Nanoscale & Nanoscale Advances Blog

Nanoscale is delighted to present its current issue which includes an excellent collection of articles celebrating the 10th anniversary of NCNST, Guest Edited by Chen Wang . Read his Editorial to find out more.

The outside front cover features an article on An ingenious replica templated from the light trapping structure in butterfly wing scales by Zhiwu Han, Shichao Niu, Meng Yang, Junqiu Zhang, Wei Yin and Luquan Ren

Precision synthesis of colloidal inorganic nanocrystals using metal and metalloid amides is the article highlighted on the inside front cover by Maksym Yarema, Riccarda Caputo and Maksym V. Kovalenko.  

Issue 18 contains the following Review and Feature articles: 

Nanostructure-induced DNA condensation
Ting Zhou, Axel Llizo, Chen Wang, Guiying Xu and Yanlian Yang

Innovative pharmaceutical development based on unique properties of nanoscale delivery formulation
Anil Kumar, Fei Chen, Anbu Mozhi, Xu Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhao, Xiangdong Xue, Yanli Hao, Xiaoning Zhang, Paul C. Wang and Xing-Jie Liang

Visible light driven type II heterostructures and their enhanced photocatalysis properties: a review
Yajun Wang, Qisheng Wang, Xueying Zhan, Fengmei Wang, Muhammad Safdar and Jun He

Multiple strategies to activate gold nanoparticles as antibiotics
Yuyun Zhao and Xingyu Jiang  

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We are pleased to present a web collection of articles from publications across the RSC journal portfolio demonstrating the use of (nano)technology in the diagnosis, imaging and treatment of cancer.

This web collection will be free to access from today until the 28^th July, so register for an RSC Publishing personal account and read this cutting edge research for free this week!

Here are just a few of the cancer nanotechnology articles from Nanoscale:

Magnetic particle imaging: advancements and perspectives for real-time in vivo monitoring and image-guided therapy
Michele H. Pablico-Lansigan, Shu F. Situ and Anna Cristina S. Samia
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR00544E

Mesoporous silica nanoparticles as antigen carriers and adjuvants for vaccine delivery
Karishma T. Mody, Amirali Popat, Donna Mahony, Antonino S. Cavallaro, Chengzhong Yu and Neena Mitter
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR00357D

Surface-engineered nanomaterials as X-ray absorbing adjuvant agents for Auger-mediated chemo-radiation
Sang-Min Lee, De-Hao Tsai, Vincent A. Hackley, Martin W. Brechbiel and Robert F. Cook
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR00333G

Quantitative analysis of dendron-conjugated cisplatin-complexed gold nanoparticles using scanning particle mobility mass spectrometry
De-Hao Tsai, Tae Joon Cho, Sherrie R. Elzey, Julien C. Gigault and Vincent A. Hackley
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR00543G

See the full web collection here…

We are delighted to announce a high-profile themed issue on “Helical Micro- and Nanostructures”. This will be Guest Edited by Li Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Lixin Dong (Michigan State University) and Peer Fischer (Max-Planck-Institute). The themed issue will be published in Nanoscale in 2014.

The helix is one of the most fundamental geometrical shapes in nature, which can be found at all length scales: from the structure of DNA to planetary helix nebula. During the last three decades, novel nanotechnologies have been developed that have provided various means for fabricating helices. Based on their unique shape micro and nanohelices are poised to play an important role in nanoelectronics, optics, MEMS/NEMS, micro-/nanorobotics, new materials, biology and nanomedicine, which this special issue will highlight. This themed issue aims to bring together exciting research from scientists who are working on these fascinating structures at small scales, and to review the recent advance of helical micro-and nanostructures from the fabrication technology to their applications.

Please contact the Nanoscale Editorial Office (nanoscale-rsc@rsc.org) if you are interested in contributing to this themed issue. The deadline for submissions to this themed issue is the 17^th January 2014.

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

We are delighted to announce a high-profile Nanoscale collection of review articles on hybrid materials to be published in 2014. The themed collection will be guest edited by Mario 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.

Submission Deadline: 29^th November 2013

Issue 15 of Nanoscale is themed and now online. You can read the full issue here.

This issue on Metallic Clusters was Guest Edited by Rongchao Jin (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Sang-Kee Eah (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) and Yong Pei (Xiangtan University, China).

The outside front cover shows The halogen analogs of thiolated gold nanoclusters by De-en Jiang and Michael Walter.

The inside front cover highlights Grain size effects in polycrystalline gold nanoparticles by Chen Zhou, Jing Yu, Yanping Qin and Jie Zheng.

Highlights from this themed issue include the following Editorial, Review Articles and Communications:

Editorial

Quantum-sized metal nanoclusters
Rongchao Jin, Sang-Kee Eah and Yong Pei
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4026-4026
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR90052A

Review articles

• Stabilized gold clusters: from isolation toward controlled synthesis
  Prasenjit Maity, Songhai Xie, Miho Yamauchi and Tatsuya Tsukuda
  Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4027-4037
  DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30900A
• Probing the electronic properties and structural evolution of anionic gold clusters in the gas phase
  Lei-Ming Wang and Lai-Sheng Wang
  Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4038-4053
  DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30186E
• Investigating the structural evolution of thiolate protected gold clusters from first-principles
  Yong Pei and Xiao Cheng Zeng
  Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4054-4072
  DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30685A
• Different sized luminescent gold nanoparticles
  Jie Zheng, Chen Zhou, Mengxiao Yu and Jinbin Liu
  Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4073-4083
  DOI: 10.1039/C2NR31192E

Communications

• AuAg alloy nanomolecules with 38 metal atoms
  Chanaka Kumara and Amala Dass
  Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4084-4086
  DOI: 10.1039/C2NR11781A
• Au₂₅(SG)₁₈ as a fluorescent iodide sensor
  Man Wang, Zhikun Wu, Jiao Yang, Guozhong Wang, Hongzhi Wang and Weiping Cai
  Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4087-4090
  DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30169E
• Ultrafast, 2 min synthesis of monolayer-protected gold nanoclusters (d < 2 nm)
  Matthew N. Martin, Dawei Li, Amala Dass and Sang-Kee Eah
  Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4091-4094
  DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30890H
• One-pot synthesis and characterization of subnanometre-size benzotriazolate protected copper clusters
  Kirsi Salorinne, Xi Chen, Ralf W. Troff, Maija Nissinen and Hannu Häkkinen
  Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4095-4098
  DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30444A
• Ligand symmetry-equivalence on thiolate protected gold nanoclusters determined by NMR spectroscopy
  O. Andrea Wong, Christine L. Heinecke, Ashli R. Simone, Robert L. Whetten and Christopher J. Ackerson
  Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4099-4102
  DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30259D
• Sonochemical synthesis of highly fluorescent glutathione-stabilized Ag nanoclusters and S²⁻ sensing
  Tingyao Zhou, Mingcong Rong, Zhimin Cai, Chaoyong James Yang and Xi Chen
  Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4103-4106
  DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30718A
• A DNA-templated fluorescent silver nanocluster with enhanced stability
  Jaswinder Sharma, Reginaldo C. Rocha, M. Lisa Phipps, Hsin-Chih Yeh, Kirill A. Balatsky, Dung M. Vu, Andrew P. Shreve, James H. Werner and Jennifer S. Martinez
  Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4107-4110
  DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30662J

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