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.

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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.

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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.

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!

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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

Single-atom and nanocluster catalysis

A collection of articles selected by Manzhou Zhu

Professor Manzhou Zhu, Anhui University, China 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 single-atom and nanocluster catalysis.

“Owing to their atomically precise structures and highly specific surface areas, continuing research on single-atom and nanocluster-based catalysts has been performed. This online themed collection focuses on single-atom and nanocluster catalysis, which is of major significance in elucidating the catalytic mechanisms as well as investigating new types of high-efficiency catalysts. We hope that the readers find this themed collection informative and useful.”

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Professor Manzhou Zhu

Anhui University, China

This month we are celebrating authors who chose Nanoscale Advances as the destination for their research in 2020.  The “Welcome to the community” collection highlights authors who published with the RSC for the first time, and joined the Nanoscale Advances community.  We look forward to seeing the new research these authors will publish with the RSC in the months and years to come.

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Review

Single-nanostructure bandgap engineering enabled by magnetic-pulling thermal evaporation growth
Jinyou Xu, Xingyu Wang and Richard Nötzel
Nanoscale Adv., 2020, 2, 4305-4322
DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00595A

Communication

Quenching of nonlinear photoacoustic signal generation in gold nanoparticles through coating
Genny A. Pang, Christoph Haisch and Jan Laufer
Nanoscale Adv., 2020, 2, 2699-2704
DOI: 10.1039/C9NA00205D

Paper

Evaluating the chemical exfoliation of lithium cobalt oxide using UV-Vis spectroscopy
Kevin Pachuta, Emily Pentzer and Alp Sehirlioglu
Nanoscale Adv., 2020, 2, 5362-5374
DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00755B

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‘Popular Advances’ collection – May additions

The Nanoscale Advances ‘Popular Advances’ collection recognises the most well received papers published in the journal so far.  New papers are added monthly, and we will keep you up to date here with new additions each month.

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May highlights

Review
	Folding and self-assembly of short intrinsically disordered peptides and protein regions Pablo G. Argudo and Juan J. Giner-Casares Nanoscale Adv., 2021, 3, 1789-1812 DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00941E
Paper
	Surface passivation of organometal halide perovskites by atomic layer deposition: an investigation of the mechanism of efficient inverted planar solar cells Ran Zhao, Kai Zhang, Jiahao Zhu, Shuang Xiao, Wei Xiong, Jian Wang, Tanghao Liu, Guichuan Xing, Kaiyang Wang, Shihe Yang and Xinwei Wang Nanoscale Adv., 2021, 3, 2305-2315 DOI: 10.1039/D1NA00075F

April highlights

Mini review
	Recent advances in plasmonic nanocavities for single-molecule spectroscopy Nicolò Maccaferri, Grégory Barbillon, Alemayehu Nana Koya, Guowei Lu, Guillermo P. Acuna and Denis Garoli Nanoscale Adv., 2021, 3, 633-642 DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00715C
Paper
	Phosphorescent MoS2 quantum dots as a temperature sensor and security ink Manivannan Madhu, Chi-Yu Lu and Wei-Lung Tseng Nanoscale Adv., 2021, 3, 661-667 DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00730G

March highlights

Review
	Progress in polymers and polymer composites used as efficient materials for EMI shielding Ján Kruželák, Andrea Kvasničáková, Klaudia Hložeková and Ivan Hudec Nanoscale Adv., 2021, 3, 123-172 DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00760A
Mini review
	Peptide-based nanomaterials for gene therapy Wei Zhang, Qing Chen, Feng Wu, Jun Dai, Defang Ding, Jun Wu, Xiaoding Lou and Fan Xia Nanoscale Adv., 2021, 3, 302-310 DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00899K
Paper
	Synthesis of high quality 2D carbide MXene flakes using a highly purified MAX precursor for ink applications Shi-Hyun Seok, Seungjun Choo, Jinsung Kwak, Hyejin Ju, Ju-Hyoung Han, Woo-Seok Kang, Joonsik Lee, Se-Yang Kim, Do Hee Lee, Jungsoo Lee, Jaewon Wang, Seunguk Song, Wook Jo, Byung Mun Jung, Han Gi Chae, Jae Sung Son and Soon-Yong Kwon Nanoscale Adv., 2021, 3, 517-527 DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00398K

February highlights

Review
	Synthesis, characterisation and applications of core–shell carbon–hexagonal boron nitride nanotubes Ruth Sang Jones, Barbara Maciejewska and Nicole Grobert Nanoscale Adv., 2020, 2, 4996-5014 DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00583E
Communication
	Core@shell Sb@Sb2O3 nanoparticles anchored on 3D nitrogen-doped carbon nanosheets as advanced anode materials for Li-ion batteries Xian Chen, Liang Wang, Feng Ma, Tanyuan Wang, Jiantao Han, Yunhui Huang and Qing Li Nanoscale Adv., 2020, 2, 5578-5583 DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00711K
Communication
	High power Na3V2(PO4)3 symmetric full cell for sodium-ion batteries Milan K. Sadan, Anupriya K. Haridas, Huihun Kim, Changhyeon Kim, Gyu-Bong Cho, Kwon-Koo Cho, Jou-Hyeon Ahn and Hyo-Jun Ahn Nanoscale Adv., 2020, 2, 5166-5170 DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00729C

January highlights

Review
	Development of biological metal–organic frameworks designed for biomedical applications: from bio-sensing/bio-imaging to disease treatment Huai-Song Wang, Yi-Hui Wang and Ya Ding Nanoscale Adv., 2020, 2, 3788-3797 DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00557F
Communication
	Disulfide exchange assisted self-healing epoxy/PDMS/graphene oxide nanocomposites Balaji Krishnakumar, Manjeet Singh, Vijay Parthasarthy, Chanwook Park, Nanda Gopal Sahoo, Gun Jin Yun and Sravendra Rana Nanoscale Adv., 2020, 2, 2726-2730 DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00282H
Paper
	Thermally induced intra-molecular transformation and metalation of free-base porphyrin on Au(111) surface steered by surface confinement and ad-atoms Dipayan Sen, Piotr Błoński, Bruno de la Torre, Pavel Jelínek and Michal Otyepka Nanoscale Adv., 2020, 2, 2986-2991 DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00401D

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