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Highly emissive gold nanoclusters

An infographic highlighting new protein-protected noble metal nanoclusters

Higher-order assembly of BSA gold nanoclusters using supramolecular host–guest chemistry: a 40% absolute fluorescence quantum yield
Anjan Maity* and Atul Kumar
Nanoscale Adv., 2022, 4, 2988-2991, DOI: 10.1039/D2NA00123C

Meet the authors

Anjan Maity was born and brought up in a village named Naguria, just beside the Rupnarayan River in Purba Medinipur in a humble farmer’s family. From childhood, he had the vision to contribute to society and propel his country in the right direction by becoming an IAS officer. But, life directed him on a different path, and he have become a prolific researcher in the chemical science community. He pursued his B.Sc. in Chemistry (Hons.) from Vidyasagar University, followed by an M.Sc. in Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-Kharagpur) securing all India rank (AIR) 62 in IIT-JAM examination. He had multiple brief research stints at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-Kanpur), Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IIT-Guwahati), JNCASR-Bangalore, and National Chemical Laboratory, Pune (NCL-Pune). Finally, he joined as a Ph.D. scholar at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in January 2020 with the support of a UGC fellowship securing AIR 24 in the National Eligibility Test (NET). He worked under a prestigious Ph.D. fellowship (Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship, PMRF, Ministry of Education, Government of India). His research is purely experimental in nature and based on the synthesis and characterizations of protein-protected gold nanoclusters, tuning its optoelectronic properties by utilizing supramolecular host-guest chemistry and further utilizing it in biology.

Apart from research, he studies music, is an avid music listener, and loves playing the violin.

a) What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment and what do you find most challenging about your research?

It is a biocompatible fluorescent molecule that can be utilized in biological applications. The most challenging task was synthesizing the CB7 molecule and designing the higher-order assembly.

b) How do you feel about Nanoscale Advancesas a place to publish research on this topic?

Nanoscale Advances is a gold open access journal. Because of this, my work visibility and citation will be much higher. Moreover, since my work is more advanced in this topic of BSA gold nanocluster, so, I feel it is perfect for my work.

c) Can you share one piece of career-related advice or wisdom with other early career scientists?

This is an excellent research area not only in academia but also will help to get a position as a scientist in various industries.

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Professor Dirk M. Guldi receives the Linstead Career Award in Phthalocyanine Chemistry

Congratulations to the Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances Editor-in-Chief, Professor Dirk M. Guldi, who has received the 2022 Linstead Career Award in Phthalocyanine Chemistry as part of the 12th International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines! The award is given to highly distinguished scientists, for the quality and trajectory of their research throughout their academic career.

Benoit Habermeyer, Karl M. Kadish, Dirk M. Guldi and Jonathan L. Sessler.

Professor Dirk M. Guldi receives the 2022 Linstead Career Award in Phthalocyanine Chemistry. Pictured from left to right: Dr Benoit Habermeyer, Professor Karl M. Kadish, Professor Dirk M. Guldi and Professor Jonathan L. Sessler.

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Call for Papers: Epitaxial Growth of Nanostructures and their Properties

Guest Editors: Jin Zou, University of Queensland, Australia

To obtain nanomaterials with desired properties, various advanced fabrication techniques have been widely developed and frequently employed. Among them, as a key discipline of the bottom-up approach, epitaxial growth allows the grown nanostructures to have well defied orientation relationships, crystallographic directions/planes, crystal structures/phases, and facets/interfaces with their underlying substrates. Such unique features are often essential for securing their unique and high-efficient applications. In the recent decades, epitaxial growth has been widely employed to grow various advanced nanostructures, including semiconductor nanostructures (such as quantum dots, semiconductor nanowires and quantum wells), 2D nanostructures (including ultra-thin nanosheets), and hierarchical nanostructured metal-organic frameworks (MOF-on-MOF). In this theme, we intend to collect a set of manuscripts on the development of these three groups of epitaxial nanostructures, in which their outstanding properties are obtained due to the epitaxy.

 

We are delighted to consider original research articles within the scope.

 

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

 

Please note that article processing charges apply to all articles submitted to Nanoscale Advances if, following peer-review, they are accepted for publication. 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.

 

The Editorial Office and Guest Editors reserve the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed. All manuscripts will be subject to the journal’s usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be added to the collection as soon as they are online, and they will be published in a regular issue of Nanoscale Advances.

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Professor Christian Klinke joins the Associate Editor team

Professor Christian Klinke joins the Associate Editor team

Welcome to Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances!

 

Professor Christian Klinke

We are delighted to welcome Professor Christian Klinke, University of Rostock, Germany and Swansea University, UK, as a new Associate Editor working across Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.

Christian Klinke studied physics at the University of Würzburg and the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, where he also obtained his diploma degree. In 2017 he joined the Chemistry Department of Swansea University, UK, as an associate professor and since 2019 he has also held a position of full professor at the University of Rostock, Germany.

His research concerns the colloidal synthesis of nanomaterials and the optoelectronic characterization of these materials.

 

 

Submit your latest research to Professor Klinke’s Editorial Office

 

Read some of his recent papers below.

Two-dimensional halide perovskites: synthesis, optoelectronic properties, stability, and applications
Sushant Ghimire and Christian Klinke
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1NR02769G

Anisotropic circular photogalvanic effect in colloidal tin sulfide nanosheets
Mohammad Mehdi Ramin Moayed, Fu Li, Philip Beck, Jan-Christian Schober and Christian Klinke
Nanoscale, 2020, DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01189D

Photoexcitation of PbS nanosheets leads to highly mobile charge carriers and stable excitons
Jannika Lauth, Michele Failla, Eugen Klein, Christian Klinke, Sachin Kinge and Laurens D. A. Siebbeles
Nanoscale, 2019, DOI: 10.1039/C9NR07927K

Preparation of high-yield and ultra-pure Au25 nanoclusters: towards their implementation in real-world applications
Michael Galchenko, Raphael Schuster, Andres Black, Maria Riedner and Christian Klinke
Nanoscale, 2019, DOI: 10.1039/C8NR08200F

Please join us in welcoming Professor Klinke to Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances!

Best wishes,

Dr Heather Montgomery Dr Jeremy Allen
Managing Editor, Nanoscale Executive Editor, Nanoscale Advances
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Professor Janet Macdonald joins the Associate Editor team

Professor Janet Macdonald joins the Associate Editor team

Welcome to Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances!

 

Professor Janet Macdonald

We are delighted to welcome Professor Janet Macdonald, Vanderbilt University, USA, as a new Associate Editor working across Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.

Janet Macdonald received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from McGill University, followed by a PhD from the University of Alberta in 2008. She joined the chemistry faculty at Vanderbilt University in 2011, where she is an associate professor of chemistry and a member of the Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering.

Her research focuses on the phase selective synthesis of nanocrystalline materials, especially preparing non-natural phases of metal chalcogenides. Her group also studies fundamental charge transfer phenomena from semiconductor nanocrystals for solar-to-fuel technologies and photovoltaics, including specialized ligand synthesis to aid charge transfer.

 

Submit your latest research to Professor Macdonald’s Editorial Office

 

Read some of her recent papers below.

Alkyl selenol reactivity with common solvents and ligands: influences on phase control in nanocrystal synthesis
Eric A. Ho, Antony R. Peng and Janet E. Macdonald
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D1NR06282D

Synthesis of vulcanite (CuTe) and metastable Cu1.5Te nanocrystals using a dialkyl ditelluride precursor
Evan H. Robinson, Kaelyn M. Dwyer, Alexandra C. Koziel, Ahmed Y. Nuriye and Janet. E. Macdonald
Nanoscale, 2020, DOI: 10.1039/D0NR06910H

Photo-induced copper mediated copolymerization of activated-ester methacrylate polymers and their use as reactive precursors to prepare multi-dentate ligands for the water transfer of inorganic nanoparticles
Binh T. Mai, Markus J. Barthel, Aidin Lak, Tommaso Avellini, Ana Maria Panaite, Emille M. Rodrigues, Luca Goldoni and Teresa Pellegrino
Polym. Chem., 2020, DOI: 10.1039/D0PY00212G

Ligand cleavage enables formation of 1,2-ethanedithiol capped colloidal quantum dot solids
James Z. Fan, Andrew D. La Croix, Zhenyu Yang, Emma Howard, Rafael Quintero-Bermudez, Larissa Levina, Nicole M. Jenkinson, Nathan J. Spear, Yiying Li, Olivier Ouellette, Zheng-Hong Lu, Edward H. Sargent and Janet E. Macdonald
Nanoscale, 2019, DOI: 10.1039/C9NR02708D

 

Please join us in welcoming Professor Macdonald to Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances!

Best wishes,

Dr Heather Montgomery Dr Jeremy Allen
Managing Editor, Nanoscale Executive Editor, Nanoscale Advances
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Call for papers: Themed collection on Supercapacitors

Guest Editors: Zhaojun Han, Ruopian (Sophie) Fang, Dewei Chu, Da-Wei Wang (all affiliated with University of New South Wales)
Advisory Guest Editor: Kostya Ostrikov

Supercapacitors are important electrochemical energy storage devices that can deliver high power, fast charge/discharge rate, long lifespan and safe operation. The last few decades have witnessed significant progress in supercapacitors for clean and sustainable energy applications. Depending on charge storage process, supercapacitors can be classified as electric double-layer capacitor (EDLC) or pseudocapacitor. This themed collection will focus on all aspects of supercapacitors, including electrochemistry, electrode materials, electrolytes, performance evaluation, device design and fabrication, and applications. It will also cover the integration of supercapacitors with other energy harvesting or storage systems for broader energy applications. The scope includes:

 

  • New electrode materials for EDLC and pseudocapacitor
  • Charge storage mechanism investigation, theory, modelling and simulations
  • Electrolyte development
  • Performance evaluation such as energy density, power density, safety and cyclability
  • Applications of supercapacitors in areas such as electronics, transport, aerospace and stationary power stations
  • Integrated energy systems consisting of supercapacitors
  • Multifunctional energy storage devices
  • Other emerging properties or applications of supercapacitors.

 

You are welcome to submit either an original research article or a review-type article within the scope.

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

Please add a “note to the editor” in the submission form when you submit your manuscript to say that this is a submission for the themed collection. The Editorial Office and Guest Editors reserve the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed. All manuscripts will be subject to the journal’s usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be added to the online collection as soon as they are online, and they will be published in a regular issue of Nanoscale Advances. Article Processing Charges (APCs) apply to all accepted articles in Nanoscale Advances and more information about APCs and waivers can be found here.

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Professor Teresa Pellegrino joins the Associate Editor team

Professor Teresa Pellegrino joins the Associate Editor team

Welcome to Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances!

 

Professor Teresa Pellegrino

We are delighted to welcome Professor Teresa Pellegrino, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy, as a new Associate Editor working across Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.

Teresa Pellegrino received her Master’s in Chemistry in 2000 and her PhD in Chemical Synthesis and Applied Enzymatic Chemistry in 2005 from the University of Bari, Italy. In 2014 she became a tenured Team Leader of the Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications Group at the Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy.

Her current research interests focus on the synthesis of inorganic nanocrystals with an emphasis on magnetic materials and organic-inorganic nanostructured materials for drug delivery, magnetic hyperthermia, photo-thermal treatment and radiotherapy.

 

Submit your latest research to Professor Pellegrino’s Editorial Office

 

Read some of her recent papers below.

Magnetic nanoparticles and clusters for magnetic hyperthermia: optimizing their heat performance and developing combinatorial therapies to tackle cancer
Helena Gavilán, Sahitya Kumar Avugadda, Tamara Fernández-Cabada, Nisarg Soni, Marco Cassani, Binh T. Mai, Roy Chantrell and Teresa Pellegrino
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1CS00427A

Di- and tri-component spinel ferrite nanocubes: synthesis and their comparative characterization for theranostic applications
Niccolò Silvestri, Helena Gavilán, Pablo Guardia, Rosaria Brescia, Soraia Fernandes, Anna Cristina S. Samia, Francisco J. Teran and Teresa Pellegrino
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1NR01044A

Photo-induced copper mediated copolymerization of activated-ester methacrylate polymers and their use as reactive precursors to prepare multi-dentate ligands for the water transfer of inorganic nanoparticles
Binh T. Mai, Markus J. Barthel, Aidin Lak, Tommaso Avellini, Ana Maria Panaite, Emille M. Rodrigues, Luca Goldoni and Teresa Pellegrino
Polym. Chem., 2020, DOI: 10.1039/D0PY00212G

Novel synthesis of platinum complexes and their intracellular delivery to tumor cells by means of magnetic nanoparticles
Alessandra Quarta, Manuel Amorín, María José Aldegunde, Laura Blasi, Andrea Ragusa, Simone Nitti, Giammarino Pugliese, Giuseppe Gigli, Juan R. Granja and Teresa Pellegrino
Nanoscale, 2019, DOI: 10.1039/C9NR07015J

Dually responsive gold–iron oxide heterodimers: merging stimuli-responsive surface properties with intrinsic inorganic material features
Hamilton Kakwere, Maria Elena Materia, Alberto Curcio, Mirko Prato, Ayyappan Sathya, Simone Nitti and Teresa Pellegrino
Nanoscale, 2018, DOI: 10.1039/C7NR06726G

Unraveling viscosity effects on the hysteresis losses of magnetic nanocubes
D. Cabrera, A. Lak, T. Yoshida, M. E. Materia, D. Ortega, F. Ludwig, P. Guardia, A. Sathya, T. Pellegrino and F. J. Teran
Nanoscale, 2017, DOI: 10.1039/C7NR00810D

 

Please join us in welcoming Professor Pellegrino to Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances!

Best wishes,

Dr Heather Montgomery Dr Jeremy Allen
Managing Editor, Nanoscale Executive Editor, Nanoscale Advances
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Themed collection: Flexible Nanomaterials

We are delighted to invite you to read a new themed collection on Flexible Nanomaterials: Microscopic Mechanisms and Macroscopic Applications

 

Read the collection

 

Guest edited by Yuan Cheng (Monash University, Australia), Zibiao Li (A*STAR, Singapore), Junfeng Gao (Dalian University of Technology, China), Hai-Dong Yu (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China) and Gang Zhang (A*STAR, Singapore). This themed collection is focussed on the fundamental physical and chemical properties of flexible materials, as well as controlled functionalization, in order to harness the materials’ fundamental properties and enhanced performance in applications in the fields of flexible electronics, rechargeable batteries, thermoelectrics, optoelectronics, and soft robotics.

 

Articles in the collection are published in Nanoscale Advances and are freely available with gold open access. Read the Editorial article that introduces the collection:

Introduction to flexible nanomaterials: microscopic mechanisms and macroscopic applications

 

We hope you enjoy reading this collection. If you work on flexible nanomaterials and want to know more about publishing your next piece of work with Nanoscale Advances, please get in touch.

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Professor Zhiqun Lin joins the Associate Editor team

Professor Zhiqun Lin joins the Associate Editor team

Welcome to Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances!

 

Professor Zhiqun Lin

We are delighted to welcome Professor Zhiqun Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, as a new Associate Editor working across Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.

Zhiqun Lin received his Ph.D in Polymer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2002. He is currently a Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

His research interests include solar cells, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, batteries, quantum dots (rods), multifunctional nanocrystals, Janus nanostructures, conjugated polymers, semiconductor organic-inorganic nanocomposites, block copolymers, polymer blends, hierarchical structure formation and assembly, and surface and interfacial properties.

 

Submit your latest research to Professor Lin’s Editorial Office

 

Read some of his recent papers below.

Piezo-phototronic effect on photocatalysis, solar cells, photodetectors and light-emitting diodes
Baoying Dai, Gill M. Biesold, Meng Zhang, Haiyang Zou, Yong Ding, Zhong Lin Wang and Zhiqun Lin
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1CS00506E

Tailoring oxygen evolution reaction activity of metal-oxide spinel nanoparticles via judiciously regulating surface-capping polymers
Christopher D. Sewell, Zewei Wang, Yeu-Wei Harn, Shuang Liang, Likun Gao, Xun Cui and Zhiqun Lin
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1TA04511C

Continuous production of ultrathin organic–inorganic Ruddlesden–Popper perovskite nanoplatelets via a flow reactor
Gill M. Biesold, Shuang Liang, Brent K. Wagner, Zhitao Kang and Zhiqun Lin
Nanoscale, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1NR03239A

Stimuli-responsive Janus mesoporous nanosheets towards robust interfacial emulsification and catalysis
Jiangyan Yang, Jialin Wang, Yijiang Liu, Huaming Li and Zhiqun Lin
Mater. Horiz. 2020, DOI: 10.1039/D0MH01260B

Tailoring carrier dynamics in perovskite solar cells via precise dimension and architecture control and interfacial positioning of plasmonic nanoparticles
Xun Cui, Yihuang Chen, Meng Zhang, Yeu Wei Harn, Jiabin Qi, Likun Gao, Zhong Lin Wang, Jinsong Huang, Yingkui Yang and Zhiqun Lin
Energy Environ. Sci., 2020, DOI: 10.1039/C9EE03937F

An integrated experimental and theoretical study on the optical properties of uniform hairy noble metal nanoparticles
Di Yang, Yihuang Chen, Hongshang Peng, Gengxiang Chen and Zhiqun Lin
Nanoscale, 2018, DOI: 10.1039/C8NR07115B

 

Please join us in welcoming Professor Lin to Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances!

Best wishes,

Dr Heather Montgomery Dr Jeremy Allen
Managing Editor, Nanoscale Executive Editor, Nanoscale Advances
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RSC Chemical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Network Annual Symposium

In mid-January 2022, the RSC Chemical Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Network were delighted to welcome attendees to the annual symposium!

This annual flagship event of the RSC CNN Special Interest Group covers recent developments in fundamentals and applications of novel materials, with the aim to provide a forum of nanoscience and nanotechnology researchers to engage and exchange information, discuss challenges and build networks. Held in a hybrid format, more than 70 delegates attended in person at Burlington House in London, and many attendees dialed in to attend virtually.

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to the prize winners!

Congratulations to poster prize winner Ian Machado!

Congratulations to poster prize first runner-up Jennifer Gracie

Congratulations to poster prize runner-up Chengao Yue

 

An exciting new initiative from the RSC CNN interest group is coming in March 2022: a virtual Journal Club! If you’re on Twitter, follow @RSC__CNN to keep up to date.

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