Open Call for Papers – Chiral Nanomaterials
Guest Edited by David Amabilino, Jeanne Crassous, Pengfei Duan and Nicholas Kotov
Chiral Nanomaterials have gone from being largely anecdotal curiosities to sophisticated materials with distinctively strong polarization rotation that had become an enabler for the areas, such as biosensing, catalysis and displays. Chiral nanostructures also have enormous potential in emerging technologies related with biomedicine, optoelectronics, spintronics, and information technologies. The great progress in the last two decades on the synthesis of chiral nanocolloids and their assemblies, chiral porous materials, chiral clusters, chiral soft nanostructured materials and chiral composites, to name a few, have made possible the discovery of new physical phenomena such as those related to the enhanced light-matter interactions and tunable Cosserat-Cauchy mechanics.
This special themed collection in Nanoscale, guest edited by Professor David Amabilino (ICMAB, Spain), Professor Jeanne Crassous (CNRS Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, France), Professor Pengfei Duan (NCNST, China) and Professor Nicholas Kotov (University of Michigan, USA), aims to provide a platform to showcase the latest progress and challenges in chiral nanomaterials. The scope of the collection is broad, including but not limited to, the following topics;
- Novel synthesis strategies
- Self-assembled chiral nanomaterials
- Chiral nanoparticles and plasmonics
- Complex chiral materials
- Bioinspired chiral nanostructures
- Porous chiral nanostructures
- Theoretical understanding of the chiral materials
- New chirality and asymmetry measures
- Materials with chirality continuum
- Spectroscopy of chiral nanomaterials
- Terahertz and long-wave circular dichroism
- Advanced characterization techniques
- Chirality Induced Spin Selectivity
- Chiral catalysis
- Biosensors
- Light emitting devices
- Chiral metastructures
Submissions deadline extended to 30 September 2024
How to submit
Submissions to the collection should fit within the scope of Nanoscale – Please see the journals’ websites for more information on the journal’s scope, standards, article types and author guidelines. All manuscripts will undergo the normal initial assessment and peer review processes, if appropriate, in line with the journal’s high standards, managed by the journal editors. Accepted manuscripts will be added to the online collection as soon as they are published and they will be featured in a regular issue of the relevant journal. Please note that peer review or acceptance are not guaranteed.
If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, please submit your article directly through the journal submissions platform. Please mention that your submission is a contribution to the Chiral Nanomaterials collection in the “Themed issues” section of the submission form and is in response to the Open Call. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of both the journal and the collection, and as such inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed collection is not guaranteed.
If you have any questions about the collection or the submissions process, please do contact the Editorial Office at nanoscale-rsc@rsc.org.
We look forward to receiving your latest work and considering it for this collection!
