Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances publish high quality research across nanoscience and nanotechnology. To help you find the research that’s important to you, we’ve brought together all of our most recent and ongoing online article collections. We hope you enjoy reading them!
Check out the online article collections for our sister journal Nanoscale Horizons on this blog page.
Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances are delighted to support the Nano Korea 2019 symposium which takes place from 2-5 July 2019!
Meet the Editor: Professor Dong Ha Kim, Associate Editor of Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances, will be attending Nano Korea 2019.
At Korea’s largest nanoscience and nanotechnology conference, internationally known experts, including industry leaders, will join the four day conference to discuss the most critical technological advances and innovations in the field. The first day of the meeting offers a variety of tutorial sessions followed by talks and poster presentations throughout the rest of the meeting.
The conference programme incorporates symposia covering a broad range of subjects in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, which creates an excellent platform to academia and industry delegates to build up national and international collaborative networks, exchange experiences and benefit from peer support.
The conference topics will include:
Nanoelectronic devices
1D & 2D Nanomaterials
Hybrid Nano Structural Materials
Nanobiotechnology
Nanotechnology for Energy & Environment
Computational Nano Science & Technology for Nanomaterials
… and many others. Find an overview here.
Pre-Registration due 31st May 2019
Full Paper Submission due 19th July 2019
More information available on the conference website: http://sympo.nanokorea.or.kr/2019/eng/main/
We wanted to share with you some of the most popular articles published in Nanoscale Advances since the journal was launched last year. These articles are the most highly cited, most read, or most highly shared online to date.Our community have published some fantastic research in Nanoscale Advances since launch in 2018 and we wanted to make it even easier for you to find the best articles.
Nanoscale Advances most popular articles, 2018
Here are just a few picks from the collection. We hope you enjoy them.
Biomolecule-derived quantum dots for sustainable optoelectronics
Satyapriya Bhandari, Dibyendu Mondal, S. K. Nataraj and R. Geetha Balakrishna
Nanoscale Adv., 2019, 1, 913-936
Detection of microRNA biomarkers via inhibition of DNA-mediated liposome fusion
Coline Jumeaux, Eunjung Kim, Philip D. Howes, Hyemin Kim, Rona Chandrawati and Molly M. Stevens
Nanoscale Adv., 2019, 1, 532-536
Are octahedral clusters missing on the carbon energy landscape?
Tomas Lazauskas, Alexey A. Sokol and Scott M. Woodley
Nanoscale Adv., 2019, 1, 89-93
Arpita Shome, Adil Majeed Rather and Uttam Manna
Nanoscale Adv., 2019, Advance Article
Mayuresh Keskar, Camila Sabatini, Chong Cheng and Mark T. Swihart
Nanoscale Adv., 2019, 1, 627-635
Gopi C. Adhikari, Preston A. Vargas, Hongyang Zhu, Alexei Grigoriev and Peifen Zhu
Nanoscale Adv., 2019, Advance Article
Rh-doped MoSe2 as a toxic gas scavenger: a first-principles study
Hao Cui, Guozhi Zhang, Xiaoxing Zhang and Ju Tang
Nanoscale Adv., 2019, 1, 772-780
For the full collection, please see the journal website here.
Professor Chunying Chen, NCNST, China
NCNST, China
Prof. Chen received her Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry (1991) and obtained her PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China in 1996. She joined the CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials & Nanosafety. She has been awarded the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2018, Outstanding Female Awards of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017, Chinese Young Female Scientists Award in 2014 and supported by the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of China. Her research focuses on the potential toxicity of nanoparticles, transformation and fate of nanomaterials in biological systems, therapies for malignant tumors using theranostic nanomedicine systems, with an emphasis on understanding the underlying mechanism of bio-nano interactions.
Recent articles:
Chemical reduction of graphene enhances in vivo translocation and photosynthetic inhibition in pea plants, Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2019, Advance Article
Gd@C82(OH)22 harnesses inflammatory regeneration for osteogenesis of mesenchymal stem cells through JNK/STAT3 signaling pathway, J. Mater. Chem. B, 2018, 6, 5802-5811
Synergistic combination chemotherapy using carrier-free celastrol and doxorubicin nanocrystals for overcoming drug resistance, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 12639-12649
Professor Dong Ha Kim, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Prof. Dong Ha Kim received Ph.D. degree in the Department of Fiber and Polymer Science at Seoul National University in 2000. He carried out postdoctoral research activities in the Polymer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (from 2000 to 2003) with Prof. Thomas P. Russell and in the Materials Science Department at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (from 2003 to 2005) with Prof. Wolfgang Knoll. Then, he joined the Samsung Electronics Co. in the Memory Division of Semiconductor R & D Center as a senior scientist. He assumed a faculty position in the Department of Chemistry and Nano Science at Ewha Womans University in 2006, and currently is a Full Professor and Ewha Fellow. His research interests include development of hybrid nanostructures for energy storage and conversion, environmental remediation, non-volatile memory devices, display devices, and biomedical diagnosis/therapy.
Recent articles:
Arising synergetic and antagonistic effects in the design of Ni- and Ru-based water splitting electrocatalysts, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019, 7, 639-646
From CO2 methanation to ambitious long-chain hydrocarbons: alternative fuels paving the path to sustainability, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2019, 48, 205-259
Viable stretchable plasmonics based on unidirectional nanoprisms, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 4105-4112
Professor Umesh Waghmare, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
Prof. Umesh Waghmare received a BTech (with institute silver medal) in Engineering Physics from the IIT, Bombay (1990) and a PhD in Applied Physics from Yale University (1996). He worked as a post-doctoral research associate in physics department at Harvard University before joining Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in 2000, where he is presently a Professor in the Theoretical Sciences Unit and the Dean of Academic Affairs. His work has resulted in over 280 publications. He is a recipient of various awards as well as a GE unrestricted-grant for research (2011). He received the India Citation Award-2012 from the Thomson Reuters Research Excellence, and a JC Bose National Fellowship in 2012. He is a Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad and the Indian National Science Academy, and presently a Secretary of the Indian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include ab initio modeling and simulations of multifunctional materials, mechanical behavior, nanostructures, topological insulators and materials for energy and environment.
Recent articles:
Engineering ferroelectric instability to achieve ultralow thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric performance in Sn1−xGexTe, Energy Environ. Sci., 2019, 12, 589-595
Phonons and thermal conducting properties of borocarbonitride (BCN) nanosheets, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 22148-22154
Cd2NF, an analogue of CdO, Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 9303-9309
Submit your latest work to their Editor Centres now at Nanoscale (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nr) or Nanoscale Advances (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nr).
The Nanoscale journal family was delighted to sponsor prizes at the recent Bioinspired Nanomaterials 2019 ECR meeting, at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.
Organised by Dr King Hang Aaron Lau, University of Strathclyde, Professor Carsten Mim, KTH Stockholm, and Professor Basit Yameen, Lahore University of Management Sciences, this meeting brought together researchers in biological structure characterization as well as bioinspired soft matter and bionanotechnology.
Congratulations to the prize winners:
Poster presentation prizes
1. Corrigan Hicks, University of Bristol
2. (joint) Mohammad Al Qaraghuli, University of Stratchlyde
2. (joint) Tales Rocha DeMoura, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Oral presentation prizes
1. Kevin Baumann, University of Cambridge
2. Colette Whitfield, Newcastle University
More photos and information are available on the event website: https://bio-nanomaterials-glasgow-2019.org.uk/
The 19th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO 2019) will be held from 22-26, July 2019, in the Parisian Macao, Macau, China.
IEEE-NANO is the flagship IEEE conference on nanotechnology, which has been a successful annual conference since 2001. Recent conferences were held in Cork (2018), Pittsburgh (2017), Sendai (2016), Rome (2015), and Toronto (2014). This is only the 3rd time that the conference will be held in Greater China since its inception almost two decades ago (i.e., Hong Kong in 2007 and Beijing in 2013).
The conference scope spans both nanoscience and nanotechnology, including:
Listed below are some of the more specific topics that IEEE-NANO 2019 will focus on:
Oral Abstract Submission 15 February 2019
Poster Abstract Submission 15 May 2019
Early Bird Registration 15 June 2019
More information available on the conference website: https://2019.ieeenano.org/
Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances are delighted to support the 2nd Photonic and Optoelectronic Materials (POEM) Conference and the first Saint-Petersburg Academic University POEM conference!
Meet the Editor: Professor Andrea Ferrari, Associate Editor, will be speaking at POEM 2019.
Internationally known experts, including industry leaders, will join these four day conferences to discuss the most critical technological advances and innovations in the field of novel photonic and optoelectronic materials and systems for a wide range of applications in communications, computations, energy harvesting, bio-chemical sensing and artificial intelligence.
The conference programme incorporates symposia covering a broad range of subjects in Photonic and Optoelectronic Materials (from 2D, chalcogenide and group IV materials, to organic and quantum dot nanomaterials, to liquid crystals and fluid nanocomposites), which creates an excellent platform to academia and industry delegates to build up national and international collaborative networks, exchange experiences and benefit from peer support.
The conference topics will include:
2D materials
IV element-based photonic materials and devices
Chalcogenide materials
Quantum Dots and Nanowires
Organic materials
Liquid Crystals and Fluid Nanocomposites
The conference programme will incorporate the following symposia:
2D Material Symposium
Liquid Crystal Symposium
THz Optoelectronics and Photonics Symposium
Nanophotonics Symposium
Energy Materials Symposium
Metamaterials and Plasmonic Devices Symposium
Smart Biosensors and Bioanalytical Systems Symposium
Microscopy and Microspectroscopy of Nanomaterials Symposium
Abstract Submission 1st March 2019
Registration 25th March 2019
More information available on the conference websites: https://www.poem2019.com/and https://www.spb-poem.com/
The 1st SNAIA2018 Conference took place in December 2018 and was a great success, attracting more than 200 delegates from around the world to discuss their work on smart nanomaterials.
The Royal Society of Chemistry was delighted to support student prizes at SNAIA2018. Congratulations to all the prize winners!
The Best Student Talk Prize, supported by Nanoscale Horizons, was awarded to Joaquin Faneca (University of Exeter, UK) by Prof Jochen Feldmann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany).
The Best Poster Presentation Prize, supported by Nanoscale, was awarded to Elcin Cakal Sarac (Istanbul University, Turkey) by Prof Laura Lechuga (Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain).
The Best Poster Presentation Prize supported by Nanoscale Advances, was awarded to Alfio Torrisi (Nuclear Physics Institute, Czech Republic) by Prof Laura Lechuga (Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain).
The Best Student Talk Prize, supported by Journal of Materials Chemistry B, was awarded to Ignacio Gonzalez (IFW Dresden, Germany) by Prof Pavlos Lagoudakis (University of Southampton, UK; Skoltech University, Russia).
We have several exciting new appointments to our Editorial Board that we would like to share with you.
Co-Editor-in-Chief
First, we are delighted to announce that Professor Dirk Guldi (Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) has been appointed as the Co-Editor-in-chief of Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances!
He will provide hands-on support and guidance to the Editorial Board and team, working alongside with and assisting the Editor-in-chief in the promotion and development of both journals.
Having previously served as Chair of the Chemical Society Reviews Editorial Board, Dirk is experienced in leading and guiding an editorial team, and with his close involvement and familiarity with Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances, as well as being a Scientific Editor for Nanoscale Horizons, he also holds a unique and valuable editorial perspective over the entire nanoscale journal family.
Check out some of Dirk’s recent work:
Interfacing porphyrins and carbon nanotubes through mechanical links, Chemical Science, 2018, Advance Article
Improving charge injection and charge transport in CuO-based p-type DSSCs – a quick and simple precipitation method for small CuO nanoparticles, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2018, 6, 5176-5180
Tuning pentacene based dye-sensitized solar cells, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 8515-8525
New Associate Editors
Two new Associate Editors have joined the Nanoscale team!
Qing Dai received PhD degree in Nanophotonics at the Department of Engineering from University of Cambridge, after obtained MEng degree on Electronic & Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, London. Following postdoctoral appointments at Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics (CAPE) at University of Cambridge, he joined the faculty of National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST, located in Beijing) in 2012. Now he is a professor at NCNST and serving as the director of Division of Nanophotonics.
His research interests include low dimensional nanomaterials, plasmonics, nearfield optical characterization and ultrafast electron emissions.
Check out some of his recent work:
Higher order Fano graphene metamaterials for nanoscale optical sensing, Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 14998-15004
High performance boronic acid-containing hydrogel for biocompatible continuous glucose monitoring, RSC Advances, 2017, 7, 41384-41390
Study of graphene plasmons in graphene–MoS2 heterostructures for optoelectronic integrated devices, Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 208-215
Liberato Manna received his M.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Bari (Italy) in 1996 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences from the same university in 2001. During his Ph.D. and later as a postdoctoral fellow, he worked at the University of California Berkeley (U.S.A.). In 2003, he moved back to Italy as staff scientist at the National Nanotechnology Lab of CNR-INFM in Lecce (Italy) where he later became responsible for the Nanochemistry Division in 2006. In April 2009, he moved to the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova as head of the Nanochemistry Department. Since 2015 he is Deputy Director of IIT for the materials and nanotechnology programs.
His areas of expertise include; functional inorganic materials and devices, functional nanostructured materials, and surfaces, interfaces, and applications.
Check out some of his recent work:
Selective antimony reduction initiating the nucleation and growth of InSb quantum dots, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 11110-11116
Generating plasmonic heterostructures by cation exchange and redox reactions of covellite CuS nanocrystals with Au3+ ions, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 2781-2789
Manipulating the morphology of the nano oxide domain in AuCu–iron oxide dumbbell-like nanocomposites as a tool to modify magnetic properties, RSC Advances, 2018, 8, 22411-22421
Finally, you may have seen that the 2017 Impact Factor for Nanoscale has been revealed as 7.233*. We are very happy to see the continued support from our community and thank you for publishing your high quality nanoscience work with us.
*2017 Journal Citation Reports, Clarivate Analytics June 2018.
We are delighted to welcome five new Associate Editors for Nanoscale!
Quan Li
Quan Li is Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong. She obtained her B.S. in Chemistry from Beijing University, China in 1997 and then her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University, USA, in 2001. Her research interests focus on functional materials and structures for energy and biomedical applications, as well as quantum sensing. In particular, developing energy storage materials such as electrode materials/architectures for Li- and Na- ion batteries. In investigating nano-bio interfaces, her group works on manipulating the interplay of nanoparticles of biological systems, and nanoparticles for vaccination applications. Her work of quantum sensing focus on sensor development and application in condense matter physics and biomedicine.
Paolo Samori
Paolo Samorì is Distinguished Professor at the Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA), Director of the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) and Director of the Nanochemistry Laboratory. He is also Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC), Member of the Academia Europaea and Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). He obtained a Laurea in Industrial Chemistry at University of Bologna in 1995. In 2000 he received his PhD in Chemistry from the Humboldt University of Berlin. He has been awarded various prizes, including the Spanish-French “Catalán-Sabatier” Prize (2017) and the German-French “Georg Wittig – Victor Grignard” Prize (2017). He has published over 270 papers in the areas of nanoscience/nanotechnology and materials sciences with a specific focus on graphene and other 2D materials and self-assembled nanostructures, and more generally on (multi)functional nanomaterials for applications in opto-electronics, energy and sensing. He is also expert on hierarchical self-assembly of hybrid systems and on the use of scanning probe microscopies to unravel structures and dynamics of molecules at surfaces and interfaces.
Elena Shevchenko
Elena Shevchenko received her undergraduate degree in chemistry from the Belorussian State University in 1998 and PhD from the University of Hamburg in 2003. From 2003 to 2005, she was a joint postdoctoral fellow between Columbia University and the T. J. Watson Research Center. In 2005 she became a staff scientist at the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Since 2007, she has been a staff scientist at the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory. Her work has been recognized by Technology Review 35, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and Crain’s Chicago Business 40 under 40. Research in Elena’s group focuses on the understanding of the mechanism of nucleation and growth of nanomaterials using in-situ techniques, exploring the structure-property correlation at the nanoscale, nanoparticle self-assembly and design of nanoscale functional materials for application in energy storage and energy conversion.
Lingdong Sun
Lingdong Sun is Professor at State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, Peking University, China. She obtained her PhD from Changchun Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1996 before completing a post-doctoral research fellowship at Peking University in 1998. She has been a JSPS Senior Visiting Scholar at Keio University, Japan, since 2001. Her research is directed towards outstanding phenomena related with nanostructures including, excitonic transition and localized plasmonic properties of semiconductor nanocrystals; luminescent rare earth nanomaterials, bio-detection and imaging; materials chemistry in preparation and integration of individual nanostructures into functional assemblies.
Benjamin Wiley
Benjamin J. Wiley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Duke University. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2003, and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2007. From 2007-2009, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. Prof. Wiley is the recipient of the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, the CAREER award from the Nation Science Foundation, the Beilby Metal from the Royal Society of Chemistry, and has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters, His current research focuses on sustainable, economical synthesis of nanostructures, understanding the processes that drive anisotropic growth of nanostructures, and understanding the structure-property relationship of nanostructures and nanostructured-composites for applications in optics, electronics, medicine, and electrochemistry.
All of our new Associate Editors are now handling papers for the journal, so we welcome you to submit to their Editor Centres if you feel that your manuscript fits with their area of expertise.
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