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.

Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series

Congratulations to our latest Emerging Investigator Dr Leslie Schoop (Princeton 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.

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, Dr Leslie Schoop (Princeton University, USA)!

Dr Leslie Schoop received her Diploma in Chemistry from Johannes Gutenberg University and PhD in Chemistry from Princeton University.  She then went on to work as a Minerva fast-track fellow under Professor Bettina Lotsch at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. Leslie joined the Princeton University Department of Chemistry Faculty in 2017 and was tenured in 2022. The Schoop Lab is working at the interface of chemistry and physics, using chemical principles to find new materials with exotic physical properties.

Read our interview with Leslie here

Congratulations to Dr Leslie Schoop for her excellent work! You can read her featured Emerging Investigator article from Nanoscale Horizons below, which is fully open access and free to read.

Chemical exfoliation of 1-dimensional antiferromagnetic nanoribbons from a non-van der Waals material Mulan Yang, Guangming Cheng, Nitish Mathur, Ratnadwip Singha, Fang Yuan, Nan Yao and Leslie M. Schoop Nanoscale Horiz., 2024, DOI: 10.1039/D3NH00408B

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.

Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series

Congratulations to our latest Emerging Investigator Dr Baisheng Sa (Fuzhou University, 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, Dr Baisheng Sa (Fuzhou University, China)!

Dr Baisheng Sa received his B.Sc. (2008) in Materials Science and Engineering and Ph.D. (2014) in Materials Physics and Chemistry from Xiamen University. He is currently a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Fuzhou University. His research focuses on integrated computational modelling, density functional theory calculations and machine learning design of novel low-dimensional materials and van der Waals heterostructures for energy, environment, and electronic applications.

Read our interview with Baisheng here

Congratulations to Dr Baisheng Sa 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 May 2024.

Contact engineering for 2D Janus MoSSe/metal junctions Yu Shu, Ting Li, Naihua Miao, Jian Gou, Xiaochun Huang, Zhou Cui, Rui Xiong, Cuilian Wen, Jian Zhou, Baisheng Sa and Zhimei Sun Nanoscale Horiz., 2024, DOI: 10.1039/ D3NH00450C

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.

Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series

Congratulations to our latest Emerging Investigator Dr Shalini Singh (University of Limerick, Ireland)!

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 Shalini Singh (University of Limerick, Ireland)!

Dr Shalini Singh is an associate professor in Chemistry at the University of Limerick. She received her PhD in chemistry from the University of Limerick in 2016 and was an FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, Belgium, until 2019. Since 2020, she has been leading the Functional Nanomaterial Research Group at the University of Limerick. Her research interests are focused on the development of multifunctional nanocrystals for energy conversion and storage applications.

Read our interview with Shalini here

Congratulations to Dr Shalini Singh for her excellent work! You can read her featured Emerging Investigator article from Nanoscale Horizons below, which is fully open access and free to read.

Colloidal synthesis of the mixed ionic–electronic conducting NaSbS2 nanocrystals Maria Zubair, Syed Abdul Ahad, Ibrahim Saana Amiinu, Vasily A. Lebedev, Mohini Mishra, Hugh Geaney, Shalini Singh and Kevin M. Ryan Nanoscale Horiz., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NH00097D

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.

Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series

Congratulations to our latest Emerging Investigator Dr Ahu Gümrah Dumanli-Parry (University of Manchester, UK)!

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 Ahu Gümrah Dumanli-Parry (University of Manchester, UK)!

Dr Ahu Gümrah Dumanli-Parry is a Materials Chemist and the first recipient of the bp-ICAM Kathleen Lonsdale Research Fellowship received in 2019 for her work on bio-inspired advanced materials. She obtained her PhD from the Sabanci University, Istanbul and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge and Adolphe Merkle Institute in Switzerland. Dr Dumanli-Parry’s research group focuses on understanding of the self-assembly process in nature and mimicking it to produce structurally ordered materials. Dr Dumanli-Parry investigates the complex relationship between the intrinsic properties of colloidal building blocks and the physical effects that modulate the self-assembly process to build active matter for sensing technologies and shape morphing systems as well as light harvesting applications.

Read our interview with Ahu here

Congratulations to Dr Ahu Gümrah Dumanli-Parry for her excellent work! You can read her featured Emerging Investigator article from Nanoscale Horizons below, which is free to access until the end of November 2023.

Edible cellulose-based colorimetric timer Gen Kamita, Silvia Vignolini and Ahu Gümrah Dumanli Nanoscale Horiz., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NH00006K

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.

Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series

Congratulations to our latest Emerging Investigators Dr Luciano Colazzo, Dr Christoph Wolf and Dr Yujeong Bae (IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience, South Korea)!

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 Investigators, Dr Luciano Colazzo, Dr Christoph Wolf and Dr Yujeong Bae (IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience, South Korea)!

Dr Luciano Colazzo is a researcher at the IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience, engaged in the field of nanotechnology chemistry and quantum technologies. His research focuses on the on-surface synthesis of molecular qubit arrays, by enforcing a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses quantum mechanics, molecular chemistry, and surface sciences.

Dr Christoph Wolf is a group leader in the IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience, South Korea. His team focuses on the theory of quantum-coherent nanoscience, a relatively new research field that aims to exploit quantum phenomena at the fundamental limit of matter. He is fascinated by the idea of building quantum machines atom by atom, which might enable us in the future to build quantum computers—and by all the challenges we meet along the way.

Dr Yujeong Bae is a group leader in the Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS), Institute for Basic Science and a research professor at the Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University in South Korea. Her research focuses on functionalizing atomic/molecular spins on surfaces for quantum engineering, including quantum information processing, quantum sensing, and quantum simulation.

Read our interview with Luciano, Christoph and Yujeong here

Congratulations to Dr Luciano Colazzo, Dr Christoph Wolf and Dr Yujeong Bae for their excellent work! You can read their featured Emerging Investigator article from Nanoscale Horizons below, which is free to access until the end of November 2023.

Template-directed 2D nanopatterning of S = 1/2 molecular spins Kyungju Noh, Luciano Colazzo, Corina Urdaniz, Jaehyun Lee, Denis Krylov, Parul Devi, Andrin Doll, Andreas J. Heinrich, Christoph Wolf, Fabio Donati and Yujeong Bae Nanoscale Horizons, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00375A

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.

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.

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.

Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series

Congratulations to our latest Emerging Investigator Dr Ran Long (University of Science and Technology of China, 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.

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 our latest Emerging Investigators, Dr Ran Long (University of Science and Technology of China, China)!

Dr Ran Long received her B.S. in Chemistry in 2009, and her Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry under the tutelage of Professor Yujie Xiong in 2014, both from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Her research interests focus on controlled synthesis and catalytic applications of metal nanocrystals.

Read our interview with Ran here

Congratulations to Dr Ran Long for her excellent work! You can read her featured Emerging Investigator article from Nanoscale Horizons below, which is free to access until the end of September 2023.

Cu and Si co-doping on TiO2 nanosheets to modulate reactive oxygen species for efficient photocatalytic methane conversion Jun Ma, Jingxiang Low, Di Wu, Wanbing Gong, Hengjie Liu, Dong Liu, Ran Long and Yujie Xiong Nanoscale Horizons, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00457G

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.

Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series

Congratulations to our latest Emerging Investigator Dr Kayoko Kobayashi (Kyoto University, Japan)!

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 our latest Emerging Investigators, Dr Kayoko Kobayashi (Kyoto University, Japan)!

Dr Kayoko Kobayashi is an Assistant Professor at the Division of Forest and Biomaterials Science of Kyoto University. Her main research interests are the solid-state structure of wood and other biomaterials and their relationships with physical properties. She earned her PhD from the University of Tokyo in 2014 for her study on crystal structure of hydrated polysaccharides. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Kyoto University, where she focused on image processing and machine learning applied to wood anatomy. Before being appointed to her current position, she returned to the University of Tokyo as a Project Assistant Professor.

Read our interview with Kayoko here

Congratulations to Dr Kayoko Kobayashi for her excellent work! You can read her featured Emerging Investigator article from Nanoscale Horizons below, which is full open access and free to read.

Atomic-scale dents on cellulose nanofibers: the origin of diverse defects in sustainable fibrillar materials Tomoki Ito, Kazuho Daicho, Shuji Fujisawa, Tsuguyuki Saito and Kayoko Kobayashi Nanoscale Horizons, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00355D

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.

Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series

Congratulations to our latest Emerging Investigators Dr Sukjoon Hong and Dr Joonmyung Choi (Hanyang University, South Korea)!

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.

This 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. More details about the Emerging Investigator Series can be found in this editorial.

We are excited to share our our latest Emerging Investigators, Dr Sukjoon Hong and Dr Joonmyung Choi (Hanyang University, South Korea)!

Dr Sukjoon Hong received a BS and MS degree from the Department of Physics at Seoul National University, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2014. After postdoctoral studies at UC Berkeley in 2015, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Hanyang University, ERICA Campus, in South Korea as an Assistant Professor in 2016 and now serves as an Associate Professor at the same department. His research interests emphasize the development of various processing techniques, especially for nanomaterials using optical methods, such as selective laser sintering/ablation of nanoparticles, laser nanowelding/transfer of nanowires, and laser pyrolysis of polymeric substrates for transformative generation of carbon-based nanomaterials.

Dr Joonmyung Choi is an assistant professor at Hanyang University, Ansan, South Korea. He received his BS degree (2010) and PhD (2016) from Seoul National University. Prior to his current position, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at Seoul National University (2016–2017) and a senior researcher at Samsung Electronics (2017–2019). From 2020 to the present, he has served as the editorial director of the CAE and Applied Mechanics Division of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers. Since 2022, he has also served as the associate editor of Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A. His research interests are in the field of structural mechanics, surface and interface characterization, and multiscale modeling.

Read our interview with Sukjoon and Joonmyung here

Congratulations to Dr Sukjoon Hong and Dr Joonmyung Choi for their excellent work! You can read their featured Emerging Investigator article from Nanoscale Horizons below.

Molecular mechanics of Ag nanowire transfer processes subjected to contact loading by a PDMS substrate Minseok Kang, Hyunkoo Lee, Sukjoon Hong and Joonmyung Choi Nanoscale Horizons, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00212D

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