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!

Introducing the Nanoscale Horizons Emerging Investigator Series

Congratulations to our first Emerging Investigator Dr Huiyuan Zhu (Virginia Tech, 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.

This year we are launching 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 first Emerging Investigator, Dr Huiyuan Zhu (Virginia Tech, USA)!

Dr Huiyuan Zhu received her BS degree in chemistry from the University of Science and Technology in China (2009), and her PhD from Brown University (2014). From 2014 to 2018, she was one of the inaugural Liane B. Russell Fellows and then a staff scientist in the Nanomaterials Chemistry Group, Chemical Sciences Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She has been an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University since 2018. In August 2022, she moved to the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of Chemistry. Her research interests focus on tailoring multifunctional nanostructures for catalysis, energy conversion, and chemical transformation. She has received the 2022 NSF CAREER award. She is also a recipient of the 2020 Jeffress Trust award, the 2020 Ralph E Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, the 2020 Doctoral New Investigator Award of the ACS Petroleum Research Foundation, and recognized as the 2020 Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigator and in the 2021 Class of Influential Researchers from Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Read our interview with Huiyuan here

Congratulations to Dr Huiyuan Zhu for her excellent work! You can read her featured Emerging Investigator article from Nanoscale Horizons below.

Heterostructured Bi–Cu2S nanocrystals for efficient CO2 electroreduction to formate Xue Han, Tianyou Mou, Shikai Liu, Mengxia Ji, Qiang Gao, Qian He, Hongliang Xin and Huiyuan Zhu Nanoscale Horizons, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D1NH00661D

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

With best wishes,

Dr Heather Montgomery
Managing Editor, Nanoscale Horizons