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Call for papers: Nanoscale Advances in Innovative Bioengineering

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

Guest Editors: Su Zheng (The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China), Le Zhicheng (National University of Singapore), Gu Zhen (University of Science and Technology Beijing)

 

Submissions on the following topics are welcome:

  1. Nanoscale functional biomaterials including the development and application of bioelectronic materials, responsive materials, smart materials, programmable materials, biocompatibility and biodegradability, immunomodulatory materials, integration with micro and nanotechnology, and personalized smart materials.
  2. Frontiers of nanobioprinting techniques include high-resolution bioprinting, multi-material printing, dynamic bioprinting, cell microenvironment optimization, tissue engineering scaffolds, functional organ and tissue models, high-throughput bioprinting, personalized medicine, novel bioinks, and clinical translation.
  3. Other cutting nanobiotechnology research of innovative bioengineering include gene editing technologies, synthetic biology, biomanufacturing, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, bioinformatics and systems biology, immunoengineering, microfluidics and organs-on-chips, biomaterials, biosensors, neuroengineering, bio-robotics, environmental bioengineering, nanobiotechnology, single-cell technologies, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Submit your work by 1 June 2025

 

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

 

 

Submission Information

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 open access deal that covers publication in our gold open access journals. Details of the APC and discounted rates can be found here.

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 and Guest Editors reserve the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed. All manuscripts will be subject to the journal’s usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be added to the online collection as soon as they are online, and they will be published in a regular issue of Nanoscale Advances.

 

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Photocatalytic Materials for Clean Energy, Renewable Chemicals Production, and Sustainable Catalysis

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We are delighted to introduce our new themed collection focusing on Photocatalytic Materials for Clean Energy, Renewable Chemicals Production, and Sustainable Catalysis!

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

This collection features research on photocatalytic materials for green or sustainable applications. A small selection of the papers are featured below, all open access and free to read.

 

Manipulation of interfacial charge dynamics for metal–organic frameworks toward advanced photocatalytic applications
Chien-Yi Wang, Huai-En Chang, Cheng-Yu Wang, Tomoyuki Kurioka, Chun-Yi Chen, Tso-Fu Mark Chang, Masato Sone and Yung-Jung Hsu
Nanoscale Adv., 2024,6, 1039-1058. DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00837A
Bioinspired graphene-based metal oxide nanocomposites for photocatalytic and electrochemical performances: an updated review
Ajay K. Potbhare, S. K. Tarik Aziz, Mohd. Monis Ayyub, Aniket Kahate, Rohit Madankar, Sneha Wankar, Arnab Dutta, Ahmed Abdala, Sami H. Mohmood, Rameshwar Adhikari and Ratiram G. Chaudhary
Nanoscale Adv., 2024,6, 2539-2568. DOI: 10.1039/D3NA01071F
Phase controlled green synthesis of wurtzite (P63mc) ZnO nanoparticles: interplay of green ligands with precursor anions, anisotropy and photocatalysis
Lahur Mani Verma, Ajay Kumar, Aejaz Ul Bashir, Upanshu Gangwar, Pravin P. Ingole and Satyawati Sharma
Nanoscale Adv., 2024,6, 155-169. DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00596H

 

We hope you enjoy reading this themed collection!

 

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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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Frontiers in Stimuli-Responsive Nanoplatforms

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We are delighted to introduce our new themed collection focusing on Frontiers in Stimuli-Responsive Nanoplatforms!

Guest Edited by Prof. Juan C. Cruz (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) and Prof. Luis H. Reyes (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia).

 

This collection focuses on the recent developments and novel approaches in stimuli-responsive nanoplatforms for drug delivery. Papers highlight the design, synthesis, and application of these nanoplatforms, with an emphasis on their potential to transform therapeutic delivery methods.

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

 

 

Long-term in vivo dissolution of thermo- and pH-responsive, 19F magnetic resonance-traceable and injectable polymer implants
Natalia Jirát-Ziółkowska, Martin Vít, Ondřej Groborz, Kristýna Kolouchová, David Červený, Ondřej Sedláček and Daniel Jirák
Nanoscale Adv., 2024,6, 3041-3051. DOI: 10.1039/D4NA00212A
In vitro profiling and molecular dynamics simulation studies of berberine loaded MCM-41 mesoporous silica nanoparticles to prevent neuronal apoptosis
Anurag Kumar Singh, Snigdha Singh, Tarun Minocha, Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, Reema Narayan, Usha Yogendra Nayak, Santosh Kumar Singh and Rajendra Awasthi
Nanoscale Adv., 2024,6, 2469-2486. DOI: 10.1039/D3NA01142A
A new vision of photothermal therapy assisted with gold nanorods for the treatment of mammary cancers in adult female rats
Hend Gamal, Walid Tawfik, Hassan IH El-Sayyad, Ahmed N. Emam, Heba Mohamed Fahmy and Heba A. El-Ghaweet
Nanoscale Adv., 2024,6, 170-187. DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00595J

We hope you enjoy reading this themed collection!

 

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Nanomaterials for Gas Sensing and Delivery

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We are delighted to introduce our new themed collection focusing on nanomaterials for gas sensing and delivery!

Guest Edited by Dr Run Zhang (The University of Queensland, Australia) Dr Songjun Zeng (Hunan Normal University, China) and Associate Professor Rona Chandrawati (University of New South Wales, Australia)

 

 

This themed collection in Nanoscale Advances aims to provide a forum for recent trends in the rapidly evolving field of nanomaterials for gas sensing and delivery.

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

Graphene-based chemiresistive gas sensors
Patrick Recum and Thomas Hirsch
Nanoscale Adv., 2024, 6, 11-31. DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00423F

Embedding Pd into SnO2 drastically enhances gas sensing
Katarzyna Jabłczyńska, Alexander Gogos, Christian M. P. Kubsch and Sotiris E. Pratsinis
Nanoscale Adv., 2024, 6, 1259-1268. DOI: 10.1039/ D3NA00558E

Role of graphene quantum dots with discrete band gaps on SnO2 nanodomes for NO2 gas sensors with an ultralow detection limit
Jinho Lee, Minsu Park, Young Geun Song, Donghwi Cho, Kwangjae Lee, Young-Seok Shim and Seokwoo Jeon
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 2767-2775. DOI: 10.1039/D2NA00925K

 

We hope you enjoy reading this themed collection!

 

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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.

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Smart Tailored Nanomaterials

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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!

 

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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.

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Nanoparticle-based cancer therapies

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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!

 

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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.

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Open Call for Papers: Carbon nanomaterials for smart applications

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 31st July 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:

Photo of Guest Editor Yeye Wen.

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.

Photo of Guest Editor Zhenyuan Xia.

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.

Photo of Guest Editor Muqiang Jian.

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.

 

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Celebrating Nanoscience in China

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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

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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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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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