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Top Ten most-read Nanoscale articles in November

19 Dec 2011

This month sees the following articles in Nanoscale that are in the top ten most accessed for November:

Multifunctional composite core-shell nanoparticles
Suying Wei, Qiang Wang, Jiahua Zhu, Luyi Sun, Hongfei Lin and Zhanhu Guo
Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 4474-4502
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR11000D

Gold nanoparticles: preparation, properties, and applications in bionanotechnology
Yi-Cheun Yeh, Brian Creran and Vincent M. Rotello
Nanoscale, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR11188D

Nano active materials for lithium-ion batteries
Yonggang Wang, Huiqiao Li, Ping He, Eiji Hosono and Haoshen Zhou
Nanoscale, 2010, 2, 1294-1305
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00068J

Graphene edges: a review of their fabrication and characterization
Xiaoting Jia, Jessica Campos-Delgado, Mauricio Terrones, Vincent Meunier and Mildred S. Dresselhaus
Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 86-95
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00600A

3D-patterned polymer brush surfaces
Xuechang Zhou, Xuqing Liu, Zhuang Xie and Zijian Zheng
Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 4929-4939
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR11238D

The role of nanomaterials in redox-based supercapacitors for next generation energy storage devices
Xin Zhao, Beatriz Mendoza Sánchez, Peter J. Dobson and Patrick S. Grant
Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 839-855
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00594K

Highly dispersed Fe₃O₄nanosheets on one-dimensional carbon nanofibers: Synthesis, formation mechanism, and electrochemical performance as supercapacitor electrode materials
Jingbo Mu, Bin Chen, Zengcai Guo, Mingyi Zhang, Zhenyi Zhang, Peng Zhang, Changlu Shao and Yichun Liu
Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 5034-5040
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR10972C

Li ion battery materials with core?shell nanostructures
Liwei Su, Yu Jing and Zhen Zhou
Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 3967-3983
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR10550G

Graphene: nanoscale processing and recent applications
László P. Biró, Péter Nemes-Incze and Philippe Lambin
Nanoscale, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR11067E

2D materials: to graphene and beyond
Rubén Mas-Ballesté, Cristina Gómez-Navarro, Julio Gómez-Herrero and Félix Zamora
Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 20-30
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00323A

Why not take a look at the articles today and blog your thoughts and comments below.

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Nanoparticles detect food poisoning bug

14 Dec 2011

HOT Nanoscale Communication

Scientists in China have developed a sensitive method for detecting the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus which is a major cause of food poisoning as well as community- and hospital-acquired infections.

The researchers functionalized gold nanoparticles with phenylboronic acid which could react with the cis-diol groups found on the bacteria’s surface, causing a detectable colour change.

Using this method they could detect the bacteria down to a concentration of 50 cells per mL.

Read the full exciting Nanoscale communication now:

Phenylboronic acid functionalized gold nanoparticles for highly sensitive detection of Staphylococcus aureus
Jine Wang, Jingqing Gao, Dianjun Liu, Dongxue Han and Zhenxin Wang
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR11657J

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Bionanotechnology conference: register today

13 Dec 2011

Bionanotechnology III: from biomolecular assembly to applications
4—6 January 2012
Robinson College, Cambridge, UK

Nanoscale is delighted to be supporting this conference organised by the Biochemical Society.

This meeting, the third in the series, brings together an international set of speakers who will discuss a broad range of topics in bionanotechnology from different perspectives and with different technical approaches.

Topics:

Large natural and designed assemblies
Single-molecule studies
Nanomaterials and devices in vitro
Nanomaterials and devices in vivo
Biomolecular self-assembly

Registration is now open.

For more information see the Biochemical Society website.

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Nanoparticles make insecticides safer

12 Dec 2011

Nanoparticles could be used to deliver insecticides, according to researchers in Australia.

The team loaded mesoporous silica nanoparticles with an insecticide called imidacloprid and used it to clear termites from wood. They found that 80% of the termites were cleared by controlled release from the particles over 48 hours. Current insecticides, such as DDT, bioaccumulate and cause environmental damage – encapsulating insecticides in nanoparticles prevents this.

Reference:

Adsorption and release of biocides with mesoporous silica nanoparticles
A Popat et al, Nanoscale, 2012
DOI: 10.1039/c2nr11691j

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Andrea Ferrari joins Nanoscale Editorial Board

12 Dec 2011

Nanoscale is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Andrea Ferrari to our Editorial Board. Prof. Ferrari is Professor of Nanotechnology and Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder, and is the head of the Nanomaterials and Spectroscopy Group at the University of Cambridge Engineering Department and Nanoscience Centre. He is Professorial Fellow of Pembroke College.

Prof. Ferrari’s wide range of research interests cover graphene electronics, devices, and carbon nanotubes.

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Professor Hongxing Xu joins Nanoscale Board

09 Dec 2011

We are delighted to announce that Professor Hongxing Xu of the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences has joined the Editorial Board of Nanoscale.

Professor Xu completed his BA in Physics at Peking University, China in 1992 and then studied for his MA and PhD at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. He worked as Assistant Professor at Lund University in Sweden before returning to China to take up his current position in 2005.

Professor Xu’s research interests cover surface-enhanced spectroscopy, nanophotonics, plasmonics and devices.

Read Prof. Xu’s recent communication in Nanoscale:

Can information of chemical reaction propagate with plasmonic waveguide and be detected at remote terminal of nanowire?
Mengtao Sun, Yanxue Hou and Hongxing Xu
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR10981B

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Nanoscale Issue 1 of 2012 out now!

09 Dec 2011

The first issue of Nanoscale for 2012 is now online! You can read the full issue for free here:

Heather Montgomery (Development Editor for Nanoscale) highlights some of the many achievements of the journal in 2011 and look forwards to 2012 in her New Year Editorial.

The outside front cover features a Communication on SERS assisted ultra-fast peptidic screening: a new tool for drug discovery by Rolando Pérez-Pineiro, Miguel A. Correa-Duarte, Veronica Salgueirino and Ramon A. Alvarez-Puebla.

Fabrication of SERS-fluorescence dual modal nanoprobes and application to multiplex cancer cell imaging is the article highlighted on the inside front cover by Sangyeop Lee, Hyangah Chon, Soo-Young Yoon, Eun Kyu Lee, Soo-Ik Chang, Dong Woo Lim and Jaebum Choo.

Issue 1 contains the following Review and Feature articles:

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Nanoscale welcomes Prof. Xiaogang Liu to the Editorial Board

08 Dec 2011

Nanoscale is delighted to announce that Professor Xiaogang Liu of the National University of Singapore has joined our Editorial Board.

His research interests cover a wide range of topics from chemistry to materials science and bioinorganic chemistry. The work in his group covers the assembly of nanoscale building blocks into complex integrated systems through to the applications of these materials in catalysis and nanotechnology.

You can read some of Professor Liu’s recent articles in Nanoscale:

Self-aligned nanolithography by selective polymer dissolution
Huijuan Zhang, Chee-Leong Wong, Yufeng Hao, Rui Wang, Xiaogang Liu, Francesco Stellacci and John T. L. Thong
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00398K

Tuning the shape and thermoelectric property of PbTe nanocrystals by bismuth doping
Qian Zhang, Ting Sun, Feng Cao, Ming Li, Minghui Hong, Jikang Yuan, Qingyu Yan, Huey Hoon Hng, Nianqiang Wu and Xiaogang Liu
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00115E

Nanocontact-induced catalytic activation in palladium nanoparticles
Changlong Jiang, Sadananda Ranjit, Zhongyu Duan, Yu Lin Zhong, Kian Ping Loh, Chun Zhang and Xiaogang Liu
DOI: 10.1039/B9NR00093C

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Decorated graphene for sensors

07 Dec 2011

Nanoscale ‘HOT’ Communication

Roya Maboudian and co-workers have developed an easy and versatile way to decorate graphene with metal nanoparticles via electroless deposition.

This method has been used in the fabrication of a gas sensor which, although not optimised, has successfully detected hydrogen sulfide.

The authors believe that their decoration process could be used with existing roll-to-roll fabrication methods for the mass production of sensors.

Read the Nanoscale Communication today:

Graphene decoration with metal nanoparticles: Towards easy integration for sensing applications
Albert Gutés, Ben Hsia, Allen Sussman, Willi Mickelson, Alex Zettl, Carlo Carraroa and Roya Maboudian
Nanoscale, 2012, DOI: 10.1039/C1NR11537E

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Jie Liu joins Nanoscale as Editor-in-Chief

07 Dec 2011

Nanoscale is delighted to announce that Professor Jie Liu of Duke University has joined the Nanoscale Editorial Board as co- Editor-in-Chief for North America, and will be handling submissions from early next year.

His research interests include controlled growth of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) for nanoelectronics, the synthesis, purification and applications of few walled carbon nanotubes (FWNTs), the optical properties of ZnO nanostructures and the study of microporous carbon (MPC) materials for energy applications.

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