We are delighted to announce an open call for papers to our new themed collection on Synthesis, physical properties and applications of advanced nanocrystalline materials.

Loosely connected to the Spring E-MRS 2024 Symposium by the same name (more information here) the following topics are welcome:

• Magnetic, Luminescent, Electrical, and Structural Properties of Nanoparticles
• Synthesis and Characterization of Nanocrystals
• Magnetic Nanoparticles
• Semiconductor Nanocrystals
• Nanocrystalline Metals
• Two-dimensional Nanostructures Such as Graphene, MXene, etc.
• Biomedical applications of Nanoparticles
• Nanocrystalline Material-based Sensors, Actuators, and Other Devices
• Theory and Simulation of Nanocrystalline Materials
• Nanocrystal Thin Films and Their Applications
• Advanced Nanocrystalline Materials for Environmental Applications
• Advanced Nanocrystalline Materials for Energy Applications

This collection welcomes fundamental and applied works including process-structure-property relationships of advanced nanocrystalline materials exhibiting efficient magnetic, luminescent, optical, electrical, dielectric, thermoelectric, piezoelectric and other physical characteristics.

Submit before 1st December 2024.

If you are interested in contributing to this collection, please get in touch with the Editorial Office. Submissions are welcome to both Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.

Please note that article processing charges apply to all articles submitted to Nanoscale Advances if, following peer-review, they are accepted for publication, unless your institute has an existing agreement with the RSC that covers publications in our gold open access journals. Details of the APC and discounted rates can be found 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. There are no costs associated with submitting to Nanoscale unless you wish to publish under an open access license.

This themed collection is Guest Edited by:

	Aurora Rizzo University of Salento – CNR NANOTEC, Italy ORCID: 0000-0002-4570-7777 Aurora received a Ph.D. degree in innovative materials and technologies from National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL), Università del Salento, CNR-INFM, Lecce. In the period 2008−2009, she joined the group of Prof. Olle Inganäs at the University of Linköping (Sweden), working on “Bio-Organic Light Emitting Diodes.” She is currently a researcher at the Nanotechnology Institute of the National Research Council (CNR), Lecce, Italy. Aurora Rizzo research interests include the design and developed of innovative hybrid inorganic–organic and 2D materials, such as metal halide perovskites, colloidal nanocrystals, and transition metal dichalcogenides for third generation solar cells, optic and optoelectronic devices.
	Ermelinda M. S. Macoas University of Lisbon, Portugal ORCID: 0000-0001-8506-7025 Ermelinda received her PhD in Chemistry in 2005, in the field of physical-chemistry, by the University of Coimbra. She then took on a post-doc fellowship at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Coimbra (2008) and a Marie-Curie fellow at the University of Jyväskylä (2006-2007, Finland). Since 2009, she has been a senior researcher at the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon. As a young researcher she received the scientific investigation stimulus prize of the Gulbenkian Foundation (2005). Her research field is in fundamental photochemistry and photophysics with special relevance to practical aspects of energy and charge transfer processes, such as: selective photochemistry connected to isomerization and molecular photocontrol issues, nonlinear fluorescent molecular materials tailored for applications as dyes in bioimaging, FRET based 3D-data storage media, photophysics and photoconductivity of molecular single crystals and single crystal interfaces with applications in solar energy conversion and organic electronics, intramolecular proton tunneling and excited state dynamics of organic molecules and metal complexes. The tools used to address these topics are steady-state and time resolved optical spectroscopy (including UV-Vis, NIR and mid-IR; from fs to microseconds), fluorescence microscopy and electronic structure calculations.
	Raghvendra Singh Yadav Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic ORCID: 0000-0003-1773-3596 Dr. Raghvendra Singh Yadav is a Senior Scientist at Tomas Bata University in Zlin. He has published more than 74 publications in reputed international journals, as well as six books and two book chapters in the field of materials science and nanotechnology. Dr.Yadav has been also involved as Editorial Board Member in several journals, namely Crystals, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Nanomaterials, Frontiers in Materials. His research activities are focused on ‘‘Lightweight, Flexible, Low-dimensional Electromagnetic Functional Nanocomposite Materials (MXene, MBene, Graphene, magnetic nanoparticles as nanofillers in a polymer matrix) and its Applications’’
	Renjie Chen Beijing Institute of Technology, P. R. China ORCID: 0000-0002-7001-2926 Renjie Chen is a Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). His research focuses on electrochemical energy storage and conversion technology. He was a post-doctoral fellow in Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University and a visiting professor in Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at University of Cambridge. As the principal investigator, Prof. Chen successfully hosted the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National High Tech 863 project etc. He has (co-) authored more than 200 research papers and filed 50 patents and patent applications.
	Tayebeh Ameri University of Kiel, Germany ORCID: 0000-0002-8928-3697 Tayebeh Ameri conducted her Ph.D. research on printed tandem organic photovoltaics at Konarka GmbH Austria and received her Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science from Johannes Kepler University Linz in 2010. Afterwards, she conducted her postdoctoral and Habilitation research, where she pioneered the development of ternary organic and hybrid photovoltaics at the Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Department of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). From 2018 to 2020, Ameri served as a team leader and lecturer (Privatdozent) in the Department of Physical Chemistry at the University of Munich (LMU). From December 2020 to July 2023, Ameri worked as a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Institute for Materials and Processes, Chemical Engineering discipline at the University of Edinburgh. During this period, her research focused on the development of emerging energy harvesting, energy storage, and detection/sensing technologies, including photovoltaics, supercapacitors, and photo-/IR-detectors. Since September 2023, Ameri has been a full Heisenberg professor and holds the Chair for Composite Materials in the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Materials Science at Kiel University. She has the honor of furthering her research as an honorary lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Ameri is also the co-founder and scientific mentor of the start-up SERINO, founded by the Medical Valley Award in 2021 and expanded by EXIST grant in 2023 to develop the next generation of IR-detectors for food and medical applications.

We are delighted to introduce a new themed collection in Nanoscale Advances and welcome you to submit your latest quality research!

Guest Editor: Hao Jing (George Mason University, USA)

Submit before 1 September 2023

Topics of interest in this collection include (but not limited to):

• Synthesis and characterization of plasmonic nanomaterials (noble metals and semiconductors) with tuneable optical and/or photocatalytic properties, including light-adaptive plasmonic hydrogels and plasmonic metal-organic-frameworks (MOFs).
• Single molecule/particle spectroscopy development with plasmonic hybrid nanostructures.
• Electrocatalysis with multicomponent plasmonic nanostructures at either ensemble or single-particle level.
• Interactions of novel plasmonic nanoparticles with their molecular environment, such as biological fluids and proteins.
• Hierarchical nanostructures or assemblies of plasmonic nanoparticles with collective properties in optics, spectroscopies, catalysis, actuation, and biological sensing.
• Chiral plasmonic nanostructures with controlled shapes and morphologies.
• Photothermal cancer therapy and biomedical imaging with plasmonic nano-architectures, such as super-resolution fluorescence, ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging related to human health.
• Theoretical understanding of nanoplasmonics with emerging numerical simulation methods.

You are welcome to submit an original research article within the scope.

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

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Royal Society of Chemistry’s online submission service and the Editorial Office informed by email. 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.

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.

From design to synthesis, functionalization strategies and advanced characterizations

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).

Submit before 15 July 2023

In the last decades, a considerable effort has been focused on nanostructured materials (NMs), trying to find the correlation between structure and unexpected characteristics, which otherwise would not be possible at longer scales. NMs possess unique and widely tunable physicochemical properties, enabling unconventional applications to be achieved, ranging from nanomedicine, environmental science, catalysis to optoelectronics and energy conversion.

The design, synthesis and functionalization methods of NMs are oriented to a smart tailoring of the morpho-structural properties with the aim of improving their processability and applicability. However, the “perfect” material suitable for each application, requires precise control on the molecular and electronic structure as well as of the morphology of the nanomaterial.

Novel functionalised NMs require innovative design techniques, that foresee the creation of new paths where theoretical approaches walk side by side with modern synthetic methodologies and characterizations. The last decades saw the rise of theoretical and computational as a powerful tool to either predict on a mesoscopic scale (coarse graining, multiscale) the main features that would optimise the functionalisation of the designed materials, or to focus on very specific (atomistic) mechanisms unveiling the origins of specific properties in the materials.

Among others, the wet synthesis methods of nanomaterials possess a unique versatility to obtain different shapes, sizes and external functionalizing layers, which in turn prove to be an easy path for the customization of their properties.

Recently, the possibility to conjugate spectroscopic techniques with microscopy at nanometric level, as for example by combining X-ray spectroscopy with electron microscopy (SPELEEM), elicits a huge interest. Another issue that is having a very big development is the possibility to carry on X-ray photoemission experiments in non-UHV conditions, as in near ambient photoelectron spectroscopy (NAP), using a cell or an electrospray beam of nanoparticles in solution.

This collection focuses on the design, synthesis and advanced characterizations of functional NMs, e.g. metal, metal oxides, and hybrid nanoparticles by means of state-of-the-art spectroscopic and imaging techniques.

You are welcome to submit an original research article within the scope.

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

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Royal Society of Chemistry’s online submission service and the Editorial Office informed by email. 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.

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.

Guest Editors: Run Zhang (The University of Queensland, Australia), Songjun Zeng (Hunan University, China), Rona Chandrawati (University of New South Wales, Australia)

To address challenges in the management of gases (including noxious gas and therapeutic gas), a series of nanoscale materials with fascinating structural, physical, and chemical characteristics have been developed for gas sensing and delivery in recent years. 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. We welcome articles on the following topics:

• synthetic strategies
• theoretical understanding
• regulation of nanomaterials with gas sensing properties
• nanosensors for the detection and identification of gaseous molecules (e.g. gasotransmitters, noxious gases, gaseous pollutants, etc.)
• theranostic nanotechnology for drug-like gases delivery for the treatment of various diseases (e.g. cancer, gastrointestinal and cardiovascular disorders, etc.)
• nanomaterial engineered devices and scaffolds for gas detection and therapies
• other gas-related sensing technology and treatment procedures

You are welcome to submit an original research article within the scope.

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

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Royal Society of Chemistry’s online submission service and the Editorial Office informed by email. 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.

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.

Guest Editors: Catarina Pinto Reis (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Maria Manuela Gaspar (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Carlos A García-González (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

In this collection we welcome articles on the following topics:

• drug carriers
• drug delivery
• biopolymers
• nanomaterials
• local and systemic delivery
• in situ delivery
• passive drug delivery
• targeted drug delivery
• nanoscale dosage forms
• nanomedicine
• supramolecular structures
• polymer conjugated
• pre-clinical studies
• in vitro models
• medical devices
• regulatory affairs

You are welcome to submit an original research article within the scope.

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

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Royal Society of Chemistry’s online submission service and the Editorial Office informed by email. 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.

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.

Guest Editors: Jin Zou, University of Queensland, Australia

To obtain nanomaterials with desired properties, various advanced fabrication techniques have been widely developed and frequently employed. Among them, as a key discipline of the bottom-up approach, epitaxial growth allows the grown nanostructures to have well defied 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). In this theme, we intend to collect a set of manuscripts on the development of these three groups of epitaxial nanostructures, in which their outstanding properties are obtained due to the epitaxy.

We are delighted to consider original research articles within the scope.

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. Details of the APC and discounted rates can be found 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.

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 collection as soon as they are online, and they will be published in a regular issue of Nanoscale Advances.

Guest Editors: Zhaojun Han, Ruopian (Sophie) Fang, Dewei Chu, Da-Wei Wang (all affiliated with University of New South Wales)

Advisory Guest Editor: Kostya Ostrikov

Supercapacitors are important electrochemical energy storage devices that can deliver high power, fast charge/discharge rate, long lifespan and safe operation. The last few decades have witnessed significant progress in supercapacitors for clean and sustainable energy applications. Depending on charge storage process, supercapacitors can be classified as electric double-layer capacitor (EDLC) or pseudocapacitor. This themed collection will focus on all aspects of supercapacitors, including electrochemistry, electrode materials, electrolytes, performance evaluation, device design and fabrication, and applications. It will also cover the integration of supercapacitors with other energy harvesting or storage systems for broader energy applications. The scope includes:

• New electrode materials for EDLC and pseudocapacitor
• Charge storage mechanism investigation, theory, modelling and simulations
• Electrolyte development
• Performance evaluation such as energy density, power density, safety and cyclability
• Applications of supercapacitors in areas such as electronics, transport, aerospace and stationary power stations
• Integrated energy systems consisting of supercapacitors
• Multifunctional energy storage devices
• Other emerging properties or applications of supercapacitors.

You are welcome to submit either an original research article or a review-type article within the scope.

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

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. Article Processing Charges (APCs) apply to all accepted articles in Nanoscale Advances and more information about APCs and waivers can be found here.