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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Call For Papers: Nanomaterials for Printed Electronics

Call For Papers: Nanomaterials for Printed Electronics

Guest edited by Cinzia Casirgahi, Oana Jurchescu, Shlomo Magdassi and Wenming Su

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for our latest online themed collection in Nanoscale on Nanomaterials for Printed Electronics that is being guest edited by Professor Cinzia Casiraghi, (University of Manchester, UK), Professor Oana Jurchescu (Wake Forest University, USA), Professor Shlomo Magdassi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) and Professor Wenming Su (Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, China).

Nanomaterials for Printed Electronics open call for papers promotional graphic. Guest edited by Cinzia Casiraghi, Oana Jurchescu, Shlomo Magdassi and Wenming Su. Open for submissions until 20 October 2022.

Nanomaterials present unique physicochemical properties that make them perfect to be used as functional inks for the fabrication of printed devices. This collection brings together different types of nanomaterials for printed electronics (organic, inorganic, hybrids, etc.) and provides an overview on the most used technologies for printed electronics, with the aim of connecting different communities and identifying common challenges in the field.

This call for papers is open for the following article types:

  • Communications
  • Full papers

Open for submissions until 20th October 2022

If you would like to contribute to this themed issue, you can submit your article directly through the journal’s online submission service. Please mention that this submission is a contribution to the Nanomaterials for Printed Electronics collection in the “Themed issues” section of the submission form and add a “Note to the Editor” that this is from the Open Call. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of both the journal and the collection, and inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed issue is not guaranteed.

Please also note that all submissions will be subject to initial assessment and rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of Nanoscale.

If you have any questions about the journal or the collection, then Edward Gardner, the Development Editor for Nanoscale, would be happy to answer them. You can contact him by emailing the journal inbox.

With best wishes,

Professor Cinzia Casiraghi, University of Manchester, UK
Professor Oana Jurchescu, Wake Forest University, USA
Professor Shlomo Magdassi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Professor Wenming Su, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, China

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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: Emerging Concepts in Nucleic Acids

Call For Papers: Emerging Concepts in Nucleic Acids

Guest edited by Arun Richard Chandrasekaran, Dhiraj Bhatia, Xiaogang Liu and Prabal Maiti

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for our latest online themed collection in Nanoscale and Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) on Emerging Concepts in Nucleic Acids: Structures, Functions and Applications that is being guest edited by Dr Arun Richard Chandrasekaran (University at Albany, SUNY, USA), Dr Dhiraj Bhatia (IIT Gandhinagar, India), Professor Xiaogang Liu (National University of Singapore, Singapore) and Professor Prabal Maiti (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India).

Emerging Concepts in Nucleic Acids open call for papers promotional graphic. Guest edited by Arun Richard Chandrasekaran, Dhiraj Bhatia, Xiaogang Liu and Prabal Maiti. Open for submissions until 30 September 2022.

This cross-journal collection in Nanoscale and PCCP brings recent updates in nucleic acids research under three broad themes: structure, functions and applications. The collection focuses on self-assembly, structure-function relationships, physical chemistry and biophysics of nucleic acids, new structures and new technologies involving nucleic acid modelling and simulation and various applications in biology, medicine, robotics, materials science, computing and other fields.

This call for papers is open for the following article types:

  • Communications
  • Full papers

Open for submissions until 30th September 2022

If you would like to contribute to this themed issue, you can submit your article directly through the Nanoscale online submission service or the PCCP online submission service. Please mention that this submission is a contribution to the Emerging Concepts in Nucleic Acids: Structures, Functions and Applications collection in the “Themed issues” section of the submission form and add a “Note to the Editor” that this is from the Open Call. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of both the journal and the collection, and inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed issue is not guaranteed.

Please also note that all submissions will be subject to initial assessment and rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of Nanoscale and PCCP.

If you have any questions about the journal or the collection, then Edward Gardner, the Development Editor for Nanoscale, would be happy to answer them. You can contact him by emailing the journal inbox.

With best wishes,

Dr Arun Richard Chandrasekaran (University at Albany, SUNY, USA)
Dr Dhiraj Bhatia (IIT Gandhinagar, India)
Professor Xiaogang Liu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Professor Prabal Maiti (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)

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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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Call For Papers: Nanoscale Quantum Technologies

Call For Papers: Nanoscale Quantum Technologies

Guest edited by Qing Dai, Chao-Yang Lu and Zhipei Sun

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for our latest online themed collection in Nanoscale on Nanoscale Quantum Technologies that is being guest edited by Professor Qing Dai (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China), Professor Chao-Yang Lu (University of Science and Technology of China, China) and Professor Zhipei Sun (Aalto University, Finland).

Nanoscale Quantum Technologies open call for papers promotional graphic. Guest edited by Qing Dai, Chao-Yang Lu and Zhipei Sun. Open for submissions until 9 September 2022.

Materials and structures at the nanoscale play a key role in various current and emerging quantum technologies, such as quantum computing, quantum sensing and imaging, and quantum communication. In the last few decades, we have witnessed significant progress in nanoscience and nanotechnology, which has enabled great successes from fundamental research to applications in quantum technologies, facilitating completely new horizons in this area. This collection of research and review articles aims to provide a snapshot of recent progress in quantum technologies, including quantum materials, computing, sensing, imaging, photonics, optics and more, which we hope will inspire future developments.

This call for papers is open for the following article types:

  • Communications
  • Full papers

Open for submissions until 9th September 2022

If you would like to contribute to this themed issue, you can submit your article directly through the journal’s online submission service. Please mention that this submission is a contribution to the Nanoscale Quantum Technologies collection in the “Themed issues” section of the submission form and add a “Note to the Editor” that this is from the Open Call. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of both the journal and the collection, and inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed issue is not guaranteed.

Please also note that all submissions will be subject to initial assessment and rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of Nanoscale.

If you have any questions about the journal or the collection, then Edward Gardner, the Development Editor for Nanoscale, would be happy to answer them. You can contact him by emailing the journal inbox.

With best wishes,

Professor Qing Dai
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
Professor Chao-Yang Lu
University of Science and Technology of China, China
Professor Zhipei Sun
Aalto University, Finland
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Nanoscale 2022 Emerging Investigators

Nanoscale 2022 Emerging Investigators

A collection highlighting 2022’s rising stars of nanoscience and nanotechnology research

Nanoscale is proud to present our 2022 Emerging Investigators collection, recognising the rising stars of nanoscience and nanotechnology by gathering some of the very best work from researchers in the early stages of their independent careers. Each contributor was recommended by experts in their fields for carrying out work with the potential to influence future directions in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Congratulations to all the featured researchers on their important work so far!

Read the collection

Meet the scientists

We hope you enjoy reading these articles.

Best wishes,

Dr Heather Montgomery

Managing Editor, Nanoscale

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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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