Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Vanderbilt University

Guest edited by De-en Jiang, Janet E. Macdonald and Sharon M. Weiss

We were delighted to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Vanderbilt University at the end of last year and into the start of 2024 with a special collection in Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances highlighting the breadth of high-quality work from the institute and commemorating the university’s sesquicentennial. We’re pleased to share this excellent collection of research and reviews with you, providing a snapshot of the nanoscale science and engineering research from Vanderbilt faculty, alumni, and collaborators in 2023 and 2024. We’re also delighted to showcase the work of Piran R. Kidambi et al, which featured on the cover of Nanoscale! You can explore the collection and read the introductory editorial from our guest editors below, with all articles free to access until the end of August 2024. Read the collection

Professors De-en Jiang, Janet Macdonald and Sharon Weiss served as guest editors for this collection and highlight the history of Vanderbilt University and the significance of the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) in their introductory editorial.

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All of the articles in the collection are free to access until the end of August 2024. Read some of the featured articles below.

Phonon vortices at heavy impurities in two-dimensional materials De-Liang Bao, Mingquan Xu, Ao-Wen Li, Gang Su, Wu Zhou and Sokrates T. Pantelides Nanoscale Horiz., 2024, DOI: 10.1039/D3NH00433C

Role of carboxylates in the phase determination of metal sulfide nanoparticles Andrey A. Shults, Guanyu Lu, Joshua D. Caldwell and Janet E. Macdonald Nanoscale Horiz., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NH00227F

Engineering endosomolytic nanocarriers of diverse morphologies using confined impingement jet mixing Hayden M. Pagendarm, Payton T. Stone, Blaise R. Kimmel, Jessalyn J. Baljon, Mina H. Aziz, Lucinda E. Pastora, Lauren Hubert, Eric W. Roth, Sultan Almunif, Evan A. Scott and John T. Wilson Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NR02874G

Hyperspectral mapping of nanoscale photophysics and degradation processes in hybrid perovskite at the single grain level Ethan J. Taylor, Vasudevan Iyer, Bibek S. Dhami, Clay Klein, Benjamin J. Lawrie and Kannatassen Appavoo Nanoscale Adv., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00529A

Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale are high-impact international journals, publishing high-quality experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Nanoscale Advances is our gold open access member of the nanoscale journal family. Our broad scope covers cross-community research that bridges various disciplines, and the journal series allows full coverage of interdisciplinary advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology. We hope you will consider Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances for your future submissions.

We hope you enjoy reading this collection and look forward to showcasing more work from Vanderbilt faculty and alumni in the future. Please continue to submit your exciting work to Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of NCNST

Guest edited by Xinfeng Liu, Qing Dai, Zhixiang Wei, Chunying Chen and Yuliang Zhao

Last year we were delighted to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) with a special collection in Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances highlighting the breadth of high-quality work from the institute. We’re pleased to share this collection of research and reviews covering the most recent research progress in a wide spectrum of nanoscience and nanotechnology from researchers currently affiliated with NCNST as well as esteemed alumni. You can explore the collection and read the introductory editorial from our guest editors below, with all articles free to access until the end of April 2024. Read the collection

Professor Xinfeng Liu, Professor Qing Dai, Professor Zhixiang Wei, Professor Chunying Chen and Professor Yuliang Zhao served as guest editors for this collection and highlight the history of NCNST and significance of this anniversary in their introductory editorial.

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All of the articles in the collection are free to access until the end of April 2024. Read some of the featured articles below.

Reviews

Nanostructures in Chinese herbal medicines (CHMs) for potential therapy Ya-Li Zhang, Ya-Lei Wang, Ke Yan, Qi-Qi Deng, Fang-Zhou Li, Xing-Jie Liang and Qian Hua Nanoscale Horiz., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NH00120B

Strategies and applications of generating spin polarization in organic semiconductors Ke Meng, Lidan Guo and Xiangnan Sun Nanoscale Horiz., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NH00101F

Communications

Stereoselective coronas regulate the fate of chiral gold nanoparticles in vivo Didar Baimanov, Liming Wang, Ke Liu, Mengmeng Pan, Rui Cai, Hao Yuan, Wanxia Huang, Qingxi Yuan, Yunlong Zhou, Chunying Chen and Yuliang Zhao Nanoscale Horiz., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NH00124E

Modulation of the assembly fashion among metal–organic frameworks for enantioretentive epoxide activation Jun Guo, Xiaomin Xue, Fangfang Li, Meiting Zhao, Youcong Xing, Yanmin Song, Chang Long, Tingting Zhao, Yi Liu and Zhiyong Tang Nanoscale Horiz., 2024, DOI: 10.1039/D3NH00419H

Improving the efficiency of ternary organic solar cells by reducing energy loss Mengni Wang, Yanan Shi, Ziqi Zhang, Yifan Shen, Min Lv, Yangjun Yan, Huiqion Zhou, Jianqi Zhang, Kun Lv, Yajie Zhang, Hailin Peng and Zhixiang Wei Nanoscale Horiz., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NH00122A

Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale are high-impact international journals, publishing high-quality experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Nanoscale Advances is our gold open access member of the nanoscale journal family. Our broad scope covers cross-community research that bridges various disciplines, and the journal series allows full coverage of interdisciplinary advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology. We hope you will consider Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances for your future submissions.

We hope you enjoy reading this collection and look forward to showcasing more work from NCNST in the future. Please continue to submit your exciting work to Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.

Carbon-based nanomaterials

A collection of recent articles from Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale

Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale are pleased to present a collection highlighting the latest research published in the journals on carbon-based nanomaterials.

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Boosting efficiency of luminescent solar concentrators using ultra-bright carbon dots with large Stokes shift
Jiurong Li, Haiguang Zhao, Xiujian Zhao and Xiao Gong
Nanoscale Horiz., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00360K

Graphene foam membranes with tunable pore size for next-generation reverse osmosis water desalination (Open Access)
Duc Tam Ho, Thi Phuong Nga Nguyen, Arun Jangir and Udo Schwingenschlögl
Nanoscale Horiz., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00475E

Water-soluble green-emitting carbon nanodots with enhanced thermal stability for biological applications
Waheed Ullah Khan, Liying Qin, Abid Alam, Ping Zhou, Yong Peng and Yuhua Wang
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D0NR09131F

Progress in the use of organic potassium salts for the synthesis of porous carbon nanomaterials: microstructure engineering for advanced supercapacitorsQian Zhang, Bing Yan, Li Feng, Jiaojiao Zheng, Bo You, Jiayun Chen, Xin Zhao, Chunmei Zhang, Shaohua Jiang and Shuijian He
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR01986H

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Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale are high-impact international journals, publishing high-quality experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Our broad scope covers cross-community research that bridges the various disciplines involved with nanoscience and nanotechnology.

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Happy Lunar New Year

Happy Chinese and Lunar New Year from everyone on the Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances teams! To celebrate the start of the Year of the Dragon, we are delighted to highlight some of the most popular articles published in our nanoscience journals last year by corresponding authors based in countries celebrating the Lunar New Year.

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All of the articles in these collections are free to access until the end of March 2024. We hope you enjoy reading these popular articles and wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous year of the dragon!

Call For Papers: Memristors and Neuromorphic Systems

Submit your latest work to Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons now!

We are delighted to announce an open call for submissions to our Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons cross-journal themed collection on Memristors and Neuromorphic Systems, guest edited by Professor Xiaodong Chen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Professor Cheol Seong Hwang (Seoul National University, South Korea), Professor Francesca Santoro (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) and Professor Yoeri Van de Burgt (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands).

The research field dedicated to mimicking the brain is called neuromorphic engineering, and covers a wide range of disciplines, including electrical engineering, computing, materials science, chemistry, physics, and even psychology. Yet, conventional CMOS-based hardwares are based on the von-Neumann architecture which operates sequentially (instead of in parallel) shuffling data back and forth between processing and memory, and thus barely fulfil the low-energy requirements for neuromorphic engineering. Memristors, which can be synaptic, neural, or even a combination of both, offer a potential solution and as such have been the focus of enhanced research efforts. In addition to their low-energy cost requirements, new materials properties employed by memristors may lead to new algorithms or help solve conventionally challenging tasks, such as NP-hard problems.

This themed collection in Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons aims to report the latest developments in memristive materials. Exploring their fabrication, characterization, circuit design, and performance for applications in the future of neuromorphics. Collaborative work between diverse fields is especially encouraged.

This call for papers is open for original research articles only. Please note that primary research is accepted in the form of Communications for both journals and require a ‘New Concepts statement’ to help ascertain the significance of the research. General guidance and examples can be found here.

Open for submissions until 30 November 2023

If you wish to contribute, please submit your manuscript directly to the submissions platform through the Nanoscale Horizons submission system or the Materials Horizons submission system. Please mention that this submission is a contribution to the Memristors and Neuromorphic Systems collection in the “Themed issues” section of the submission form and add a “Note to the Editor” that this is from the Open Call. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of both the journal and the collection, and inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed issue is not guaranteed.

Please also note that all submissions will undergo the normal peer review processes including an initial assessment prior to peer review, and that peer review and acceptance are not guaranteed.

We sincerely hope that you will be able to submit some of your latest work to this themed collection. If you have any questions, please contact the Editorial Office.

With best wishes,

Professor Xiaodong Chen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Professor Cheol Seong Hwang (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Professor Francesca Santoro (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
Professor Yoeri Van de Burgt (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Nanoparticle synthesis

A collection of recent articles from Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale

Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale are pleased to present a collection highlighting the latest research published in the journals on nanoparticle synthesis.

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Role of carboxylates in the phase determination of metal sulfide nanoparticles (Open Access)
Andrey A. Shults, Guanyu Lu, Joshua D. Caldwell and Janet E. Macdonald
Nanoscale Horiz., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NH00227F

Oleic acid/oleylamine ligand pair: a versatile combination in the synthesis of colloidal nanoparticles
Stefanos Mourdikoudis, Melita Menelaou, Nadesh Fiuza-Maneiro, Guangchao Zheng, Shuangying Wei, Jorge Pérez-Juste, Lakshminarayana Polavarapu and Zdeněk Sofer
Nanoscale Horiz., 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00111J

Peptoid-directed assembly of CdSe nanoparticles
Madison Monahan, Bin Cai, Tengyue Jian, Shuai Zhang, Guomin Zhu, Chun-Long Chen, James J. De Yoreo and Brandi M. Cossairt
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D0NR07509D

Intelligent control of nanoparticle synthesis through machine learning
Honglin Lv and Xueye Chen
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR00124A

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Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale are high-impact international journals, publishing high-quality experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Our broad scope covers cross-community research that bridges the various disciplines involved with nanoscience and nanotechnology.

We hope you enjoy reading this collection and will consider Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale for your future submissions.

New horizons in materials for energy conversion, optics and electronics

Guest edited by Jinlan Wang, Yuanjian Zhang, Seeram Ramakrishna and Guihua Yu

We are delighted to introduce a collection published in Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons in conjunction with the Emerging Investigator Forum celebrating the 120th anniversary of Southeast University, China. This collection focuses on energy conversion, optics, and electronics applications of (nano)materials and provides an overview of the most frequently used experimental approaches and theoretical methods for energy conversion and storage, connecting different communities to identify common challenges in the field. All of the articles in the collection are free to access until the end of August 2023.

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Professor Jinlan Wang (Southeast University, China), Professor Yuanjian Zhang (Southeast University, China), Professor Seeram Ramakrishna (National University of Singapore, Singapore) and Professor Guihua Yu (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) served as guest editors for this special collection and introduce the importance of these topics in their introductory editorial.

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Flexible two-dimensional MXene-based antennas
Xingce Fan, Xiaohu Zhang, Ya Li, Hongjun He, Qixing Wang, Leilei Lan, Wenzhe Song, Teng Qiu and Weibing Lu
Nanoscale Horiz., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00556E

Discovering layered lead-free perovskite solar absorbers via cation transmutation
Ming Chen, Zhicheng Shan, Xiaofeng Dong, Shengzhong (Frank) Liu and Zhuo Xu
Nanoscale Horiz., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00499B

Eco-friendly inorganic molecular novel antiperovskites for light-emitting application
Jiawei Luo, Qun Ji, Yilei Wu, Xinying Gao, Jinlan Wang and Ming-Gang Ju
Mater. Horiz., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2MH01216B

A self-healing polymerized-ionic-liquid-based polymer electrolyte enables a long lifespan and dendrite-free solid-state Li metal batteries at room temperature
Xiujing Lin, Shiyuan Xu, Yuqi Tong, Xinshuang Liu, Zeyu Liu, Pan Li, Ruiqing Liu, Xiaomiao Feng, Li Shi and Yanwen Ma
Mater. Horiz., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2MH01289H

Nanoscale Horizons and Materials Horizons are always interested in considering exceptional articles on nano(materials) for energy, optical and electronics applications and we would be delighted if you would consider the journals for your future submissions. Submissions to the journals can be made via the Nanoscale Horizons online submission service or the Materials Horizons online submission service. All submissions are subject to a full assessment by the editorial team according to the journals’ guidelines, and peer review and acceptance cannot be guaranteed.

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Nanocatalysis

A collection of recent articles from Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and ChemComm

Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and ChemComm are pleased to present a collection highlighting the latest nanocatalysis research published in the journals.

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Synthesis of monodisperse high entropy alloy nanocatalysts from core@shell nanoparticles
Yifan Chen, Xun Zhan, Sandra L. A. Bueno, Ibrahim H. Shafei, Hannah M. Ashberry, Kaustav Chatterjee, Lin Xu, Yawen Tang and Sara E. Skrabalak
Nanoscale Horizons, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D0NH00656D

Rare earth element based single-atom catalysts: synthesis, characterization and applications in photo/electro-catalytic reactions
Zhong Liang, Leilei Yin, Hang Yin, Zongyou Yin and Yaping Du
Nanoscale Horizons, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D1NH00459J

Synthesis of silver and gold nanoparticles–enzyme–polymer conjugate hybrids as dual-activity catalysts for chemoenzymatic cascade reactions (Open Access)
Janne M. Naapuri, Noelia Losada-Garcia, Jan Deska, Jose M. Palomo
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR00361A

Redox-active Sn(ii) to lead to SnFe₂O₄ spinel as a bi-functional water splitting catalyst
Anubha Rajput, Amit Anand Pandey, Avinava Kundu and Biswarup Chakraborty
ChemComm, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3CC00947E

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Nanoscale and Nanoscale Horizons are high-impact international journals, publishing high-quality experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Our broad scope covers cross-community research that bridges the various disciplines involved with nanoscience and nanotechnology.

ChemComm is the Royal Society of Chemistry’s journal for short communications of outstanding significance from across the chemical sciences. The RSC’s most cited journal, ChemComm has been one of the most trusted chemistry journals for over 50 years. Our scope covers all topics in chemistry, and research at the interface of chemistry and other disciplines (such as materials science, nanoscience, physics, engineering and biology) where there is significant novelty in the chemistry aspects.

We hope you enjoy reading this collection and will consider Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and ChemComm for your future submissions.

Nanomaterials for Energy

A collection of recent articles from Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale

Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale are pleased to present a collection highlighting the latest energy research published in the journals.

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Performance optimization strategies of halide perovskite-based mechanical energy harvesters (Open Access)
Feng Jiang and Pooi See Lee
Nanoscale Horizons, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00229A

Hydroxide ion-conducting viologen–bakelite organic frameworks for flexible solid-state zinc–air battery applications
Deepak Rase, Rajith Illathvalappil, Himan Dev Singh, Pragalbh Shekhar, Liya S Leo, Debanjan Chakraborty, Sattwick Haldar, Ankita Shelke, Thalasseril G. Ajithkumar and Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan
Nanoscale Horizons, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00455K

Photodoping of metal oxide nanocrystals for multi-charge accumulation and light-driven energy storage (Open Access)
Michele Ghini, Nicola Curreli, Andrea Camellini, Mengjiao Wang, Aswin Asaithambi and Ilka Kriegel
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D0NR09163D

Co-construction of sulfur vacancies and carbon confinement in V₅S₈/CNFs to induce an ultra-stable performance for half/full sodium-ion and potassium-ion batteries
Lihong Xu, Xiaochuan Chen, Wenti Guo, Lingxing Zeng, Tao Yang, Peixun Xiong, Qinghua Chen, Jianmin Zhang, Mingdeng Wei and Qingrong Qian
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D0NR08788B

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Nanoscale and Nanoscale Horizons are high-impact international journals, publishing high-quality experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Our broad scope covers cross-community research that bridges the various disciplines involved with nanoscience and nanotechnology.

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Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine

A collection of recent articles from Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale

Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale are pleased to present a collection highlighting the latest research published in the journals on nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine.

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A novel electrochemical lung cancer biomarker cytokeratin 19 fragment antigen 21-1 immunosensor based on Si₃N₄/MoS₂ incorporated MWCNTs and core–shell type magnetic nanoparticles
Mehmet Lütfi Yola, Necip Atar and Nermin Özcan
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1NR00244A

Cell-free exosome-laden scaffolds for tissue repair (Open Access)
Jianghong Huang, Jianyi Xiong, Lei Yang, Jun Zhang, Shuqing Sun and Yujie Liang
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1NR01314A

Innovative transdermal delivery of insulin using gelatin methacrylate-based microneedle patches in mice and mini-pigs
Bilal Demir, Lea Rosselle, Anna Voronova, Quentin Pagneux, Audrey Quenon, Valery Gmyr, Dorothee Jary, Nathalie Hennuyer, Bart Staels, Thomas Hubert, Amar Abderrahmani, Valerie Plaisance, Valerie Pawlowski, Rabah Boukherroub, Severine Vignoud and Sabine Szunerits
Nanoscale Horizons, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D1NH00596K

Encapsulation of polyprodrugs enables an efficient and controlled release of dexamethasone (Open Access)
Mengyi Li, Shuai Jiang, Adelina Haller, Sebastian Wirsching, Michael Fichter, Johanna Simon, Manfred Wagner, Volker Mailänder, Stephan Gehring, Daniel Crespy and Katharina Landfester
Nanoscale Horizons, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1NH00266J

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Nanoscale and Nanoscale Horizons are high-impact international journals, publishing high-quality experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Our broad scope covers cross-community research that bridges the various disciplines involved with nanoscience and nanotechnology.

We hope you enjoy reading this collection and will consider Nanoscale and Nanoscale Horizons for your future submissions.