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We are delighted to introduce you to our first themed online collection of 2019, on Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals, guest edited by Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, Qiao Zhang, and Roman Krahne.

Metal halide perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) have emerged as an attractive new class of semiconductor materials owing to their excellent optical and optoelectronic properties. This themed collection across Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances aims at providing a platform for recent developments in the expanding field of perovskite NCs including shape and composition-controlled synthesis, 2D layered materials, replacement of Pb, post-synthetic metal ion doping, single particle studies, and applications in LEDs, flexible photodetectors, nanorotors, and lasing. Moreover, the scope of this issue loosely aligns with an accompanying symposium that was held at the 2018 Fall E-MRS meeting at the Warsaw University of Technology, from 17-20 September 2018.

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Advisory Board member, Professor Zhiqun Lin, presents an online collection featuring some of our best recent articles on perovskite nanomaterials and devices, published in Nanoscale by world-leading researchers.

“The past several years have been witness to an unprecedented advance in perovskite-based materials and devices. This new class of materials possess a set of superior optoelectronic properties, including tuneable direct band gaps, large absorption coefficient, high ambipolar mobility, long carrier diffusion lengths, small exciton binding energy, and high defect tolerance. In this context, it is pertinent to compile this themed issue centring on recent rapid development in the field of perovskite-based materials and devices for the solar energy conversion research community. To this end, we have collected an array of high-quality research articles and reviews recently published in Nanoscale. We hope that the readers find this themed collection informative and useful.“

Read the collection here*

*All articles in this collection are free to access until the end of 2018.

Here’s a taste of what the collection has to offer:

Nanoscale has established itself as a platform for high-quality, cross-community research that bridges the various disciplines involved with nanoscience and nanotechnology. Nanoscale‘s broad scope provides a rounded view of innovation in nano research, bridging the various disciplines involved with nanoscience and nanotechnology, and with an impact factor of 7.367*, we are proud to be the largest high impact journal in nanoscience.

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With regards,

Zhiqun Lin

Advisory Board, Nanoscale

Jeanne Andres

Managing Editor, Nanoscale

Nanoscale themed collection: Dendritic polymers for smart drug delivery applications

Guest Editors: Marcelo Calderón (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) and Jayant Khandare (Maharashtra Institute of Pharmacy, Pune, India)

We are delighted to announce a themed collection on “Dendritic polymers for smart drug delivery applications”, to be published in Nanoscale in early 2015. The collection will be Guest Edited by Professors Marcelo Calderón and Jayant Khandare. We welcome your high quality research contributions for this exciting collection.

Hyperbranched polymeric materials at nanoscale dimensions have concomitantly broadened the field of biomedical applications. Dendritic polymers are classified as: (a) perfect dendrimers, (b) dendrons, (c) dendronized polymers, and (d) hyperbranched polymers. Perfect dendrons and dendrimers are unique nanosystems because they can be expected to achieve monodispersity, nanometer dimensions, low viscosity, multiple functionality at the terminal groups, high solubility, and biocompatibility.

Dendritic polymer architectures show significant advantages over linear polymers for many delivery applications. For example, the defined multivalency of dendrimers can be used to encapsulate or conjugate multiple drug molecules while allowing the controlled addition of targeting, imaging probes, and/or solubilizing modalities. The synergy between their multifunctionality and size on the nanoscale enables a chemical smartness along their molecular scaffold that achieves environmentally sensitive modalities. Therefore these functional materials can be expected to continue improving the existing therapeutic practice.

This themed collection will include high quality articles highlighting developments in the field of dendritic polymers, their applications as controlled delivery of drugs and for diagnostic implications.

Deadline for Submission: 4^th July 2014

All submissions to the journal are subject to rigorous, fair peer review against our usual very high standards, and if accepted for publication will benefit from high exposure.

Manuscripts for this Nanoscale themed collection can be submitted in any reasonable format via our online submission service. Please indicate upon submission that your manuscript is intended for this themed collection.

If you are interested in submitting a review-type article please get in touch at nanoscale-rsc@rsc.org

Nanoscale is delighted to present its current issue which includes an excellent collection of articles on Functional Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications, Guest Edited by Nguyen TK Thanh. Read her Editorial to find out more.

The outside front cover features an article on Cell-derived vesicles as a bioplatform for the encapsulation of theranostic nanomaterials by Amanda K. Andriola Silva, Riccardo Di Corato, Teresa Pellegrino, Sophie Chat, Giammarino Pugliese, Nathalie Luciani, Florence Gazeau and Claire Wilhelm.

Silver nanoparticles induce developmental stage-specific embryonic phenotypes in zebrafish is the article highlighted on the inside front cover by Maksym Yarema, Riccarda Caputo and Maksym V. Kovalenko.

Issue 23 contains the following Review and Feature articles:

Functional nanoparticles for biomedical applications
Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh

Upconverting and NIR emitting rare earth based nanostructures for NIR-bioimaging
Eva Hemmer, Nallusamy Venkatachalam, Hiroshi Hyodo, Akito Hattori, Yoshie Ebina, Hidehiro Kishimoto and Kohei Soga

Tracking stem cells in tissue-engineered organs using magnetic nanoparticles
Roxanne Hachani, Mark Lowdell, Martin Birchall and Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh

Recent advances in lanthanide-doped upconversion nanomaterials: synthesis, nanostructures and surface modification
Peiyu Qiu, Na Zhou, Hengyu Chen, Chunlei Zhang, Guo Gao and Daxiang Cui

Review on measurement techniques of transport properties of nanowires
Miguel Muñoz Rojo, Olga Caballero Calero, A. F. Lopeandia, J. Rodriguez-Viejo and Marisol Martín-Gonzalez

Growing metal nanoparticles in superfluid helium
Shengfu Yang, Andrew M. Ellis, Daniel Spence, Cheng Feng, Adrian Boatwright, Elspeth Latimer and Chris Binns

Fancy submitting an article to Nanoscale? Then why not submit to us today!

Nanoscale themed collection: Hybrid Materials
Dedicated to Professor Avnir on his 65^th Birthday
Guest Editors: Mario Pagliaro and Jean-Marie Nedelec

The deadline for submissions to this themed collection is now approaching: 29^th November 2013.

This high-profile collection of review articles on hybrid materials will be published in 2014. The themed collection will be guest edited byMario Pagliaro (CNR, Italy) and Jean-Marie Nedelec, (Institute de Chemie de Clermont Ferrand, France), two leading researchers in the the topic of the themed issue.

The articles will be dedicated to Professor David Avnir on his 65^th Birthday. Professor Avnir is well known for his research in the areas of organically doped metals and sol-gel organic hybrid materials and biomaterials, and the collection will include exciting articles in these areas.

Please email the editorial office if you are interested in submitting an article for this themed collection at nanoscale-rsc@rsc.org.