Dr Jovana Milić has been an Associate Professor at the University of Turku in Finland since September 2024 (as an ERC Starting Grantee and the Research Council of Finland Fellow) and Group Leader at the Adolphe Merke Institute of the University of Fribourg in Switzerland (Swiss National Science Foundation PRIMA Fellow) since September 2020. Her research is centered around the development of smart and sustainable materials for renewable energy technologies, with a particular focus on photovoltaics. This has involved supramolecular strategies in stimuli-responsive framework materials through a multidisciplinary approach at the interface of chemistry, physics, material science, and engineering. She has been recognized by a number of honors and awards, such as the Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship 2024, Zeno Karl Schindler Prize 2021, Green Talent Award 2020, and CAS Future Leader 2019. In addition to research and international collaborations, she is invested in science for policy and diplomacy as a member of Swiss, European, and Global Young Academies, as well as the International Science Council Fellow, dedicated to connecting and supporting scientists globally.

Resistive switching memories with enhanced durability enabled by mixed-dimensional perfluoroarene perovskite heterostructures

Michalis Loizos,  Konstantinos Rogdakis,    Weifan Luo,  Paul Zimmermann,   Alexander Hinderhofer,  Jovan Lukić,    Marinos Tountas,  Frank Schreiber,    Jovana V. Milić  and  Emmanuel Kymakis  
Nanoscale Horiz., 2024,9, 1146-1154; 10.1039/D4NH00104D

Unlocking the secrets of porous silicon formation: insights into magnesiothermic reduction mechanism using in situ powder X-ray diffraction studies

Sarah A. Martell, Maximilian Yan, Robert H. Coridan, Kevin H. Stone,  Siddharth V. Patwardhan, and Mita Dasog. Nanoscale Horiz., 2024,9, 1833-1842. DOI: 10.1039/D4NH00244J

Green synthesis of iron-doped graphene quantum dots: an efficient nanozyme for glucose sensing

Xinqi Li, Guanyou Lin, Lijun Zhou , Octavia Prosser  Mohammad H. Malakooti, and Miqin Zhang
Nanoscale Horiz., 2024, DOI: 10.1039/D4NH00024B

Sources of biases in the in vitro testing of nanomaterials: the role of the biomolecular corona

Valentina Castagnola,  Valeria Tomati,  Luca Boselli,  Clarissa Braccia,e Sergio Decherchi,  Pier Paolo Pompa, Nicoletta Pedemonte,  Fabio Benfenati  and Andrea Armirotti.
Nanoscale Horiz., 2024,9, 799-816; doi.org/10.1039/D3NH00510K

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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