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Nanoscale Issue 21 of 2014 out now!

13 Oct 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Nanoscale is delighted to present its current issue.

Effects of nanopillar array diameter and spacing on cancer cell capture and cell behaviors is the article highlighted on the outside front cover by Shunqiang Wang, Yuan Wan and Yaling Liu.

The inside front cover features an article on Nanoparticle conversion chemistry: Kirkendall effect, galvanic exchange, and anion exchange by Bryan D. Anderson and Joseph B. Tracy.

Issue 21 contains the following Review, Feature and Minireview articles:

Nanoparticle conversion chemistry: Kirkendall effect, galvanic exchange, and anion exchange
Bryan D. Anderson and Joseph B. Tracy

Classic, liquid, and matrix-assisted dip-pen nanolithography for materials research
Jian Zhong, Gang Sun and Dannong He

In situ single molecule imaging of cell membranes: linking basic nanotechniques to cell biology, immunology and medicine
Jiang Pi, Hua Jin, Fen Yang, Zheng W. Chen and Jiye Cai

Two-dimensional heterostructures: fabrication, characterization, and application
Hong Wang, Fucai Liu, Wei Fu, Zheyu Fang, Wu Zhou and Zheng Liu

Enzyme-responsive nanomaterials for controlled drug delivery
Quanyin Hu, Prateek S. Katti and Zhen Gu

Perovskite photovoltaics: a high-efficiency newcomer to the solar cell family
Baohua Wang, Xudong Xiao and Tao Chen

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This week’s HOT articles

25 Sep 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Take a look at this week’s selection! These articles are available free for a limited time:

Where is the required lattice match in horizontal growth of nanowires?
Babak Nikoobakht and Andrew Herzing
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR04537H, Paper

Scalable high-mobility MoS2 thin films fabricated by an atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition process at ambient temperature
Chung-Che Huang, Feras Al-Saab, Yudong Wang, Jun-Yu Ou, John C. Walker, Shuncai Wang, Behrad Gholipour, Robert E.
Simpson and Daniel W. Hewak
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR04228J, Paper

300 mm Wafer-level, ultra-dense arrays of Au-capped nanopillars with sub-10 nm gaps as reliable SERS substrates
Jiaqi Li, Chang Chen, Hilde Jans, Xiumei Xu, Niels Verellen, Ingrid Vos, Yasuaki Okumura, Victor V. Moshchalkov, Liesbet Lagae and Pol Van Dorpe
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR04315D, Communication

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Nanoscale Issue 19 of 2014 out now!

22 Sep 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Nanoscale is delighted to present its current issue.

Vine-like MoS2 anode materials self-assembled from 1-D nanofibers for high capacity sodium rechargeable batteries is the article highlighted on the outside front cover by Won-Hee Ryu, Ji-Won Jung, Kyusung Park, Sang-Joon Kim and Il-Doo Kim.

The inside front cover features an article on Inkjet printing of flexible high-performance carb o n nanotube transparent conductive films by “coffee ring effect” by Allon Shimoni, Suzanna Azoubel and Shlomo Magdassi.

Issue 19 contains the following Review and Feature articles:

Plasmon modes in graphene: status and prospect
Antonio Politano and Gennaro Chiarello

The use of atomic layer deposition in advanced nanopatterning
A. J. M. Mackus, A. A. Bol and W. M. M. Kessels

Impact of optical antennas on active optoelectronic devices
Alireza Bonakdar and Hooman Mohseni

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This week’s HOT articles

11 Sep 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Take a look at this week’s selection! These articles are available free for a limited time:

A stretchable strain sensor based on a metal nanoparticle thin film for human motion detection
Jaehwan Lee, Sanghyeok Kim, Jinjae Lee, Daejong Yang, Byong Chon Park, Seunghwa Ryu and Inkyu Park
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR03295K, Paper

The search for the most stable structures of silicon–carbon monolayer compounds
Pengfei Li, Rulong Zhou and Xiao Cheng Zeng
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR03247K, Communication

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Top 10 most-read Nanoscale articles – Q2 2014

14 Aug 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

This month sees the following articles in Nanoscale that are in the top 10 most accessed from April – June:

Rational morphology control of β-NaYF4:Yb,Er/Tm upconversion nanophosphors using a ligand, an additive, and lanthanide doping
Hyejin Na, Kyoungja Woo, Kipil Lim and Ho Seong Jang
Nanoscale, 2013,5, 4242-4251
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR00080J, Paper

6.5% efficient perovskite quantum-dot-sensitized solar cell
Jeong-Hyeok Im, Chang-Ryul Lee, Jin-Wook Lee, Sang-Won Park and Nam-Gyu Park
Nanoscale, 2011,3, 4088-4093
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR10867K, Communication

Au@Ag core–shell nanoparticles: efficient all-plasmonic Fano-resonance generators
Ovidio Peña-Rodríguez and Umapada Pal
Nanoscale, 2011,3, 3609-3612
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR10625B, Communication

Growth of horizontally aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes on anisotropically etched silicon substrate
Carlo M. Orofeo, Hiroki Ago, Tatsuya Ikuta, Koji Takahasi and Masaharu Tsuji
Nanoscale, 2010,2, 1708-1714
DOI: 10.1039/C0NR00170H, Paper

Supramolecular self-assemblies as functional nanomaterials
Eric Busseron, Yves Ruff, Emilie Moulin and Nicolas Giuseppone
Nanoscale, 2013,5, 7098-7140
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02176A, Review Article

Plasmon enhanced upconversion luminescence of NaYF4:Yb,Er@SiO2@Ag core–shell nanocomposites for cell imaging
Peiyan Yuan, Yih Hong Lee, Muthu Kumara Gnanasammandhan, Zhenping Guan, Yong Zhang and Qing-Hua Xu
Nanoscale, 2012,4, 5132-5137
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR31241G, Paper

Design of advanced porous graphene materials: from graphene nanomesh to 3D architectures
Lili Jiang and Zhuangjun Fan
Nanoscale, 2014,6, 1922-1945
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR04555B, Review Article

Nanostructured carbon–metal oxide composite electrodes for supercapacitors: a review
Mingjia Zhi, Chengcheng Xiang, Jiangtian Li, Ming Li and Nianqiang Wu
Nanoscale, 2013,5, 72-88
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR32040A, Feature Article

Solution synthesis of metal oxides for electrochemical energy storage applications
Xinhui Xia, Yongqi Zhang, Dongliang Chao, Cao Guan, Yijun Zhang, Lu Li, Xiang Ge, Ignacio Mínguez Bacho, Jiangping
Tu and Hong Jin Fan
Nanoscale, 2014,6, 5008-5048
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00024B, Feature Article

Highly robust silicon nanowire/graphene core–shell electrodes without polymeric binders
Sang Eon Lee, Han-Jung Kim, Hwanjin Kim, Jong Hyeok Park and Dae-Geun Choi
Nanoscale, 2013,5, 8986-8991
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR00852E, Paper

Why not take a look at the articles today and blog your thoughts and comments below.

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Nanoscale article featured in Chemistry World: Graphene springs into action

12 Aug 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Researchers in China are hoping to expand the unconventional applications of graphene with their introduction of graphene springs that can function as actuators.

Springs are fundamental components in numerous electronic and mechanical systems. Most commercial springs are made of metal. Carbon-based springs, however, are less advanced, but have the potential to be a lightweight option if their poor elasticity can be tackled.

Now, graphene springs made by Liangti Qu and colleagues, at the Beijing Institute of Technology, succeed where traditional carbon-based springs have failed.

Interested to know more? Read the full news article by Jennifer Newton in Chemistry World here…

Read the article by Liangti Qu, Huhu Cheng, Yuan Liang, Fei Zhao, Yue Hu, Zelin Dong and Lan Jiang in Nanoscale:

Functional Graphene Springs for Responsive Actuation
Liangti Qu, Huhu Cheng, Yuan Liang, Fei Zhao, Yue Hu, Zelin Dong and Lan Jiang
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR03409K, Communication

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Nanoscale’s 2013 Impact Factor released

30 Jul 2014

By Hazel Neighbour- Development Editor.

c4nr90055c We are thrilled to announce that Nanoscale‘s latest impact factor has risen to 6.739 according to the 2013 Journal Citation Reports ®.

Thank you to all of the authors and referees who have contributed to our journal. Special thanks goes to our Editorial and Advisory Board Members without whom our continued success would not have been possible.

Nanoscale has an international, community-spanning readership. We also have a team of dynamic and outstanding Associate Editors from diverse institutions around the world.

We invite you to submit your best work to our Editorial Office.

Read more about the 2013 Impact Factors from across RSC Publishing on the RSC Publishing Blog.

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This week’s HOT articles

09 Jul 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Take a look at this week’s selection! These articles are available free for a limited time:

Thiolate-protected Ni39 and Ni41 nanoclusters: synthesis, self-assembly and magnetic properties
Jianwei Ji, Guan Wang, Tianwei Wang, Xiaozeng You and Xiangxing Xu
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01063A, Paper

Microscopic mechanisms of vertical graphene and carbon nanotube cap nucleation from hydrocarbon growth precursors
Umedjon Khalilov, Annemie Bogaerts and Erik C. Neyts
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00669K, Paper

Length scale of Leidenfrost ratchet switches droplet directionality
Rebecca L. Agapov, Jonathan B. Boreyko, Dayrl P. Briggs, Bernadeta R. Srijanto, Scott T. Retterer, C. Patrick Collier and Nickolay V. Lavrik
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR02362E, Paper

B38: an all-boron fullerene analogue
Jian Lv, Yanchao Wang, Li Zhu and Yanming Ma
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01846J, Communication

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This week’s HOT articles

03 Jul 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Take a look at this week’s selection! These articles are available free for a limited time:

Fabrication of sub-20 nm nanopore arrays in membranes with embedded metal electrodes at wafer scales
Jingwei Bai, Deqiang Wang, Sung-wook Nam, Hongbo Peng, Robert Bruce, Lynn Gignac, Markus Brink, Ernst Kratschmer, Stephen Rossnagel, Phil Waggoner, Kathleen Reuter, Chao Wang, Yann Astier, Venkat Balagurusamy, Binquan Luan, Young Kwark, Eric Joseph, Mike Guillorn, Stanislav Polonsky, Ajay Royyuru, S. Papa Rao and Gustavo Stolovitzky
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06723H, Paper

Polarized photocurrent response in black phosphorus field-effect transistors
Tu Hong, Bhim Chamlagain, Wenzhi Lin, Hsun-Jen Chuang, Minghu Pan, Zhixian Zhou and Ya-Qiong Xu
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR02164A, Paper

Highly efficient and low voltage silver nanowire-based OLEDs employing a n-type hole injection layer
Hyungjin Lee, Donghwa Lee, Yumi Ahn, Eun-Woo Lee, Lee Soon Park and Youngu Lee
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01768D, Communication

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Nanoscale Issue 14 of 2014 out now!

02 Jul 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Nanoscale is delighted to present its current issue.

Fabrication of large-scale single-crystal bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) nanosheet arrays by a single-step electrolysis process is the article highlighted on the outside front cover by Hung-Wei Tsai, Tsang-Hsiu Wang, Tsung-Cheng Chan, Pei-Ju Chen, Chih-Chun Chung, Alireza Yaghoubi, Chien-Neng Liao, Eric Wei-Guang Diau and Yu-Lun Chueh.