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Open Call for Papers- High throughput synthesis, characterisation and optimisation of nanomaterials

 

 

 

 

 

Nanoscale Advances is delighted to announce on open call for our upcoming special themed collection

High throughput synthesis, characterisation and optimisation of nanomaterials

 

This themed collection is being guest edited by

Dr Philip D. Howes (University of Sussex, United Kingdom)

Dr Caterina Minelli  (National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom)

Dr Michael Thomas (University College London, United Kingdom)

Dr Catherine Hansel (Novo Nordisk, United Kingdom)

 

A themed collection focussing on:

  • Pioneering Nanotechnology and Biotechnology: Topics exploring how high-throughput methods and automation are enabling breakthroughs in nanomaterials design and development with transformative potential in fields such as medicine, energy, and environmental science.
  • Advancing High-Throughput Synthesis: Studies focusing on scalable and efficient approaches to synthesising nanomaterials with precise control over their properties e.g. size, shape, and composition.
  • Innovations in Characterisation Techniques: Research into high-throughput analytical tools designed to rapidly and accurately characterise the properties of nanomaterials.
  • Accelerated Optimisation: Research focused on rapid and/or automated optimisation of nanomaterials synthesis processes or product properties
  • Data-Driven Approaches in Nanotechnology: Investigations leveraging automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics to accelerate discoveries and innovations in nanomaterial research.
  • Cross-Disciplinary Applications: Contributions demonstrating the role of high-throughput nanomaterials research in cross-cutting areas such as medical, renewable energy, catalysis, water purification, environmental remediation, advanced electronics, food safety, wearable technologies etc.

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

  • Communications
  • Full papers
  • Reviews

Submissions should fit within the scope of the collection and Nanoscale Advances. Please click on the journal link for more information on the journal’s scope, standards, article types and author guidelines.

Open for submissions until 17th September 2025


How to submit


If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, you can submit your article directly through the Nanoscale Advances online submission system. Please mention that this submission is an open call contribution to High throughput collection in the “Themed issues” section of the submission form and add a “Note to the Editor” that this is from the Open Call.

Please note that all submissions will be subject to initial assessment and rigorous peer review, if appropriate, to meet the usual high standards of Nanoscale Advances.

If accepted, your article will be added to a usual issue of the journal where you will receive your page numbers and added to our online collection for extra visibility.

If you have any questions about the journal or the collection, then please contact the editorial office and they will be happy to answer them.

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Meet Henry Chu: New Principal Investigator

We are delighted to introduce the next contribution to our New Principal Investigators collection.

Read the paper

Diffusiophoresis in porous media saturated with a mixture of electrolytes

Siddharth Sambamoorthy and Henry C. W. Chu

Graphical abstract: Diffusiophoresis in porous media saturated with a mixture of electrolytes

In the article, we have developed a mathematical model that predicts the diffusiophoretic motion of a colloidal particle driven by a concentration gradient of a mixture of electrolytes in porous media. We report three key findings. First, in the same electrolyte concentration gradient, lowering the permeability of the porous medium can significantly weaken the colloid diffusiophoretic motion. Second, surprisingly, by using a valence asymmetric electrolyte the colloid diffusiophoretic motion in a denser porous medium can be stronger than that in a less dense porous medium saturated with a valence symmetric electrolyte. Third, varying the composition of an electrolyte mixture does not only change the strength of the colloid diffusiophoretic motion drastically, but also qualitatively its direction. We believe that our model will motivate and benchmark future theories and experiments. Our model can be used to understand and predict natural phenomena such as intracellular transport, as well as design technological applications such as enhanced oil recovery, nanoparticle drug delivery, and colloidal species separation.

Meet the Principal Investigator

Henry Chu is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of Florida (UF).  He obtained a M.Phil. from The University of Hong Kong and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.  The theme of his research is heterogeneous soft matter transport and design, covering topics such as complex fluid dynamics, colloid and interface science, electrokinetics, porous media, and rheology.  His research group develops predictive computational tools and fundamental theories to address National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges, collaborating with experimental groups to translate knowledge into applications.  His work has been recognized through several awards, including the RSC Advances / Soft Matter / Nanoscale Emerging Investigator by The Royal Society of Chemistry, UF Global Faculty Fellowship, ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Grants, and U.S. DOE Geosciences Research Grants.  He welcomes collaboration with academia, government agencies, and industry sponsors.

Website: http://www.chugroup.site/

 

You’ve recently started your own group, what are the big research question/s your group will be focussing on?

I think one promising future direction is diffusiophoresis in porous media, which is the theme of our article. To date, many excellent theories and experiments have been done on diffusiophoresis in free electrolyte solutions, but little have been done on diffusiophoresis in porous media. Many novel applications, however, involve diffusiophoresis in porous media. I believe that the huge potential of diffusiophoresis will start a new wave of research that addresses both the fundamental and application aspect of the topic.

What inspired you to get into science?

As a computation group focusing on soft matter transport and design, we are excited about leveraging our discoveries to develop practical applications and to explain novel transport phenomena. Our strategy is always to develop models which are as simple as possible but can capture the key physics of a system. Although these are no easy tasks, I enjoy tackling these challenges with my students and collaborators!

What advice would you give to those who are seeking their first group leader position?

I would share the advice that I gladly received from my respected research advisors 🙂 Work on things that you are passionate about. Enjoy your work with your students and collaborators.
I would also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge my research advisors, colleagues, and friends, who have given me great support in my early career, thank you!

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Open Call for Papers- Magnetic Nanoparticles: From Massart Method to a Cascade of Innovations 

Open Call for Papers- Magnetic Nanoparticles: From Massart Method to a Cascade of Innovations 

Submissions deadline 1 September 2025

Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances is delighted to announce on open call for our upcoming special themed collection Magnetic Nanoparticles: From Massart Method to a Cascade of Innovations, to be promoted in Winter 2025.

This themed collection is being guest edited by Professors Nguyễn T. K. Thanh (University College London, United Kingdom), Teresa Pellegrino (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy), Ali Abou-Hassan (Sorbonne University, France), Anna Cristina S. Samia (Case Western Reserve University, United States), Olivier Sandre (University of Bordeaux, France) and Lise-Marie Lacroix (Toulouse University, France).

Magnetic nanoparticles promo graphic open call

Magnetic nanoparticles are a class of materials that exhibit unique superparamagnetic properties due to their nanoscale size and high surface-to-volume ratio. The synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles is central to their widespread use, with several methods developed over the years to produce them in a controlled, reproducible manner.

One of the most well-known and widely adopted methods is the alkaline co-precipitation method developed by Prof. René Massart in the early 1980s. Originally conducted in water (though it can be adapted to a dispersed state in less polar media), it is a widely used, cost-effective technique for synthesizing magnetic nanoparticles, especially iron oxide (magnetite and maghemite), as well as other spinel-structured metal oxides (e.g., cobalt, manganese, and zinc ferrites). Known for its simplicity, up-scalability, and ability to relatively control particle size and magnetic properties, the Massart process is extensively employed for producing nanomaterials for in biomedical, environmental, and industrial applications due to its efficiency and versatility in producing large quantities of tailored nanoparticles.

This themed collection aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the advances in the field of magnetic nanoparticle research, by covering its different facets ranging from rational design of synthesis processes to improved properties dispersion states, and end applications.

In tribute to René Massart, this collection will cover various aspects of magnetic nanoparticles, including:

  • Synthesis and design of magnetic nanoparticles
  • Characterization of magnetic nanoparticle structure, dynamics, and properties
  • Surface functionalization and dispersion state of magnetic nanoparticles
  • New methodologies of magnetic nanoparticles synthesis in the bulk
  • Flow chemistry synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles
  • Study of nucleation and growth of magnetic nanoparticles
  • Multifunctional magnetic based nanoparticles, including (bio)organic nano-assemblies and nano(bio)hybrids
  • Structure-properties relationships of magnetic nanoparticles and magnetic based nano(bio)hybrids
  • Biomedical applications of magnetic nanoparticles (targeted drug delivery, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), magnetic particle imaging (MPI), hyperthermia treatment, and in vitro or in vivo biodegradation studies
  • Environmental applications (water treatment and micropollutant detection or removal)
  • Industrial or energy-related applications (magnetic storage media, seals, valves, construction materials, and magnetically boosted catalysis, e.g., for clean hydrogen production)

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

  • Communications
  • Full papers
  • Reviews

Open for submissions until 01 September 2025


How to submit


If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, you can submit your article directly through the Nanoscale  or Nanoscale Advances online submission system. Please mention that this submission is an open call contribution to Magnetic Nanoparticles collection in the “Themed issues” section of the submission form and add a “Note to the Editor” that this is from the Open Call.

Please note that all submissions will be subject to initial assessment and rigorous peer review, if appropriate, to meet the usual high standards of Nanoscale or Nanoscale Advances. In some cases, the Associate Editors may offer authors a transfer to Nanoscale Advances from Nanoscale if more appropriate.

If accepted, your article will be added to a usual issue of the journal where you will receive your page numbers and added to our online collection for extra visibility. The collection will be promoted in Winter 2025.

If you have any questions about the journal or the collection, then please contact the editorial office and they will be happy to answer them.

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Welcoming Professor Baoquan Ding to Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances as an Associated Editor

We are delighted to welcome Professor Baoquan Ding, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China, as a new Associate Editor working across Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.

Welcoming Baoquan Ding, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China, as a new Associate Editor working across Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.

Professor Ding obtained his B.S. in Chemistry from Jilin University in 2000. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from New York University in 2006. After a postdoctoral experience at Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (2006-2009), he joined the Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, as a research assistant professor (2009-2010). He became a full professor at NCNST in November 2010.

His research interests include nanostructure and nanodevice fabrication with self-assembled biomolecules and nanoparticles and the development of wide applications in drug delivery, biocatalysis, and nanophotonics

I look forward to strengthening the communication and collaboration between RSC and NCNST and contributing to promote Nanoscale to be one of the best Journals in nanoscience and nanotechnology.” – Professor Baoquan Ding

We welcome you to submit your latest work on nanostructure and nanodevice fabrication with self-assembled biomolecules and nanoparticles with applications in drug delivery, biocatalysis, and nanophotonics to his editorial office for consideration:

 

Submit your research to Nanoscale

Submit your research to Nanoscale Advances

 

Please join us in welcoming Professor Ding to Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances and we hope you will consider Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances for your future submissions!

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Carbon nanomaterials for smart applications

Read the new collection for free in Nanoscale Advances

We are delighted to introduce our new Nanoscale Advances themed collection focusing on Carbon nanomaterials for smart applications!

Guest Edited by Yeye Wen (Beijing Institute of Technology, China), Zhenyuan Xia (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) and Muqiang Jian (Beijing Graphene Institute, China)

Carbon nanomaterials with interesting properties have become more easily accessible with rapid research progress in the field, leading to their increasingly widespread use for materials development and applications. This themed collection broadly focuses on carbon nanomaterials for smart applications.

All papers are open access and free to read. A selection of the papers are featured below:

Controlled synthesis, properties, and applications of ultralong carbon nanotubes
Kangkang Wang, Fei Wang, Qinyuan Jiang, Ping Zhu, Khaixien Leu and Rufan Zhang
Nanoscale Adv., 2024, 6, 4504-4521.
DOI: 10.1039/D4NA00437J
Electrowetting on glassy carbon substrates
Sittipong Kaewmorakot, Athanasios A. Papaderakis and Robert A. W. Dryfe
Nanoscale Adv., 2024, 6, 5441-5450.
DOI: 10.1039/D4NA00506F
Advanced lightweight lightning strike protection composites based on super-aligned carbon nanotube films and thermal-resistant zirconia fibers
Mingquan Zhu, Peng Zhang, Feng Gao, Yunxiang Bai, Hui Zhang, Min Zu, Luqi Liu and Zhong Zhang
Nanoscale Adv., 2024, 6, 4858-4864.
DOI: 10.1039/D4NA00392F

 

We hope you enjoy reading this themed collection!

 

Did you know?

At Nanoscale Advances, our themed collections are built by collaboration between our Guest Editors and expert Associate Editors. Our Guest Editors guide the scope and curate the contributions in our collections, but all submissions are handled through peer review by our team of resident Associate Editors. This means that as an author you receive a consistent experience, and as a reader you can trust the quality of the science being presented.

If you have an idea for a topical collection in your research field, we’d love to hear from you! Get in touch here.

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Professor Zhuo Kang joins the Associate Editor team

Professor Zhuo Kang joins the Associate Editor team

Welcome to Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances!

 

A photo of the new Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances Associate Editor, Zhuo KangWe are delighted to welcome Professor Zhuo Kang from the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), China, as a new Associate Editor working across Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.

Zhuo Kang received his B.S. (2011) and Ph.D. degree (2016) from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB). He carried out his academic visit at Purdue University, USA sponsored by China Scholarship Council in 2012-2013. He accomplished his postdoctoral research at USTB in 2018, and currently is a professor at Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (AAIST), USTB. He also serves as the deputy director of State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials and deputy dean of AAIST at USTB.

Zhuo is devoted to the applied basic research on low-dimensional clean energy materials. He focuses on controllable growth, interface regulation and service behavior of low-dimensional materials as well as their application in energy conversion and storage including photovoltaics, electrocatalysis and electrochemical batteries. He has published >100 peer-reviewed papers in international academic journals, co-authored 4 monographs, and holds 16 Chinese and 1 US patents.

“To join the Editorial Board is a very honorable and exciting move, and it also endows me with a great opportunity to get more involved in the remarkable development of our journals and learn more from our professional colleagues. I’m totally ready to fulfill my duties and start this fantastic journey with our first-class editorial team towards the bright future of RSC journals.” – Professor Zhuo Kang

We welcome you to submit your latest work on nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage to his editorial office for consideration.

Submit your latest research

 

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2025 Chinese New Year Collection

Happy Chinese New Year!

Happy Chinese New Year from everyone on the Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances teams! To celebrate the start of the Year of the Snake, we are delighted to highlight some of the most popular articles published in our nanoscience journals last year by corresponding authors based in countries celebrating the Chinese New Year.

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Chinese new year graphic

All of the articles in these collections are free to access until the end of February 2025. We hope you enjoy reading these popular articles and wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous year of the Snake!

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2025 Lunar New Year Collection

Happy Lunar New Year!

Happy Lunar New Year from everyone on the Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances teams! To celebrate the start of the Year of the Snake, we are delighted to highlight some of the most popular articles published in our nanoscience journals last year by corresponding authors based in countries celebrating the Lunar New Year.

Read the collection now

Lunar new year graphic

All of the articles in these collections are free to access until the end of February 2025. We hope you enjoy reading these popular articles and wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous year of the snake!

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Themed Collections in 2024

Looking back at 2024

An overview of the themed collections Nano Journal Family in 2024

Nanoscale Horizons

  • Soft wearable sensors: Guest edited by Wenlong Cheng, John Rogers, Alina Rwei, Dae-Hyeong Kim, and Nanshu Lu
  • Catalysis Collection: Guest edited by Marcella Lusardi, Wee-Jun Ong, Huabin Zhang, Tianyi Ma, Vivek Polshettiwar

Upcoming 2025 Collections

  • Nanoscale Horizons 10th Anniversary collection
  • DNA Nanotechnology
  • NUS 120th Anniversary 

Nanoscale 

Nanoscale Advances:

 Open collections you can get involved with:

Have an idea for a new themed collection in your area? Get in touch here.

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Themed collection: Micro- and Nano-Motors

Micro- and Nano-Motors

Guest edited by Martin Pumera, Xing Ma, Samuel Sánchez Ordóñez and Li Zhang ‬‬

Micro/nano-motors (MNMs) are miniaturized devices or structures that can covert other forms of energy harnessed from the surrounding environment into mechanical motion. As an emerging technology with a highly multidisciplinary nature, MNMs involve research efforts from materials science, physics, chemistry, biomedical engineering, etc., and in virtue of their small size and controllable mobility, they have demonstrated revolutionary potential in sensing, biomedicine and environmental applications among others. We are delighted to share this special collection in Nanoscale, and Journal of Materials Chemistry B dedicated to the state of the art of micro- and nanomachines, with emphasis on the design and fabrication, propulsion mechanism, imaging, safety, and application of micro- and nano-motors in a variety of fields.

Professor Martin PumeraProfessor Xing Ma ,  Professor Samuel Sánchez Ordóñez, and Professor Li Zhang served as guest editors for this collection, discussing the virtue of micro and nano motors’ small size and controllable mobility, while highlighting the revolutionary potential applications, in their introductory editorial.

You can explore the collection and read the introductory editorial from our guest editors below, with all articles free to access until the end of December 2024. 

Read the introductory editorial

Check out some of the featured articles:

Graphical abstract: Active therapy based on the byproducts of micro/nanomotorsActive therapy based on the by products of micro/nanomotors

Nanoscale, 2023,15, 953-962, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR05818A

Graphical abstract: Shape-controlled movement of Zn/SU-8 micromotors

Shape-controlled movement of Zn/SU-8 micromotors

Nanoscale Adv., 2024, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/D4NA00721B

Graphical abstract: Eliminating waste with waste: transforming spent coffee grounds into microrobots for water treatment

Eliminating waste with waste: transforming spent coffee grounds into microrobots for water treatment

Nanoscale, 2023,15, 17494-17507, DOI:10.1039/D3NR03592A

 

 

Graphical abstract: Light-powered swarming phoretic antimony chalcogenide-based microrobots with “on-the-fly” photodegradation abilitiesLight-powered swarming phoretic antimony chalcogenide-based microrobots with “on-the-fly” photodegradation abilities

Anna Jancik-Prochazkova,

Nanoscale, 2023,15, 5726-5734, DOI:10.1039/D3NR00098B

 

We hope you enjoy reading this collection and look forward to showcasing more work on micro and nano motors in the future. Please continue to submit your exciting work to Nanoscale and Journal of Materials Chemistry B.

 

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