Themed collection: Carbon dioxide capture and conversion

23 Feb 2023

CO₂ capture and conversion

Guest edited by Elena Shevchenko, Ah-Hyung Alissa Park, Shouheng Sun and Tierui Zhang

We are delighted to introduce a new online collection published in Nanoscale on carbon dioxide capture and conversion, featuring exciting exciting research on advanced nanoscale materials and reactions!

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Understanding CO₂ capture and conversion has been essential in our efforts to build a carbon neutral/negative society and to achieve energy sustainability. Recent studies have shown that CO₂ can be captured from industry waste in more energy efficient manners and be converted more selectively via various catalytic processes to reusable chemicals and fuels. This collection focuses on theoretical and experimental CO₂ capture and reduction through thermochemical, electrochemical, photochemical, photo/electrocatalytic, biological and inorganic carbonate-based approaches, and aims to collect the latest state-of-the-art progress made in CO₂ capture and conversion into a single online collection.

Professor Elena Shevchenko, Professor Ah-Hyung Alissa Park, Professor Shouheng Sun and Professor Tierui Zhang.

The guest editors, Professor Elena Shevchenko (Argonne National Laboratory, USA), Professor A.-H. Alissa Park (Columbia University, USA), Professor Shouheng Sun (Brown University, USA) and Professor Tierui Zhang (Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), introduce this collection in their editorial.

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All articles in the collection are free to access until the end of March 2023. Read some of the featured articles below.

Recent advances in CO₂ capture and reduction
Kecheng Wei, Huanqin Guan, Qiang Luo, Jie He and Shouheng Sun
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR02894H

A review on ZnS-based photocatalysts for CO₂reduction in all-inorganic aqueous medium
Yuxuan Meng, Guoping Liu, Guifu Zuo, Xianguang Meng, Tao Wang and Jinhua Ye
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR03703C

Enhancing the capacity of supercapacitive swing adsorption CO₂ capture by tuning charging protocols
Trevor B. Binford, Grace Mapstone, Israel Temprano and Alexander C. Forse
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR00748G

Yolk–shell-type CaO-based sorbents for CO₂ capture: assessing the role of nanostructuring for the stabilization of the cyclic CO2 uptake
Maximilian Krödel, Alexander Oing, Jan Negele, Annelies Landuyt, Agnieszka Kierzkowska, Alexander H. Bork, Felix Donat and Christoph R. Müller
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR04492G

Bimetallic RuNi-decorated Mg-CUK-1 for oxygen-tolerant carbon dioxide capture and conversion to methane
Timothy Zurrer, Emma Lovell, Zhaojun Han, Kang Liang, Jason Scott and Rose Amal
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR03338K

We hope you enjoy reading this collection and look forward to seeing how this field progresses! Please continue to submit your exciting work on carbon dioxide capture and conversion to Nanoscale.

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Call For Papers: Nanozymes

15 Feb 2023

By Edward Gardner, Development Editor.

Call For Papers: Nanozymes

Guest edited by Shaoqin Liu, Vincent Rotello, Asier Unciti-Broceta and Hui Wei

We are delighted to announce a call for papers for our latest online themed collection in Nanoscale and Journal of Materials Chemistry B (JMC B) on Nanozymes that is being guest edited by Professor Shaoqin Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China), Professor Vincent Rotello (University of Massachusetts, USA), Professor Asier Unciti-Broceta (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Professor Hui Wei (Nanjing University, China).

Nanozymes open call for papers promotional graphic. Guest edited by by Shaoqin Liu, Vincent Rotello, Asier Unciti-Broceta and Hui Wei. Open for submissions until 1 May 2023.

Nanozymes are nanomaterials with enzyme-like characteristics. They have been developed to address the limitations of natural enzymes and conventional artificial enzymes. Along with the significant advances in nanotechnology, biotechnology, catalysis science, and computational design, great progress has been achieved in the field of nanozymes since the discovery of peroxidase-like iron oxide nanozyme in 2007. Nanozymes have been explored for a variety of applications, ranging from biosensing and therapeutics to environmental protection and national security. To our knowledge, more than 400 laboratories from 35 countries are working on nanozymes. Notably, both the publications and citations on nanozymes have been growing rapidly, showing the enormous research interest from the field.

To further advance the field of nanozymes and highlight recent progress, we are delighted to invite you to contribute to this themed collection. We believe such a special collection will not only accelerate the development of the nanozyme field, but also attract more researchers to explore the hidden characteristics of nanomaterials for broad applications.

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

Communications
Full papers

Open for submissions until 1 May 2023

If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, you can submit your article directly through the Nanoscale online submission service. or the JMC B online submission service. Please mention that this submission is a contribution to the Nanozymes 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 the journals and acceptance is not guaranteed.

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 Shaoqin Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Professor Vincent Rotello, University of Massachusetts, USA
Professor Asier Unciti-Broceta, University of Edinburgh, UK
Professor Hui Wei, Nanjing University, China

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Call for papers: multicomponent plasmonic hybrid nanoarchitectures

13 Feb 2023

By Hannah Kerr, Deputy Editor.

We are delighted to introduce a new themed collection in Nanoscale Advances and welcome you to submit your latest quality research!

Guest Editor: Hao Jing (George Mason University, USA)

Submit before 1 September 2023

Topics of interest in this collection include (but not limited to):

Synthesis and characterization of plasmonic nanomaterials (noble metals and semiconductors) with tuneable optical and/or photocatalytic properties, including light-adaptive plasmonic hydrogels and plasmonic metal-organic-frameworks (MOFs).
Single molecule/particle spectroscopy development with plasmonic hybrid nanostructures.
Electrocatalysis with multicomponent plasmonic nanostructures at either ensemble or single-particle level.
Interactions of novel plasmonic nanoparticles with their molecular environment, such as biological fluids and proteins.
Hierarchical nanostructures or assemblies of plasmonic nanoparticles with collective properties in optics, spectroscopies, catalysis, actuation, and biological sensing.
Chiral plasmonic nanostructures with controlled shapes and morphologies.
Photothermal cancer therapy and biomedical imaging with plasmonic nano-architectures, such as super-resolution fluorescence, ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging related to human health.
Theoretical understanding of nanoplasmonics with emerging numerical simulation methods.

You are welcome to submit an original research article within the scope.

If you are interested in contributing to this collection please get in touch with the Editorial Office by email.

Manuscripts should be submitted via the Royal Society of Chemistry’s online submission service and the Editorial Office informed 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.

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.

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Congratulations to the poster prize winners at RSC Chemical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Symposium

01 Feb 2023

By Serra Arslancan Sengelen, Assistant Editor.

Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances were delighted to sponsor poster prizes at the RSC Chemical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Network Annual Symposium. The symposium took place on 26 and 27 January 2023 at Burlington House in London and welcomed around 100 attendees.

The meeting covered recent developments in fundamentals and applications of novel materials, providing an opportunity for nanoscience and nanotechnology researchers to engage and exchange information. It included plenary lectures, invited talks, contributed presentations, and poster sessions.

We congratulate all poster prize winners!

Nanoscale Horizons poster prize: Mark Hunter, University of Liverpool

Nanoscale poster prize: Esmé Shepherd, Kings College London

Nanoscale Advances poster prize: Xiangyi Chen, University of St Andrews

We thank all organisers and Chemical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Committee for organising this conference. You can follow @RSC__CNN on Twitter to keep up to date with the latest news!

Hope to see you again next year!

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Nanoscale 2023 Lunar New Year Collection

23 Jan 2023

By Edward Gardner, Development Editor.

Lunar New Year collection

A collection of our most popular articles from Asia

To celebrate the Lunar New Year, we are delighted to highlight some of the most popular articles, determined by their citations and page views, published in Nanoscale last year by corresponding authors based in countries celebrating the Lunar New Year.

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Professor Katharina Landfester (Nanoscale Horizons Editorial Board Chair) and Professor Dirk Guldi (Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances Editor-in-Chief) have recorded messages to welcome us into the Year of the Rabbit!

Watch our Editors-in-Chief’s new year greeting

All of the articles in the collection are free to access until the end of February 2023. Read some of the featured articles below.

Halide perovskite single crystals: growth, characterization, and stability for optoelectronic applications
Yunae Cho, Hye Ri Jung and William Jo
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR00513A

Ultrathin Ti-doped WO₃ nanosheets realizing selective photoreduction of CO₂ to CH₃OH
Peiquan Ling, Juncheng Zhu, Zhiqiang Wang, Jun Hu, Junfa Zhu, Wensheng Yan, Yongfu Sun and Yi Xie
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR02364D

Nanoparticle-induced chemoresistance: the emerging modulatory effects of engineered nanomaterials on human intestinal cancer cell redox metabolic adaptation
Zhuoran Wu, Magdiel Inggrid Setyawati, Hong Kit Lim, Kee Woei Ng and Chor Yong Tay
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR03893E

Highly-efficient radiative thermal rectifiers based on near-field gap variations
Bei Yang and Qing Dai
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2NR04350E

Improved zT in Nb₅Ge₃–GeTe thermoelectric nanocomposite
Jing Cao, Xian Yi Tan, Ning Jia, Da Lan, Samantha Faye Duran Solco, Kewei Chen, Sheau Wei Chien, Hongfei Liu, Chee Kiang Ivan Tan, Qiang Zhu, Jianwei Xu, Qingyu Yan and Ady Suwardi
Nanoscale, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D1NR06962D

We hope you enjoy reading these popular articles and wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous year of the rabbit!

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Measuring the Nanoscale – Theoretical Models and Molecular Probe Experiments

17 Jan 2023

By Rosie Hague, Editorial Assistant.

An infographic depicting a new model for investigating the properties of hot charge carriers at semiconductor surfaces

A self-consistent model to link surface electronic band structure to the voltage dependence of hot electron induced molecular nanoprobe experiments

Peter A. Sloan and Kristina R. Rusimova

Nanoscale Adv., 2022,4, 4880-4885, DOI: 10.1039/D2NA00644H

Meet the authors

Dr Kristina R. Rusimova obtained her PhD in atomic manipulation with the scanning tunnelling microscope from the University of Bath in 2016. Following a short postdoctoral position in photonics, she joined the Department of Physics at the University of Bath as an independent Prize Fellow in 2018 and as a tenured Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in 2021. In 2022 she was part of the team awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Faraday Division Horizon Prize for the discovery of chiroptical harmonic scattering. Her research interests include single molecule manipulation, quantum optics, advanced materials, and speciality optical fibres.

Dr Peter A. Sloan received an undergraduate Masters degree in Chemical Physics from the University of Edinburgh in 1999 and a PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2004. He was a Royal Society (International Outgoing) Fellow 2004-2005 in the group of Nobel Laureate Prof John C. Polanyi at the University of Toronto. He gained an independent Lectureship (Assistant Professor) position at the University of Bath in 2010 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in 2016. Peter’s research has focused on using atomic manipulation with an STM to measure and uncover the physics of hot-electrons at semi-conductor surfaces. He is also a founder and the overall Director of the Bath Physics Observatory.

What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment and what do you find most challenging about your research?

Dr Peter Sloan: Our work has the chance to show that state-of-the-art atomic manipulation can be used to help real-world problems. The most challenging aspect is learning how to make true measurement of what we’re after, rather than say having the influence of the arbitrary experimental parameters or limitations of the apparatus muddy the waters.
Dr Kristina Rusimova: Experimental automation has been the backbone for most of our recent scientific breakthroughs. I am excited about the prospect of opening up our automation protocols to the scanning probe microscopy community worldwide through open source software and combining them with machine learning algorithms, which could push surface science to an entirely new level.

How do you feel about Nanoscale Advances as a place to publish research on this topic?

Dr Peter Sloan: Nanoscale Advances is a fantastic place to publish. It is highly regarded, fast reviewing and we had some of the best, most fair, and rigorous reports we’ve had.
Dr Kristina Rusimova: The submission and review process have been smooth, efficient, and rigorous. Nanoscale Advances has a well-established portfolio of scanning probe microscopy research, and our paper sits nicely within it.

Can you share one piece of career-related advice or wisdom with other early career scientists?

Dr Peter Sloan: Work with good people. Have a work-life balance rather than think you have a work-life balance.
Dr Kristina Rusimova: Don’t be scared of rejection and learn how (and when) to say “no”. Have fun with your science.

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Nanoscale: Looking back at 2022

06 Jan 2023

By Edward Gardner, Development Editor.

Looking back at 2022

An overview of the exciting events, activities and news for Nanoscale from 2022

2022 was another great year for nanoscience research and now that the year has come to an end, we want to share some of the exciting events and activities that happened last year for Nanoscale. Thank you for your engagement last year and for enabling the journal to continue to support the community. We look forward to another great year for the journal and nanoscience research in 2023.

Board updates

We welcomed Professor Gianaurelio (Giovanni) Cuniberti (TU Dresden, Germany), Professor Christian Klinke (University of Rostock, Germany), Professor Zhiqun Lin (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Professor Janet Macdonald (Vanderbilt University, USA) and Professor Teresa Pellegrino (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy) to the Editorial Board of Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances as Associate Editors.

Professor Chunying Chen (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China, China), Professor Yamuna Krishnan (University of Chicago, USA), Professor Liberato Manna (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy) and Professor Paolo Samorì (Université de Strasbourg, France) all completed their final terms as Associate Editors for Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances in 2022 and joined our Advisory Board. We would like to thank them for their excellent service to the journal and community over many years.

Along with Professor Chen, Professor Krishnan, Professor Manna and Professor Samorì, we welcomed five other new Nanoscale Advisory Board members in order to better represent the ever-increasing diversity of our authors and readers.

Guohua Jia, Curtin University, Australia
Katharina Landfester, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, University of Vigo, Spain
Narayan Pradhan, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India
Hyeon Suk Shin, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

Discover our full list of the Nanoscale Advisory Board.

Outstanding reviewers

Nanoscale once again recognised the significant contributions that our reviewers have made to the journal and highlighted our 2021 Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale.

“By now, it is a good old tradition that Nanoscale recognizes its Outstanding Reviewers. Key in terms of guaranteeing the quality and impact of Nanoscale is the peer review process. As such, peer review depends not only on the excellence of the reviews but also on their timeliness. All of it comes on top of the many burdens that we face as active researchers. At the heart of the peer review process are carefully drafted reviews; they provide a valuable service that we owe to the scientific community in general, and to the readers of Nanoscale in particular. I want to extend a big thank you to these Outstanding Reviewers and everyone else who has reviewed manuscripts for Nanoscale”. – Professor Dirk Guldi, Editor-in-Chief

Emerging investigators

We were proud to present our 2022 Emerging Investigators collection, recognizing 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.

Congratulations to all the featured researchers on their important work so far in the field. Meet the featured authors in our Profile article.

Themed collections

Nanoscale published 11 themed collections in 2022, and we have many more exciting themed collections planned.

Advanced Functional Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications. Guest edited by Nguyễn T. K. Thanh, Chenjie Xu, Yu Shrike Zhang and Sylvie Begin
Design and function of materials nanoarchitectonics. Guest edited by Katsuhiko Ariga and Omar Azzaroni
CO₂ capture and conversion. Guest edited by A.-H. Alissa Park, Elena Shevchenko, Shouheng Sun and Professor Tierui Zhang
Nanomaterials for printed electronics. Guest edited by Cinzia Casiraghi, Oana Jurchescu, Shlomo Magdassi and Wenming Su
Emerging concepts in nucleic acids: structures, functions and applications. Guest edited by Arun Richard Chandrasekaran, Dhiraj Bhatia, Xiaogang Liu and Prabal Maiti
Nanoscale quantum technologies. Guest edited by Qing Dai, Chao-Yang Lu and Zhipei Sun
Halide perovskite optoelectronics. Guest edited by Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, Maria Antonietta Loi, Haibo Zeng and ‪Joseph M. Luther
Nanoscale Most Popular 2021 Articles
Nanoscale 2022 Lunar New Year Collection
Quantum computing and quantum information storage: Celebrating the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
Bioorthogonal and click chemistry: Celebrating the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Editor’s choice collections

Nanoscale published an Editor’s Choice Collection on Functional MOFs and COFs selected by Paolo Samorì (University of Strasbourg, France). Look out for the upcoming collections that we will be publishing throughout 2023!

Journal metrics

This year we were pleased to see that Nanoscale’s impact factor increased to 8.307 in the 2021 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2022), with over 370k monthly downloads and a fast time to peer reviewed first decision of 35 days. These are just a few of the many metrics that can be used to measure the journal’s reach, quality and impact.

HOT articles

Finally, be sure to read the exciting articles featured in the 2022 Nanoscale HOT Article Collection.

The Nanoscale team wish you a Happy New Year!

With best wishes,

Dr Heather Montgomery
Managing Editor, Nanoscale

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Celebrating Nanoscience in China!

20 Dec 2022

By Namita Datta, Assistant Editor.

Nanoscale Advances is a collaborative venture between the Royal Society of Chemistry and the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) in Beijing, China. We publish quality research across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Our Chinese authors and readers are a core part of our journal community. To celebrate our Chinese authors, we have selected some of our most popular articles over the last year. Some of these articles are listed below, or you can click the button below to read the full collection. All articles are gold open access so free to read!

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Realization of a multi-band terahertz metamaterial absorber using two identical split rings having opposite opening directions connected by a rectangular patch

Ben-Xin Wang, Wei Xu, Yangkuan Wu, Zhuchuang Yang, Shengxiong Lai and Liming Lu

Nanoscale Adv., 2022,4, 1359-1367

All-inorganic perovskite nanocrystals: next-generation scintillation materials for high-resolution X-ray imaging

Lu Lu, Mingzi Sun, Tong Wu, Qiuyang Lu, Baian Chen and Bolong Huang

Nanoscale Adv., 2022,4, 680-696

SERS spectral evolution of azo-reactions mediated by plasmonic Au@Ag core–shell nanorods

Mengen Hu, Zhulin Huang, Rui Liu, Ningning Zhou, Haibin Tang and Guowen Meng

Nanoscale Adv., 2022,4, 4730-4738

Nanoscale Advances is pleased to have some prominent members of the nanoscience and nanothechnology community on our team:

Chunli Bai, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Qing Dai, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China, China
Quan Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Ling-Dong Sun, Peking University, China
Jinlan Wang, Southeast University, China
Manzhou Zhu, Anhui University, China
Chunying Chen, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China, China
Xingyu Jiang, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Changming Li, Southwest University, China
Zhigang Shuai, Tsinghua University, China
Hong-Bo Sun, Tsinghua University, China
Xiaoming Sun, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
Zhiyong Tang, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
Jianfang Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Xiaojun Wu, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Yujie Xiong, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Hongxing Xu, Wuhan University, China
Lin Xu, Nanjing Normal University, China
Ya Yang,Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Hua Zhang, City University of Hong Kong, China

Thank you again to all for your support. We look forward to the exciting developments ahead for Nanoscale Advances!

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Nanoscale Advances is now indexed in PubMed Central

05 Dec 2022

By Hannah Kerr, Deputy Editor.

We are delighted to announce that Nanoscale Advances was recently accepted and fully indexed in PubMed Central (PMC). Produced by the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM), PMC is an archive of biomedical and life sciences literature – all of which is open access and completely free to read!

In celebration, we would like to highlight some themed collections covering biomedicine and life science topics that feature articles published in Nanoscale Advances.

Nanoparticle-Based Cancer Therapies: Recent Progress and Future Challenges currently open for contributions

Advanced Functional Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications

Recent Breakthroughs in Nanobiotechnology

Bioorthogonal and click chemistry: Celebrating the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Our themed collections allow us to bring together experts in particular areas to highlight the latest advances in research. Nanoscale Advances offers an exceptionally broad international audience, being open access and discoverable in Scopus, Web of Science, Directory of Open Access Journals, and now PubMed Central!

Submit your article to Nanoscale Advances today, or find out more about the benefits of publishing with us.

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Detecting Cancerous Cells with Bio-compatible Gelatin-based Nanoprobes

24 Nov 2022

By Rosie Hague, Editorial Assistant.

An infographic highlighting gelatin-based nanoprobes that can detect cancerous cells during image-guided surgery

Protease-activated indocyanine green nanoprobes for intraoperative NIR fluorescence imaging of primary tumors
Kyekyoon (Kevin) Kim, Viktor Gruev, Hyungsoo Choi et al.
Nanoscale Adv., 2022,4, 4041-4050, DOI: 10.1039/d2na00276k

Meet the authors

This article reports the collaborative efforts of two research laboratories: Thin Film and Charged Particles (TFCP) Research Lab (PIs. Kyekyoon (Kevin) Kim and Hyungsoo Choi) and Biosensors Lab (PI. Viktor Gruev) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. TFCP Lab consists of multidisciplinary biomedical researchers formulating versatile biomaterial-based micro/nanoparticles incorporating drugs, fluorophores, and live-cells for various biomedical applications including the treatment of type-1 diabetes, ischemic stroke, and cancer. The scientists in Biosensors Lab are developing novel bio-inspired imaging technologies, highly sensitive and capable of differentiating multiple tumor-specific fluorophores, to provide surgeons with enhanced intraoperative imaging experiences during cancer surgery.

(a) What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment and what do you find most challenging about your research?

The exciting part is having opportunities to collaborate with many experts from different fields of science and engineering. The harmonious teamwork and support allow us to explore new ideas and conduct innovative research. The challenging part is finding the balance between innovation and clinical translation. Novelty in research offers new insights, but that wouldn’t necessarily lead to it being clinically acceptable. To ensure that we are doing translational research, we have to consider its relevance and applicability to patient-oriented healthcare.

(b) How do you feel about Nanoscale Advances as a place to publish research on this topic?

Nanoscale Advances is one of the fastest-growing journals, encompassing a wide scope of topics in nanotechnology. With that being said, we are excited to be able to showcase our work on such a platform.

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Themed collection: Carbon dioxide capture and conversion

CO₂ capture and conversion

Guest edited by Elena Shevchenko, Ah-Hyung Alissa Park, Shouheng Sun and Tierui Zhang

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Read the introductory editorial

Call For Papers: Nanozymes

Call For Papers: Nanozymes

Guest edited by Shaoqin Liu, Vincent Rotello, Asier Unciti-Broceta and Hui Wei

Call for papers: multicomponent plasmonic hybrid nanoarchitectures

Submit before 1 September 2023

Congratulations to the poster prize winners at RSC Chemical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Symposium

Nanoscale 2023 Lunar New Year Collection

Lunar New Year collection

A collection of our most popular articles from Asia

Read the collection now

Watch our Editors-in-Chief’s new year greeting

Measuring the Nanoscale – Theoretical Models and Molecular Probe Experiments

An infographic depicting a new model for investigating the properties of hot charge carriers at semiconductor surfaces

Meet the authors

Nanoscale: Looking back at 2022

Looking back at 2022

An overview of the exciting events, activities and news for Nanoscale from 2022

Board updates

Outstanding reviewers

Emerging investigators

Themed collections

Editor’s choice collections

Journal metrics

HOT articles

Celebrating Nanoscience in China!

Nanoscale Advances is now indexed in PubMed Central

Detecting Cancerous Cells with Bio-compatible Gelatin-based Nanoprobes

Meet the authors

(a) What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment and what do you find most challenging about your research?

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