Call For Papers: MXene chemistries in biology, medicine and sensing

Guest edited by Yury Gogotsi, Lucia Gemma Delogu, Acelya Yilmazer and Maksym Pogorielov

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for our latest online themed collection in Nanoscale on MXene chemistries in biology, medicine and sensing that is being guest edited by Professors Yury Gogotsi (Drexel University, USA), Lucia Gemma Delogu (University of Padua, Italy and Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates), Acelya Yilmazer (Ankara University, Turkey) and Maksym Pogorielov (Sumy State University, Ukraine and University of Latvia, Latvia).

The submissions deadline has been extended to 30 November 2024

Materials play a pivotal role in driving the progress of humanity. From the silicon age, when electronic and computer technologies revolutionized our lives, to the present, where we stand on the cusp of the age of nanomaterials, such as MXenes. MXenes represent a very large class of inorganic materials with an unparalleled diversity of structures and compositions. This sets them apart as one of the most significant recent discoveries in materials science.

These two-dimensional inorganic compounds consist of atomically thin layers of transition metal carbides, nitrides, or carbonitrides. Their versatile chemistry and unique and highly tuneable physicochemical properties have propelled them into myriad applications across various fields, ranging from energy storage to electronics and medicine.

Multiple studies have demonstrated that several MXenes are biocompatible and non-toxic to living organisms, thereby opening a door for various biomedical applications. MXene-based materials offer unique advantages in biosensing, cancer research, and regenerative medicine. The list of medical scenarios is growing every day, from the treatment of cardiovascular diseases to immunology and neuroscience.

This special-themed collection aims to provide a platform to showcase the recent progress and challenges in the field of MXenes chemistries addressing the exciting current challenges in biology, medicine and sensing. The scope of the collection is broad, including but are not limited to:

• MXene biocompatibility
• MXenes for sensing (optical sensors, chemical sensors, biosensors, gas sensors, SERS, etc)
• MXenes in cancer research
• MXenes in immunology
• MXenes for drug delivery
• MXenes as diagnostic tools
• MXenes in regenerative medicine
• MXenes in microbiology and virology
• MXenes in bioelectronics

This call for papers is open for the following article types:

• Communications
• Full papers

Open for submissions until 30 November 2024

If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, you can submit your article directly through the Nanoscale online submission system. Please mention that this submission is an open call contribution to the MXene chemistries in biology, medicine and sensing collection in the “Themed issues” section of the submission form and add a “Note to the Editor” that this is from the Open Call. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of both the journal and the collection, and inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed issue is not guaranteed.

Please also note that all submissions will undergo our normal rigorous peer review processes including an initial assessment prior to peer review, and that peer review and acceptance are not guaranteed.

If you have any questions about the journal or the collection, then Edward Gardner, the Development Editor for Nanoscale, would be happy to answer them. You can contact him by emailing the journal inbox.

With best wishes,

Professor Yury Gogotsi, Drexel University, USA (ORCID: 0000-0001-9423-4032)
Professor Lucia Gemma Delogu, University of Padua, Italy and Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates (ORCID: 0000-0002-2329-7260)
Professor Acelya Yilmazer, Ankara University, Turkey (ORCID: 0000-0003-2712-7450)
Professor Maksym Pogorielov, Sumy State University, Ukraine and University of Latvia, Latvia (ORCID: 0000-0001-9372-7791)

Open Call for Papers – Chiral Nanomaterials

Guest Edited by David Amabilino, Jeanne Crassous, Pengfei Duan and Nicholas Kotov

Chiral Nanomaterials have gone from being largely anecdotal curiosities to sophisticated materials with distinctively strong polarization rotation that had become an enabler for the areas, such as biosensing, catalysis and displays.  Chiral nanostructures also have enormous potential in emerging technologies related with biomedicine, optoelectronics, spintronics, and information technologies.  The great progress in the last two decades on the synthesis of chiral nanocolloids and their assemblies, chiral porous materials, chiral clusters, chiral soft nanostructured materials and chiral composites, to name a few, have made possible the discovery of new physical phenomena such as those related to the enhanced light-matter interactions and tunable Cosserat-Cauchy mechanics.

This special themed collection in Nanoscale, guest edited by Professor David Amabilino (ICMAB, Spain), Professor Jeanne Crassous (CNRS Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, France), Professor Pengfei Duan (NCNST, China) and Professor Nicholas Kotov (University of Michigan, USA), aims to provide a platform to showcase the latest progress and challenges in chiral nanomaterials. The scope of the collection is broad, including but not limited to, the following topics;

• Novel synthesis strategies
• Self-assembled chiral nanomaterials
• Chiral nanoparticles and plasmonics
• Complex chiral materials
• Bioinspired chiral nanostructures
• Porous chiral nanostructures
• Theoretical understanding of the chiral materials
• New chirality and asymmetry measures
• Materials with chirality continuum
• Spectroscopy of chiral nanomaterials
• Terahertz and long-wave circular dichroism
• Advanced characterization techniques
• Chirality Induced Spin Selectivity
• Chiral catalysis
• Biosensors
• Light emitting devices
• Chiral metastructures

Submissions deadline extended to 30 September 2024

How to submit

Submissions to the collection should fit within the scope of Nanoscale – Please see the journals’ websites for more information on the journal’s scope, standards, article types and author guidelines. All manuscripts will undergo the normal initial assessment and peer review processes, if appropriate, in line with the journal’s high standards, managed by the journal editors. Accepted manuscripts will be added to the online collection as soon as they are published and they will be featured in a regular issue of the relevant journal. Please note that peer review or acceptance are not guaranteed. 

If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, please submit your article directly through the journal submissions platform. Please mention that your submission is a contribution to the Chiral Nanomaterials collection in the “Themed issues” section of the submission form and is in response to the Open Call. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of both the journal and the collection, and as such inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed collection is not guaranteed.

If you have any questions about the collection or the submissions process, please do contact the Editorial Office at nanoscale-rsc@rsc.org.

We look forward to receiving your latest work and considering it for this collection!

Call For Papers: Metal nanoclusters

Guest edited by Sukhendu Mandal, Yuichi Negishi, Di Sun and Anindita Das

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for our latest online themed collection in Nanoscale on metal nanoclusters that is being guest edited by Professor Sukhendu Mandal (IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India), Professor Yuichi Negishi (Tokyo University of Science, Japan), Professor Di Sun (Shandong University, China) and Professor Anindita Das (South Methodist University, USA).

Atomically precise metal nanoclusters are novel materials that have the potential to address everyday needs from energy to health. Luminescent metal clusters can be used for effective and efficient energy harvesting and conversion technologies, while water-soluble luminescent metal clusters offer more efficient and personalized biomedical approaches. Furthermore, nanoclusters can be used as building units to form higher-dimensional cluster-assembled materials and can modulate the optoelectronic properties of desired device materials. To create a hierarchy of structures and applications, a fundamental understanding of the structure-property relationship at the atomic level is vital.

This special collection aims to look at new structures, photophysical, chemical and electrochemical catalysis reactions, and structure-property correlations within the themes of atomically precise metal nanoclusters. We wish to highlight research communicating novel structures, properties and phenomena, where applications for societal needs are appreciated as well as reports of new and exciting basic science. Prospective topics include but are not limited to:

• New nanocluster structures
• Transformation reactions
• Luminescent materials
• Light-matter interactions
• Catalysis
• Electrocatalysis
• Bio-imaging and sensing
• Drug delivery
• Optoelectronic devices
• New techniques for characterization

This call for papers is open for the following article types:

• Communications
• Full papers

Open for submissions until 1 July 2024

If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, you can submit your article directly through the Nanoscale online submission system. Please mention that this submission is an open call contribution to the metal nanoclusters collection in the “Themed issues” section of the submission form and add a “Note to the Editor” that this is from the Open Call. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of both the journal and the collection, and inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed issue is not guaranteed.

Please also note that all submissions will undergo our normal rigorous peer review processes including an initial assessment prior to peer review, and that peer review and acceptance are not guaranteed.

If you have any questions about the journal or the collection, then Edward Gardner, the Development Editor for Nanoscale, would be happy to answer them. You can contact him by emailing the journal inbox.

With best wishes,

Professor Sukhendu Mandal, IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India (ORCID: 0000-0002-4725-8418)
Professor Yuichi Negishi, Tokyo University of Science, Japan (ORCID: 0000-0003-3965-1399)
Professor Di Sun, Shandong University, China (ORCID: 0000-0001-5966-1207)
Professor Anindita Das, South Methodist University, USA (ORCID: 0000-0002-8855-8265)

Call For Papers: Nanocatalysis

Guest edited by Zhiqun Lin, In Young Kim and Michelle Personick

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for our latest online themed collection in Nanoscale on Nanocatalysis that is being guest edited by Dr Zhiqun Lin (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Dr In Young Kim (Ewha Womans University, South Korea) and Dr Michelle Personick (University of Virginia, USA).

Nanocatalysis represents an exciting subfield in nanoscience and nanotechnology which involves the use of nanomaterials and subnano-sized materials (nanoclusters, diatoms, single atoms) as catalysts for a wide variety of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalytic applications. Along with significant advances in nanomaterial design and synthesis assisted by machine learning, in-situ/ex-situ characterization techniques, and computational chemistry, the past several decades have witnessed a flood of research activities in this rapidly evolving area with most of the studies focusing on the effects of size, shape, chemical composition and morphology on catalytic properties and performance. This has led to the development of highly effective catalysts with enhanced activity, selectivity, and stability. This special themed collection aims to provide a platform to showcase the recent progress and challenges in the field of nanocatalysis. The scope of the collection is broad, including but not limited to:

• Novel design and synthesis strategies
• Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis
• Theoretical understanding of the catalytic mechanisms
• Reaction pathway optimization
• Nanointerface engineering
• Support effects
• Dynamic evolution of active sites
• Applications in electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, photoelectrocatalysis, and thermocatalysis, etc.
• Advanced characterization techniques

We hope that readers will find this themed collection informative and useful for the rational design and construction of highly efficient nanocatalysts to enable sustainable technologies for catalysis. This call for papers is open for the following article types:

• Communications
• Full papers

Open for submissions until 18 March 2024

If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, you can submit your article directly through the Nanoscale online submission system. Please mention that this submission is an open call contribution to the Nanocatalysis collection in the “Themed issues” section of the submission form and add a “Note to the Editor” that this is from the Open Call. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of both the journal and the collection, and inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed issue is not guaranteed.

Please also note that all submissions will undergo our normal rigorous peer review processes including an initial assessment prior to peer review, and that peer review and acceptance are not guaranteed.

If you have any questions about the journal or the collection, then Edward Gardner, the Development Editor for Nanoscale, would be happy to answer them. You can contact him by emailing the journal inbox.

With best wishes,

Professor Zhiqun Lin, National University of Singapore, Singapore (ORCID: 0000-0003-3158-9340)
Professor In Young Kim, Ewha Womans University, South Korea (ORCID: 0000-0003-4150-1306)
Professor Michelle Personick, University of Virginia, USA (ORCID: 0000-0003-4747-9429)