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Yamuna Krishnan wins Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award

30 Sep 2013

Dr Yamuna Krishnan has received the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for Chemical Sciences. The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards are India’s top awards for excellence in science and technology and are given annually to young scientists below the age of 45 who have made outstanding contributions in any field of science and technology.

The Award was instituted in 1957 in the honour of late Dr Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, an eminent scientist, founder director and principal architect of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). This year, eight scientists received awards on the 71st Foundation day of CSIR. Dr Krishnan was the only recipient in the Chemical Sciences Category. A full list of winners can be found here.

Yamuna Krishnan is a scientist at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, India. Her research involves understanding the structure and dynamics of unusual forms of DNA and translating this knowledge to create DNA-based nanodevices for applications in bionanotechnology.

Dr Krishnan is a Nanoscale Associate Editor. You can submit your best research to her Editorial Office at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nr.

Here is one of Dr Krishnan’s recent articles in Chemical Communications:

Tunable, colorimetric DNA-based pH sensors mediated by A-motif formation
Sonali Saha, Kasturi Chakraborty and Yamuna Krishnan
Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 2513-2515
DOI: 10.1039/C2CC16347K

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New Nanoscale Associate Editor: Dr Yamuna Krishnan

02 Jul 2013

We are delighted to welcome Dr Yamuna Krishnan as a new Associate Editor for Nanoscale.

Yamuna Krishnan: New Nanoscale Associate Editor

Dr Krishnan is a Reader at the National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, India. Her research involves understanding the structure and dynamics of unusual forms of DNA and translating this knowledge to create DNA-based nanodevices for applications in bionanotechnology.

Dr Krishnan obtained her BSc in chemistry from the University of Madras, and graduated with a PhD in organic chemistry from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Between 2001 and 2004 she was a research fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, before taking up a position as a Fellow (Assistant Professor equivalent) at NCBS. In 2002 she was awarded the prestigious 1851 Research Fellowship award.

Dr Krishnan will be handling papers soon and so we encourage you to submit to her editorial office.

We have collected together some recent articles in Dr Krishnan’s exciting research fields, with a selection available to read for free for a limited period:

Reviews

FREE: Nanostructure-induced DNA Condensation
Ting Zhou, Axel Llizo, Chen Wang, Guiying Xu and Yanlian Yang
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR01630G

FREE: Cholesterol – a biological compound as a building block in bionanotechnology
Leticia Hosta-Rigau, Yan Zhang, Boon M. Teo, Almar Postma and Brigitte Städler
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR32923A

FREE: Gold nanoparticles: preparation, properties, and applications in bionanotechnology
Yi-Cheun Yeh, Brian Creran and Vincent M. Rotello
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR11188D

FREE: The interplay between carbon nanomaterials and amyloid fibrils in bio-nanotechnology
Chaoxu Li and Raffaele Mezzenga
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR01644G

FREE: Nano–bio effects: interaction of nanomaterials with cells
Liang-Chien Cheng, Xiumei Jiang, Jing Wang, Chunying Chen and Ru-Shi Liu
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR34276J

FREE: Bio-inspired magnetic swimming microrobots for biomedical applications
Kathrin E. Peyer, Li Zhang and Bradley J. Nelson
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR32554C

Original research

Chain relaxation dynamics of DNA adsorbing at a solid–liquid interface
Willem Vanderlinden and Steven De Feyter
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR34231J

Improving the understanding of oligonucleotide–nanoparticle conjugates using DNA-binding fluorophores
Luca Guerrini, Lee Barrett, Jennifer A. Dougan, Karen Faulds and Duncan Graham
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR01197F

Reversible Switches of DNA Nanostructures between “Close” and “Open” and Its Biosensing Applications
Qinglin Sheng, Ruixiao Liu, Jianbin Zheng and Junjie Zhu
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR01576A

Assessment of DNA complexation onto polyelectrolyte-coated magnetic silica nanoparticles
Ana B. Dávila-Ibáñez, Niklaas J. Buurma and Verónica Salgueiriño
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR34358H

Self-assembled magnetic theranostic nanoparticles for highly sensitive MRI of minicircle DNA delivery
Qian Wan, Lisi Xie, Lin Gao, Zhiyong Wang, Xiang Nan, Hulong Lei, Xiaojing Long, Zhi-Ying Chen, Cheng-Yi He, Gang Liu, Xin Liu and Bensheng Qiu
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR32438E

M1.3 – a small scaffold for DNA origami
Hassan Said, Verena J. Schüller, Fabian J. Eber, Christina Wege, Tim Liedl and Clemens Richert
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR32393A

Regulating DNA translocation through functionalized soft nanopores
Li-Hsien Yeh, Mingkan Zhang, Shizhi Qian and Jyh-Ping Hsu
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30102D

Functional self-assembled DNA nanostructures for molecular recognition
Xiaojuan Zhang and Vamsi K. Yadavalli
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR11711H

Polyvalent DNA–graphene nanosheets “click” conjugates
Zihao Wang, Zhilei Ge, Xiaoxue Zheng, Nan Chen, Cheng Peng, Chunhai Fan and Qing Huang
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR11174D

Polycations-functionalized water-soluble gold nanoclusters: a potential platform for simultaneous enhanced gene delivery and cell imaging
Yu Tao, Zhenhua Li, Enguo Ju, Jinsong Ren and Xiaogang Qu
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR01326J

Singlet oxygen plays a key role in the toxicity and DNA damage caused by nanometric TiO2 in human keratinocytes
Ivana Fenoglio, Jessica Ponti, Elisa Alloa, Mara Ghiazza, Ingrid Corazzari, Robin Capomaccio, Diana Rembges, Simonetta Oliaro-Bosso and François Rossi
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR01191G

Atomic force microscopy reveals two phases in single stranded DNA self-assembled monolayers
Priscila Monteiro Kosaka, Sheila Gonzalez, Carmen Martinez, Alfonso Cebollada, Alvaro San Paulo, Montserrat Calleja and Javier Tamayo
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR01186K

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New Nanoscale Associate Editor: Dr Serena Corr

07 May 2013

We are delighted to welcome Dr Serena Corr as a new Associate Editor for Nanoscale.

Dr Corr is a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, and her research focuses on the design, synthesis and structure determination of functional materials, in particular metal oxide nanostructures.

Dr Corr will be handling papers soon and so we encourage you to submit to her editorial office.

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New Nanoscale Associate Editor: Prof. Dirk Guldi

08 Apr 2013

Dirk Guldi Nanoscale Associate Editor

We are delighted to welcome Professor Dirk Guldi as a new Associate Editor for Nanoscale. Professor Guldi is one of the world-leading scientists in the field of charge transfer/nanocarbons. In particular, he is well-known for his contributions to the areas of charge-separation in donor-acceptor materials and construction of nanostructured thin films for solar energy conversion. Nanoscale

His research at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg involves the application of an arsenal of spectroscopic and microscopic techniques to a variety of molecular systems designed specifically to explore the nature of the chemical, physical and photophysical properties of new molecular hybrids, quantum dots, quantum rods and nanoparticles. He is also interested in designing and synthesising novel nanometer scale structures in combination with electron donors as integrative components for electron-donor-acceptor ensembles.

Prof. Guldi is handling papers and so we encourage you to submit to his editorial office.

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Editor’s choice: nanostructured polymer and dye-sensitized solar cells

24 Jan 2013

Nanoscale Advisory Board Member Prof. Zhiqun Lin is an expert in nanostructured polymer solar cells and dye-sensitized solar cells, and has selected some of his favorite articles recently published in these fields in Nanoscale.

Read our Editor’s choice selection today:

Reviews:

Confocal ultrafast pump–probe spectroscopy: a new technique to explore nanoscale composites
Tersilla Virgili , Giulia Grancini , Egle Molotokaite , Inma Suarez-Lopez , Sai Kiran Rajendran , Andrea Liscio , Vincenzo Palermo , Guglielmo Lanzani , Dario Polli and Giulio Cerullo
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR11896C

Conjugated polymers/semiconductor nanocrystals hybrid materials preparation, electrical transport properties and applications
Peter Reiss , Elsa Couderc , Julia De Girolamo and Adam Pron
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00403K

Recent advances in hybrids of carbon nanotube network films and nanomaterials for their potential applications as transparent conducting films
Seung Bo Yang , Byung-Seon Kong , Dae-Hwan Jung , Youn-Kyoung Baek , Chang-Soo Han , Sang-Keun Oh and Hee-Tae Jung
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00855A

Semiconductor nanostructure-based photovoltaic solar cells
Genqiang Zhang , Scott Finefrock , Daxin Liang , Gautam G. Yadav , Haoran Yang , Haiyu Fang and Yue Wu
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR10152H

Atomic layer deposition for nanofabrication and interface engineering
Monan Liu, Xianglin Li, Siva Krishna Karuturi, Alfred Iing Yoong Tok and Hong Jin Fan
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR11875K

Oxide nanowires for solar cell applications
Qifeng Zhang, Supan Yodyingyong, Junting Xi, Daniel Myers and Guozhong Cao
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR11595F

Nanoengineering and interfacial engineering of photovoltaics by atomic layer deposition
Jonathan R. Bakke, Katie L. Pickrahn, Thomas P. Brennan and Stacey F. Bent
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR10349K

TiO2 nanotubes and their application in dye-sensitized solar cells
Poulomi Roy, Doohun Kim, Kiyoung Lee, Erdmann Spiecker and Patrik Schmuki
DOI: 10.1039/B9NR00131J

Oxide nanowire networks and their electronic and optoelectronic characteristics
Nripan Mathews, Binni Varghese, Cheng Sun, Velmurugan Thavasi, Björn P. Andreasson, Chornghaur H. Sow , Seeram Ramakrishna and Subodh G. Mhaisalkar
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00285B

Original research:

Efficient Light Trapping in Inverted Polymer Solar Cells by Randomly Nanostructured Electrode Using Monodispersed Polymer Nanoparticles
Bumjoon Kim , Dongjin Kang , Hyunbum Kang , Changsoon Cho , Kihyun Kim , Seonju Jeong and Jung-Yong Lee
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR33160H

Solution-processed, nanostructured hybrid solar cells with broad spectral sensitivity and stability
Renjia Zhou , Ying Zheng , Lei Qian , Yixing Yang , Paul H. Holloway and Jiangeng Xue
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30210A

Light concentration and redistribution in polymer solar cells by plasmonic nanoparticles
Jinfeng Zhu , Mei Xue , Ryan Hoekstra , Faxian Xiu , Baoqing Zeng and Kang L. Wang
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR11920J

Charge photogeneration in hybrid solar cells: A comparison between quantum dots and in situ grown CdS
Luke X. Reynolds , Thierry Lutz , Simon Dowland , Andrew MacLachlan , Simon King and Saif A. Haque
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR12081J

Exciton diffusion and charge transfer dynamics in nano phase-separated P3HT/PCBM blend films
Hai Wang , Hai-Yu Wang , Bing-Rong Gao , Lei Wang , Zhi-Yong Yang , Xiao-Bo Du , Qi-Dai Chen , Jun-Feng Song and Hong-Bo Sun
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR01002B

Annealing effects on the photovoltaic performance of all-conjugated poly(3-alkylthiophene) diblock copolymer-based bulk heterojunction solar cells
Ming He , Wei Han , Jing Ge , Weijie Yu , Yuliang Yang , Feng Qiu and Zhiqun Lin
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR10293A

Synergistic effect of surface plasmon resonance and constructed hierarchical TiO2 spheres for dye-sensitized solar cells
Yumin Liu, Haowei Zhai, Feng Guo, Niu Huang, Weiwei Sun, Chenghao Bu, Tao Peng, Jikang Yuan and Xingzhong Zhao
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR31954C

Large-scale synthesis of Cu2SnS3 and Cu1.8S hierarchical microspheres as efficient counter electrode materials for quantum dot sensitized solar cells
Jun Xu, Xia Yang, Tai-Lun Wong and Chun-Sing Lee
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR31724A

Densely aligned rutile TiO2 nanorod arrays with high surface area for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells
Miaoqiang Lv, Dajiang Zheng, Meidan Ye, Lan Sun, Jing Xiao, Wenxi Guo and Changjian Lin
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR31431B

Highly efficient and completely flexible fiber-shaped dye-sensitized solar cell based on TiO2 nanotube array
Zhibin Lv, Jiefeng Yu, Hongwei Wu, Jian Shang, Dan Wang, Shaocong Hou, Yongping Fu, Kai Wu and Dechun Zou
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR11532H

Dye-sensitized solar cells based on a nanoparticle/nanotube bilayer structure and their equivalent circuit analysis
Xukai Xin, Jun Wang, Wei Han, Meidan Ye and Zhiqun Lin
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR11617K

Graphene supported nickel nanoparticle as a viable replacement for platinum in dye sensitized solar cells
Reeti Bajpai, Soumyendu Roy, Neha kulshrestha, Javad Rafiee, Nikhil Koratkar and D. S. Misra
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR11127F

Nanostructure control of graphene-composited TiO2 by a one-step solvothermal approach for high performance dye-sensitized solar cells
Ziming He, Guanhong Guai, Jing Liu, Chunxian Guo, Joachim Say Chye Loo, Chang Ming Li and Timothy Thatt Yang Tan
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR11300C

Preparation of TiO2 nanowires/nanotubes using polycarbonate membranes and their uses in dye-sensitized solar cells
Dong Kyu Roh, Rajkumar Patel, Sung Hoon Ahn, Dong Jun Kim and Jong Hak Kim
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR10525F

If you enjoyed this selection, you may also be interested in our collection of recent Nanoscale articles on energy research.

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New Nanoscale Associate Editor announced: Shouheng Sun

28 Sep 2012

Nanoscale is delighted that Professor Shouheng Sun has joined our Editorial Board as an Associate Editor.

Professor Sun is Professor of Chemistry at Brown University and has been the Associate Director of Brown’s Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation since 2008.

Professor Sun’s research in nanomaterials involves two related areas:

Chemical synthesis and self-assembly of nanoparticles
Construction and elaboration of functional nanoparticles and their assemblies for applications in biomedicine, catalysis, and information storage.

Read Prof. Sun’s recent Nanoscale Communication today:

Polyaspartic acid coated manganese oxide nanoparticles for efficient liver MRI
Ruijun Xing, Fan Zhang, Jin Xie, Maria Aronova, Guofeng Zhang, Ning Guo, Xinglu Huang, Xiaolian Sun, Gang Liu, L. Henry Bryant, Ashwinkumar Bhirde, Amy Liang, Yanglong Hou, Richard D. Leapman, Shouheng Sun and Xiaoyuan Chen
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR11242B

We welcome your submissions to Prof. Sun’s Editorial Office. Submit your best work to Nanoscale.

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Rongchao Jin is new Nanoscale Associate Editor

25 Sep 2012

We are delighted to announce that Professor Rongchao Jin of Carnegie Mellon University has joined Nanoscale as an Associate Editor.

Prof. Jin’s research covers the synthesis, characterization, and applications of nanoparticles. His group develop chemical methods for synthesizing new types of inorganic nanoclusters and nanocrystals, hybrid nano-architectures, and inorganic/polymer nanocomposites. He is also very interested in the applications of nanoparticles in catalysis, optics, chemo- and bio-sensing, and photovoltaics.

Professor Jin was co-Guest Editor on the recent Nanoscale themed issue on Metallic Clusters which, according to his Editorial “offers a snapshot of the very diverse research work being carried out on metal clusters” from fundamental to applied research.

Read Prof. Jin’s popular review on gold nanoclusters and his recent articles in this area today:

Quantum sized, thiolate-protected gold nanoclusters
Rongchao Jin
DOI: 10.1039/B9NR00160C

Water-soluble Au₂₅(Capt)₁₈ nanoclusters: synthesis, thermal stability, and optical properties
Santosh Kumar and Rongchao Jin
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30833A

Unexpected reactivity of Au₂₅(SCH₂CH₂Ph)₁₈ nanoclusters with salts
Manzhou Zhu, Gerentt Chan, Huifeng Qian and Rongchao Jin
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00878H

We welcome your submissions to Prof. Jin’s Editorial Office. Submit your best work to Nanoscale.

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Zhiyong Tang and Roberto Salvarezza join Nanoscale Advisory Board

20 Sep 2012

We are delighted to announce that Professor Zhiyong Tang of the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China and Roberto Salvarezza of the National University of La Plata, Argentina have both joined the Nanoscale Advisory Board.

Professor Roberto Salvarezza

Professor Salvarezza’s research is focused on scanning probe microscopies and surface physical chemistry, including the physical chemistry of molecular self-assemblies.

Read Prof. Salvarezza’s latest Nanoscale article today:

Self-assembly of thiolated cyanine aggregates on Au(111) and Au nanoparticle surfaces
Guillermo O. Menéndez, Emiliano Cortés, Doris Grumelli, Lucila P. Méndez De Leo, Federico J. Williams, Nicolás G. Tognalli, Alejandro Fainstein, María Elena Vela, Elizabeth A. Jares-Erijman and Roberto C. Salvarezza
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR11039J

Professor Zhiyong Tang

Professor Tang is interested in the application of functional nanomaterials in the fields of energy and the environment.

He recently review the latest progress in chiral inorganic nanoparticles in Nanoscale:

Chiral inorganic nanoparticles: origin, optical properties and bioapplications
Yunsheng Xia, Yunlong Zhou and Zhiyong Tang
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00903B

One-step template-free synthesis of monoporous polymer microspheres with uniform sizes via microwave-mediated dispersion polymerization
Ming-Qiang Zhu, Gan-Chao Chen, Yun-Mei Li, Jun-Bing Fan, Ming-Feng Zhu and Zhiyong Tang
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR10920K

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Nanoscale Editor features in Chemistry World

15 Aug 2012

Nanoscale Associate Editor Professor Xiao Cheng Zeng‘s latest discovery has featured in Chemistry World this week. Zeng and colleagues have calculated the structure of a stable carbon dication with a coordination number of 7, higher than any yet seen experimentally.

Read the Chemistry World article:

Carbon clusters score lucky seven

14 August 2012 Andy Extance

The predicted cluster has a pentagon of titanium atoms around the central carbon, plus one above and one below. Credit: ACS

US and Chinese chemists say that they’ve calculated the structure of a stable carbon dication that would have a higher coordination number than any yet seen experimentally. Xiao Cheng Zeng from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and colleagues have found that a carbon surrounded with seven titanium atoms can fulfil the necessary stability criteria. ‘We examined all first-row transition-metal elements and most main group elements,’ Zeng tells Chemistry World. ‘Only titanium fits thus far.’

Surrounding carbon with more than four other atoms moves beyond conventional two-centre, two-electron bonds to arrangements sharing fractional numbers of valence electrons. The current record largest cluster seen experimentally was a hexacoordinate carbon structure synthesised by Japanese researchers in 2008. But theoretical physical chemists are curious to see how much further coordination numbers might be pushed.

Read full article

Professor Zeng handles submissions to Nanoscale in the computational and theoretical fields, he also has a specialist interest in nanoclusters, computational nanocatalysis and computer-aided design and study of nanostructured materials.

Submit to Xiao Cheng Zeng’s Editorial Office today.

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Nanoscale Editor reports artificial potassium ion channel

18 Jul 2012

Nanoscale‘s newest Associate Editor Professor Xiao Cheng Zeng and collaborators in the US and China have reported a novel nanopore which has similar selective ion transport properties as the potassium ion channels found in nature. The work reported in Nature Communications could have potential applications in desalination technology or drug delivery.

Also check our Professor Zeng’s recent Nanoscale articles:

Investigating the structural evolution of thiolate protected gold clusters from first-principles
Yong Pei and Xiao Cheng Zeng
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4054-4072
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30685A

Edge-decorated graphene nanoribbons by scandium as hydrogen storage media
Menghao Wu, Yi Gao, Zhenyu Zhang and Xiao Cheng Zeng
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 915-920
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR11257D

Mn monolayer modified Rh for syngas-to-ethanol conversion: a first-principles study
Fengyu Li, De-en Jiang, Xiao Cheng Zeng and Zhongfang Chen
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 1123-1129
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR11121C

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