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Celebrating Nanoscience in China

Read our new Nanoscale Advances collection

In 2023, Nanoscale Advances published quality research across the breadth of nanoscience and our authors and readers in China remain a core part of the journal community.

To showcase some of the great research being carried out, we have selected some of the most popular articles from authors in China published in 2023. A small selection are highlighted below, but click the button below to read the full collection. All articles are gold open access so they are free to read.

 

 

Recent progress in flexible micro-pressure sensors for wearable health monitoring

Jianguo Hu, Guanhua Dun, Xiangshun Geng, Jing Chen, Xiaoming Wu and Tian-Ling Ren

Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 3131-3145

 

A hierarchical integrated 3D carbon electrode derived from gingko leaves via hydrothermal carbonization of H3PO4 for high-performance supercapacitors

Han Liu, Fumin Zhang, Xinyu Lin, Jinggao Wu and Jing Huang

Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 786-795

 

Regulating the thickness of nanofiltration membranes for efficient water purification

Ke Tang, LinSheng Zhu, Piao Lan, YunQiang Chen, Zhou Chen, Yihong Lan and WeiGuang Lan

Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 4770-4781

 

Nanoscale Advances is pleased to have prominent members of the nanoscience community in China acting as Editorial Board Members:

  • Chunli Bai (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  • Yue Zhang (University of Science and Technology Beijing)
  • Qing Dai (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China)
  • Quan Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • Jinlan Wang (Southeast University)
  • Manzhou Zhu (Anhui University)

 

The Royal Society of Chemistry has arranged Read and Publish agreements with a number of institutes in China. As part of these agreements you may be entitled to publish your research gold open access at no cost or with a discount. Get in touch to find out more and find out if your institute is covered here.

Wishing you all the best for the upcoming Year of the Dragon!

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Themed collection: Multicomponent plasmonic hybrid nanoarchitectures

Read our new collection in Nanoscale Advances

We are delighted to introduce our new themed collection focusing on multicomponent plasmonic hybrid nanoarchitectures with precisely tailored properties for emerging applications!

Guest Edited by Hao Jing (George Mason University, USA)

This collection in Nanoscale Advances features burgeoning research on a variety of multifunctional plasmonic nanoparticles with synergistically reinforced properties. Articles cover the rational design, synthesis and characterization of multicomponent plasmonic hybrid nanoarchitectures with tailored chemical and physical properties, as well as their utilization in a wide variety of applications.

 

A small selection of the papers are featured below, all open access.

Raman encoding for security labels: a review
Dong Yu, Wei Zhu and Ai-Guo Shen
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 6365-6381

Correlating structural changes in thermoresponsive hydrogels to the optical response of embedded plasmonic nanoparticles
Kamila Zygadlo, Chung-Hao Liu, Emmanuel Reynoso Bernardo, Huayue Ai, Mu-Ping Nieh and Lindsey A. Hanson
Nanoscale Adv., 2024, 6, 146-154

Bimetallic copper palladium nanorods: plasmonic properties and palladium content effects
Andrey Ten, Claire A. West, Soojin Jeong, Elizabeth R. Hopper, Yi Wang, Baixu Zhu, Quentin M. Ramasse, Xingchen Ye and Emilie Ringe
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 6524-6532

 

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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.

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Novel technique for monitoring magnetization dynamics of magnetic nanoparticles

To celebrate some of the excellent articles published in Nanoscale Advances this year, we asked some of our authors to discuss their work in more detail.

Check out the infographic below which summarises the key message from Everaert et al.’s work entitled ‘Monitoring magnetic nanoparticle clustering and immobilization with thermal noise magnetometry using optically pumped magnetometers‘.

 

Discover the key message from this article

 

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Monitoring magnetic nanoparticle clustering and immobilization with thermal noise magnetometry using optically pumped magnetometers

Katrijn Everaert, Tilmann Sander, Rainer Körber, Norbert Löwa, Bartel Van Waeyenberge, Jonathan Leliaert and Frank Wiekhorst

Nanoscale Adv., 2023,5, 2341-2351, DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00016H

 

 

 

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Correlating Structural and Electronic Properties of Nanodiamonds

To celebrate some of the excellent work that has recently been published in Nanoscale Advances, we asked some of our authors to discuss their work in more detail. In this post, we hear from Daria Miliaieva and her co-authors about their recently published article entitled “Absolute energy levels in nanodiamonds of different origins and surface chemistries“.

Discover the key message from this article

Meet the authors

 

 

Daria Miliaieva obtained her PhD in Materials and electrotechnology from the Czech Technical University in Prague in 2019 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Czech Academy of Sciences from 2020 to 2023. In 2023 she started her Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Taltech in Estonia, working on novel chalcogenide materials for photovoltaics. Most of her interest is drawn to analyzing energetic bands in materials by a combination of techniques like UPS/XPS, Kelvin probe, electrochemical spectroscopy and DFT calculations.

 

 

 

 

 

Bohuslav Rezek graduated from Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague in 1996. In 2001 he obtained PhD at the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) in the study of charge transport in silicon thin films for photovoltaics by using scanning probe techniques. After his PhD, he was doing research on diamond devices and interfaces in Germany, Switzerland and Japan. In 2006 he became a research team leader and Purkyne Fellow at the Institute of Physics CAS. In 2015 he became the head of the Physics department at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. In 2019 he became a full professor there. His research is focused on correlative microscopic and micro-spectroscopic analyses of semiconductor and organic materials towards opto-electronic and bio-electronic applications.

 

 

 

 

 

Jan Čermák obtained his PhD in optics and optoelectronics in 2010 at Charles University, Prague. He works at the Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences within the Department of Semiconductors. His scientific research is focused on the optoelectronic properties of carbon-based materials (polymers, diamond) related to photovoltaics. His approach to that is mainly via advanced electronic modes of atomic force microscopy under controlled illumination.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jaroslav Kuliček obtained a PhD in macromolecular chemistry from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 2017 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Polymer Institute from 2017 to 2018. In 2018 he started his Postdoctoral Fellowship at Czech Technical University in Prague, focused on optoelectronic characterization of photoactive materials using micro-spectroscopic methods such as Confocal Raman and Photoluminescence, AFM/photo-KPFM, Kelvin Probe and Air Photoemission Spectroscopy.

 

 

 

 

An interview with the authors

What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment and what do you find most challenging about your research?

I am focusing on the investigation of optoelectronic properties of the materials that can be useful in photovoltaics. The most exciting is the speed of photovoltaic field development at all levels from the fundamental research with the novel materials predictions and discoveries and the new mechanism of charge generation and transport to the applications of PV materials in the new areas like agrivoltaics. It is exciting and at the same time challenging to keep up with the pace of the photovoltaic field development.

 

How do you feel about Nanoscale Advances as a place to publish research on this topic?

My current research is on the determination of the electronic structure of the nanoparticles and establishing the practical consequences of it. Nanoscale Advances covering nanoparticles and nanoelectronics is an appropriate journal to publish research on nanoparticle electronic properties.

 

Can you share one piece of career-related advice or wisdom with other, early career scientists?

Move on when frustrated about the research, sometimes understanding things comes with time and persistence leads to success and perfection. Make use of all possible research stays and conferences to develop your skills and increase your chances of meeting the right people (for you) for making a good science together!

 

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Celebrating Nanoscience in Spain

New region spotlight in Nanoscale Advances

Over the year, Nanoscale Advances has published quality research across the breadth of nanoscience and our authors and readers in Spain remain a core part of the journal community.

To showcase some of the great research being carried out in these countries we have selected some of the most popular articles from authors across Spain. A small selection are highlighted in this blog post, but click the button below to read the full collection. All articles are gold open access so they are free to read.

 

 

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

Antibacterial lignin-based nanoparticles and their use in composite materials
A. Gala Morena, Tzanko Tzanov
Nanoscale Adv., 2022, 4, 4447-4469

Magnetic order and magnetic anisotropy in two-dimensional ilmenenes
R. H. Aguilera-del-Toro, M. Arruabarrena, A. Leonardoac and A. Ayuela
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 2813-2819

 

Nanoscale Advances is pleased to have prominent members of the nanoscience community in Spain acting as Advisory Board Members and Guest Editors:

  • Lakshminarayana Polavarapu (University of Vigo)
  • Maurizio Prato (CIC biomaGUNE, San Sebastián, Spain)
  • Carlos A García-González (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

 

The Royal Society of Chemistry has arranged Read and Publish agreements with many institutes in Spain. As part of these agreements you may be entitled to publish your research gold open access at no cost or with a discount. Get in touch to find out more and find out if your institute is covered here.

Thank you for your support of the journal and we hope you will consider Nanoscale Advances for your next submission!

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Celebrating Nanoscience in Japan and South Korea

New collection in Nanoscale Advances

Over the years, Nanoscale Advances has published quality research across the breadth of nanoscience and our Japanese and South Korean authors and readers remain a core part of the journal community.

To showcase some of the great research being carried out in these countries we have selected some of the most popular articles from authors across Japan and South Korea. A small selection are highlighted in this blog post, but click the button below to read the full collection. All articles are gold open access so they are free to read.

 

 

Lipid-based colloidal nanoparticles for applications in targeted vaccine delivery
Muhammad Saad Khan, Sila Appak Baskoy, Celina Yang, Joohye Hong, Jayoung Chae, Heejin Ha, Sungjun Lee, Masayoshi Tanaka, Yonghyun Choi and Jonghoon Choi
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 1853-1869

Bottom-up synthesis of 2D layered high-entropy transition metal hydroxides
Fei Li, Shi-Kuan Sun, Yinjuan Chen, Takashi Naka, Takeshi Hashishin, Jun and Hiroya Abe
Nanoscale Adv., 2022, 4, 2468-2478

Quantum dot photolithography using a quantum dot photoresist composed of an organic-inorganic hybrid coating layer
Seungmin Myeong, Bumsoo Chon, Samir Kumar, Ho-Jin Son, Sang Ook Kang and Sungkyu Seo
Nanoscale Adv., 2022, 4, 1080-1087

 

Nanoscale Advances is pleased to have some prominent members of the nanoscience community acting as Associate Editors and as Advisory Board Members:

  • Renzhi Ma (NIMS, Japan)
  • Dong Ha Kim (Ewha Womans University)
  • So-Jung Park (Ewha Womans University)
  • Hyeon Suk Shin (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)

The Royal Society of Chemistry has arranged Read and Publish agreements with many institutes around the world. As part of these agreements you may be entitled to publish your research gold open access at no cost or with a discount. Get in touch to find out more and find out if your institute is covered here.

Thank you for your support of the journal and we hope you will consider Nanoscale Advances for your next submission!

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Call for papers: Frontiers in Stimuli-Responsive Nanoplatforms

Call for papers: Frontiers in Stimuli-Responsive Nanoplatforms

Pioneering Drug Delivery in Nanobiotechnology

We are delighted to announce an open call for papers to our new themed collection focusing on stimuli-responsive nanoplatforms for drug delivery!

 

 

 

Guest Editors: Prof. Juan C. Cruz, (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) and Prof. Luis H. Reyes (Universidad de los Andes, Columbia)

This collection welcomes innovative research and review articles focused on the recent developments and novel approaches in stimuli-responsive nanoplatforms for drug delivery. We encourage submissions that highlight the design, synthesis, and application of these nanoplatforms, with an emphasis on their potential to transform therapeutic delivery methods. We aim to highlight the intersection of nanobiotechnology and drug delivery, fostering discussions on future trends and challenges within this exciting field.

You are welcome to submit an article within the scope before 01 March 2024.

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

Please note that article processing charges apply to all articles submitted to Nanoscale Advances if, following peer-review, they are accepted for publication. Exceptions include researchers at Research4Life Group A and B countries, and those whose institutes have an existing deal that covers publication in our gold open access journals. Details of the APC and discounted rates can be found here.

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Call for papers: Photocatalytic Nanomaterials

Call for papers: Photocatalytic Nanomaterials for Clean Energy, Renewable Chemicals production, and Sustainable Catalysis

Guest edited by Rajeev Ahuja and Rajendra Srivastava 

We are delighted to announce an open call for papers to our new themed collection focusing on photocatalytic nanomaterials!

 

 

 

Guest Editors: Rajeev Ahuja (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Rajendra Srivastava (Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India)

Nanocatalytic materials can solve energy and environmental problems by penetrating plastic polymer waste and providing a high surface area with exposed active sites to catalyze the reactions to produce sustainable chemicals and fuels. The process will be highly sustainable if light energy, including solar energy, is utilized to produce clean energy and chemicals. Thus, efforts must be made to develop novel materials or engineer materials for harvesting light energy for producing clean energy and chemicals.

In this collection, we welcome both review and research articles on the following topics:

  • Photocatalytic nanomaterials and process for H2 production, CO2 to chemicals and fuels
  • Photocatalytic nanomaterials and biomass conversion to chemicals and fuels
  • Engineering photocatalytic nanomaterials for sustainable catalysis
  • Photocatalytic nanomaterials for photoreforming of plastic waste
  • Computational study on designing new photocatalytic nanomaterials for clean energy

You are welcome to submit an article within the scope before 20 February 2024.

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

Please note that article processing charges apply to all articles submitted to Nanoscale Advances if, following peer-review, they are accepted for publication. Exceptions include researchers at Research4Life Group A and B countries, and those whose institutes have an existing deal that covers publication in our gold open access journals. Details of the APC and discounted rates can be found here.

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Supercapacitors: new themed collection in Nanoscale Advances

Supercapacitors

Guest edited by Zhaojun Han, Ruopian Fang, Dewei Chu, Da-wei Wang.
Advisory Guest Editor Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov

We are delighted to present to you a diverse set of works showcasing exciting new research on supercapacitors, particularly electrode materials and high voltage materials from basic concepts to applications.

A major challenge for supercapacitors is that conventional devices have a relatively low energy density, which is about 20 to 40 times lower than that of lithium-ion batteries. Significant research effort has therefore been devoted to improving the energy density without compromising their excellent power density.

This themed collection features research papers on asymmetrical supercapacitors, multifunctional supercapacitors, and more. Articles are published in Nanoscale Advances so they are all open access and freely available.

 

 

A small selection of papers are featured below.

Introduction to Supercapacitors
Zhaojun Han, Ruopian Fang, Dewei Chu, Da-Wei Wang and Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, Advance Article

Recent advances in supramolecular self-assembly derived materials for high-performance supercapacitors
Honghong Cheng, Ruliang Liu, Ruyi Zhang, Lan Huang and Qiaoyi Yuan
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 2394-2412

Facile fabrication of graphene-based high-performance microsupercapacitors operating at a high temperature of 150 °C
Viktoriia Mishukova, Nicolas Boulanger, Artem Iakunkov, Szymon Sollami Delekta, Xiaodong Zhuang, Alexandr Talyzin and Jiantong Li
Nanoscale Adv., 2021, 3, 4674-4679

 

We hope you enjoy reading the special collection.

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Themed Collection: Epitaxial growth of nanostructures and their properties

Epitaxial growth of nanostructures and their properties

Guest edited by Jin Zou

We are delighted to present to you a diverse set of works showcasing the development of epitaxial nanostructures, in which their outstanding properties are obtained due to the epitaxy.

 

 

A key fabrication technique for nanoscale materials is the bottom-up approach. Epitaxial growth allows the grown nanostructures to have well defined orientation relationships, crystallographic directions/planes, crystal structures/phases, and facets/interfaces with their underlying substrates. Such unique features are often essential for securing their unique and high-efficient applications.

In the recent decades, epitaxial growth has been widely employed to grow various advanced nanostructures, including semiconductor nanostructures (such as quantum dots, semiconductor nanowires and quantum wells), 2D nanostructures (including ultra-thin nanosheets), and hierarchical nanostructured metal-organic frameworks (MOF-on-MOF).

This themed collection features work covering the development of these three groups of epitaxial nanostructures, in which their outstanding properties are obtained due to the epitaxy. Articles are published in Nanoscale Advances so they are all open access and freely available.

 

A small selection of papers are featured below:

Epitaxial growth of crystal phase quantum dots in III–V semiconductor nanowires
Miguel Sinusia Lozano and Víctor J. Gómez
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 1890-1909

Complications in silane-assisted GaN nanowire growth
Nian Jiang, Saptarsi Ghosh, Martin Frentrup, Simon M. Fairclough, Kagiso Loeto, Gunnar Kusch, Rachel A. Oliver and Hannah J. Joyce
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 2610-2620

Polarization-dependent plasmonic heating in epitaxially grown multilayered metal–organic framework thin films embedded with Ag nanoparticles
Kenji Okada, Risa Mashita, Arisa Fukatsu and Masahide Takahashi
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 1795-1801

 

We hope you enjoy reading the special collection!

 

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