We are delighted to announce an open call for papers to our new themed collection on Synthesis, physical properties and applications of advanced nanocrystalline materials.

Loosely connected to the Spring E-MRS 2024 Symposium by the same name (more information here) the following topics are welcome:

• Magnetic, Luminescent, Electrical, and Structural Properties of Nanoparticles
• Synthesis and Characterization of Nanocrystals
• Magnetic Nanoparticles
• Semiconductor Nanocrystals
• Nanocrystalline Metals
• Two-dimensional Nanostructures Such as Graphene, MXene, etc.
• Biomedical applications of Nanoparticles
• Nanocrystalline Material-based Sensors, Actuators, and Other Devices
• Theory and Simulation of Nanocrystalline Materials
• Nanocrystal Thin Films and Their Applications
• Advanced Nanocrystalline Materials for Environmental Applications
• Advanced Nanocrystalline Materials for Energy Applications

This collection welcomes fundamental and applied works including process-structure-property relationships of advanced nanocrystalline materials exhibiting efficient magnetic, luminescent, optical, electrical, dielectric, thermoelectric, piezoelectric and other physical characteristics.

Submit before 1st December 2024.

If you are interested in contributing to this collection, please get in touch with the Editorial Office. Submissions are welcome to both Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.

Please note that article processing charges apply to all articles submitted to Nanoscale Advances if, following peer-review, they are accepted for publication, unless your institute has an existing agreement with the RSC that covers publications in our gold open access journals. Details of the APC and discounted rates can be found here. Corresponding authors who are not already members of the Royal Society of Chemistry are entitled to one year’s Affiliate membership as part of their APC. Find out more about our member benefits. There are no costs associated with submitting to Nanoscale unless you wish to publish under an open access license.

This themed collection is Guest Edited by:

	Aurora Rizzo University of Salento – CNR NANOTEC, Italy ORCID: 0000-0002-4570-7777 Aurora received a Ph.D. degree in innovative materials and technologies from National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL), Università del Salento, CNR-INFM, Lecce. In the period 2008−2009, she joined the group of Prof. Olle Inganäs at the University of Linköping (Sweden), working on “Bio-Organic Light Emitting Diodes.” She is currently a researcher at the Nanotechnology Institute of the National Research Council (CNR), Lecce, Italy. Aurora Rizzo research interests include the design and developed of innovative hybrid inorganic–organic and 2D materials, such as metal halide perovskites, colloidal nanocrystals, and transition metal dichalcogenides for third generation solar cells, optic and optoelectronic devices.
	Ermelinda M. S. Macoas University of Lisbon, Portugal ORCID: 0000-0001-8506-7025 Ermelinda received her PhD in Chemistry in 2005, in the field of physical-chemistry, by the University of Coimbra. She then took on a post-doc fellowship at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Coimbra (2008) and a Marie-Curie fellow at the University of Jyväskylä (2006-2007, Finland). Since 2009, she has been a senior researcher at the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon. As a young researcher she received the scientific investigation stimulus prize of the Gulbenkian Foundation (2005). Her research field is in fundamental photochemistry and photophysics with special relevance to practical aspects of energy and charge transfer processes, such as: selective photochemistry connected to isomerization and molecular photocontrol issues, nonlinear fluorescent molecular materials tailored for applications as dyes in bioimaging, FRET based 3D-data storage media, photophysics and photoconductivity of molecular single crystals and single crystal interfaces with applications in solar energy conversion and organic electronics, intramolecular proton tunneling and excited state dynamics of organic molecules and metal complexes. The tools used to address these topics are steady-state and time resolved optical spectroscopy (including UV-Vis, NIR and mid-IR; from fs to microseconds), fluorescence microscopy and electronic structure calculations.
	Raghvendra Singh Yadav Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic ORCID: 0000-0003-1773-3596 Dr. Raghvendra Singh Yadav is a Senior Scientist at Tomas Bata University in Zlin. He has published more than 74 publications in reputed international journals, as well as six books and two book chapters in the field of materials science and nanotechnology. Dr.Yadav has been also involved as Editorial Board Member in several journals, namely Crystals, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Nanomaterials, Frontiers in Materials. His research activities are focused on ‘‘Lightweight, Flexible, Low-dimensional Electromagnetic Functional Nanocomposite Materials (MXene, MBene, Graphene, magnetic nanoparticles as nanofillers in a polymer matrix) and its Applications’’
	Renjie Chen Beijing Institute of Technology, P. R. China ORCID: 0000-0002-7001-2926 Renjie Chen is a Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). His research focuses on electrochemical energy storage and conversion technology. He was a post-doctoral fellow in Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University and a visiting professor in Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at University of Cambridge. As the principal investigator, Prof. Chen successfully hosted the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National High Tech 863 project etc. He has (co-) authored more than 200 research papers and filed 50 patents and patent applications.
	Tayebeh Ameri University of Kiel, Germany ORCID: 0000-0002-8928-3697 Tayebeh Ameri conducted her Ph.D. research on printed tandem organic photovoltaics at Konarka GmbH Austria and received her Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science from Johannes Kepler University Linz in 2010. Afterwards, she conducted her postdoctoral and Habilitation research, where she pioneered the development of ternary organic and hybrid photovoltaics at the Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Department of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). From 2018 to 2020, Ameri served as a team leader and lecturer (Privatdozent) in the Department of Physical Chemistry at the University of Munich (LMU). From December 2020 to July 2023, Ameri worked as a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Institute for Materials and Processes, Chemical Engineering discipline at the University of Edinburgh. During this period, her research focused on the development of emerging energy harvesting, energy storage, and detection/sensing technologies, including photovoltaics, supercapacitors, and photo-/IR-detectors. Since September 2023, Ameri has been a full Heisenberg professor and holds the Chair for Composite Materials in the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Materials Science at Kiel University. She has the honor of furthering her research as an honorary lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Ameri is also the co-founder and scientific mentor of the start-up SERINO, founded by the Medical Valley Award in 2021 and expanded by EXIST grant in 2023 to develop the next generation of IR-detectors for food and medical applications.

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, their assemblies, chiral porous materials, chiral clusters, chiral soft nanostructured materials, 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, 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 6 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!

Read the collection in Nanoscale Advances

We are delighted to introduce our new themed collection focusing on smart tailored nanomaterials!

Guest Edited by Professor Chiara Battocchio (Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy), Professor Ilaria Fratoddi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), and Professor Barbara Capone (Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy).

This collection focuses on the design, synthesis and advanced characterizations of functional nanostructured materials, e.g. metal, metal oxides, and hybrid nanoparticles by means of state-of-the-art spectroscopic and imaging techniques.

A small selection of the papers are featured below, all open access and free to read.

Colloidal adsorption in planar polymeric brushes
Clemens Franz Vorsmann, Sara Del Galdo, Barbara Capone and Emanuele Locatelli
Nanoscale Adv., 2024,6, 816-825, DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00598D

Microwave synthesis of antimony oxide graphene nanoparticles – a new electrode material for supercapacitors
Precious Ekwere, Miranda Ndipingwi, Christopher Nolly, Chinwe Ikpo and Emmanuel Iwuoha
Nanoscale Adv., 2023,5, 5137-5153, DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00514C

Copper(i) as a reducing agent for the synthesis of bimetallic PtCu catalytic nanoparticles
Adrián Fernández-Lodeiro, Javier Fernández Lodeiro, Noelia Losada-Garcia, Silvia Nuti, José Luis Capelo-Martinez, Jose M. Palomo and Carlos Lodeiro
Nanoscale Adv., 2023,5, 4415-4423, DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00158J

We hope you enjoy reading this themed collection!

Did you know?

At Nanoscale Advances, our themed collections are built by collaboration between our Guest Editors and expert Associate Editors. Our Guest Editors guide the scope and curate the contributions in our collections but all submissions are handled through peer review by our team of resident Associate Editors. This means that as an author you receive a consistent experience, and as a reader you can trust the quality of the science being presented.

If you have an idea for a topical collection in your research field, we’d love to hear from you! Get in touch here.

Read the themed collection in Nanoscale Advances

We are delighted to introduce our new themed collection focusing on nanoparticle-based cancer therapies!

Guest Edited by Catarina Pinto Reis (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Maria Manuela Gaspar (University of Lisbon, Portugal) and Carlos A. García-González (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain).

This themed collection features work covering wide ranging aspects of nanoparticle-based cancer therapy, including vaccine delivery, tumour-targeting systems, and much more.

A small selection of the papers are featured below, all open access and free to read.

HER-2-targeted boron neutron capture therapy using an antibody-conjugated boron nitride nanotube/β-1,3-glucan complex
Keita Yamana, Riku Kawasaki, Kousuke Kondo, Hidetoshi Hirano, Shogo Kawamura, Yu Sanada, Kaori Bando, Anri Tabata, Hideki Azuma, Takushi Takata, Yoshinori Sakurai, Hiroki Tanaka, Tomoki Kodama, Seiji Kawamoto, Takeshi Nagasaki and Atsushi Ikeda
Nanoscale Adv., 2023,5, 3857-3861. DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00028A

Strategies for targeted gene delivery using lipid nanoparticles and cell-derived nanovesicles
Dong-yup Lee, Sivashanmugam Amirthalingam, Changyub Lee, Arun Kumar Rajendran, Young-Hyun Ahn and Nathaniel S. Hwang
Nanoscale Adv., 2023,5, 3834-3856. DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00198A

Targeted photodynamic therapy for breast cancer: the potential of glyconanoparticles
Brydie A. Thomas-Moore, Simone Dedola, David A. Russell, Robert A. Field and María J. Marín
Nanoscale Adv., 2023,5, 6501-6513. DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00544E

We hope you enjoy reading this themed collection!

Did you know?

At Nanoscale Advances, our themed collections are built by collaboration between our Guest Editors and expert Associate Editors. Our Guest Editors guide the scope and curate the contributions in our collections but all submissions are handled through peer review by our team of resident Associate Editors. This means that as an author you receive a consistent experience, and as a reader you can trust the quality of the science being presented.

If you have an idea for a topical collection in your research field, we’d love to hear from you! Get in touch here.

We are delighted to announce an open call for papers to our new themed collection on Carbon nanomaterials for smart applications.

Carbon nanomaterials with interesting properties have become more easily accessible with rapid research progress in the field, leading to their increasingly widespread use for materials development and applications. This themed collection broadly focuses on carbon nanomaterials for smart applications including (but not limited to):

• Design and synthesis of carbon nanomaterials
• Assembly of carbon-based smart nanostructured materials
• Fabrication of carbon nanomaterials and polymer composites for smart textiles
• Graphene and CNT-based smart composites for energy harvesting and storage devices
• Smart carbon-based materials for biomedical sensors and drug release systems
• Carbon-based thermochromic and electrochromic hybrid materials
• Carbon-based smart materials and composites for water purification
• Carbon nanomaterials for smart thermal management
• Carbon nanomaterials for actuators (e.g., artificial muscles)

Submit before 1^st June 2024

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

Nanoscale Advances publishes quality research across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology. It has an impact factor of 4.7 (Journal Citation Reports 2022, Clarivate Analytics).

Please note that article processing charges apply to all accepted articles submitted to Nanoscale Advances unless you have an institutional agreement with the RSC that covers publication in our gold open access journals or if you are eligible for a waiver. More information about charges, discounts, and waivers are available here. Corresponding authors who are not already members of the Royal Society of Chemistry are entitled to one year’s Affiliate membership as part of their APC. Find out more about our member benefits.

This themed collection is Guest Edited by:

Yeye Wen Beijing Institute of Technology, China ORCID: 0000-0001-6902-7234 Yeye Wen is currently an associate professor at Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology. She obtained her PhD from Tsinghua University in 2020 and then worked in Prof Jin Zhang’s group at Peking university and Beijing Graphene institute as a postdoctoral researcher from 2020-2022. Her research interests focus on controllable synthesis and assembly of carbon nanomaterials and functional porous materials for bioseparation and biosensing applications.

Zhenyuan Xia Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden ORCID: 0000-0003-2227-3598 Zhenyuan Xia is currently a Senior Researcher (Docent) at Chalmers University of Technology and ISOF-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR). He obtained his PhD from East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) in 2010 and then worked in Dr Vincenzo Palermo’s group at ISOF-CNR (Italy) as a Marie-Curie postdoctoral researcher from 2011-2013. His research interests focus on electrochemical functionalization of graphene-related 2D materials for energy conversion and remediation of organic contaminants.

Muqiang Jian Beijing Graphene Institute, China ORCID: 0009-0006-5380-1962 Muqiang Jian, Associate Researcher in Beijing Graphene Institute (BGI). After graduating from Tsinghua University in 2018, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Peking University from 2018 to 2020. Then he joined BGI, with a research focus on the production and applications of nanocarbon material fibers, and has published more than 50 papers.

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.

Celebrating 25 years of the Key Laboratory for Special Functional Materials at Henan University

Guest edited by Feng Bai, Gang Cheng, Zuliang Du and Guohua Jia

Last year we were delighted to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Key Laboratory for Special Functional Materials of Ministry of Education at Henan University with a special collection in Nanoscale 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 the Key Lab 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 Feng Bai, Professor Gang Cheng, Professor Zuliang Du and Professor Guohua Jia served as guest editors for this collection and highlight the history of the Key Laboratory for Special Functional Materials of Ministry of Education 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

Transformation mechanism of high-valence metal sites for the optimization of Co- and Ni-based OER catalysts in an alkaline environment: recent progress and perspectives Chen Qiao, Yingying Hao, Chuanbao Cao and JiaTao Zhang Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR05783B

Polyoxometalate-based frameworks for photocatalysis and photothermal catalysis Xiaofei Chen, Hongzhuo Wu, Xinjian Shi and Lixin Wu Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NR01176C

Research articles

Selection of an aggregation-caused quenching-based fluorescent tracer for imaging studies in nano drug delivery systems Xin Ji, Yifan Cai, Xiaochun Dong, Wei Wu and Weili Zhao Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NR01018J

A layer-stacked NiO nanowire/nanosheet homostructure for electrochromic smart windows with ultra-large optical modulation Yi Gao, Pengyang Lei, Siyu Zhang, Huanhuan Liu, Chengyu Hu, Zhu Kou, Jinhui Wang and Guofa Cai Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NR01211E

Nanoscale is a high-impact international journal, publishing high-quality experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Our broad scope covers cross-community research that bridges the various disciplines involved with nanoscience and nanotechnology. We are always interested in considering high-quality articles 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 showcasing more work from the institute in the future. Please continue to submit your exciting work to Nanoscale.

Open call for papers – Targeted biomedical applications of nanomaterials

Submissions deadline on 7 June 2024

We are delighted to announce our latest open call for submissions to a themed collection on Targeted biomedical applications of nanomaterials to be published across Nanoscale, Nanoscale Advances, Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Materials Advances.

This collection is guest edited by Professor Dhiraj Bhatia (IIT Gandhinagar, India), Professor Mukesh Dhanka (IIT Gandhinagar, India), Dr Anjali Awasthi (University of Rajasthan, India), Professor Kamlendra Awasthi (Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India) and Professor Kaushik Chatterjee (IISc Bangalore, India).

Nano-biomaterials, i.e., nanomaterials derived or inspired from biological molecules, have gained substantial influence in the recent times in terms of their fine tunability, scale-up potential, excellent interface and adaptation with biological systems. Multiple different approaches involving physical and computational modelling, chemical structure synthesis and characterization and biological modifications have been used to develop next generation bionanodevices that can interface with biological systems in a very focussed manner. Some of the recent devices have already made their way to clinical trials and many others are in different stages of the pipeline for translational applications.

This new collection in Nanoscale, JMC B, Nanoscale Advances and Materials Advances will focus on the design of multifunctional hybrid nanomaterials for different applications and on interfacing nanomaterials with biological systems for translational studies. The scope of this collection loosely aligns with the 2023 International Conference on Nanomaterials in Biology (ICNB 2023), held at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar along with Soft Materials Research Society, from 19–22 November 2023. Potential topics for the collection include but are not limited to,

• 3D Bioprinting
• Big Data in Nanosciences
• Bioinspired and Biomimetic Materials
• Biological Nanodevices and Sensors
• Engineered Nanomaterials
• Nanomaterials and Environmental Effects
• Nanomaterials for Bioenergy Applications
• Nanomaterials for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Science
• Nanomaterials in Biological Uptake and Nanotoxicology
• Nanomaterials in Gene and Drug Delivery
• Nanomaterials in Tissue Engineering and Medicine
• Polymer Supramolecular Chemistry and Applications
• Scaffold design and fabrication

Submit your work by 7 June 2024

How to submit

Submissions to the collection should fit within the scope of Nanoscale, Nanoscale Advances, Materials Advances or Journal of Materials Chemistry B – Please see the journals’ websites for more information on the journal’s scope, standards, article types and author guidelines. We encourage authors to select the journal most relevant to their research. 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 Targeted biomedical applications of 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 materialsb-rsc@rsc.org and they will be able to assist.

We look forward to receiving your latest work and considering it for this collection!