Conference Promotion – GRAPCHINA 2017

Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons are proud to be partnering with GRAPCHINA 2017, which takes place on 24 – 26 September 2017 at Nanjing International Exhibition Centre, China.

This International Graphene Global Innovation Conference has become a significant commercial and academic event that gathers approximately 2000 representatives for all stakeholders involved in graphene technologies, bringing top level speakers and delegates from the industries, NGOs and academia together with senior policy makers from the EU’s flagship program and national government.

Key speakers include:

  • Sir Andre Geim, Nobel Prize winner
  • Professor Yong Gan, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
  • Professor Andrea C. Ferrari, Founding Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre (and Associate Editor for Nanoscale)
  • and many more!

The conference will be divided into three parallel symposia, focusing on different topics like graphene and 2D materials frontier research, graphene-related emerging industries, graphene application in traditional industries. The symposia cover areas of fundamental research, graphene manufacturing, energy application, health and environment, sensors and communication, composites application, etc. There will also be three special forums, aiming to push international collaboration, accelerate characterization and standardization method, and promote national graphene industry bases. The topics center on promising commercial projects, graphene characterization method, graphene standardization, and local supports for graphene industry bases.

Important Dates:

  • Early Registration 12 July 2017
  • Poster Submission 15 August 2017
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Conference promotion – NFA 2017

Nanoscale Horizons is proud to support a poster prize at the 3rd International Conference on Nanomaterials: Fundamentals and Applications (NFA 2017). This meeting is organised by Pavol Jozef Šafárik University and Slovak Chemical Society, Bratislava and will take place in Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia, from October 09. – 11. 2017.

The following topics will be covered by a program of international speakers:
1. Nanomaterials, nanocomposites and nanostructured surfaces
2. Bioinspired and medical nanomaterials
3. Nanomaterials for energy applications
4. Advanced preparation methods and characterization techniques of nanomaterials
5. New applications and new properties of nanomaterials
6. Nanofertilizers
7. Nanomaterials and components for electronic devices

Registration ends 1 October.

Submit abstracts by 18 September to be in with a chance of winning the Nanoscale Horizons poster prize.

 

For more information visit http://nfa2017.science.upjs.sk/

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ANNIC 2017

ANNIC 2017 the Applied Nanotechnology and Nanoscience International Conference will take place on 18 – 20 October at Rome Eventi – Piazza di Spagna in Rome. This annual event hosts high-profile plenary speakers, world-class researchers, oral and poster presentations, workshops, sponsor exhibits, and afterworks, so it is a great opportunity to share your research findings with a wide audience, promote knowledge exchange, and network.

A wide range of topics are covered in the plenary lectures, invited talks and workshops, including nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, nanomaterials, nanomanufacturing, nanomedicine & nanobiotechnology, and nanotechnology for energy applications. A list of confirmed plenary speakers can be found here.

Submission is open for abstracts for oral presentations, posters, video presentations or workshop presentations. To be in with a chance of winning one of three prizes sponsored by Nanoscale Horizons and Molecular Systems Design & Engineering submit your abstracts now.

Visit the event web page for registration and submission details.

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Prize Winners at PANIC nano Conference 2017

Congratulations to the Nanoscale Horizons Award winners from the PhoBiA Annual Nanophotonics International Conference (PANIC 2017)! This interdisciplinary conference aimed to gather young scientists working on the borders between chemistry, physics, and biology in order to help them to share their knowledge on photonoics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials science, and organic electronics.

 

The best oral presentation was awarded to Maciej Chrzanowski, for his talk on Synthesis of double shell type-II semiconductor nanocrystals for lasing applications.

The best poster presentation was awarded to Katarzyna Brach, for her poster describing DNA liquid crystals doped with AuAg nanoclusters.

 

 

 

Both winners will receive a free personal online subscription to Nanoscale for one year, as well as a signed certificate from the Executive Editor of Nanoscale Horizons.

Congratulations from the Nanoscale Horizons Team!

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2017 International Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Materials

We are proud to be supporting TAPPI’s International Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Materials, which will be held in Montreal, Canada on 5 – 8 June.

This meeting provides a forum for both academic and industry participants to discuss the latest advances in renewable nanomaterials, with particular focus on cellulose-based nanomaterials.

 

 

Some of the topics covered will be:
• Biomedical Applications
• Composites
• Electronics
• Paper and Packaging
• Characterization
• Functional Materials
• Surface Mediated Assembly

Register before 10 May for early-bird rates.

 

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ChinaNANO 2017 Conference

Nanoscale Horizons Symposium at ChinaNANO 2017

The 7th International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, China 2017 (ChinaNANO 2017) will be held in Beijing on 29 – 31 August, bringing together scientists from across the globe.

We are proud to announce the Nanoscale Horizons Symposium at ChinaNANO 2017, with talks from distinguished board members for Nanoscale and other Royal Society of Chemistry journals to showcase exceptionally high quality and exciting work across a broad scope of nanoscience and nanotechnology. 

Notably, Professor Chunli Bai, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Editor-in-Chief of Nanoscale, will also attend this symposium and deliver a welcome speech.

Confirmed speakers include:

  • Professor Xiaodong Chen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
  • Professor Yamuna Krishnan (University of Chicago, USA)
  • Professor Katharina Landfester (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany)
  • Professor Federico Rosei (National Institute of Scientific Research, University of Quebec, Canada)
  • Professor Francesco Stellacci (EPFL, Switzerland)
  • Professor Jianfang Wang (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)

ChinaNANO 2017 is intended to stimulate discussions on the forefront of research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The conference will focus on the following topics:

  • Carbon Nanomaterials
  • Inorganic Nanomaterials and Metal-organic Frameworks
  • Self-Assembly and Soft Nanomaterials
  • Nanocatalysis
  • Nano-Composites and Applications
  • Energy Nanotechnology
  • Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
  • Nanophotonics and Plasmonics
  • 2D Materials beyond Graphene and Nanodevices
  • Nanocharacterization
  • Standards and Metrology
  • Modeling and Simulation of Nanostructures
  • Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine
  • Nanotechnology for Bioimaging and Diagnostics
  • Safety and Health of Nanomaterials
  • Printing of Nanomaterials and Applications
  • Optoelectronic Nanomaterials and Devices
  • Bioinspired Interfacial Materials and Devices
 
For more information about this exciting conference, please visit their web page.
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PhoBiA Annual Nanophotonics International Conference 2017

The Photonics and Bionanotechnology Association “PhoBiA” are inviting all young scientists and students to attend the 8th Edition of the PhoBiA Annual Nanophotonics International Conference “PANIC” which will take place from 24 – 26 April, 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland.

This meeting intends to gather students and young scientists working on the borders between chemistry, physics, and biology to enable them to share knowledge by presenting their work in a conference setting. A plenary lecture will take place each day, presented by a renowned scientist from the field of photonics, bio-, or nanotechnology.

Nanoscale Horizons is proud to sponsor student prizes for the best poster and the best oral presentation! The abstract submission deadline is only days away, so to be in with a chance of winning a signed certificate and one years free subscription to the journal Nanoscale, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry submit by 26 March!

PANIC 2017 is organised by students for students, so sign up before 2 April to take part.

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ICONAN 2017

ICONAN 2017 International Conference on Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology took place from 25 – 27 September at University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, welcoming world-class researchers from around the world to promote the exchange of knowledge.

 

We would like to extend our congratulations to the three prize winners who all won prizes sponsored by Nanoscale Horizons and Molecular Systems Design & Engineering!

 

Congratulations to Dr Havva Acar for winning the outstanding abstract prize.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to Geeta Arya for winning the best poster prize.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to Julio Manuel Rios de la Rosa for winning the best student abstract prize.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visit the conference web page for a more details.

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Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale Horizons in 2016

Following the success of Peer Review Week in September 2016 (dedicated to reviewer recognition) during which we published a list of our top reviewers, we are delighted to announce that we will continue to recognise the contribution that our reviewers make to the journal by announcing our Outstanding Reviewers each year.

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale Horizons in 2016, 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 Arun Chattopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Professor Kenneth Dawson, University College Dublin
Dr Minghua Liu, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professor Shouheng Sun, Brown University
Professor Jianfang Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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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Tuneable graphene surfaces for water purification and energy storage

The sustainability issues of efficient energy storage and water purification are of vital importance to the long-term future of the planet. Researchers from Zhejiang University have developed a new nanostructured graphene material with a tuneable surface texture which can be used to for enhanced water purification and energy storage applications.

Inspired by the hierarchical structures and microscopic surface textures of the dry-climate plant Callitris endlicheri, the graphene structures use capillary effects to transport and store water in a similar way, but at much smaller length scales. Typically, tuneable surfaces such as these, require chemical surface modifications; but this Nanoscale Horizons article outlines a new method involving plasma-assisted growth of graphene ‘nano-flaps’ covalently bonded to micro-sized vertical grapheme graphene wells (termed ‘Sub-μGW’). The surfaces showed better water purification of metal nanoparticles from water and remarkable electrochemical performance in supercapacitors (2.5x higher specific capacitance of Sub-μGW electrodes). These excellent properties are attributed to enhanced solid-liquid interfacing leading to a super hydrophilic surface by reduction of air bubbles, and better device performance.

In the future, this biomimetic approach could be used to control the wettability of a range of porous microstructured surfaces, and could lead to further breakthroughs in important areas such as energy storage and conversion, water purification, and biomedical devices.

 

Fig. 1. SEM images of grapheme nanostructures showing the decreasing nanotexture densities from (d) to (f). (g) Schematic of the capillarity driven modification process for the adjustment of the nanotexture density in Sub-mGWs.

 

Read the article:
Tuneable fluidics within graphene nanogaps for water purification and energy storage
Zheng Bo, Yilei Tian, Zhao Jun Han, Shenghao Wu, Shuo Zhang, Jianhua Yan, Kefa Cena and Kostya Ostrikov
Nanoscale Horizons, 2017, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C6NH00167J

 

Alexander Cook is a guest web writer for the RSC journal blogs. He is a PhD researcher in the Perrier group at the University of Warwick, focusing on polymer materials and their use in various applications. Follow him on twitter @alexcook222

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