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Frontiers in Stimuli-Responsive Nanoplatforms

31 Jul 2024

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We are delighted to introduce our new themed collection focusing on Frontiers in Stimuli-Responsive Nanoplatforms!

Guest Edited by Prof. Juan C. Cruz (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) and Prof. Luis H. Reyes (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia).

This collection focuses on the recent developments and novel approaches in stimuli-responsive nanoplatforms for drug delivery. Papers highlight the design, synthesis, and application of these nanoplatforms, with an emphasis on their potential to transform therapeutic delivery methods.

A small selection of the papers are featured below, all open access and free to read.

	Long-term in vivo dissolution of thermo- and pH-responsive, ¹⁹F magnetic resonance-traceable and injectable polymer implants Natalia Jirát-Ziółkowska, Martin Vít, Ondřej Groborz, Kristýna Kolouchová, David Červený, Ondřej Sedláček and Daniel Jirák Nanoscale Adv., 2024,6, 3041-3051. DOI: 10.1039/D4NA00212A
	In vitro profiling and molecular dynamics simulation studies of berberine loaded MCM-41 mesoporous silica nanoparticles to prevent neuronal apoptosis Anurag Kumar Singh, Snigdha Singh, Tarun Minocha, Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, Reema Narayan, Usha Yogendra Nayak, Santosh Kumar Singh and Rajendra Awasthi Nanoscale Adv., 2024,6, 2469-2486. DOI: 10.1039/D3NA01142A
	A new vision of photothermal therapy assisted with gold nanorods for the treatment of mammary cancers in adult female rats Hend Gamal, Walid Tawfik, Hassan IH El-Sayyad, Ahmed N. Emam, Heba Mohamed Fahmy and Heba A. El-Ghaweet Nanoscale Adv., 2024,6, 170-187. DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00595J

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Open Call for Papers: Nanophotonics, Plasmonics, and Nano-optics

30 Jul 2024

We are delighted to announce an open call for papers to our new themed collection focusing on advanced nanophotonics, plasmonics, and nano-optics!

This collection aims to highlight recent breakthroughs and innovative research in the manipulation of light at the nanoscale, including the development of novel nanostructures, enhancement of light-matter interactions, and applications in sensing, imaging, and information processing. We look forward to featuring research that unveils novel processes, phenomena, and discoveries. Although application-oriented studies are welcome, we are especially eager to receive submissions that explore new and intriguing aspects of fundamental science. Topics include but are not limited to,

Optical nanoantennas
Light-matter interaction
Quantum optics
Near-field optics
Nonlinear optics
Anomalies in light scattering
Spectroscopy and microscopy of materials
Optical sensors
Nanofabrication techniques
New techniques and methods of analysis
Advanced imaging
Nano-optical trapping
Optics and transport in nanomaterials
Functional nanophotonics
Optical response of advanced nanostructured materials
Nanofunctional photonic composites and self-organised nanostructures
Ultrafast opto-induced magnetism

Submit before 1st December 2024.

If you are interested in contributing to this collection, please get in touch with the Editorial Office.

Please note that article processing charges apply to all articles submitted to Nanoscale Advances if, following peer-review, they are accepted for publication, unless your institute has an existing agreement with the RSC that covers publications in our gold open access journals. Details of the APC and discounted rates can be found here. Corresponding authors who are not already members of the Royal Society of Chemistry are entitled to one year’s Affiliate membership as part of their APC. Find out more about our member benefits.

This themed collection is Guest Edited by:

	Viktoriia Babicheva University of New Mexico ORCID: 0000-0002-0789-5738 Viktoriia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico.Before starting at UNM, she worked at the University of Arizona, Georgia State, and Purdue Universities. Her research interests are nanophotonics, plasmonics, and metamaterials and more information can be found here.
	Yu-Jung (Yuri) Lu Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica ORCID: 0000-0002-3932-653X Dr. Yu-Jung Lu is an Associate Research Fellow at the Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at National Taiwan University. She earned her Ph.D. in Physics from National Tsing Hua University, in 2013, and later joined Prof. Harry Atwater’s research group at Caltech as a postdoctoral researcher from 2015 to 2017. Dr. Lu is a renowned materials physicist who specializes in active plasmonics, nanophotonics, and metasurfaces. Her research focuses on plasmonic nanodevices that enable the harvesting, generation, and manipulation of light at the nanoscale.
	Alexander Shalin Suzhou City University ORCID: 0000-0003-0038-5273 His research interests cover theoretical near-field optics, optics of nanoobjects, nanophotonics, plasmonics, optical forces and tweezers, NEMs, optical properties of heterogeneous media and metamaterials, optical transparency, antireflection coatings, metasurfaces, light-trapping coatings.
	Dattatray Late CSIR National Chemical Laboratory, India ORCID: 0000-0003-3007-7220 His interests cover the synthesis of various 1D nanowires / nanotubes & 2D (Nanosheets, thin films) nanomaterials for various applications such as sensors, supercapacitors, Light Emitting diodes (LEDs), photodetectors, nano-switches, nonvolatile memory devices, Li-ion batteries, catalysts for water splitting applications, and more.

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Congratulations to the winners of the RSC poster prizes at ISMPC 2024

11 Jul 2024

The 7th International Symposium on Monolayer-Protected Clusters (ISMPC 2024) took place in State College, PA, USA from 12–14 June 2024. Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances were pleased to support best poster awards at this event and we would like to congratulate our winners!

Photos of the poster prizes being awarded at ISMPC. Left photo shows Christine Aikens (left) and Maya Khatun (right). Right photo shows Christine Aikens (left) and Yuto Fukumoto (right).

Learn more about our poster prize awardees below:

Nanoscale Horizons Poster Prize

Maya Khatun (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Poster Title: “Eﬀect of Water on the Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of Inosine Mutant DNA Stabilized Silver Cluster”

Maya Khatun was born in West Bengal, India. She received her bachelor’s (2014) and master’s (2016) degrees in chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, India. In 2017, she joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, as a PhD student under Dr. Anoop Ayyappan. Her PhD research focuses on implementing a cluster-building algorithm using random search and the Tabu-Search algorithm to optimize atomic clusters, specifically studying nanoclusters of Pd, Au, and Pt. She also assesses various DFT and ab initio methods to identify efficient approaches for studying boron group clusters and gold thiolates. In 2023, she joined the Department of Physics at Jyväskylä University, Finland, as a postdoctoral researcher under Prof. Hannu Häkkinen. Her current research focuses on NIR-emitting, biocompatible nanosystems like DNA-wrapped silver clusters, emphasizing their electronic structure and physical properties for biomedical applications.

Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances Poster Prize

Yuto Fukumoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Poster Title: “Synthesis of diphosphine-protected IrAu₁₂ cluster with open site(s) and linkage by diisocyanide linker”

Yuto Fukumoto received his B.S. degree from the University of Tokyo in 2023 and is currently a master’s student at the University of Tokyo under the supervision of Professor Tatsuya Tsukuda. He is interested in the synthesis of well-defined assemblies of metal clusters and the exploration of novel properties arising from these assemblies. He is currently developing a targeted synthesis of ligand-bridged assemblies of gold clusters with predefined open sites for bridging.

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Nanoclusters – From Theory to Application

13 Jun 2024

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We are delighted to introduce our new themed collection titled Nanoclusters – From Theory to Application!

Guest Edited by Yi Gao (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Daojian Cheng (Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China) and Zhigang Wang (Jilin University, China).

This themed collection in Nanoscale Advances focuses on nanoparticles with unique and tuneable properties depending on their sizes, structures, and compositions.

A small selection of the papers are featured below, all open access.

Characterizing polyproline II conformational change of collagen superhelix unit on adsorption on gold surface
Yuntao Li, Jinrong Yang and Xiao He
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 5322-5331. DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00185G

Infrared spectroscopic study of solvation and size effects on reactions between water molecules and neutral rare-earth metals
Tiantong Wang, Shangdong Li, Wenhui Yan, Shuai Jiang, Hua Xie, Gang Li and Ling Jiang
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 6626-6634. DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00873H

Modeling size and edge functionalization of MXene-based quantum dots and their effect on electronic and magnetic properties
Barbora Vénosová and František Karlický
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 7067-7076. DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00474K

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Nanomaterials for Gas Sensing and Delivery

30 May 2024

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We are delighted to introduce our new themed collection focusing on nanomaterials for gas sensing and delivery!

Guest Edited by Dr Run Zhang (The University of Queensland, Australia) Dr Songjun Zeng (Hunan Normal University, China) and Associate Professor Rona Chandrawati (University of New South Wales, Australia)

This themed collection in Nanoscale Advances aims to provide a forum for recent trends in the rapidly evolving field of nanomaterials for gas sensing and delivery.

A small selection of the papers are featured below, all open access.

Graphene-based chemiresistive gas sensors
Patrick Recum and Thomas Hirsch
Nanoscale Adv., 2024, 6, 11-31. DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00423F

Embedding Pd into SnO₂ drastically enhances gas sensing
Katarzyna Jabłczyńska, Alexander Gogos, Christian M. P. Kubsch and Sotiris E. Pratsinis
Nanoscale Adv., 2024, 6, 1259-1268. DOI: 10.1039/ D3NA00558E

Role of graphene quantum dots with discrete band gaps on SnO₂ nanodomes for NO₂ gas sensors with an ultralow detection limit
Jinho Lee, Minsu Park, Young Geun Song, Donghwi Cho, Kwangjae Lee, Young-Seok Shim and Seokwoo Jeon
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 2767-2775. DOI: 10.1039/D2NA00925K

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Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Vanderbilt University

15 May 2024

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Vanderbilt University

Guest edited by De-en Jiang, Janet E. Macdonald and Sharon M. Weiss

Piran R. Kidambi et al’s cover for their article on ultra-thin proton conducting carrier layers for scalable integration of atomically thin 2D materials with proton exchange polymers for next-generation PEMs.

We were delighted to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Vanderbilt University at the end of last year and into the start of 2024 with a special collection in Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances highlighting the breadth of high-quality work from the institute and commemorating the university’s sesquicentennial. We’re pleased to share this excellent collection of research and reviews with you, providing a snapshot of the nanoscale science and engineering research from Vanderbilt faculty, alumni, and collaborators in 2023 and 2024.

We’re also delighted to showcase the work of Piran R. Kidambi et al, which featured on the cover of Nanoscale!

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 August 2024.

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Professors De-en Jiang, Janet Macdonald and Sharon Weiss served as guest editors for this collection and highlight the history of Vanderbilt University and the significance of the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) in their introductory editorial.

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All of the articles in the collection are free to access until the end of August 2024. Read some of the featured articles below.

Graphical abstract image for ‘Phonon vortices at heavy impurities in two-dimensional materials’.

Phonon vortices at heavy impurities in two-dimensional materials
De-Liang Bao, Mingquan Xu, Ao-Wen Li, Gang Su, Wu Zhou and Sokrates T. Pantelides
Nanoscale Horiz., 2024, DOI: 10.1039/D3NH00433C

Graphical abstract image for ‘Role of carboxylates in the phase determination of metal sulfide nanoparticles’.

Role of carboxylates in the phase determination of metal sulfide nanoparticles
Andrey A. Shults, Guanyu Lu, Joshua D. Caldwell and Janet E. Macdonald
Nanoscale Horiz., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NH00227F

Graphical abstract image for ‘Engineering endosomolytic nanocarriers of diverse morphologies using confined impingement jet mixing’.

Engineering endosomolytic nanocarriers of diverse morphologies using confined impingement jet mixing
Hayden M. Pagendarm, Payton T. Stone, Blaise R. Kimmel, Jessalyn J. Baljon, Mina H. Aziz, Lucinda E. Pastora, Lauren Hubert, Eric W. Roth, Sultan Almunif, Evan A. Scott and John T. Wilson
Nanoscale, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NR02874G

Graphical abstract image for ‘Hyperspectral mapping of nanoscale photophysics and degradation processes in hybrid perovskite at the single grain level’.

Hyperspectral mapping of nanoscale photophysics and degradation processes in hybrid perovskite at the single grain level
Ethan J. Taylor, Vasudevan Iyer, Bibek S. Dhami, Clay Klein, Benjamin J. Lawrie and Kannatassen Appavoo
Nanoscale Adv., 2023, DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00529A

Nanoscale Horizons and Nanoscale are high-impact international journals, publishing high-quality experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Nanoscale Advances is our gold open access member of the nanoscale journal family. Our broad scope covers cross-community research that bridges various disciplines, and the journal series allows full coverage of interdisciplinary advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology. We hope you will consider Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances for your future submissions.

We hope you enjoy reading this collection and look forward to showcasing more work from Vanderbilt faculty and alumni in the future. Please continue to submit your exciting work to Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.

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Open Call for Papers: Advanced Nanocrystalline Materials

09 May 2024

We are delighted to announce an open call for papers to our new themed collection on Synthesis, physical properties and applications of advanced nanocrystalline materials.

Loosely connected to the Spring E-MRS 2024 Symposium by the same name (more information here) the following topics are welcome:

Magnetic, Luminescent, Electrical, and Structural Properties of Nanoparticles
Synthesis and Characterization of Nanocrystals
Magnetic Nanoparticles
Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Nanocrystalline Metals
Two-dimensional Nanostructures Such as Graphene, MXene, etc.
Biomedical applications of Nanoparticles
Nanocrystalline Material-based Sensors, Actuators, and Other Devices
Theory and Simulation of Nanocrystalline Materials
Nanocrystal Thin Films and Their Applications
Advanced Nanocrystalline Materials for Environmental Applications
Advanced Nanocrystalline Materials for Energy Applications

This collection welcomes fundamental and applied works including process-structure-property relationships of advanced nanocrystalline materials exhibiting efficient magnetic, luminescent, optical, electrical, dielectric, thermoelectric, piezoelectric and other physical characteristics.

Submit before 1st December 2024.

If you are interested in contributing to this collection, please get in touch with the Editorial Office. Submissions are welcome to both Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.

This themed collection is Guest Edited by:

	Aurora Rizzo University of Salento – CNR NANOTEC, Italy ORCID: 0000-0002-4570-7777 Aurora received a Ph.D. degree in innovative materials and technologies from National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL), Università del Salento, CNR-INFM, Lecce. In the period 2008−2009, she joined the group of Prof. Olle Inganäs at the University of Linköping (Sweden), working on “Bio-Organic Light Emitting Diodes.” She is currently a researcher at the Nanotechnology Institute of the National Research Council (CNR), Lecce, Italy. Aurora Rizzo research interests include the design and developed of innovative hybrid inorganic–organic and 2D materials, such as metal halide perovskites, colloidal nanocrystals, and transition metal dichalcogenides for third generation solar cells, optic and optoelectronic devices.
	Ermelinda M. S. Macoas University of Lisbon, Portugal ORCID: 0000-0001-8506-7025 Ermelinda received her PhD in Chemistry in 2005, in the field of physical-chemistry, by the University of Coimbra. She then took on a post-doc fellowship at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Coimbra (2008) and a Marie-Curie fellow at the University of Jyväskylä (2006-2007, Finland). Since 2009, she has been a senior researcher at the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon. As a young researcher she received the scientific investigation stimulus prize of the Gulbenkian Foundation (2005). Her research field is in fundamental photochemistry and photophysics with special relevance to practical aspects of energy and charge transfer processes, such as: selective photochemistry connected to isomerization and molecular photocontrol issues, nonlinear fluorescent molecular materials tailored for applications as dyes in bioimaging, FRET based 3D-data storage media, photophysics and photoconductivity of molecular single crystals and single crystal interfaces with applications in solar energy conversion and organic electronics, intramolecular proton tunneling and excited state dynamics of organic molecules and metal complexes. The tools used to address these topics are steady-state and time resolved optical spectroscopy (including UV-Vis, NIR and mid-IR; from fs to microseconds), fluorescence microscopy and electronic structure calculations.
	Raghvendra Singh Yadav Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic ORCID: 0000-0003-1773-3596 Dr. Raghvendra Singh Yadav is a Senior Scientist at Tomas Bata University in Zlin. He has published more than 74 publications in reputed international journals, as well as six books and two book chapters in the field of materials science and nanotechnology. Dr.Yadav has been also involved as Editorial Board Member in several journals, namely Crystals, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Nanomaterials, Frontiers in Materials. His research activities are focused on ‘‘Lightweight, Flexible, Low-dimensional Electromagnetic Functional Nanocomposite Materials (MXene, MBene, Graphene, magnetic nanoparticles as nanofillers in a polymer matrix) and its Applications’’
	Renjie Chen Beijing Institute of Technology, P. R. China ORCID: 0000-0002-7001-2926 Renjie Chen is a Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). His research focuses on electrochemical energy storage and conversion technology. He was a post-doctoral fellow in Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University and a visiting professor in Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at University of Cambridge. As the principal investigator, Prof. Chen successfully hosted the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National High Tech 863 project etc. He has (co-) authored more than 200 research papers and filed 50 patents and patent applications.
	Tayebeh Ameri University of Kiel, Germany ORCID: 0000-0002-8928-3697 Tayebeh Ameri conducted her Ph.D. research on printed tandem organic photovoltaics at Konarka GmbH Austria and received her Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science from Johannes Kepler University Linz in 2010. Afterwards, she conducted her postdoctoral and Habilitation research, where she pioneered the development of ternary organic and hybrid photovoltaics at the Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Department of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). From 2018 to 2020, Ameri served as a team leader and lecturer (Privatdozent) in the Department of Physical Chemistry at the University of Munich (LMU). From December 2020 to July 2023, Ameri worked as a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Institute for Materials and Processes, Chemical Engineering discipline at the University of Edinburgh. During this period, her research focused on the development of emerging energy harvesting, energy storage, and detection/sensing technologies, including photovoltaics, supercapacitors, and photo-/IR-detectors. Since September 2023, Ameri has been a full Heisenberg professor and holds the Chair for Composite Materials in the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Materials Science at Kiel University. She has the honor of furthering her research as an honorary lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Ameri is also the co-founder and scientific mentor of the start-up SERINO, founded by the Medical Valley Award in 2021 and expanded by EXIST grant in 2023 to develop the next generation of IR-detectors for food and medical applications.

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Congratulations to the prize winners at ChemOnTubes 2024

08 May 2024

Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances were pleased to support the recent ChemOnTubes conference held in Strasbourg, France from 7 – 11 April 2024, by awarding prizes for the most outstanding poster presentations.

Congratulations to our winners Justus Metternich, Zechariah Mengrani and Sara Behjati for being awarded 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes respectively.

1st Prize

Justus Metternich studied a Bachelor of Science in biotechnology at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany from 2014 – 2017. After that, in 2018 he had a short stay Erasmus and graduation programme at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB-CSIC) in Madrid, Spain. From 2018 – 2020, Justus studied a Master of Science at Uppsala University in Sweden and from 2020 – 2024 he pursued a PhD at the Fraunhofer IMS and the Ruhr-University Bochum (Group of Prof. Sebastian Kruss).

2nd prize

Zechariah Mengrani is from the Queen Mary University of London and is currently in the second year of pursuing a PhD focusing on the formation of carbon nanotube junctions utilising DNA as a molecular linker. Zechariah’s research is aimed at developing devices that can improve current computing capabilities, alongside the development of biosensors.

Title of poster: Biomolecular Carbon Nanotube Junctions

3rd prize

Sara Behjati is a last-year doctoral assistant in the laboratory of Nanobiotechnology at EPFL, Switzerland under the supervision of Prof. Ardemis Boghossian. Sara is currently working on designing and engineering optical biosensors for biomedical applications.

Title of poster: Engineering pH resilience in optical nanotube sensors for biomedical applications

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Smart Tailored Nanomaterials

25 Apr 2024

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We are delighted to introduce our new themed collection focusing on smart tailored nanomaterials!

Guest Edited by Professor Chiara Battocchio (Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy), Professor Ilaria Fratoddi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), and Professor Barbara Capone (Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy).

This collection focuses on the design, synthesis and advanced characterizations of functional nanostructured materials, e.g. metal, metal oxides, and hybrid nanoparticles by means of state-of-the-art spectroscopic and imaging techniques.

A small selection of the papers are featured below, all open access and free to read.

Colloidal adsorption in planar polymeric brushes
Clemens Franz Vorsmann, Sara Del Galdo, Barbara Capone and Emanuele Locatelli
Nanoscale Adv., 2024,6, 816-825, DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00598D

Microwave synthesis of antimony oxide graphene nanoparticles – a new electrode material for supercapacitors
Precious Ekwere, Miranda Ndipingwi, Christopher Nolly, Chinwe Ikpo and Emmanuel Iwuoha
Nanoscale Adv., 2023,5, 5137-5153, DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00514C

Copper(i) as a reducing agent for the synthesis of bimetallic PtCu catalytic nanoparticles
Adrián Fernández-Lodeiro, Javier Fernández Lodeiro, Noelia Losada-Garcia, Silvia Nuti, José Luis Capelo-Martinez, Jose M. Palomo and Carlos Lodeiro
Nanoscale Adv., 2023,5, 4415-4423, DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00158J

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Nanoparticle-based cancer therapies

25 Apr 2024

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We are delighted to introduce our new themed collection focusing on nanoparticle-based cancer therapies!

Guest Edited by Catarina Pinto Reis (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Maria Manuela Gaspar (University of Lisbon, Portugal) and Carlos A. García-González (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain).

This themed collection features work covering wide ranging aspects of nanoparticle-based cancer therapy, including vaccine delivery, tumour-targeting systems, and much more.

A small selection of the papers are featured below, all open access and free to read.

HER-2-targeted boron neutron capture therapy using an antibody-conjugated boron nitride nanotube/β-1,3-glucan complex
Keita Yamana, Riku Kawasaki, Kousuke Kondo, Hidetoshi Hirano, Shogo Kawamura, Yu Sanada, Kaori Bando, Anri Tabata, Hideki Azuma, Takushi Takata, Yoshinori Sakurai, Hiroki Tanaka, Tomoki Kodama, Seiji Kawamoto, Takeshi Nagasaki and Atsushi Ikeda
Nanoscale Adv., 2023,5, 3857-3861. DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00028A

Strategies for targeted gene delivery using lipid nanoparticles and cell-derived nanovesicles
Dong-yup Lee, Sivashanmugam Amirthalingam, Changyub Lee, Arun Kumar Rajendran, Young-Hyun Ahn and Nathaniel S. Hwang
Nanoscale Adv., 2023,5, 3834-3856. DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00198A

Targeted photodynamic therapy for breast cancer: the potential of glyconanoparticles
Brydie A. Thomas-Moore, Simone Dedola, David A. Russell, Robert A. Field and María J. Marín
Nanoscale Adv., 2023,5, 6501-6513. DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00544E

We hope you enjoy reading this themed collection!

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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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Frontiers in Stimuli-Responsive Nanoplatforms

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Open Call for Papers: Nanophotonics, Plasmonics, and Nano-optics

Submit before 1st December 2024.

Congratulations to the winners of the RSC poster prizes at ISMPC 2024

Nanoclusters – From Theory to Application

Read the collection in Nanoscale Advances

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Nanomaterials for Gas Sensing and Delivery

Read the collection in Nanoscale Advances

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Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Vanderbilt University

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Vanderbilt University

Guest edited by De-en Jiang, Janet E. Macdonald and Sharon M. Weiss

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Read the introductory editorial

Open Call for Papers: Advanced Nanocrystalline Materials

Submit before 1st December 2024.

Congratulations to the prize winners at ChemOnTubes 2024

Smart Tailored Nanomaterials

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Nanoparticle-based cancer therapies

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