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Congratulations to the winners of the RSC poster prizes at AsiaNANO 2022

The 2022 Asian Conference on Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (AsiaNANO 2022) took place in Busan, South Korea from 9–11 November 2022. Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale, Nanoscale Advances, Materials Horizons, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, Materials Advances, Energy Advances and EES Catalysis, and were delighted to support poster prizes at this event and we would like to congratulate the eight winners!

 

Youngdo Jeong.

 

Nanoscale Horizons Poster Prize

Youngdo Jeong (Korea Institute of Science and Technology)
Poster Title: “Direct cellular penetration of supramolecular nanomachine via molecular movements”

Youngdo Jeong is a Senior Research Scientist at Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2014), US. After 4 years of industrial research career developing biosensors at LG Chem, he moved to KIST. His recent research focuses on the development of diagnostic kits, bio-adhesives, and nanozymes by mimicking biological functional modules such as genes, proteins, and enzymes.

Joungpyo Lim.

 

Nanoscale Poster Prize

Joungpyo Lim (Sogang University)
Poster Title: “Bionanohybrid Structure for Spatiotemporal Control of Cell Differentiation and Spatial Input Signal Recognition of Neurospheroid”

Joungpyo Lim is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Sogang University, under the supervision of Professor Jeong-Woo Choi. He obtained his B. S. (2018) and M. S. (2020) from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Sogang University. His current research focused on the development and characterization of light-responsive biohybrid materials for bioelectronic applications, such as bio-solar cells and biohybrid robots with nanomaterial-introduced organoids.

Hyeonjin Park.

 

Nanoscale Advances Poster Prize

Hyeonjin Park (Sungkyunkwan University)
Poster Title: “Multivalency-Induced Shape Deformation of Nanoscale Lipid Vesicles: Size-Dependent Membrane Bending Effects”

Hyeonjin Park is a Ph.D. student in the school of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, under the supervision of Assist. Prof. Jackman Joshua A. She is in the Dual-Ph. D. program in Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, under the supervision of Prof. Cho Nam-Joon. She also serves as a member of the Translational Nanobioscience Research Center at Sungkyunkwan University. She got her B. S. degree from the school of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (2020). Her current research has focused on developing lipid nanoparticle platfroms with engineered biophysical and nanomechanical membrane properities for pharmaceutical drug and vaccine delivery.

Jongwoo Nam.

 

Materials Horizons Poster Prize

Jongwoo Nam (Seoul National University)
Poster Title: “Observation of orbital gating in Ferrocene-alkanethiolate self-assembled monolayer-based molecular junctions with ion gel”

Jongwoo Nam is Ph.D student in Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University (SNU), under the supervision of Professor Takhee Lee. He received his B.S. in Physics and Astronomy, Computer Science and Engineering at SNU, Korea. His current research interests are the electrical properties of self-assembled monolayers molecular junctions and their development into neuromorphic devices.

Minkyu Shin.

 

Journal of Materials Chemistry B Poster Prize

Minkyu Shin (Sogang University)
Poster Title: “Nanobiohybrid electroactive actuator for the motion performance enhancement using gold nanoparticle-embedded muscle bundle and electrochemical actuator”

Minkyu Shin is a Ph. D. Candidate in Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Sogang University, South Korea. He received his M. S. in Sogang University, South Korea, under the supervision of Prof. Jeong-Woo Choi. His recent research mainly focuses on the development of bio-actuators composed of muscle cells and inorganic materials, biohybrid robot with nanomaterial-based brain organoid, and electrophysiological signal control of brain organoid. Prior to his current work, he worked on electrochemical enzymatic biosensors and bioelectronic devices to demonstrate the specific electronic functions by using the hybridization of biomolecules and nanomaterials.

Chan Jae Shin.

 

Materials Advances Poster Prize

Chan Jae Shin (Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology)
Poster Title: “Stench odor measurement and reduction technology based on ICT”

Chan Jae Shin is an MS student at the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) where he is studying biosensors that detect environmental substances using 2D material field-effect transistors. Recently, research is being conducted to fabricate a sensitive sensor that can detect blue-green algae early. Prior to this he was a BS student in the Department of Optics and Mechatronics Engineering, Pusan National University, where their undergraduate studies were conducted to detect neurotransmitters using electrochemical sensors. He wishes to learn more various things as a student and do research that is helpful for real life in the future.

Yunsoo Kim.

 

Energy Advances Poster Prize

Yunsoo Kim (Hanyang University)
Poster Title: “Platinum-based EUV mask absorber for high-NA EUV lith”

Yunsoo Kim is in the integrated master and doctor course in the Division of Materials Science and Engineering at Hanyang university of South Korea, under the supervision of Professor Jinho Ahn. She received her Bachelor of Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Hanyang university (2020). In her undergraduate studies, she studied electronic device materials such as MOSFET and semiconductor device fabrication including lithography. Her recent research focuses on EUV mask for the next generation EUV lithography, especially optical simulation of imaging by material and structural characteristics, and fabrication evaluation of mask absorbers.

Hungu Kang.

 

EES Catalysis  Poster Prize

Hungu Kang (Korea University)
Poster Title: “Resistive Random Access Memory Device Based on Coordinative Molecular Junction”

Hungu Kang received B.Sc. in chemistry from the Hanyang University in 2007. After finishing his Ph.D. at Hanyang University in 2014, he pursued postdoctoral course at Leibniz University, Germany from 2015 to 2016. After pursuing postdoctoral studies at Hanyang University until 2018, he joined the Prof. Hyo Jae Yoon group in 2018. His current research interests lie on surface engineering and molecular electronics.

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Nanoscale Horizons: Looking back at 2022

Looking back at 2022

An overview of the exciting events, activities and news for Nanoscale Horizons from 2022

Now that 2022 has come to an end, we look back at some of the exciting events, activities and news from Nanoscale Horizons. We are continually thankful for the nano community’s engagement, which has enabled the journal to continue to support our growing community. We look forward to another great year for the journal in 2023.

Read our editorial looking back at 2022

 

Board updates

Professor Michael Sailor (University of California, San Diego, USA) and Professor Sarah Tolbert (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) completed their final terms as members of the Nanoscale Horizons Editorial Board and joined our Advisory Board. We would like to thank them both for their excellent service to the journal and community over many years and look forward to continuing to work with them in their new role.Professor Michael Sailor and Professor Sarah Tolbert.

 

Outstanding paper award

We were delighted to announce Sara E. Skrabalak and her team, Jin-Hong Park and his team, and Katsuhiko Ariga as the winners of our 2021 Outstanding Paper Awards earlier this year.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the 2021 Outstanding Paper Award and we hope that you enjoy reading their outstanding articles as much as we did.

Nanoscale Horizons Outstanding Paper Award promotional graphic.

Outstanding reviewers

We recognized the significant contributions that our reviewers have made to the journal and highlighted the 2021 Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale Horizons. We once again thank all of Nanoscale Horizons’ reviewers and acknowledge their invaluable support in providing high quality, timely and helpful reports on submissions to the journal, thereby, ensuring that we continue to publish high quality articles.

We sincerely thank our top reviewers for taking their valuable time to provide high quality reports on the papers and, therefore, ensure a high quality of publications for the journal. Only with their contributions can Nanoscale Horizons belong among the top journals in the field.” – Professor Dr Katharina Landfester, Editorial Board Chair

Community board collections

This year we featured research on antimicrobial materials and surfaces in a collection guest edited by Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons Community Board members Ignacio Insua (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) and Ignacio Martín-Fabiani (Loughborough University, UK).

Dr Ignacio Insua and Dr Ignacio Martín-Fabiani.

Emerging investigator series

In 2022 we launched a new series on Nanoscale Horizons to showcase the exceptional work published by early-career (i.e., less than ten years post PhD) researchers in the journal. The series will regularly highlight the corresponding author of a recently published Communication article through an interview-style Editorial.

Our first Emerging Investigator in the series, Dr Huiyuan Zhu (University of Virginia, USA) spoke to us about her research, career advice and hobbies in our first Emerging Investigator interview. We then spoke to Dr Sukjoon Hong and Dr Joonmyung Choi (Hanyang University, South Korea) in our second Emerging Investigator interview.

Dr Huiyuan Zhu, Dr Sukjoon Hong and Dr Joonmyung Choi.

If you are eligible and interested in submitting a paper for potential inclusion in the series, please do contact the Editorial office (nanoscalehorizons-rsc@rsc.org) for details.

Journal metrics

This year we were pleased to see that the Nanoscale Horizons’ impact factor increased to 11.684 in the 2021 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2022), with over 19.5k monthly downloads and 50% open access content. These are just a few of the many metrics that can be used to measure the journal’s reach, quality and impact.

Nanoscale Horizons metrics based on 2021 data promotional graphic.

Focus articles

Finally, discover our latest educational articles, addressing topic areas that are often misunderstood or require greater explanation, in the Nanoscale Horizons Focus Article Collection.

 

The Nanoscale Horizons team wish you a Happy New Year!

With best wishes,
Professor Dr Katharina Landfester, Editorial Board Chair
Professor Wenlong Cheng, Scientific Editor
Professor Yves Dufrêne, Scientific Editor
Professor Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Scientific Editor
Professor Dr Dirk Guldi, Scientific Editor
Professor Zhiyong Tang, Scientific Editor
Professor Jinlan Wang, Scientific Editor
Professor Miqin Zhang, Editorial Board Member
Dr Heather Montgomery, Managing Editor
Mr Edward Gardner, Development Editor

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Congratulations to the winners of the Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons poster prizes at MH-22

The 2nd International Conference on Materials for Humanity (MH-22) took place online and in person from 19–21 September 2022 at National University of Singapore, Singapore. Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons were delighted to support student poster prizes at this event and we would like to congratulate the two winners!

Chen Jiusi

 

Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons Poster Prize

Chen Jiusi (National University of Singapore)
Poster Title: “Thermo-responsive Hydrogel with Efficient Spontaneous Water Release for Atmospheric Water Harvesting”

Chen Jiusi is a MSc student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at National University of Singapore, under the supervision of Professor Xue Junmin. She got her B. Eng. in Functional Materials from Donghua University. In her undergraduate studies, she gained experience with biomedical textile materials and technology such as antibacterial hydrogels and transcatheter textile-based artificial aortic valves. Before coming to NUS, she worked as a research assistant at Innovation Centre of Textile Science, DHU. Her current research focuses on thermo-responsive hydrogels for atmospheric water harvesting and cooling. She is looking forward to pursuing a PhD in relevant fields.

Stener Lie

 

Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons Poster Prize

Stener Lie (Nanyang Technological University)
Poster Title: “Semitransparent Perovskite Solar Cells with >13% Efficiency and 27% Transperancy Using Plasmonic Au Nanorods”

Stener Lie is a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Lydia Helena Wong. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering (2015) and Ph.D. (2020) in Materials Science and Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His recent research focuses on the fabrication and characterization of novel materials for optoelectronic applications, such as emerging chalcogenides for solar cells or solar water splitting, semi-transparent perovskite solar cells, and p-type transparent conducting materials. Prior to his current work, he worked on improving the performance of kesterite solar cells by defect engineering, specifically through doping and alloying methods.

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Congratulations to the winners of the Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale, Materials Horizons and Journal of Materials Chemistry A poster prizes at MXene 2022

The 2nd International MXene Conference at Drexel University (MXene 2022) took place online and in person from 1–3 August 2022. Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale, Materials Horizons and Journal of Materials Chemistry A were delighted to support student poster prizes at this event and we would like to congratulate the four winners!

Mikhail Shekhirev

 

Nanoscale Horizons Poster Prize

Mikhail Shekhirev (Drexel University)
Poster Title: “Synthesis of large flakes of Ti3C2Tx MXene”

Mikhail Shekhirev is a Research Associate in the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute under the mentorship of Dr. Yury Gogotsi. Prior to joining Dr. Gogotsi’s research group in 2019, he obtained B.Sc. in Materials Science (2008) and M.S. in Chemistry (2010) from Moscow State University and Ph.D. in Chemistry (2017) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Having experience with various nanomaterials, such as graphene, graphene nanoribbons, quantum dots, his current research is focused on synthesis and characterization of 2D transition metal carbides and carbonitrides (MXenes).

Kiandokht Pakravan

 

Nanoscale Poster Prize

Kiandokht Pakravan (Auburn University)
Poster Title: “Effect of Surface Chemistry on Water Permeability and Ion Rejection Through the MXene Membranes”

I’m Kiandokht Pakravan, a first-year Ph.D. student of Materials Engineering at Auburn University. I got my B. Sc in Mechanical Engineering from Iran. At the end of my undergraduate study, I got more familiar with 2D materials and their fantastic behavior in different applications, then I decided to continue my education by working on one of the new 2D materials. I started my Ph.D. in 2021 and decided to address one of the global problems, so I started working on working on MXenes membranes and their different applications in separation, water desalination, and organic solvent nanofiltration.

Lingyi Bi

 

Materials Horizons Poster Prize

Lingyi Bi (Drexel University)
Poster Title: “Scalable Production of MXene Dip-Coated Yarns and Cords”

Lingyi Bi is a PhD candidate at Drexel University, co-advised by Prof. Yury Gogotsi, director of A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, and Prof. Geneviève Dion, director of Center for Functional Fabrics. She received her BS in Textile Engineering from Donghua University and MS in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship from Brown University. Before coming to Drexel, she worked in textile R&D in fashion and sportswear companies. Her PhD research focuses on developing functional fibers, yarns, and fabrics by incorporating a new family of two-dimensional materials, MXenes.

And finally, congratualtions to Mark Anayee (Drexel University) for winning the Journal of Materials Chemistry A Poster Prize.

 

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Professor Dirk M. Guldi receives the Linstead Career Award in Phthalocyanine Chemistry

Congratulations to Nanoscale Horizons Scientific Editor Professor Dirk M. Guldi, who has received the 2022 Linstead Career Award in Phthalocyanine Chemistry as part of the 12th International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines! The award is given to highly distinguished scientists, for the quality and trajectory of their research throughout their academic career.

Benoit Habermeyer, Karl M. Kadish, Dirk M. Guldi and Jonathan L. Sessler.

Professor Dirk M. Guldi receives the 2022 Linstead Career Award in Phthalocyanine Chemistry. Pictured from left to right: Dr Benoit Habermeyer, Professor Karl M. Kadish, Professor Dirk M. Guldi and Professor Jonathan L. Sessler.

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Congratulations to the winners of the Nanoscale Horizons Presentation Award at the 20th Annual Meeting of Society of Nano Science and Technology

The 20th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nano Science and Technology took place online from 20–22 May 2022. Nanoscale Horizons was delighted to support a Presentation Award at this event, intended for early career researchers, and we would like to congratulate the two winners who both received a glass plaque as part of the award!

Professor Yoichi Kobayashi Professor Yuya Tanaka
Professor Yoichi Kobayashi (Ritsumeikan University)
Presentation Title: “Quasi-reversible photoelimination of organic ligands of semiconductor nanocrystals”
Professor Yuya Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Presentation Title: “Development of redox-responsive organometallic molecular switches”
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Nanoscale Horizons: Looking back at 2021

Looking back at 2021

An overview of the exciting events, activities and news for Nanoscale Horizons from 2021

We would like to share some of the exciting events, activities and news for Nanoscale Horizons from 2021 with you. Thank you for your engagement last year and for enabling the journal to continue to support the community. We look forward to another great year for the journal in 2022.

Board updates

Professor Jang-Kyo Kim, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, completed his final term as a member of the Nanoscale Horizons Editorial Board and joined our Advisory Board. We would like to thank him for his excellent service to the journal and community over many years.

Along with Professor Kim, we welcomed two other new Nanoscale Horizons Advisory Board members in order to better represent the ever-increasing diversity of our authors and readers.

Dong Qin, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Manzhou Zhu, Anhui University, China

A full list of the Nanoscale Horizons Advisory Board members can be found here.

Outstanding paper award

Following on from the success of our inaugural Nanoscale Horizons Outstanding Paper Award last year, we were delighted to introduce the winners of our 2020 Outstanding Paper Award.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the 2020 Outstanding Paper Award and we hope that you enjoy reading their outstanding articles as much as we did.

Outstanding reviewers

Nanoscale Horizons once again recognised the significant contributions that our reviewers have made to the journal and highlighted the 2020 Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale Horizons in this Editorial.

Community board collections

We published two collections on topics selected by the Community Board members of Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons:

  • Solar Energy Conversion, Guest Edited by Rebecca Gieseking (Brandeis University, USA), Alexandra Ramadan (University of Oxford, UK) and Jungki Ryu (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea).
  • Optical and Photonic Materials, Guest Edited by Xiaolu Zhuo (CIC biomaGUNE, Spain), Li Na Quan (Virginia Tech, USA) and Qingchen Dong (Shanghai University, China).

Horizons journal club

We held our first Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons Journal Club. The format aims to encourage discussion of the cutting-edge research published in the journals and fosters community engagement between our authors and readers.

The first event focussed on energy storage and conversion and featured following speakers and papers. It was hosted and chaired by members of our early-career Community Board and supported by our Editorial Board.

Focus articles

Finally, discover our latest educational articles, addressing topic areas that are often misunderstood or require greater explanation, in the Nanoscale Horizons Focus Article Collection.

 

The Nanoscale Horizons team wish you a Happy New Year!

 

With best wishes,

Dr Heather Montgomery

Managing Editor, Nanoscale Horizons

 

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Nanoscale Horizons Outstanding Paper Award 2020

Celebrating the exceptional work published in Nanoscale Horizons

Our annual Outstanding Paper Award celebrates some of the exceptional work published in Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons, and the authors behind those articles. The winners were chosen by the Editorial and Advisory Boards based on the science presented and the work’s potential future impact, from papers published in 2020.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the 2020 Outstanding Paper Award and we hope that you enjoy reading their outstanding articles as much as we did.

Nanoscale Horizons Outstanding Article 2020

Lead-free, stable, high-efficiency (52%) blue luminescent FA3Bi2Br9 perovskite quantum dots

Yalong Shen, Jun Yin, Bo Cai, Ziming Wang, Yuhang Dong, Xiaobao Xu and Haibo Zeng

Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, 5, 580–585

 

Nanoscale Horizons Outstanding Article runner-up 2020

The biomolecule corona of lipid nanoparticles contains circulating cell-free DNA

Lois Gardner, Jessica Warrington, Jane Rogan, Dominic G. Rothwell, Ged Brady, Caroline Dive, Kostas Kostarelos and Marilena Hadjidemetriou

Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, 5, 1476–1486

 

Nanoscale Horizons Outstanding Review 2020

Dynamic DNA nanotechnology: toward functional nanoscale devices

Marcello DeLuca, Ze Shi, Carlos E. Castro and Gaurav Arya

Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, 5, 182–201

 

Read more about the prize winners and their research in our Editorial. Our sister journal Materials Horizons has also announced its Outstanding Paper Award winners . You can read all of the Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons 2020 Outstanding Papers in our joint themed online collection.

 

Read the collection

We hope you enjoy reading these articles.

Best wishes,

Dr Michaela Mühlberg

Executive Editor, Nanoscale Horizons

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Nanoscale Horizons 2018 Outstanding Paper awards

Nanoscale Horizons publishes exceptionally high quality, innovative nanoscience from top researchers in the field. From this year onwards, we would like to take the opportunity to recognize some of the outstanding work published in the journal, as well as the authors behind those articles, by annually awarding an Outstanding Paper prize.

We would like to introduce you to the winners of the 2018 Outstanding Paper awards and hope that you enjoy reading their outstanding articles as much as we did. Read the collection here and meet the authors of the Nanoscale Horizons winning paper and runner-up in this Editorial article.

Please join us in congratulating our winners.

Selection Criteria

In order to choose the most outstanding papers of 2018, we put together a shortlist of articles published during the year based on the science presented and the article metrics including average article downloads and citations, and Altmetrics. The shortlist was reviewed by the journal’s Editorial and Advisory Board members. Based on this, and on the high quality of content we published throughout the year, we have chosen to award not only our most Outstanding Paper, but also a runner-up and an Outstanding Review in 2018.

Nanoscale Horizons Outstanding Paper 2018:

None of us is the same as all of us: resolving the heterogeneity of extracellular vesicles using single-vesicle, nanoscale characterization with resonance enhanced atomic force microscope infrared spectroscopy (AFM-IR)

Sally Yunsun Kim, Dipesh Khanal, Priyanka Tharkar, Bill Kalionis and Wojciech Chrzanowski*

DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00048D

In this paper, the authors propose an innovative approach using resonance enhanced atomic force microscope infrared spectroscopy to identify the nanoscale structural composition of extracellular vesicles (EVs). The particular strength of this methodology is that it is a label-free and ultra-high sensitivity technique that has the power to measure individual EV heterogeneity. New insights gained by this method into EV heterogeneity will have a profound impact not only on basic understanding of EV biology but also on disease diagnostics and the emerging area of EV-therapies.

Nanoscale Horizons Outstanding Paper runner-up 2018:

A location- and sharpness-specific tactile electronic skin based on staircase-like nanowire patches

Shu GongYan Wang, Lim Wei Yap, Yunzhi Ling, Yunmeng Zhao, Dashen Dong, Qianqian Shi, Yiyi Liu, Hemayet Uddin and Wenlong Cheng*

DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00125A

The article reports on a tactile electronic skin sensor based on staircase-like vertically aligned gold nanowires. With a back-to-back linear or spiral assembly of two staircase structures into a single sensor, the authors were able to recognize pressure in a highly location-specific manner for both non-stretched and stretched states opening up a new route to highly specific second-skin-like tactile sensors for wearable sensing applications.

Nanoscale Horizons Outstanding Review 2018:

Multifunctional nanozymes: enzyme-like catalytic activity combined with magnetism and surface plasmon resonance

Jiangjiexing Wu, Sirong Li and Hui Wei*

DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00070K

The review highlights the progress in the field of nanozymes based on two representative types of multifunctional nanozyme – iron oxide nanomaterials with magnetic properties and metal nanomaterials with surface plasmon resonance – including current and future applications as well as challenges.

 

Last but not least, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the authors who have trusted us with publishing their work in Nanoscale Horizons over the last years.

Professor Harold Craighead, Editorial Board Chair

Dr Michaela Mühlberg, Managing Editor

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Update on the nanoscale journal family, 2019

Here’s a quick update on the nanoscale journal family to let you know how we are doing and what to look out for later in 2019.

Following our first (partial) impact factor last year, we are pleased to announce that our first full impact factor is 9.095*!

Other news from 2019:

 

We are celebrating our 10th Anniversary this year!

Look out for our celebrations at ChinaNANO 2019. In the meantime, why not have a read of these collections highlighting the most highly cited articles published in Nanoscale since we launched in 2009, as well as recent articles by some of our most prolific authors.

Other news from 2019:

  • Our latest impact factor is 6.970*.
  • Chunying Chen, Dong Ha Kim, and Umesh Waghmare were appointed as Associate Editors.
  • We’ve been publishing guest edited online themed collections:
    • Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals, guest edited by Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, Qiao Zhang, and Roman Krahne.
    • Nanocarbons, guest edited by Nianjun Yang, Dai-Wen Pang, and Yasuaki Einaga.
    • Still to come…10th Anniversary Special Issue in October 2019, guest edited by Chunli Bai, Markus Niederberger, Francesco Stellacci, and Dirk Guldi.

 

We’ve published our first issues and we are delighted to see such a great response from the community. Thank you for supporting the Royal Society of Chemistry’s first journal to be Gold Open Access from launch!

Other news from 2019:

  • We’ve collated the Most Popular Articles published in the journal so far in an online article collection.
  • The journal has been accepted into the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and has also been accepted for inclusion in Scopus and the Emerging Sources Index in Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics.

 

Come and meet us

Members of the Editorial Team will be attending the following conferences in the coming months. Get in touch if you want to arrange a meeting, or just come over and say hello! You can also keep up to date on where the Editorial Team and our Associate Editors will be by following us on Twitter.

Get in touch if you have any feedback on the nanoscale journal family: we would love to hear from you so email us at nanoscale-rsc@rsc.org.

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