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13 Jan 2014

Take a look at this week’s selection! These articles are available free for a limited time: Graphical abstract: Probing the atomic structure of metallic nanoclusters with the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope

Synthesis of Mn2O3 nanomaterials with controllable porosity and thickness for enhanced lithium-ion batteries performance
Xing Zhang, Yitai Qian, Yongchun Zhu and Kaibin Tang
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR05551E, Paper

Light extraction enhancement with radiation pattern shaping of LEDs by waveguiding nanorods with impedance-matching tips
Yu-Hsuan Hsiao, Cheng-Ying Chen, Li-Chuan Huang, Guan-Jhong Lin, Der-Hsien Lien, Jian-Jang Huang and Jr-Hau He
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR05226E, Paper

Transport of nanoparticles through the blood–brain barrier for imaging and therapeutic applications
Malka Shilo, Menachem Motiei, Panet Hana and Rachela Popovtzer
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR04878K, Paper

Probing the atomic structure of metallic nanoclusters with the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope
Koen Schouteden, Koen Lauwaet, Ewald Janssens, Giovanni Barcaro, Alessandro Fortunelli, Chris Van Haesendonck and Peter Lievens
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03585A, Paper

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Rewarding Excellence, Gaining recognition

16 Dec 2013

The Royal Society of Chemistry’s Prizes and Awards recognise achievements by individuals, teams and organisations in advancing the chemical sciences. There are over 80 Prizes and Awards available covering all areas of the chemical sciences.

You still have time to make your nomination before the deadline on 15th January 2014

As well as the cash prize of up to £5,000 and an inscribed medal , all Prize and Award winners are given the opportunity to present their work to the wider community by giving lectures at several universities around the UK.

Prizes are available in the categories various categories, including Biosciences, Environment, Sustainability and Energy, Materials Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Industry & Technology.

Please nominate someone or be nominated by a Royal Society of Chemistry member by visiting

http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/2014-RSC-Prizes-Awards.asp

“The publicity associated with my RSC Award resulted in the increased recognition for all my great colleagues who contributed and supported this programme over the years.” Monica Papworth

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This week’s HOT article

16 Dec 2013

Take a look at this week’s selection! This article is available free for a limited time: Graphical abstract: Selective catalytic burning of graphene by SiOx layer depletion

Selective catalytic burning of graphene by SiOx layer depletion
Kyoung-Jae Lee, Kyuwook Ihm, Yogesh Kumar, Jaeyoon Baik, Mihyun Yang, Hyun-Joon Shin, Tai-Hee Kang, Sukmin Chung and Byung Hee Hong
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR04692C, Paper

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This week’s HOT articles

10 Dec 2013

Take a look at this week’s selection! These articles are available free for a limited time: Graphical abstract: Facile preparation of hierarchically porous polymer microspheres for superhydrophobic coating

Facile preparation of hierarchically porous polymer microspheres for superhydrophobic coating
Jiefeng Gao, Julia Shuk-Ping Wong, Mingjun Hu, Wan Li and Robert. K. Y. Li
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR05281H, Paper

Synthesis and electrocatalytic properties of PtBi nanoplatelets and PdBi nanowires
Hanbin Liao, Jinghan Zhu and Yanglong Hou
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR05590F, Paper

Multimodal chemo–magnetic control of self-propelling microbots
Amit Kumar Singh, Krishna Kanti Dey, Arun Chattopadhyay, Tapas Kumar Mandal and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR05294J, Paper

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02 Dec 2013

Take a look at this week’s selection! These articles are available free for a limited time: Graphical abstract: Towards biocompatible nano/microscale machines: self-propelled catalytic nanomotors not exhibiting acute toxicity

Towards biocompatible nano/microscale machines: self-propelled catalytic nanomotors not exhibiting acute toxicity
Elaine Lay Khim Chng, Guanjia Zhao and Martin Pumera
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR04997C, Paper

Scalable fabrication of high-performance and flexible graphene strain sensors
He Tian, Yi Shu, Ya-Long Cui, Wen-Tian Mi, Yi Yang, Dan Xie and Tian-Ling Ren
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR04521H, Communication

Behavior of phosphorous and contaminants from molecular doping combined with a conventional spike annealing method
Yasuo Shimizu, Hisashi Takamizawa, Koji Inoue, Fumiko Yano, Yasuyoshi Nagai, Luca Lamagna, Giovanni Mazzeo, Michele Perego and Enrico Prati
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03605G, Communication

Double network bacterial cellulose hydrogel to build a biology–device interface
Zhijun Shi, Ying Li, Xiuli Chen, Hongwei Han and Guang Yang
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR05214A, Paper

Laser patterning of transparent conductive metal nanowire coatings: simulation and experiment
Simon J. Henley, Maria Cann, Izabela Jurewicz, Alan Dalton and David Milne
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR05504C, Paper

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Nanoscale Issue 24 of 2013 out now!

27 Nov 2013

Nanoscale is delighted to present its current issue.

Biophotonic logic devices based on quantum dots and temporally-staggered Förster energy transfer relays is the article highlighted on the outside front cover by Jonathan C. Claussen, W. Russ Algar, Niko Hildebrandt, Kimihiro Susumu, Mario G. Ancona and Igor L. Medintz.

The inside front cover features an article on Quantum dot approaches for target-based drug screening and multiplexed active biosensing by Oleg Kovtun, Xochitl Arzeta-Ferrer and Sandra J. Rosenthal.

Issue 24 contains the following Review and Feature articles:

Electrohydrodynamic direct-writing
YongAn Huang, Ningbin Bu, Yongqing Duan, Yanqiao Pan, Huimin Liu, Zhouping Yin and Youlun Xiong

Polymer-coated quantum dots
Nikodem Tomczak, Rongrong Liu and Julius G. Vancso

Applications of nanomaterials in mass spectrometry analysis
Chang Lei, Kun Qian, Owen Noonan, Amanda Nouwens and Chengzhong Yu

Localized surface plasmon resonance: a unique property of plasmonic nanoparticles for nucleic acid detection
Kah Ee Fong and Lin-Yue Lanry Yung

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Biocompatible hydrogels for non-toxic conductive materials: Nanoscale article in Chemistry World

27 Nov 2013

Implantable medical devices of the future could be built from a new material that is made by layering bacterial cellulose hydrogels with conducting polymers.

Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a naturally occurring polymer hydrogel that is flexible and known to respond to environmental changes. Guang Yang and co-workers at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, added a layer of conductive polymer polyaniline (PAni) onto a BC hydrogel to give a material that responds to electrical signals.

The base cellulose hydrogel is made by Gluconacetobacter xylinum bacteria. After purification, the hydrogel is soaked for 48 hours in a solution of salts and aniline monomers. The gel is then sandwiched between two electrodes, and applying an electrical current causes the monomers to form a polymer film layer.

Interested to know more? Read the full news article by Cally Haynes in Chemistry World here…

Read the article by Zhijun Shi, Ying Li, Xiuli Chen, Hongwei Han and Guang Yang in Nanoscale:

Double networks bacterial cellulose hydrogel to build a biology–device interface
Zhijun Shi, Ying Li, Xiuli Chen, Hongwei Han and Guang Yang
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR05214A, Paper

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This week’s HOT articles

25 Nov 2013

Take a look at this week’s selection! These articles are available free for a limited time: Graphical abstract: Barrier inhomogeneities at vertically stacked graphene-based heterostructures

Barrier inhomogeneities at vertically stacked graphene-based heterostructures
Yen-Fu Lin, Wenwu Li, Song-Lin Li, Yong Xu, Alex Aparecido-Ferreira, Katsuyoshi Komatsu, Huabin Sun, Shu Nakaharai and Kazuhito Tsukagoshi
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03677D, Paper

Complete reconfiguration of dendritic gold
Govind Paneru and Bret N. Flanders
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR04317G, Paper

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Encryption at the flick of a light switch: Nanoscale article in Chemistry World

20 Nov 2013

Scientists have designed a grid of light responsive colloidal particles to function as pixels that could be used to create barcodes for cryptographic data storage.

Photochromic dyes are used in films to respond to light, for example in self-dimming sunglasses. These dyes have two isomers, one forms in visible light and is transparent, the other forms in UV light and absorbs light, darkening the sunglasses. If a photochromic dye is placed in a film with a fluorescent dye, and the wavelength of the fluorescence is matched to that absorbed by the photochromic dye, the photochromic dye can be used to switch the fluorescence off and on when exposed to UV or visible light.

Clemens Weiß and his colleagues at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany, have devised a way to use this kind of light triggered dye switch to store data. Encapsulating the photochromic/fluorescent dye pair inside polymer colloids traps the molecules together prolonging the lifetime of the ‘on’ or ‘off’ state for several days. Assembling these functional colloids within a monolayer of larger colloids creates a grid of fluorescent ‘colloidal pixels’. Shining UV light on chosen areas of the grid turns the pixels’ fluorescence off creating dark areas on the grid whilst leaving others fluorescent.

Interested to know more? Read the full news article by Emily Skinner in Chemistry World here…

Read the article by K. Bley, N. Sinatra, N. Vogel, K. Landfester and C. K. Weiss in Nanoscale:

Switching light with light – advanced functional colloidal monolayers
K. Bley, N. Sinatra, N. Vogel, K. Landfester and C. K. Weiss
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR04897G, Paper

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This week’s HOT articles

18 Nov 2013

Take a look at this week’s selection! These articles are available free for a limited time:
Graphical abstract: Penetration and lateral diffusion characteristics of polycrystalline graphene barriers

Penetration and lateral diffusion characteristics of polycrystalline graphene barriers
Taeshik Yoon, Jeong Hun Mun, Byung Jin Cho and Taek-Soo Kim
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03849A, Communication

Synthesis and internal electric field dependent photoreactivity of Bi3O4Cl single-crystalline nanosheets with high {001} facet exposure percentages
Jie Li, Lizhi Zhang, Yujie Li and Ying Yu
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR05246J, Communication

Switching light with light – advanced functional colloidal monolayers
K. Bley, N. Sinatra, N. Vogel, K. Landfester and C. K. Weiss
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR04897G, Paper

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Nanoscale Issue 24 of 2013 out now!

Biocompatible hydrogels for non-toxic conductive materials: Nanoscale article in Chemistry World

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