Top articles from NCNST

Celebrating NCNST’s 20th anniversary by highlighting some of their best research and reviews

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) in China and to highlight the strong connection between Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale, Nanoscale Advances and the institute we wanted to showcase some of the most exceptional research and reviews that have been published in the journals by NCNST researchers over the years since their launch in partnership with NCNST.

The collection features some of the most cited articles from each year, some of the most popular articles and some of the most recent publications from NCNST in the nanoscale family of journals.

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Gold nanoparticles for the colorimetric and fluorescent detection of ions and small organic molecules
Dingbin Liu, Zhuo Wang and Xingyu Jiang
Nanoscale, 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00887G

Visible light driven type II heterostructures and their enhanced photocatalysis properties: a review
Yajun Wang, Qisheng Wang, Xueying Zhan, Fengmei Wang, Muhammad Safdar and Jun He
Nanoscale, 2013, DOI: 10.1039/C3NR01577G

An 80.11% FF record achieved for perovskite solar cells by using the NH₄Cl additive
Chuantian Zuo and Liming Ding
Nanoscale, 2014, DOI: 10.1039/C4NR02425G

Fe₃O₄–Pd Janus nanoparticles with amplified dual-mode hyperthermia and enhanced ROS generation for breast cancer treatment
Xiaowei Ma, Yanyun Wang, Xiao-Li Liu, Huijun Ma, Galong Li, Yao Li, Fei Gao, Mingli Peng, Hai Ming Fan and Xing-Jie Liang
Nanoscale Horiz., 2019, DOI: 10.1039/C9NH00233B

Single atomic Fe–N₄ active sites and neighboring graphitic nitrogen for efficient and stable electrochemical CO₂ reduction
Leta Takele Menisa, Ping Cheng, Xueying Qiu, Yonglong Zheng, Xuewei Huang, Yan Gao and Zhiyong Tang
Nanoscale Horiz., 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NH00143H

Versatile fabrication of metal sulfide supraparticles by an in situ decomposition–assembly strategy
Menglei Wang, Fulin Jia, Jianxiao Gong and Yunsheng Xia
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D2NA00747A

We hope you enjoy reading this collection and look forward our continued partnership with NCNST and to sharing more work from the institute with you in the future.

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 countries celebrating the Lunar New Year.

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All of the articles in the collection are free to access until the end of February 2023. Read some of the featured articles below.

Halide perovskite single crystals: growth, characterization, and stability for optoelectronic applications
Yunae Cho, Hye Ri Jung and William Jo
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR00513A

Ultrathin Ti-doped WO₃ nanosheets realizing selective photoreduction of CO₂ to CH₃OH
Peiquan Ling, Juncheng Zhu, Zhiqiang Wang, Jun Hu, Junfa Zhu, Wensheng Yan, Yongfu Sun and Yi Xie
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR02364D

Nanoparticle-induced chemoresistance: the emerging modulatory effects of engineered nanomaterials on human intestinal cancer cell redox metabolic adaptation
Zhuoran Wu, Magdiel Inggrid Setyawati, Hong Kit Lim, Kee Woei Ng and Chor Yong Tay
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR03893E

Highly-efficient radiative thermal rectifiers based on near-field gap variations
Bei Yang and Qing Dai
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR04350E

Improved zT in Nb₅Ge₃–GeTe thermoelectric nanocomposite
Jing Cao, Xian Yi Tan, Ning Jia, Da Lan, Samantha Faye Duran Solco, Kewei Chen, Sheau Wei Chien, Hongfei Liu, Chee Kiang Ivan Tan, Qiang Zhu, Jianwei Xu, Qingyu Yan and Ady Suwardi
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D1NR06962D

We hope you enjoy reading these popular articles and wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous year of the rabbit!

Functional MOFs and COFs

A collection of articles selected by Paolo Samorì

Professor Paolo Samorì, University of Strasbourg, France, and Associate Editor for Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances, presents his highlights of the latest research published in the journals on functional metal- and covalent-organic frameworks.

“Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent–organic frameworks (COFs) have established themselves during the last few years as chemically tuneable scaffolds displaying unique structures and ad hoc physical and chemical properties that can be tailored by design. Their assembly enables the generation of highly porous structures that can, for example, host chemical species for gas and liquid purification or sensing and can host ions for energy storage and catalysis.

This online collection from Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances highlights some of the most enlightening recent results on MOF- and COF-based functional assemblies, by providing clear evidence for their outstanding potential to address today’s societal challenges in the field of energy as well as environmental sciences.”

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Professor Paolo Samorì
University of Strasbourg, France

Most popular articles in 2021

We wanted to share with you some of the most popular articles published in Nanoscale last year, determined by their citations and page views.

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

Revisiting anodic alumina templates: from fabrication to applications
Alejandra Ruiz-Clavijo, Olga Caballero-Calero and Marisol Martín-González
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D0NR07582E

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

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

Efficient single-photon pair generation by spontaneous parametric down-conversion in nonlinear plasmonic metasurfaces
Boyuan Jin, Dhananjay Mishra and Christos Argyropoulos
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1NR05379E

Group-IV(A) Janus dichalcogenide monolayers and their interfaces straddle gigantic shear and in-plane piezoelectricity
Pradip Nandi, Ashima Rawat, Raihan Ahammed, Nityasagar Jena and Abir De Sarkar
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D0NR07027K

We hope you enjoy reading these popular articles.

With best wishes,

Dr Heather Montgomery
Managing Editor, Nanoscale

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

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.

“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.”

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Professor Shouheng Sun

Brown University, USA

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.

“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.”

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Professor Xiao Cheng Zeng

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Recent breakthroughs in nanobiotechnology

A collection of articles selected by Yves Dufrêne

Professor Yves Dufrêne, UCLouvain, Belgium, an Associate Editor for Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances, presents an online article collection featuring his highlights of the latest research published in these journals on nanobiotechnology.

“Nanobiotechnology is an exciting, rapidly evolving research field, which is predicted to have a dramatic impact on human activities, whether scientific, economical or societal. Nanomedicine, the medical application of nanotechnology, offers new opportunities to fight a range of diseases, including cancers and microbial infections. Progress in nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine strongly relies on the development of advanced tools and approaches for probing and manipulating biosystems, from single molecules to cells and tissues.

Proceeding from fundamental studies to medical applications, this collection of research and review articles published in Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances provides a snapshot of recent progress made in the nanobio field, covering the development of innovative methodologies, nanotechniques and nanomaterials, such as biosensors, nanoscale and single-molecule characterization techniques, nanoparticles, drug encapsulation, biomedical nanomaterials, and micro- and nanopatterning, as well as the application of these new developments to DNA, proteins, microbes, cells, and to the design of novel therapies against cancer, bacteria and viruses.”

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Professor Yves Dufrêne

UCLouvain, Belgium

Thermoelectric nanostructures

A collection of articles selected by Jin Zou

Professor Jin Zou, University of Queensland, Australia and Associate Editor for Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances, presents an online article collection featuring his highlights of the latest research published in the journals on thermoelectric nanostructures.

“The development of thermoelectric materials has been considered as a key sustainable solution in dealing with the global energy dilemma by harvesting electricity from waste heat. Nanostructuring is a critical approach to enhance thermoelectric properties and coupled with other strategies, the development of thermoelectric nanostructures has been an active research discipline in exploring high-performance energy materials.

In this online collection, we have selected an array of thermoelectric nanomaterials related research articles and reviews recently published in Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances, providing informative examples on the design and realization of thermoelectric materials with improved performance through theoretical modelling and/or experiments. In these articles, rich strategies have been demonstrated or proposed to enhance thermoelectric performance. Detailed correlations between observed properties with determined structural and chemical characteristics of thermoelectric materials allow the fundamental understanding of the nature of these materials, which, we hope, may inspire our readers in our wider nanocommunity.”

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Professor Jin Zou

University of Queensland, Australia