Nankai University, China. Then he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow from 2013 to 2014 in University of Adelaide, Australia. He was awarded Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) in 2015, and continued independent research on the rational design of nanostructured materials with a large variety of components from carbons, metals, metal oxides, organic polymers, to metal–organic frameworks. He is currently a lecturer in Discipline of Chemistry, University of Newcastle. His current interest lies on the energy and environment related applications of functional materials including catalysis, adsorption and separation, and energy conversion and storage. He authored more than 100 peer review journal articles in this area with an h-index of 39.

Materials Horizons Community Board member Professor Nan Zhang received her PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry in 2016 at the State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, Fuzhou University, China. Then she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow from 2016 to 2017 at National University of Singapore. She was supported by the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents in 2017 and worked on the optical property optimization of nanostructured metal materials toward the applications in photocatalysis. She is currently a full professor working at College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, China. Her main research interests include the fabrication of carbon-based composites and metal nanostructures with scattering-mediated optical response for solar energy conversion.

We hope you enjoy reading this collection.

See our other Horizons Community Board Collection: Nanobiomedicine here.

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