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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.

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.

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!

Contribute to a new themed collection in Nanoscale Advances

We are delighted to announce an open call for papers to our new themed collection focusing on nanocatalysis beyond CO₂ activation!

Guest Editors: Yude Su (University of Science and Technology of China, China) and Yanwei Lum (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Electrocatalysis is crucial for facilitating the sustainable production of chemical feedstocks and chemical fuels. For example, CO₂ reduction to value-added chemicals has attracted significant research interest in recent years. Beyond this topic, research efforts are urgently needed to expand the spectrum of electrocatalytic reactions to enable more avenues for decarbonization. Hence, this themed collection will focus on important and upcoming areas of electrocatalytic reactions, including but not limited to nitrogen reduction, upgrading of biomass derived molecules and hydrogen peroxide production. Of interest here is the important role that nanoscience can play in the development of electrocatalytic materials to efficiently facilitate these reactions.

You are welcome to submit an original research article within the scope before 15 December 2023.

If you are interested in contributing to this collection, please get in touch with the Editorial Office by email at nanoscaleadvances-rsc@rsc.org 

Please note that article processing charges apply to all articles submitted to Nanoscale Advances if, following peer-review, they are accepted for publication. Details of the APC and discounted rates can be found here.