Archive for July, 2023

Call for papers: Frontiers in Stimuli-Responsive Nanoplatforms

Call for papers: Frontiers in Stimuli-Responsive Nanoplatforms

Pioneering Drug Delivery in Nanobiotechnology

We are delighted to announce an open call for papers to our new themed collection focusing on stimuli-responsive nanoplatforms for drug delivery!

 

 

 

Guest Editors: Prof. Juan C. Cruz, (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) and Prof. Luis H. Reyes (Universidad de los Andes, Columbia)

This collection welcomes innovative research and review articles focused on the recent developments and novel approaches in stimuli-responsive nanoplatforms for drug delivery. We encourage submissions that highlight the design, synthesis, and application of these nanoplatforms, with an emphasis on their potential to transform therapeutic delivery methods. We aim to highlight the intersection of nanobiotechnology and drug delivery, fostering discussions on future trends and challenges within this exciting field.

You are welcome to submit an article within the scope before 01 March 2024.

If you are interested in contributing to this collection, please get in touch with the Editorial Office by email.

Please note that article processing charges apply to all articles submitted to Nanoscale Advances if, following peer-review, they are accepted for publication. Exceptions include researchers at Research4Life Group A and B countries, and those whose institutes have an existing deal that covers publication in our gold open access journals. Details of the APC and discounted rates can be found here.

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Call for papers: Photocatalytic Nanomaterials

Call for papers: Photocatalytic Nanomaterials for Clean Energy, Renewable Chemicals production, and Sustainable Catalysis

Guest edited by Rajeev Ahuja and Rajendra Srivastava 

We are delighted to announce an open call for papers to our new themed collection focusing on photocatalytic nanomaterials!

 

 

 

Guest Editors: Rajeev Ahuja (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Rajendra Srivastava (Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India)

Nanocatalytic materials can solve energy and environmental problems by penetrating plastic polymer waste and providing a high surface area with exposed active sites to catalyze the reactions to produce sustainable chemicals and fuels. The process will be highly sustainable if light energy, including solar energy, is utilized to produce clean energy and chemicals. Thus, efforts must be made to develop novel materials or engineer materials for harvesting light energy for producing clean energy and chemicals.

In this collection, we welcome both review and research articles on the following topics:

  • Photocatalytic nanomaterials and process for H2 production, CO2 to chemicals and fuels
  • Photocatalytic nanomaterials and biomass conversion to chemicals and fuels
  • Engineering photocatalytic nanomaterials for sustainable catalysis
  • Photocatalytic nanomaterials for photoreforming of plastic waste
  • Computational study on designing new photocatalytic nanomaterials for clean energy

You are welcome to submit an article within the scope before 20 February 2024.

If you are interested in contributing to this collection, please get in touch with the Editorial Office by email.

Please note that article processing charges apply to all articles submitted to Nanoscale Advances if, following peer-review, they are accepted for publication. Exceptions include researchers at Research4Life Group A and B countries, and those whose institutes have an existing deal that covers publication in our gold open access journals. Details of the APC and discounted rates can be found here.

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Supercapacitors: new themed collection in Nanoscale Advances

Supercapacitors

Guest edited by Zhaojun Han, Ruopian Fang, Dewei Chu, Da-wei Wang.
Advisory Guest Editor Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov

We are delighted to present to you a diverse set of works showcasing exciting new research on supercapacitors, particularly electrode materials and high voltage materials from basic concepts to applications.

A major challenge for supercapacitors is that conventional devices have a relatively low energy density, which is about 20 to 40 times lower than that of lithium-ion batteries. Significant research effort has therefore been devoted to improving the energy density without compromising their excellent power density.

This themed collection features research papers on asymmetrical supercapacitors, multifunctional supercapacitors, and more. Articles are published in Nanoscale Advances so they are all open access and freely available.

 

 

A small selection of papers are featured below.

Introduction to Supercapacitors
Zhaojun Han, Ruopian Fang, Dewei Chu, Da-Wei Wang and Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, Advance Article

Recent advances in supramolecular self-assembly derived materials for high-performance supercapacitors
Honghong Cheng, Ruliang Liu, Ruyi Zhang, Lan Huang and Qiaoyi Yuan
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 2394-2412

Facile fabrication of graphene-based high-performance microsupercapacitors operating at a high temperature of 150 °C
Viktoriia Mishukova, Nicolas Boulanger, Artem Iakunkov, Szymon Sollami Delekta, Xiaodong Zhuang, Alexandr Talyzin and Jiantong Li
Nanoscale Adv., 2021, 3, 4674-4679

 

We hope you enjoy reading the special collection.

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Nanoscale 2023 Emerging Investigators

Nanoscale 2023 Emerging Investigators.

A collection highlighting 2023’s rising stars of nanoscience and nanotechnology research

Nanoscale is proud to present our annual Emerging Investigators collection, recognising the rising stars of nanoscience and nanotechnology by gathering some of the very best work from researchers in the early stages of their independent careers. Each contributor was recommended by experts in their fields for carrying out work with the potential to influence future directions in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Please join us in congratulating our featured researchers on their important work so far! You can explore the collection and profiles of our Emerging Investigators below, with all articles free to access until the end of August 2023.

Read the collection

Meet the scientists

Collage of the 2023 Nanoscale Emerging Investigators.

Congratulations to all of the featured researchers, we hope you enjoy reading these articles and look forward to sharing more work from early-career nano researchers with you soon!

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Themed collection: Nanomaterials for printed electronics

Nanomaterials for printed electronics

Guest edited by Cinzia Casiraghi, Oana Jurchescu, Shlomo Magdassi and Wenming Su

Printed electronics have witnessed significant interest within the last few decades, in particular in conjunction with the development of the Internet of Things (IoTs). The digitization of machines, vehicles, and elements of the physical world could completely change the way we interact with objects and collect and get access to data, leading to improved quality of life and reduced costs. This collection explores a multitude of applications within the field and aims to exhibit new and exciting prospects for nanomaterials in printed electronics.

We are delighted to introduce a new online collection published in Nanoscale that explores a multitude of applications within the field and aims to exhibit new and exciting prospects for nanomaterials in printed electronics. All of the articles in the collection are free to access until the end of August 2023.

Read the collection

Cinzia Casiraghi, Oana Jurchescu, Shlomo Magdassi and Wenming Su.

The guest editors, Professor Cinzia Casiraghi (University of Manchester, UK), Professor Oana Jurchescu (Wake Forest University, USA), Professor Shlomo Magdassi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) and Professor Wenming Su (Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, China), introduce this collection in their editorial.

Read the introductory editorial

Read some of the featured articles below.

A sprayed graphene transistor platform for rapid and low-cost chemical sensing
Benji Fenech-Salerno, Martin Holicky, Chengning Yao, Anthony E. G. Cass and Felice Torrisi
Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR05838C

High performance printed organic electrochromic devices based on an optimized UV curable solid-state electrolyte
Chenchao Huang, Zishou Hu, Yuan-Qiu-Qiang Yi, Xiaolian Chen, Xinzhou Wu, Wenming Su and Zheng Cui
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR03209K

Visualisation of individual dopants in a conjugated polymer: sub-nanometre 3D spatial distribution and correlation with electrical properties
Gustav Persson, Emmy Järsval, Magnus Röding, Renee Kroon, Yadong Zhang, Stephen Barlow, Seth Marder, Christian Müller and Eva Olsson
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR03554E

Ionic dielectrics for fully printed carbon nanotube transistors: impact of composition and induced stresses
Brittany N. Smith, Hope Meikle, James L. Doherty, Shiheng Lu, Gianna Tutoni, Matthew L. Becker, Michael J. Therien and Aaron D. Franklin
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR04206A

Plasmon enhanced fluorescence from meticulously positioned gold nanoparticles, deposited by ultra sonic spray coating on organic light emitting diodes
Rachith Shanivarasanthe Nithyananda Kumar, Maarten Eerdekens, Yovan de Coene, Veda Sandeep Nagaraja, Shabnam Ahadzadeh, Melissa Vanlandeghem, Thierry Verbiest and Wim Deferme
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2NA00753C

 

Nanoscale is always interested in considering high-quality articles on nanomaterials for printed electronics and we would be delighted if you would consider the journal for your next submission, which can be made via our online submission service. All submissions will be subject to initial assessment and peer review as appropriate according to the journal’s guidelines.

We hope you enjoy reading this collection and look forward to seeing how this field progresses! Please continue to submit your exciting work on printed electronics to Nanoscale.

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Congratulations to our Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances presentation prize winner at the 2023 Spring E-MRS Symposium J

The 2023 Spring E-MRS was held in Strasbourg from May 29 until June 3 2023. Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances were delighted to sponsor an oral presentation prize for Symposium J: Design and scaling up of theranostic nanoplatforms for health: towards translational studies and we would like to congratulate Mélanie Romain for being the recipient of this prize!

Photo of Mélanie Romain.

 

Mélanie Romain is a 3rd year PhD student at the ICB laboratory in Dijon (France). She started her PhD journey after graduating from an international BsC degree at the University of Bordeaux, and then the ENSMAC (ex ENSCPB) engineering school in Chemistry and Physics in Bordeaux. During her studies, Mélanie had the occasion to have different research experiences across the world (Canada, France, Thailand, Netherlands). Her PhD project aims at the synthesis of hybrid nanoparticles to target extracellular vesicles, in collaboration with Femto-ST institute in Besançon. She also works on another project with INSERM institute of Dijon where she synthetizes gold nanorods for targeted phototherapy of cancer cells. Part of this work was presented during the E-MRS Spring meeting 2023, for which she earned the Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances Oral Presentation Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

 

Congratulations Mélanie!

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Congratulations to the winners of the RSC prizes at the Iontronics Faraday Discussion

The Iontronics: from fundamentals to ion-controlled devices Faraday Discussion took place in Edinburgh, UK from 21–23 June 2023. Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale, Nanoscale Advances, and Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) were delighted to support prizes at this event and we would like to congratulate our winners!

Anna Drummond Young

 

Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances Poster Prize

Anna Drummond Young (University of Oxford, UK)
Poster Title: “Cation dependence of noise induced by polymer adsorption in nanopores”

Anna Drummond Young is a DPhil student in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, UK, under the supervision of Prof. Alice Thorneywork. She received her M. Sci. in the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2022. Her current research focuses on noise in the ionic current of nanopores, specifically in relation to the adsorption of polymers, such as PEG, inside the pore.

 

 

 

Dominik Duleba.

 

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) Poster Prize

Dominik Duleba (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Poster Title: “Proton enrichment and surface charge dynamics in pH-responsive nanopores”

Dominik Duleba completed his undergraduate degree in chemistry (with a focus on analytical chemistry and nanotechnology) at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Afterwards, he completed his Master’s at University College Dublin, Ireland, under the supervision Prof. Robert Johnson where he is staying to complete his PhD. His major research interests currently lie in understanding the fundamental processes occurring in confined spaces, continuum modelling of nanoconfined devices with the Finite Element Method, and the incorporation of machine learning approaches with iontronic devices. Previously, he has also worked with the modelling of air pollution patterns, with phosphorescent halogen-bonded frameworks, and with the conduction mechanisms of supercapacitor electrolyte gels.

 

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