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

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

Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons are pleased to announce a free Webinar series featuring scientific talks from Editorial and Community Board Members on a range of topics.

RSC Desktop Seminars are an ongoing initiative from the Royal Society of Chemistry to bring cutting-edge research directly to you! Now, more than ever, there is a crucial need for sharing research, and each seminar in this series will feature presentations from Editorial and Community Board members of Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons.

Each 90 to 120-min webinar will feature scientific talks as well as dedicated time for questions & answers. The schedule for the series will be as follows:

Wednesday, 25 November 2020 (7am GMT; 15:00 CST; 16:00 JST)

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“Machine learning accelerated design of new functional material” – Professor Jinlan Wang (Southeast University, China)

Thursday, 3 December 2020 (08:00 GMT; 13:30 IST; 19:00 AEDT)

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“Soft Gold Elastronics for Connected Healthcare” – Professor Wenlong Cheng (Monash University, Australia)

“Smart Sensors for Environmental Monitoring and Healthcare” – Professor Ritu Gupta (IIT Jodhpur, India)

Thursday, 10 December 2020 (07:00 GMT; 15:00 CST; 17:00 AEST; 18:00 AEDT)

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“The interaction between micelles and cells: Small changes in the nanoparticle shells have big impacts” – Professor Martina Stenzel (University of New South Wales, Australia)

“Emerging trends in oral drug delivery using stimuli responsive nanomedicine” – Dr Amirali Popat (The University of Queensland, Australia)

Thursday, 17 December 2020 (08:00 GMT; 16:00 CST; 17:00 JST)

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“Sub-1nm Ultrathin Nanocrystals” – Professor Xun Wang (Tsinghua University, China)

“Metal-Organic Frameworks for Polymer Recognition and Separation” – Dr Nobuhiko Hosono (University of Tokyo, Japan)

“Stability of Photocatalysts” – Dr Mengye Wang (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

We hope you will be able to join us for some of the events in this Desktop Seminar Series.

Best wishes,

Dr Michaela Mühlberg
Executive Editor, Materials Horizons
Dr Charlotte Marshall
Managing Editor, Nanoscale Horizons