Nanoscale & Nanoscale Advances Blog

We are delighted to announce the inaugural Nanoscale Advances Paper Prize, celebrating the most significant articles published in the journal in the previous calendar year! 

This year we recognise three outstanding papers that were published in 2024. Find the winner and runner-up papers below.

Nanoscale Advances 2025 Paper Prize Winner: 

Enhancing photoluminescence performance of perovskite quantum dots with plasmonic nanoparticles: insights into mechanisms and light-emitting applications

Gautham Kumar, Chien-Chung Lin, Hao-Chung Kuo and Fang-Chung Chen

Nanoscale Advances 2025 Paper Prize runner-up:

Understanding the effects of ethanol on the liposome bilayer structure using microfluidic-based time-resolved small-angle X-ray scattering and molecular dynamics simulations

Masatoshi Maeki, Niko Kimura, Yuto Okada, Kazuki Shimizu, Kana Shibata, Yusuke Miyazaki, Akihiko Ishida, Kento Yonezawa, Nobutaka Shimizu, Wataru Shinoda and Manabu Tokeshi

Nanoscale Advances 2025 Paper Prize runner-up: Helical interfacial modulation for perovskite photovoltaics

Ghewa AlSabeh, Masaud Almalki, Sitthichok Kasemthaveechok, Marco A. Ruiz-Preciado,   Hong Zhang, Nicolas Vanthuyne, Paul Zimmermann,  Daphne M. Dekker, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Alexander Hinderhofer, Frank Schreiber, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Bruno Ehrler, Jeanne Crassous, Jovana V. Milić and Michael Grätzel