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Nanoscale Issue 19 of 2013 out now!

24 Sep 2013

Nanoscale is delighted to present its current issue.

The outside front cover features an article on Dendritic Au/TiO2 nanorod arrays for visible-light driven photoelectrochemical water splitting by Fengli Su, Tuo Wang, Rui Lv, Jijie Zhang, Peng Zhang, Jianwei Lu and Jinlong Gong.

Lipid nanoscaffolds in carbon nanotube arrays is the article highlighted on the inside front cover by Catharina Paukner, Krzysztof K. K. Koziol and Chandrashekhar V. Kulkarni.

Issue 19 contains the following Review, Feature, Mini review articles:

Perovskite ferroelectric nanomaterials
Nurxat Nuraje and Kai Su

Comparative advantages and limitations of the basic metrology methods applied to the characterization of nanomaterials
Pavel Linkov, Mikhail Artemyev, Anton E. Efimov and Igor Nabiev

An overview of carbon materials for flexible electrochemical capacitors
Yongmin He, Wanjun Chen, Caitian Gao, Jinyuan Zhou, Xiaodong Li and Erqing Xie

Nanomedicine for treating spinal cord injury
Jacqueline Y. Tyler, Xiao-Ming Xu and Ji-Xin Cheng

Nano- and microstructuration of supramolecular materials driven by H-bonded uracil•2,6-diamidopyridine complexes
Tomas Marangoni and Davide Bonifazi

Single-walled carbon nanotubes for high-performance electronics
Qing Cao and Shu-jen Han

Managing voids of Si anodes in lithium ion batteries
Xianglong Li and Linjie Zhi

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This week’s HOT articles

23 Sep 2013

By Rowan Frame, Commissioning Editor.

These articles are HOT as recommended by the referees.

Take a look at this week’s selection:

pH-responsive gold nanoparticles-in-liposome hybrid nanostructures for enhanced systemic tumor delivery
Jutaek Nam, Yeong Su Ha, Sekyu Hwang, Woonghee Lee, Jaejung Song, Jeongsoo Yoo and Sungjee Kim
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03698G, Communication

Large area vertical alignment of ZnO nanowires in semiconducting polymer thin films directed by magnetic fields
Candice I. Pelligra, Pawel W. Majewski and Chinedum O. Osuji
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03119E, Paper

Next-generation nanotechnology laboratories with simultaneous reduction of all relevant disturbances
Emanuel Lörtscher, Daniel Widmer and Bernd Gotsmann
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03373B, Paper

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Nanoscale Cake Definitely Not Nanoscale

10 Sep 2013

By Rowan Frame, Commissioning Editor.

Last week Nanoscale held a cake reception at the ChinaNANO13 conference in Beijing to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST). The journal Nanoscale is a collaborative venture between RSC Publishing NCNST in Beijing.

The ChinaNANO13 conference was the fifth biennial International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology. The conference covered all things nano from carbon nanomaterials to nanobiotechnology. The only thing there that wasn’t nano was the Nanoscale Cake, which was quite enormous.

Nanoscale has also published a collection of articles, guest edited by Xingyu Jiang to mark the 10th anniversary of NCNST. Take a look at the collection here.

Royal Society of Chemistry - NCNST cake

Chunli Bai, Philip Earis, Xingyu Jiang and Jie Liu cutting the cake with a hungry crowd behind

Crowd at ChinaNANO13 enjoying the cake

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This week’s HOT articles

10 Sep 2013

By Hannah Porter, Publishing Assistant.

These articles are HOT as recommended by the referees.

Take a look at this week’s selection…

Lattice dynamics in mono- and few-layer sheets of WS2 and WSe2
Weijie Zhao, Zohreh Ghorannevis, Kiran Kumar Amara, Jing Ren Pang, Minglin Toh, Xin Zhang, Christian Kloc, Ping Heng Tan and Goki Eda
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03052K, Paper

One-pot synthesis of hematite@graphene core@shell nanostructures for superior lithium storage
Dezhi Chen, Hongying Quan, Junfei Liang and Lin Guo
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03484D, Paper

Carbon doping of InSb nanowires for high-performance p-channel field-effect-transistors
Zai-xing Yang, Ning Han, Fengyun Wang, Ho-Yuen Cheung, Xiaoling Shi, SenPo Yip, TakFu Hung, Min Hyung Lee, Chun-Yuen Wong and Johnny C. Ho
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03080F, Paper

Assessing the relevance of building block crystallinity for tuning the stiffness of gold nanocrystal superlattices
Cong Yan, Hervé Portalès, Nicolas Goubet, Imad Arfaoui, Sergey Sirotkin, Alain Mermet and Marie-Paule Pileni
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03335J, Communication

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This week’s HOT articles

03 Sep 2013

By Hannah Porter, Publishing Assistant.

These articles are HOT as recommended by the referees.

Take a look at this week’s selection…

A persistent metal–insulator transition at the surface of an oxygen-deficient, epitaxial manganite film
Paul C. Snijders, Min Gao, Hangwen Guo, Guixin Cao, Wolter Siemons, Hongjun Gao, Thomas Z. Ward, Jian Shen and Zheng Gai
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02343E, Paper

Hollow flower micelles from a diblock copolymer
Mohammad Changez, Nam-Goo Kang, Dong Woo Kim and Jae-Suk Lee
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03063F, Communication

High-performance top-gated monolayer SnS2 field-effect transistors and their integrated logic circuits
H. S. Song, S. L. Li, L. Gao, Y. Xu, K. Ueno, J. Tang, Y. B. Cheng and K. Tsukagoshi
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR01899G, Paper

Nanophasic biodegradation enhances the durability and biocompatibility of magnesium alloys for the next-generation vascular stents
Lin Mao, Li Shen, Jialin Niu, Jian Zhang, Wenjiang Ding, Yu Wu, Rong Fan and Guangyin Yuan
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02912C, Communication

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Silent labs for futuristic nanotechnology: Nanoscale article in Chemistry World

29 Aug 2013

By Hannah Porter, Publishing Assistant.

Scientists can now experiment at the atomic scale with unprecedented accuracy in new ‘silent’ laboratories in Switzerland. These labs are shielded against all possible forms of background disturbances – external vibrations, acoustic noise, electromagnetic fields and temperature fluctuations. It is hoped that the labs, devised by Emanuel Lörtscher and his team at IBM Zurich, will accommodate the demands of nanotechnology for the next 20–30 years.

When probing or building structures at the nanoscale, experimental readings are so tiny that they are easily drowned out by any background noise – without a well-proofed lab, someone using the lift next door could ruin your results.

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

The labs were designed to screen all sources of background noise relevant to nanotechnology

Read the article by E Lörtscher, D Widmer and B Gotsmann in Nanoscale:

Next-Generation Nanotechnology Laboratories with Simultaneous Reduction of all Relevant Disturbances
Emanuel Lörtscher, Daniel Widmer and Bernd Gotsmann
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03373B

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Nanoscale Issue 18 of 2013 out now!

28 Aug 2013

By Hannah Porter, Publishing Assistant.

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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This week’s HOT articles

28 Aug 2013

By Rowan Frame, Commissioning Editor.

These articles are HOT as recommended by the referees.

Take a look at this week’s selection…

Binder-free graphene foams for O2 electrodes of Li–O2 batteries
Wenyu Zhang, Jixin Zhu, Huixiang Ang, Yi Zeng, Ni Xiao, Yiben Gao, Weiling Liu, Huey Hoon Hng and Qingyu Yan
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03321J, Paper

Flexible electrostatic nanogenerator using graphene oxide film
He Tian, Shuo Ma, Hai-Ming Zhao, Can Wu, Jie Ge, Dan Xie, Yi Yang and Tian-Ling Ren
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR01658G, Communication

A facile route to Si nanowire gate-all-around field effect transistors with a steep subthreshold slope
Jae-Hyun Lee, Byung-Sung Kim, Soon-Hyung Choi, Yamujin Jang, Sung Woo Hwang and Dongmok Whang
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02552G, Communication

A facile route to Si nanowire gate-all-around field effect transistors with a steep subthreshold slope

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Next-generation vascular stents: Nanoscale article in Chemistry World

27 Aug 2013

By Hannah Porter, Publishing Assistant.

Scientists in the US and China have developed a biodegradable alloy for use in medical implants. The new alloy, called JDBM, mixes magnesium, neodymium, zinc and zirconium. JDBM degrades uniformly in physiological conditions so further surgery to remove implants made from it would not be necessary.

Atherosclerosis is a precursor to heart disease and occurs when artery walls thicken from cholesterol build-up. Surgical atherosclerosis treatment uses a mesh tube called a stent to restore blood flow in blocked blood vessels. While most currently used stents are non-degradable and require further surgery to remove them, stents made from JDBM by the teams of Rong Fan at Yale University and Guanyin Yuan at Shanghai Jiaotong University will degrade in the body so won’t need to be removed.

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

Read the article by L Mao et al. in Nanoscale:

Nanophasic biodegradation enhances durability and biocompatibility of magnesium alloys for the next-generation vascular stents
Lin Mao, Li Shen, Jialin Liu, Jian Zhang, Wenjiang Ding, Rong Fan and Guangyin Yuan
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02912C

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This week’s HOT articles

19 Aug 2013

By Hannah Porter, Publishing Assistant.

Take a look at this week’s exciting selection…

Efficient bubble propulsion of polymer-based microengines in real-life environments
Wei Gao, Sirilak Sattayasamitsathit, Jahir Orozco and Joseph Wang
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03254J

The influence of applied magnetic fields on the optical properties of zero- and one-dimensional CdSe nanocrystals
Daniel E. Blumling, Stephen McGill and Kenneth L. Knappenberger
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03252C

Intrinsic electronic and transport properties of graphyne sheets and nanoribbons
Wenzhi Wu, Wanlin Guo and Xiao Cheng Zeng
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03167E

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Nanoscale Issue 19 of 2013 out now!

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Nanoscale Cake Definitely Not Nanoscale

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This week’s HOT articles

Silent labs for futuristic nanotechnology: Nanoscale article in Chemistry World

Nanoscale Issue 18 of 2013 out now!

This week’s HOT articles

Next-generation vascular stents: Nanoscale article in Chemistry World

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