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Nanomedicine Unlocks Novel Cancer Vaccine with a Dual Immunogenic Effect

Nanomedicine Unlocks Novel Cancer Vaccine with a Dual Immunogenic Effect

An infographic highlighting nanoprodrug-based in situ cancer vaccines

We would like to share an infographic highlighting the excellent work by Ping’an Ma, Jun Lin et al. on a strategy to develop in situ cancer vaccines via dual immunogenic cell death induced by amorphous iron oxide-packaged oxaliplatin nanoprodrugs! Check out the infographic below to learn more or get the full story from their Nanoscale article.

Tumor microenvironment-triggered in situ cancer vaccines inducing dual immunogenic cell death for elevated antitumor and antimetastatic therapy
Binbin Ding, Pan Zheng, Dong Li, Meifang Wang, Fan Jiang, Zhanfeng Wang, Ping’an Ma and Jun Lin
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1NR02018H

An infographic summarising the content of the article “Tumor microenvironment-triggered in situ cancer vaccines inducing dual immunogenic cell death for elevated antitumor and antimetastatic therapy"

Meet the authors

Dr Binbin Ding Binbin Ding (丁彬彬)

Binbin Ding (丁彬彬) was born in Anhui, China, in 1991. He received his B.S. degree (2015) in Pharmaceutical Engineering from Hefei University of Technology, and his Ph.D. degree (2020) in Inorganic Chemistry under the guidance of Prof. Jun Lin at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. After graduation, he became an Assistant Professor in Prof. Jun Lin’s group. Now as the first author, he has published over 10 of papers in Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Nano Lett., Chem. Mater., Nanoscale, etc. His current research focuses on the synthesis and bioapplications of nanoadjuvants.

Professor Ping'an Ma Ping’an Ma (马平安)

Ping’an Ma (马平安) was born in Jilin, China, in 1982. He received his B.S. degree in Biology in 2005 at Northeast Normal University, and his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry in 2010 at Northeast Normal University. After graduation, he became an Assistant Professor in Prof. Jun Lin’s group and was promoted to Professor in 2020. Now he as the first author or corresponding author has published over 40 of papers in Adv. Mater., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Mater. Today, Nano Lett., Adv. Sci., Biomaterials, Chem. Mater., Small, Nanoscale, etc. His research focuses on the synthesis and application of multifunctional inorganic nanoparticles for bioapplication, particularly the design and mechanism of platinum-based anticancer drugs.

Professor Jun Lin Jun Lin (林君)

Jun Lin (林君) was born in Changchun, China, in 1966. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Jilin University, and a Ph.D. degree in Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (1995). His postdoctoral studies were performed at the City University of Hong Kong (1996), Institute of New Materials (Germany, 1997), Virginia Commonwealth University (USA, 1998), and University of New Orleans (USA, 1999). He has been working as a Professor at CIAC since 2000. His research interests include bulk- and nanostructured luminescent materials and multifunctional composite materials, together with their applications in display, lighting, and biomedical fields. So far he has published more than 700 peer-reviewed journal articles, such as Chem. Rev., Chem. Soc. Rev., Mater. Today, Nano Today, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Nat. Commun., Coord. Chem. Rev., Adv. Funct. Mater., ACS Nano, Biomaterials, Chem. Mater., Small, Nanoscale etc. (over 100 papers with IF > 10), and these articles have totally been cited over 55000 times by others with a personal H index of 124 (Google Scholar).

 

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New Ceria Nanoparticles to Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

New Ceria Nanoparticles to Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

An infographic highlighting ceria-based nanoparticles as intracellular antibacterial agents

We would like to share an infographic highlighting the excellent work by Inge K. Herrmann et al. on ceria/bioglass nanohybrids that significantly reduce bacterial survival inside human cells without harming the human cells, overcoming the major shortcomings of conventional antibiotics! Check out the infographic below to learn more or get the full story from their Nanoscale article.

Inorganic nanohybrids combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria hiding within human macrophages
Martin T. Matter, Meagan Doppegieter, Alexander Gogos, Kerda Keevend, Qun Ren and Inge K. Herrmann
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D0NR08285F

An infographic summarising the content of the article “Inorganic nanohybrids combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria hiding within human macrophages"

 

Meet the authors

Dr Martin T Matter

Martin T. Matter

Dr Martin T. Matter completed his BSc and MSc studies in Nanosciences at the University of Basel and pursued his doctoral studies in nanostructured surgical materials at ETH Zurich and Empa St. Gallen. Since 2020, he is working on translating a nanoparticle-based wound care platform technology from the lab to clinics. He has been awarded the ETH medal and MaP award for his outstanding doctoral thesis, the Empa Innovation Award, and the Swiss Nanotech Startup Award.

Professor Inge K Herrmann Inge K. Herrmann

Inge K. Herrmann is a chemical engineer with additional training in (pre)clinical research. After graduating with a PhD from ETH Zurich, she underwent further training at the University Hospital Zurich (USZ), the University of Illinois (US) and the Imperial College London (UK). Since 2015, she is heading a research group at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) specialized on nanoscale materials and devices for healthcare. In 2019, she joined the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering as an assistant professor at ETH Zurich where she is heading the Nanoparticle Systems Engineering Lab. She has spearheaded several translational nanomedicine projects, and serves as a scientific advisor of the spin-offs hemotune, anavo and veltist commercializing technologies emerging from her lab. Inge has won various prestigious awards, including the Bayer Healthcare Award and the Johnson & Johnson Award, the Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza Fellowship, the Empa Innovation Award 2020 and the ETH Zurich Dandelion Award 2021 for interdisciplinary collaboration and entrepreneurship.

 

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Microchip-Based Toolkit to Complement Protein Analysis Using Cryo-Electron Microscopy

Microchip-Based Toolkit to Complement Protein Analysis Using Cryo-Electron Microscopy

An infographic highlighting the structure determination of proteins including the first antibody binding site on the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N) protein

We would like to share an infographic highlighting the excellent work by Deborah F. Kelly et al. on a microchip-based toolkit that performs complementary structural and biochemical analysis on low-molecular weight proteins alongside cryo-EM! Check out the infographic below to learn more or get the full story from their Nanoscale article.

Microchip-based structure determination of low-molecular weight proteins using cryo-electron microscopy
Michael A. Casasanta, G. M. Jonaid, Liam Kaylor, William Y. Luqiu, Maria J. Solares, Mariah L. Schroen, William J. Dearnaley, Jarad Wilson, Madeline J. Dukes and Deborah F. Kelly
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1NR00388G

An infographic summarising the content of the article “Microchip-based structure determination of low-molecular weight proteins using cryo-electron microscopy"

Meet the authors

Dr Michael Casasanta

Michael Casasanta
Dr Michael Casasanta completed his PhD in Biochemistry at Virginia Tech and his post-doctoral training in Biomedical Engineering at Penn State University. Dr. Casasanta is currently a Senior Scientific Consultant working in the Boston area.
Professor Deb Kelly Deb Kelly
Dr Deb Kelly is a professor of Biomedical Engineering at Penn State University and the president-elect of the Microscopy Society of America. She directs the Center for Structural Oncology at the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences where she holds the Lloyd and Dottie Foehr Huck Chair in Molecular Biophysics. Dr. Kelly co-leads the Next-Generation Therapies research program at the Penn State Cancer Institute and also holds an appointment in the Materials Research Institute.

 

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Nanoscale: Looking back at 2021

Looking back at 2021

An overview of the exciting events, activities and news for Nanoscale from 2021

Now that 2021 has come to an end, we look back at some of the exciting events and activities that happened last year for Nanoscale. Thank you for your engagement in 2021, and for enabling the journal to continue to support the community. With your support, we look forward to another great year for the journal in 2022.

Board updates

We welcomed Professor Jinlan Wang, Southeast University, China, to the Editorial Board of Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances as an Associate Editor. Professor Shouheng Sun, Brown University, USA, and Professor Xiao Cheng Zeng, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, completed their final terms as Associate Editors for Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances in 2022 and joined our Advisory Board. We would like to thank them both for their excellent service to the journal and community over many years.

Professor Jinlan Wang, Professor Shouheng Sun and Professor Xiao Cheng ZengAlong with Professor Sun and Professor Zeng, we welcomed seven other new Nanoscale Advisory Board members in order to better represent the ever-increasing diversity of our authors and readers.

  • Suryasarathi Bose, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
  • Wenlong Cheng, Monash University, Australia
  • Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, EPFL, Switzerland
  • Michael Sailor, University of California, San Diego, USA
  • Xiaoming Sun, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
  • Sarah Tolbert, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
  • Miqin Zhang, University of Washington, USA

A full list of the Nanoscale Advisory Board members can be found here.

Outstanding reviewers

Following on from recent years, Nanoscale once again recognised the significant contributions that our reviewers have made to the journal and highlighted the 2020 Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale in this Editorial.

Emerging investigators

In 2021, Nanoscale launched our inaugural Emerging Investigators themed collection, recognising the rising stars of nanoscience and nanotechnology in the early stages of their independent careers. Congratulations to all the featured researchers on their important work so far in the field. You can meet the featured authors in this Profile.

Themed collections

Nanoscale published six themed collections in 2021, and we have many more exciting themed collections planned.

Editor’s choice collections

Nanoscale published five Editor’s Choice Collections on topics selected by our Associate Editors. Look out for the upcoming collections that we will be publishing throughout 2022!

HOT articles

Finally, be sure to read the exciting articles featured in the 2021 Nanoscale HOT Article Collection.

 

The Nanoscale team wish you a Happy New Year!

 

With best wishes,

Dr Heather Montgomery

Managing Editor, Nanoscale

 

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Nanoscale 2022 Lunar New Year Collection

Lunar New Year collection

A collection of our most popular articles from Asia

To celebrate the Lunar New Year, we are delighted to highlight some of the most popular articles, determined by their citations and page views, published in Nanoscale last year by corresponding authors based in Asia.

Read the collection

All of the articles in the collection are free to access until the end of March 2022. Read some of the featured articles below.

2D metal–organic framework-based materials for electrocatalytic, photocatalytic and thermocatalytic applications
Yanpeng Xue, Gongchi Zhao, Ruiying Yang, Feng Chu, Juan Chen, Lei Wang and Xiubing Huang
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D0NR09064F

Towards a point-of-care SERS sensor for biomedical and agri-food analysis applications: a review of recent advancements
Jayakumar Perumal, Yusong Wang, Amalina Binte Ebrahim Attia, U. S. Dinish and Malini Olivo
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D0NR06832B

The flexibility-based modulation of DNA nanostar phase separation
Taehyun Lee, Sungho Do, Jae Gyung Lee, Do-Nyun Kim and Yongdae Shin
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1NR03495B

An asymmetric sandwich structural cellulose-based film with self-supported MXene and AgNW layers for flexible electromagnetic interference shielding and thermal management
Bing Zhou, Qingtao Li, Penghui Xu, Yuezhan Feng, Jianmin Ma, Chuntai Liu and Changyu Shen
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D0NR07840A

Incorporating highly basic polyoxometalate anions comprising Nb or Ta into nanoscale reaction fields of porous ionic crystals
Zhewei Weng, Naoki Ogiwara, Takashi Kitao, Yuji Kikukawa, Yu Gao, Likai Yan and Sayaka Uchida
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1NR04762K

 

We hope you enjoy reading these popular articles and wish you a happy Lunar New Year!

With best wishes,

Dr Heather Montgomery

Managing Editor, Nanoscale

 

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Editor’s Choice: Controlling anisotropy in nanomaterials

Controlling anisotropy in nanomaterials

A collection of articles selected by Shouheng Sun

Professor Shouheng Sun, Brown University, USA, and Associate Editor for Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances, presents his highlights of the latest research published in the journals on anisotropic nanomaterials.

Professor Shouheng Sun

 

“Anisotropy is an important characteristic that offers desirable direction-dependent properties in materials. Recent advances in nanoscience research have led to extensive studies in controlling anisotropy in nanomaterials to provide unprecedented control over their properties and functionality.

This online collection from Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances highlights work on controlling anisotropy in nanomaterials to achieve desired chemical and physical properties. These articles provide understanding of the growth of anisotropic nanostructures at the atomic and molecular level, and explore their use in optoelectronic, magnetic, catalytic, biomedical and molecular separation applications.”

 

 

Read the collection

 

We hope you enjoy reading these articles.

Best wishes,

Professor Shouheng Sun

Brown University, USA

 

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Professor Jinlan Wang joins the Associate Editor team

Professor Jinlan Wang joins the Associate Editor team

Welcome to Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances!

 

Professor Jinlan Wang

We are delighted to welcome Professor Jinlan Wang, Southeast University, China, as a new Associate Editor working across Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.

Jinlan Wang received her Ph.D from Nanjing University, China, in 2002. She subsequently spent three years at Argonne National Laboratory, USA, before joining Southeast University in China in 2006 as a full Professor. She has since developed the computational physics and chemistry group there and is currently a Chief Professor of Southeast University.

Her current research mainly focuses on computational studies and design of two-dimensional materials and clean energy materials, using techniques ranging from machine learning to classical molecular dynamics or different level first-principles methods.

 

Submit your latest research to Professor Wang’s Editorial Office

 

Please join us in welcoming Professor Wang to Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances!

Best wishes,

Dr Heather Montgomery Dr Anna Rulka
Managing Editor, Nanoscale Executive Editor, Nanoscale Advances
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Editor’s Choice: Computational studies of nanomaterials for energy, catalysis and electronics

Computational studies of nanomaterials for energy, catalysis and electronics

A collection of articles selected by Xiao Cheng Zeng

Professor Xiao Cheng Zeng, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, and Associate Editor for Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances, presents his highlights of the latest computational research published in the journals on nanomaterials for energy, catalysis and electronics.

 

Professor Xiao Cheng Zeng

“Computational nanomaterials research has been playing a growing role over the past decade in the design of new nanomaterials, bringing deeper insights into novel properties of nanomaterials, supporting and corroborating experimental research, and gathering new data for machine learning and model development.

This online collection from Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances covers several active areas of computational nanomaterials research, including design and/or investigation of nanoscale and single-atom catalysts, low-dimensional ferromagnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroic materials, low-dimensional semiconductors, halide perovskites, protein-ligand binding affinity, plasmonic nanoparticles, and metal nanoclusters. We hope this themed collection will be informative to contemporary computational nanomaterials research.”

 

Read the collection

 

We hope you enjoy reading these articles.

Best wishes,

Professor Xiao Cheng Zeng

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

 

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Call For Papers: Advanced Functional Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications

Call For Papers: Advanced Functional Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications

Guest edited by Nguyễn T. K. Thanh, Chenjie Xu, Yu Shrike Zhang and Sylvie Begin

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for our latest online themed collection in Nanoscale on “Advanced Functional Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications” that is being guest edited by Professor Nguyễn T. K. Thanh (University College London, UK), Professor Chenjie Xu (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Professor Yu Shrike Zhang (Harvard Medical School, USA) and Professor Sylvie Begin (University of Strasbourg, France).

Scope

  • Optical, electrical and magnetic properties of nanoparticles for biomedical applications.
  • Rational design and synthesis of nanomaterials for transdermal drug delivery and biosensing.
  • Rational design and synthesis of nanomaterials for regenerative medicine.
  • Nanomaterials and their composites for biofabrication.

Deadline for Submission: 1st August 2021

Although promotion of the collection is scheduled for late 2021, articles will be published online as soon as they’re accepted and they will appear in normal journal issues.

Authors are welcome to submit original research in the form of a Communication article or Full Paper. There is also the opportunity to write a review article, in the form of a Review or Minireview, and if you would be interested in this please let us know beforehand by emailing the journal inbox at nanoscale-rsc@rsc.org.

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Royal Society of Chemistry’s online submission service available at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nr. Please add a “note to the editor” in the submission form when you submit your manuscript to say that this is a submission for the themed collection. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection.

All submissions will be subject to rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of Nanoscale.

If you have any questions about the journal or the collection, then Edward Gardner, the Development Editor for Nanoscale, would be happy to answer them. You can contact him at the email address given above.

With best wishes,

Professor Nguyễn T. K. Thanh

University College London, UK

Professor Chenjie Xu

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Professor Yu Shrike Zhang

Harvard Medical School, USA

Professor Sylvie Begin

University of Strasbourg, France

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Themed collection: Advanced Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage

Advanced Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage

Guest edited by Wee-Jun Ong, Markus Antonietti and Nanfeng Zheng

Associate Professor Wee-Jun Ong (Xiamen University, Malaysia), Professor Markus Antonietti (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany) and Professor Nanfeng Zheng (Xiamen University, China)

 

We are delighted to introduce a new themed online collection on the application of nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage. This collection focuses on the use of advanced strategies such as rational size/facet control, structural/defect engineering, atomic modification, and construction of nanohybrids that can regulate the geometric and/or electronic property of the active sites to improve the performance of nanomaterials toward energy conversion and storage.

 

 

Read the collection here

 

Here is a selection of articles from this collection. All articles are free to access until the end of July 2021.

 

Recent advances in engineering active sites for photocatalytic CO2 reduction

Yanan Bo, Chao Gao and Yujie Xiong

Nanoscale, 2020, DOI: 10.1039/D0NR02596H

 

Inducing rapid polysulfide transformation through enhanced interfacial electronic interaction for lithium–sulfur batteries

Chao Shen, Kun Zhang, You You, Hui Wang, Ruiqi Ning, Yaqin Qi, Nan Li, Cuimin Ding, Keyu Xie and Bingqing Wei

Nanoscale, 2020, DOI: 10.1039/D0NR02429E

 

The role of carbon dots – derived underlayer in hematite photoanodes

Qian Guo, Hui Luo, Jifang Zhang, Qiushi Ruan, Arun Prakash Periasamy, Yuanxing Fang, Zailai Xie, Xuanhua Li, Xinchen Wang, Junwang Tang, Joe Briscoe, Magdalena Titirici and Ana Belen Jorge

Nanoscale, 2020, DOI: 10.1039/D0NR06139E

 

Tubular assemblies of N-doped carbon nanotubes loaded with NiFe alloy nanoparticles as efficient bifunctional catalysts for rechargeable zinc-air batteries

Xiaoying Xie, Lu Shang, Run Shi, Geoffrey I. N. Waterhouse, Jiaqi Zhao and Tierui Zhang

Nanoscale, 2020, DOI: 10.1039/D0NR02486D

 

We hope you enjoy reading this collection.

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