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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.

The inside front cover features an article on Hydrogen bonding-assisted thermal conduction in β-sheet crystals of spider silk protein by Lin Zhang, Teli Chen, Heng Ban and Ling Liu.

Issue 14 contains the following Review articles:

Bioinspired micro-/nanostructure fibers with a water collecting property
Yuan Chen and Yongmei Zheng

Messenger RNA (mRNA) nanoparticle tumour vaccination
Kyle K. L. Phua, Smita K. Nair and Kam W. Leong

Advanced nanoarchitectures of silver/silver compound composites for photochemical reactions
Mingce Long and Weimin Cai

Advances in gold nanoparticle–liquid crystal composites
Amit Choudhary, Gautam Singh and Ashok M. Biradar

Enzymatically induced motion at nano- and micro-scales
Szilveszter Gáspár

Surface modification of cellulose nanocrystals
Samuel Eyley and Wim Thielemans

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This week’s HOT articles

25 Jun 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

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

Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles electrostatically coupled with photosensitizers for near-infrared-triggered photodynamic therapy
Meng Wang, Zhuo Chen, Wei Zheng, Haomiao Zhu, Shan Lu, En Ma, Datao Tu, Shanyong Zhou, Mingdong Huang and Xueyuan Chen
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01826E, Paper

Current transport in graphene/AlGaN/GaN vertical heterostructures probed at nanoscale
Gabriele Fisichella, Giuseppe Greco, Fabrizio Roccaforte and Filippo Giannazzo
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01150C, Paper

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This week’s HOT articles

19 Jun 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

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

3-Dimensional atomic scale structure of the ionic liquid–graphite interface elucidated by AM-AFM and quantum chemical simulations
Alister J. Page, Aaron Elbourne, Ryan Stefanovic, Matthew A. Addicoat, Gregory G. Warr, Kislon Voïtchovsky and Rob Atkin
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01219D, Paper

An electrospun nanowire-based triboelectric nanogenerator and its application in a fully self-powered UV detector
Youbin Zheng, Li Cheng, Miaomiao Yuan, Zhe Wang, Lu Zhang, Yong Qin and Tao Jing
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01934B, Communication

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Nanoscale Issue 13 of 2014 out now!

17 Jun 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Nanoscale is delighted to present its current issue.

Self-template construction of hollow Co3O4 microspheres from porous ultrathin nanosheets and efficient noble metal-free water oxidation catalysts is the article highlighted on the outside front cover by Jun Zhao, Yongcun Zou, Xiaoxin Zou, Tianyu Bai, Yipu Liu, Ruiqin Gao, Dejun Wang and Guo-Dong Li.

The inside front cover features an article on Catalytic nanomotors for environmental monitoring and water remediation by Lluís Soler and Samuel Sánchez.

Issue 13 contains the following Review, Minireview and Feature articles:

Functionalization of protein-based nanocages for drug delivery applications
Lise Schoonen and Jan C. M. van Hest

Towards highly efficient photoanodes: boosting sunlight-driven semiconductor nanomaterials for water oxidation
Jiayong Gan, Xihong Lu and Yexiang Tong

Catalytic nanomotors for environmental monitoring and water remediation
Lluís Soler and Samuel Sánchez

Nanostructuring with chirality: binaphthyl-based synthons for the production of functional oriented nanomaterials
Marco Caricato, Arvind K. Sharma, Carmine Coluccini and Dario Pasini

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This week’s HOT articles

09 Jun 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

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

Facile synthesis of intense green light emitting LiGdF4:Yb,Er-based upconversion bipyramidal nanocrystals and their polymer composites
Hyejin Na, Jong Seok Jeong, Hye Jung Chang, Hyun You Kim, Kyoungja Woo, Kipil Lim, K. Andre Mkhoyan and Ho Seong Jang
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00857J, Paper

Can small hydrophobic gold nanoparticles inhibit β2-microglobulin fibrillation?
Giorgia Brancolini, Dimitrios Toroz and Stefano Corni
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01514B, Paper

Directional and enhanced spontaneous emission with a corrugated metal probe
Hongming Shen, Guowei Lu, Yingbo He, Yuqing Cheng, Haitao Liu and Qihuang Gong
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01037J, Paper

A mechanical and electrical transistor structure (METS) with a sub-2 nm nanogap for effective voltage scaling
Byung-Hyun Lee, Dong-Il Moon, HyunJae Jang, Chang-Hoon Kim, Myeong-Lok Seol, Ji-Min Choi, Dong-Il Lee, Min-Wu Kim, Jun-Bo Yoon and Yang-Kyu Choi
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06251A, Communication

Asymmetrically-gated graphene self-switching diodes as negative differential resistance devices
Feras Al-Dirini, Faruque M. Hossain, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas and Efstratios Skafidas
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00112E, Paper

Phase transition of a perovskite strongly coupled to the vacuum field
Shaojun Wang, Arkadiusz Mika, James A. Hutchison, Cyriaque Genet, Abdelaziz Jouaiti, Mir Wais Hosseini and Thomas W. Ebbesen
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01971G, Communication

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Nanoscale Issue 12 of 2014 out now!

06 Jun 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Nanoscale is delighted to present its current issue.

Towards waste free organic synthesis using nanostructured hybrid silicas is the article highlighted on the outside front cover by Rosaria Ciriminna, Laura M. Ilharco, Valerica Pandarus, Alexandra Fidalgo, François Béland and Mario Pagliaro.

The inside front cover features an article on Nanowire array chips for molecular typing of rare trafficking leukocytes with application to neurodegenerative pathology by Minsuk Kwak, Dong-Joo Kim, Mi-Ri Lee, Yu Wu, Lin Han, Sang-Kwon Lee and Rong Fan.

Issue 12 contains the following Review and Feature articles:

Increasing the activity and enantioselectivity of lipases by sol–gel immobilization: further advancements of practical interest
Patrick Tielmann, Hans Kierkels, Albin Zonta, Adriana Ilie and Manfred T. Reetz