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Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale Horizons in 2019

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale Horizons in 2019, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

 

Dr Wojciech Chrzanowski, The University of Sydney, ORCID: 0000-0001-8050-8821

Dr Rawil F Fakhrullin, Kazan (Idel Buye) Federal University, ORCID: 0000-0003-2015-7649

Dr Sokrates T Pantelides, Vanderbilt University, ORCID: 0000-0002-2963-7545

Dr Emilio M Perez, Fundacion IMDEA Nanociencia, ORCID: 0000-0002-8739-2777

Dr Michael J Sailor, University of California San Diego, ORCID: 0000-0002-4809-9826

Dr Evan Scott, Northwestern University, ORCID: 0000-0002-8945-2892

Dr V. Prasad Shastri, University of Freiburg, ORCID: 0000-0001-5125-9678

Dr Sara Skrabalak, Indiana University Bloomington, ORCID: 0000-0002-1873-100X

Dr Takayuki Uchihashi, Nagoya University, ORCID: 0000-0002-0263-5312

Dr Jianfang Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, ORCID: 0000-0002-2467-8751

 

We would also like to thank the Nanoscale Horizons board and the nanoscience community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

 

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé. You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre

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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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Nanoscale Horizons Collections

Nanoscale Horizons publishes urgent short reports of exceptionally high quality & innovative nanoscience & nanotechnology. To help you find the research that’s important to you, we’ve brought together all of our most recent and ongoing online article collections. We hope you enjoy reading them!

Ongoing Collections

Themed Collections

Other Collections

Check out the online article collections for our sister journals Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances on this blog page.

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Congratulations to the winners of the Nanoscale Horizons Presentation Award at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nano Science and Technology

The 17th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nano Science and Technology took place from 9 – 11th May 2019 in Kagoshima, Japan. 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!

Professor Shinjiro Takano (University of Tokyo)
Presentation Title: “Development of a Precise Transformation Reaction of Gold Superatoms by Hydride Doping: Chemical Modification of Surface ”

Professor Tetsuya Kambe (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Presentation Title: “Superatom Synthesis from Typical Elements Using Dendrimer Templates”

Both winners received a Royal Society of Chemistry book voucher as well as an invitation to join the Royal Society of Chemistry as Members.

from left; Professor Tatsuya Tsukuda (University of Tokyo, President of the Society of Nano Science and Technology), Professor Shinjiro Takano, Professor Tetsuya Kambe, Dr Hiromitsu Urakami (Royal Society of Chemistry).

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Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale Horizons in 2018

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale Horizons in 2018, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

A message from Professor Harold Craighead, Editorial Board Chair:

I am pleased that Nanoscale Horizons is able to recognize the Outstanding Reviewers for 2018. The quality and impact of our journal depends on the quality and timeliness of reviews. Active researchers have many demands on their time, and providing thoughtful reviews of the work of peers is a significant contribution to the readers of the journal and the scientific community. I want to add my thanks to these outstanding reviewers and also thank all of those who have done reviewed manuscripts for Nanoscale Horizons.

Dr Annette Andrieu-Brunsen, Technical University at Darmstadt, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3850-3047
Professor Katsuhiko Ariga, National Institute for Materials Science, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2445-2955
Professor Dhiraj Bhatia, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1478-6417
Professor Jonas Croissant, University of New Mexico, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0489-9829
Dr Renren Deng, Zhejiang University, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8213-6304
Professor Ali Eftekhari, Electrochemical Research Center, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3568-4812
Dr Wee-Jun Ong, Xiamen University, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5124-1934
Professor V. Prasad Shastri, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5125-9678
Dr Mark Swihart, University at Buffalo, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9652-687X
Professor Jianfang Wang, City University of Hong Kong, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2467-8751

 

We would also like to thank the Nanoscale Horizons board and the nanoscience community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

 

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé. You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre.

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Congratulations to the Prize Winners from the Nanoscale Horizons Symposium

Congratulations to the winners of the Nanoscale Horizons poster awards at the Nanoscale Horizons Symposium which was held at the University of California, San Diego on 5th October 2018.

Well done to Geoffrey Hollett (University of California, San Diego – Professor Michael Sailor’s group), Yue Zhang (University of California, San Diego – Professor Liangfang Zhang’s group), and Roberto Brea Fernandez (University of California, San Diego – Neal Devaraj’s group).

Geoffrey Hollett, Yue Zhang, and Roberto Brea Fernandez receive their poster prize awards from Professor Michael Sailor.

The one-day symposium showcased a variety of cutting-edge work in and around the areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology, presented by members of the Nanoscale Horizons Editorial Board and local researchers. Thank you to everyone who attended.

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Nanoscale Horizons first Impact Factor released as 9.391

Nanoscale Horizons is delighted to announce its first Impact Factor is 9.391*.

We are delighted to see the support from the community over the last two years, contributing outstanding articles showcasing new concepts of exceptional significance to the nanoscience readership – thank you!

This first impressive Impact Factor of 9.391*, is a strong indication that Nanoscale Horizons is a leading journal within nanoscience & nanotechnology.

To celebrate we have selected a few recent articles and made these free to access until the end of August – we hope you enjoy reading them.

 

Far-field plasmonic coupling in 2-dimensional polycrystalline plasmonic arrays enables wide tunability with low-cost nanofabrication by Fusheng Zhao, Md Masud Parvez Arnob, Oussama Zenasni, Jingting Li and Wei-Chuan Shih

 

Size dependent surface reconstruction in detonation nanodiamonds by Shery L. Y. Chang, Christian Dwyer, Eiji Ōsawa and Amanda S. Barnard

 

Nanometric building blocks for robust multifunctional molecular junctions by David D. James, Akhtar Bayat, Scott R. Smith, Jean-Christophe Lacroix and Richard L. McCreery

 

pH-Triggered self-assembly and hydrogelation of cyclic peptide nanotubes confined in water micro-droplets by Alejandro Méndez-Ardoy, Juan R. Granja and Javier Montenegro

 

Visible light active nanofibrous membrane for antibacterial wound dressing by Shuai Jiang, Beatriz Chiyin Ma, Wei Huang, Anke Kaltbeitzel, Gönül Kizisavas, Daniel Crespy, Kai A. I. Zhang and Katharina Landfester

 

Read more of our latest articles here.

 


Nanoscale Horizons is a premier journal publishing first reports of exceptionally significant new concepts in nanoscience & nanotechnology.

It is part of the nanoscale family, which also includes Nanoscale (a high impact international journal, publishing high quality research across nanoscience & nanotechnology) and Nanoscale Advances (a new open access journal publishing important advances in nanoscience & nanotechnology).

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Click here to read recent articles describing new concepts in materials science in our sister-journal Materials Horizons (impact factor 13.183*) or sign up to our newsletters for more regular journal-specific updates.

 

*2017 Journal Citation Reports (June 2018) © Clarivate Analytics.

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Highlights from Nanoscale Horizons so far in 2018

 

 

 

 

We are delighted to see the support from the community as you continue to contribute outstanding articles showcasing new concepts of exceptional significance to the nanoscience readership.

To celebrate the nanoscience community’s excellent work, we have picked out some content highlights for 2018 so far, which we would like to share with you. All articles are free to access until the end of June – we hope you enjoy reading them.

 

Reviews

Electron transfer and exciplex chemistry of functionalized nanocarbons: effects of electronic coupling and donor dimerization

Tomokazu Umeyama and Hiroshi Imahori

Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, Advance Article

 

Group 6 transition metal dichalcogenide nanomaterials: synthesis, applications and future perspectives

Morasae Samadi, Navid Sarikhani, Mohammad Zirak, Hua Zhang, Hao-Li Zhang and Alireza Z. Moshfegh

Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, 3, 90-204

 

Communications

 

Nanoscale membrane architecture of healthy and pathological red blood cells

Andra C. Dumitru, Mégane A. Poncin, Louise Conrard, Yves F. Dufrêne, Donatienne Tyteca and David Alsteens

Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, 3, 293-304

 

Visible light active nanofibrous membrane for antibacterial wound dressing

Shuai Jiang, Beatriz Chiyin Ma, Wei Huang, Anke Kaltbeitzel, Gönül Kizisavas, Daniel Crespy, Kai A. I. Zhang and Katharina Landfester

Nanoscale Horiz., 2018,  Advance Article

 

Improving analyte selectivity by post-assembly modification of metal–organic framework based photonic crystal sensors

A. von Mankowski, K. Szendrei-Temesi, C. Koschnick and B. V. Lotsch

Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, Advance Article

 

Graphdiyne: a superior carbon additive to boost the activity of water oxidation catalysts

Panyong Kuang, Bicheng Zhu, Yuliang Li, Huibiao Liu, Jiaguo Yu and Ke Fan

Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, 3, 317-326

 

Sliced graphene foam films for dual-functional wearable strain sensors and switches

Qingbin Zheng, Xu Liu, Hongru Xu, Ming-Shu Cheung, Yuk-Wa Choi, Hsing-Chih Huang, Ho-Yin Lei, Xi Shen, Zhenyu Wang, Ying Wu, Soo Young Kim and Jang-Kyo Kim

Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, 3, 35-44

 

At Nanoscale Horizons, our reviewing standards are set extremely high to ensure we only publish first reports of new concepts across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology research.

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Click here for 2018 Highlights in our sister-journal Materials Horizons or sign up to our newsletters for more regular journal-specific updates.

 

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Congratulations to prize winners at 16th Annual Meeting of Society of Nano Science and Technology

We are delighted to congratulate two prize winners from the 16th Annual Meeting of Society of Nano Science and Technology, organized by The Society of Nano Science and Technology, which was held at the University of Tokyo from 10 – 12th May, 2018.

Nanoscale Horizons prizes were awarded by Hiromitsu Urakami, RSC Manager in Japan, to two faculty members:

  • Professor Hiro Minamimoto (Hokkaido University) for his talk on: Higher-order Plasmon-induced Electron Transfer Reactions
  • Professor Shinobu Sato (Kyushu Institute of Technology) for  her talk on: DNA bundling using supramolecular interaction

From left to right: Professor Minamimoto, Hiromitsu Urakami, Professor Sato

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