Archive for July, 2014

Nanoscale’s 2013 Impact Factor released

c4nr90055cWe are thrilled to announce that Nanoscale‘s latest impact factor has risen to 6.739 according to the 2013 Journal Citation Reports ®.

Thank you to all of the authors and referees who have contributed to our journal. Special thanks goes to our Editorial and Advisory Board Members without whom our continued success would not have been possible.

Nanoscale has an international, community-spanning readership. We also have a team of dynamic and outstanding Associate Editors from diverse institutions around the world.

We invite you to submit your best work to our Editorial Office.

Read more about the 2013 Impact Factors from across RSC Publishing on the RSC Publishing Blog.

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This week’s HOT articles

Take a look at this week’s selection! These articles are available free for a limited time:

Thiolate-protected Ni39 and Ni41 nanoclusters: synthesis, self-assembly and magnetic properties
Jianwei Ji, Guan Wang, Tianwei Wang, Xiaozeng You and Xiangxing Xu
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01063A, Paper

Microscopic mechanisms of vertical graphene and carbon nanotube cap nucleation from hydrocarbon growth precursors
Umedjon Khalilov, Annemie Bogaerts and Erik C. Neyts
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00669K, Paper

Length scale of Leidenfrost ratchet switches droplet directionality

Rebecca L. Agapov, Jonathan B. Boreyko, Dayrl P. Briggs, Bernadeta R. Srijanto, Scott T. Retterer, C. Patrick Collier and Nickolay V. Lavrik
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR02362E, Paper

B38: an all-boron fullerene analogue
Jian Lv, Yanchao Wang, Li Zhu and Yanming Ma
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01846J, Communication

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This week’s HOT articles

Take a look at this week’s selection! These articles are available free for a limited time:

Fabrication of sub-20 nm nanopore arrays in membranes with embedded metal electrodes at wafer scales
Jingwei Bai, Deqiang Wang, Sung-wook Nam, Hongbo Peng, Robert Bruce, Lynn Gignac, Markus Brink, Ernst Kratschmer, Stephen Rossnagel, Phil Waggoner, Kathleen Reuter, Chao Wang, Yann Astier, Venkat Balagurusamy, Binquan Luan, Young Kwark, Eric Joseph, Mike Guillorn, Stanislav Polonsky, Ajay Royyuru, S. Papa Rao and Gustavo Stolovitzky
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06723H, Paper

Polarized photocurrent response in black phosphorus field-effect transistors
Tu Hong, Bhim Chamlagain, Wenzhi Lin, Hsun-Jen Chuang, Minghu Pan, Zhixian Zhou and Ya-Qiong Xu
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR02164A, Paper

Highly efficient and low voltage silver nanowire-based OLEDs employing a n-type hole injection layer
Hyungjin Lee, Donghwa Lee, Yumi Ahn, Eun-Woo Lee, Lee Soon Park and Youngu Lee
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01768D, Communication

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Nanoscale Issue 14 of 2014 out now!

Nanoscale is delighted to present its current issue.

Fabrication of large-scale single-crystal bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) nanosheet arrays by a single-step electrolysis process is the article highlighted on the outside front cover by Hung-Wei Tsai, Tsang-Hsiu Wang, Tsung-Cheng Chan, Pei-Ju Chen, Chih-Chun Chung, Alireza Yaghoubi, Chien-Neng Liao, Eric Wei-Guang Diau and Yu-Lun Chueh.

The inside front cover features an article on Hydrogen bonding-assisted thermal conduction in β-sheet crystals of spider silk protein by Lin Zhang, Teli Chen, Heng Ban and Ling Liu.

Issue 14 contains the following Review articles:

Bioinspired micro-/nanostructure fibers with a water collecting property
Yuan Chen and Yongmei Zheng

Messenger RNA (mRNA) nanoparticle tumour vaccination
Kyle K. L. Phua, Smita K. Nair and Kam W. Leong

Advanced nanoarchitectures of silver/silver compound composites for photochemical reactions
Mingce Long and Weimin Cai

Advances in gold nanoparticle–liquid crystal composites
Amit Choudhary, Gautam Singh and Ashok M. Biradar

Enzymatically induced motion at nano- and micro-scales
Szilveszter Gáspár

Surface modification of cellulose nanocrystals
Samuel Eyley and Wim Thielemans

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