Celebrating the 20th anniversary of NCNST

Guest edited by Xinfeng Liu, Qing Dai, Zhixiang Wei, Chunying Chen and Yuliang Zhao

Last year we were delighted to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) with a special collection in Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances highlighting the breadth of high-quality work from the institute. We’re pleased to share this collection of research and reviews covering the most recent research progress in a wide spectrum of nanoscience and nanotechnology from researchers currently affiliated with NCNST as well as esteemed alumni. You can explore the collection and read the introductory editorial from our guest editors below, with all articles free to access until the end of April 2024. Read the collection

Professor Xinfeng Liu, Professor Qing Dai, Professor Zhixiang Wei, Professor Chunying Chen and Professor Yuliang Zhao served as guest editors for this collection and highlight the history of NCNST and significance of this anniversary in their introductory editorial.

Read the introductory editorial

All of the articles in the collection are free to access until the end of April 2024. Read some of the featured articles below.

Reviews

Material design, development, and trend for surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates Yue Ying, Zhiyong Tang and Yaling Liu Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NR01456H

RNA-cleaving DNAzymes for accurate biosensing and gene therapy Xin Gao, Yixin Liu, Wendi Huo, Yuwei Song, Yu Chen, Jinchao Zhang, Xinjian Yang, Yi Jin and Xing-jie Liang Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NR01482G

Research articles

Scalable engineering of hierarchical layered micro-sized silicon/graphene hybrids via direct foaming for lithium storage Mathar Hamza, Siyuan Zhang, Wenqiang Xu, Denghui Wang, Yingjie Ma and Xianglong Li Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NR02840B

A wearable AuNP enhanced metal–organic gel (Au@MOG) sensor for sweat glucose detection with ultrahigh sensitivity Dengfeng Zhou, Shuangbin Zhang, Atta Ullah Khan, Lan Chen and Guanglu Ge Nanoscale, 2024, DOI: 10.1039/D3NR05179J

Cascade energy transfer boosted near-infrared circularly polarized luminescence of nanofibers from an exclusively achiral system Chen Xiao, Chengxi Li, Kang Huang, Pengfei Duan and Yafei Wang Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NR01515G

Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale are high-impact international journals, publishing high-quality experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Nanoscale Advances is our gold open access member of the nanoscale journal family. Our broad scope covers cross-community research that bridges various disciplines, and the journal series allows full coverage of interdisciplinary advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology. We hope you will consider Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances for your future submissions.

We hope you enjoy reading this collection and look forward to showcasing more work from NCNST in the future. Please continue to submit your exciting work to Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.