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This week’s HOT articles

28 Mar 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

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Room-temperature self-powered ethanol sensing of a Pd/ZnO nanoarray nanogenerator driven by human finger movement
Yujie Lin, Ping Deng, Yuxin Nie, Yuefeng Hu, Lili Xing, Yan Zhang and Xinyu Xue
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06809A, Paper

A Mo nanoscrew formed by crystalline Mo grains with high conductivity and excellent field emission properties
Yan Shen, Ningsheng Xu, Shaozhi Deng, Yu Zhang, Fei Liu and Jun Chen
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06811K, Paper

DNA induced intense plasmonic circular dichroism of highly purified gold nanobipyramids
Wenjing Liu, Di Liu, Zhening Zhu, Bing Han, Yan Gao and Zhiyong Tang
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00166D, Communication

Nanostructures on graphene using supramolecule and supramolecular nanocomposites
Peter Bai, Joseph Kao, Jian-Hao Chen, William Mickelson, Alex Zettl and Ting Xu
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00420E, Communication

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This week’s HOT articles

24 Mar 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

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

Temperature-induced transitions of self-assembled phthalocyanine molecular nanoarrays at the solid–liquid interface: from randomness to order
Fangyun Hu, Yunnan Gong, Xuemei Zhang, Jindong Xue, Bo Liu, Tongbu Lu, Ke Deng, Wubiao Duan, Qingdao Zeng and Chen Wang
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06320H, Paper

Layering transition in confined silicon
Yezeng He, Xiongying Li, Hui Li, Yanyan Jiang and Xiufang Bian
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06174D, Paper

Self-constructed tree-shape high thermal conductivity nanosilver networks in epoxy
Kamyar Pashayi, Hafez Raeisi Fard, Fengyuan Lai, Sushumna Iruvanti, Joel Plawsky and Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06494H, Paper

What are grain boundary structures in graphene?
Zheng-Lu Li, Zhi-Ming Li, Hai-Yuan Cao, Ji-Hui Yang, Qiang Shu, Yue-Yu Zhang, H. J. Xiang and X. G. Gong
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06823D, Paper

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Nanoscale Issue 7 of 2014 out now!

24 Mar 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Nanoscale is delighted to present its current issue.

Self-organization and nanostructural control in thin film heterojunctions is the article highlighted on the outside front cover by Sebastiano Cataldo, Camillo Sartorio, Filippo Giannazzo, Antonino Scandurra and Bruno Pignataro.

The inside front cover features an article on Garden-like perovskite superstructures with enhanced photocatalytic activity by Meidan Ye, Mengye Wang, Dajiang Zheng, Nan Zhang, Changjian Lin and Zhiqun Lin.

Issue 7 contains the following Feature and Mini-review articles:

An electronic structure perspective of graphene interfaces
Brian J. Schultz, Robert V. Dennis, Vincent Lee and Sarbajit Banerjee

Tailoring the self-assembled structures and photonic properties of organic nanomaterials
Wei Yao and Yong Sheng Zhao

The development of low-molecular weight hydrogels for applications in cancer therapy
Ran Tian, Jin Chen and Runfang Niu

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This week’s HOT articles

14 Mar 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

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

Assembly-mediated Interplay of Dipolar Interactions and Surface Spin Disorder in Colloidal Maghemite Nanoclusters
A. Kostopoulou, K. Brintakis, M. Vasilakaki, K. N. Trohidou, A. P. Douvalis, A. Lascialfari, L. Manna and A. Lappas
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06103EDOI, Paper

Insulating to metallic transition of an oxidized boron nitride nanosheet coating by tuning surface oxygen adsorption
Yufeng Guo and Wanlin Guo
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06227A, Paper

Spin-induced band modifications of graphene through intercalation of magnetic iron atoms
S. J. Sung, J. W. Yang, P. R. Lee, J. G. Kim, M. T. Ryu, H. M. Park, G. Lee, C. C. Hwang, Kwang. S. Kim, J. S. Kim and J. W. Chung
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR04178F, Paper

Erasable thin-film optical diode based on a photoresponsive liquid crystal polymer
Xinping Zhang, Jian Zhang, Yujian Sun, Huai Yang and Haifeng Yu
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06623A, Paper

A facile single-step synthesis of ternary multicore magneto-plasmonic nanoparticles
Maria Benelmekki, Murtaza Bohra, Jeong-Hwan Kim, Rosa E. Diaz, Jerome Vernieres, Panagiotis Grammatikopoulos and Mukhles Sowwan
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06114K, Communication

Electrospun Na3V2(PO4)3/C nanofibers as stable cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries
Jun Liu, Kun Tang, Kepeng Song, Peter A. van Aken, Yan Yu and Joachim Maier
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR05329F, Communication

Probing the effect of surface chemistry on the electrical properties of ultrathin gold nanowire sensors
Alexandre Kisner, Marc Heggen, Dirk Mayer, Ulrich Simon, Andreas Offenhäusser and Yulia Mourzina
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR05927H, Paper

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Nanoscale Issue 6 of 2014 out now!

14 Mar 2014

By Fangjie Chen, Publishing Administrator Coordinator.

Nanoscale is delighted to present its current issue.

Rupture mechanism of liquid crystal thin films realized by large-scale molecular simulations is the article highlighted on the outside front cover by Trung Dac Nguyen, Jan-Michael Y. Carrillo, Michael A. Matheson and W. Michael Brown.

The inside front cover features an article on Nanohybrids from NiCoAl-LDH coupled with carbon for pseudocapacitors: understanding the role of nano-structured carbon by Chang Yu, Juan Yang, Changtai Zhao, Xiaoming Fan, Gang Wang and Jieshan Qiu.

Issue 6 contains the following Feature and Mini-review articles:

Metal-seeded growth of III–V semiconductor nanowires: towards gold-free synthesis
Kimberly A. Dick and Philippe Caroff

Energy transfer processes in dye-doped nanostructures yield cooperative and versatile fluorescent probes
Damiano Genovese, Enrico Rampazzo, Sara Bonacchi, Marco Montalti, Nelsi Zaccheroni and Luca Prodi

A review of production methods of carbon nanotube and graphene thin films for electrothermal applications
D. Janas and K. K. Koziol

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This week’s HOT articles

24 Feb 2014

By Katherine Dunn, Publishing Assistant.

Take a look at this week’s selection! These articles are available free for a limited time: Graphical abstract: Immunotoxicity of nanoparticles: a computational study suggests that CNTs and C60 fullerenes might be recognized as pathogens by Toll-like receptors

Mesomorphic ionic hyperbranched polymers: effect of structural parameters on liquid-crystalline properties and on the formation of gold nanohybrids
Hong Hanh Nguyen, Clara Valverde Serrano, Pierre Lavedan, Dominique Goudounèche, Anne-Françoise Mingotaud, Nancy Lauth-de Viguerie and Jean-Daniel Marty
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR05913H, Paper

Immunotoxicity of nanoparticles: a computational study suggests that CNTs and C60 fullerenes might be recognized as pathogens by Toll-like receptors
M. Turabekova, B. Rasulev, M. Theodore, J. Jackman, D. Leszczynska and J. Leszczynski
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR05772K, Communication

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Nanoscale themed collection: Dendritic polymers for smart drug delivery applications

18 Feb 2014

By Heather Montgomery, Deputy Editor.

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

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This week’s HOT article

10 Feb 2014

By Katherine Dunn, Publishing Assistant.

Take a look at this week’s selection! This article is available free for a limited time: Graphical abstract: Vacancy diffusion and coalescence in graphene directed by defect strain fields

Vacancy diffusion and coalescence in graphene directed by defect strain fields
Thomas Trevethan, Christopher D. Latham, Malcolm I. Heggie, Patrick R. Briddon and Mark J. Rayson
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06222H, Paper

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Nanoscale Issue 4 of 2014 out now!

04 Feb 2014

By Katherine Dunn, Publishing Assistant.

Graphical abstract: Front cover Nanoscale is delighted to present its current issue.

Towards biocompatible nano/microscale machines: self-propelled catalytic nanomotors not exhibiting acute toxicity is the article highlighted on the outside front cover by Elaine Lay Khim Chng, Guanjia Zhao and Martin Pumera.

The inside front cover features an article on Design of advanced porous graphene materials: from graphene nanomesh to 3D architectures by Lili Jiang and Zhuangjun Fan.

Issue 3 contains the following Review, Feature and Mini-review articles:

Highly reactive {001} facets of TiO2-based composites: synthesis, formation mechanism and characterization
Wee-Jun Ong, Lling-Lling Tan, Siang-Piao Chai, Siek-Ting Yong and Abdul Rahman Mohamed Graphical abstract: Inside front cover

Engineering BiOX (X = Cl, Br, I) nanostructures for highly efficient photocatalytic applications
Hefeng Cheng, Baibiao Huang and Ying Dai

Metallic glass nanostructures: fabrication, properties, and applications
Lianci Liu, Molla Hasan and Golden Kumar

Inorganic nanostructured materials for high performance electrochemical supercapacitors
Sheng Liu, Shouheng Sun and Xiao-Zeng You

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