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Bacterial combo for microbial fuel cells

29 Mar 2012

Adrian Fisher and colleagues at the University of Cambridge, UK, have grown purple bacteria Rhodopseudomonas palustris, which fed on cyanobacteria Arthrospira maxima for carbon source. The bacteria duo was used in microbial fuel cell applications. Rhodopseudomonas palustris uses light for energy but does not use carbon dioxide as a carbon source, so the purple bacteria fed on the cyanobacteria for its carbon source.

The authors have compared the cyanobacteria to two other chemical sources of carbon, namely, acetate and glycerol. They showed that the cyanobacteria gave the highest volumetric power of the three.

This work could provide valuable information for the development of future renewable energy systems.

The manuscript has just been accepted. You can read the full paper for free by clicking on the link below. Please note that you may need to register online for free access.

Rhodopseudomonas palustris purple bacteria fed Arthrospira maxima cyanobacteria: demonstration of application in a microbial fuel cell
Alister Edward Inglesby, David Alexander Beatty and Adrian C Fisher
RSC Adv., 2012, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA20264F, Accepted Manuscript

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Meet the Editors at Conferences Throughout 2012

22 Mar 2012

You can meet RSC Advances editorial team at various conferences throughout 2012.

Please contact us to arrange an appointment with the editorial member attending the conferences below:

Dates in 2012	Conference	Meet with
20-23 March	Bio-Inspired Materials, Golm, Germany	Matthias Epple
26-27 March	Small Molecules in Interactions, University of Ruhr, Bochum, Germany	T N Guru Row
16-19 April	12th Eurasia conference on chemical sciences, Corfu, Greece	Kathleen Too
6-10 May	2012 Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA	James Batteas
21-24 May	COST- Chemistry and target identification of natural products, Bucharest, Romania	Russell Cox
26-30 May	95th Canadian Chemistry Conference, Calgary, Canada	Suning Wang
28-30 May	7th International Green Energy Conference (IGEC-VII), Dalian, China	Changming Li
1-6 June	9th World Biomaterials congress, Chengdu, China	Matthias Epple Kathleen Too
10-15 June	Gordon Research Conference on Crystal Engineering, Waterville Valley, NH, USA	T N Guru Row
17-22 June	International Conference of Natural Products Biosynthesis (ICNPB), Awaji-Shima, Japan	Russell Cox
28 June – 1 July	4th World Chinese Mass Spectrometry Conference (WCMSC), Tainan, Taiwan	Marcos Eberlin
8-13 July	Gordon Research conference on Tribology, Colby College, Waterville, ME, USA	James Batteas
9-12 July	NSF CMMI Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Boston, MA, USA	James Batteas
15-20 July	17th Sagamore conference- IUCr Commission on charge, spin and momentum densities, Hokkaido, Japan	T N Guru Row
19-23 August	244th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA	Suning Wang James Batteas
10-12 September	Dalton Discussions 13: Inorganic Photophysics and Photochemistry-Fundamentals and Applications, Sheffield, UK	Mike Ward
15-20 September	6th European Charge Density meeting, Bratislava, Slovakia	T N Guru Row
15-21 September	International mass spectrometry conference, Kyoto, Japan	Marcos Eberlin
19-21 September	Directing Biosynthesis III, University of Nottingham, UK	Russell Cox
26-30 November	2012 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, USA	James Batteas

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RSC Advances is indexed in major databases

22 Mar 2012

RSC Advances is now indexed by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), producer of Chemical Abstracts, SciFinder and other chemical databases.

We are also indexed in Thomson Reuters SCI-expanded databases including ISI Web of Science. This improves the visibility and discoverability of all the articles published.

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Open issue 7 of RSC Advances

19 Mar 2012

Issue 7 is now available online! This issue contains 3 review articles, 25 communications and 50 full papers written by authors from 20 countries. From South America, North America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia, many scientists have chosen to publish their work with RSC Advances.

To whet your appetite, here is a taster of what is published in issue 7:

Three-component photoinitiating systems: towards innovative tailor made high performance combinations
Jean Pierre Fouassier and Jacques Lalevée
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2621-2629
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA00892K

Recent developments in the molecular recognition of carbohydrates by artificial receptors
Monika Mazik
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2630-2642
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01138G

Graphene oxide and its reduction: modeling and experimental progress
Shun Mao, Haihui Pu and Junhong Chen
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2643-2662
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA00663D

ESI-MS mechanistic studies of Wacker oxidation of alkenes: dinuclear species as catalytic active intermediates
Dominique Harakat, Jacques Muzart and Jean Le Bras
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 3094-3099
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01204A

Ligand density and clustering effects on endocytosis of folate modified nanoparticles
Emilia Moradi, Driton Vllasaliu, Martin Garnett, Franco Falcone and Snow Stolnik
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 3025-3033
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01168A

Enhancing the efficiency of a dye sensitized solar cell due to the energy transfer between CdSe quantum dots and a designed squaraine dye
Lioz Etgar, Jinhyung Park, Claudia Barolo, Vladimir Lesnyak, Subhendu K. Panda, Pierluigi Quagliotto, Stephen G. Hickey, Md. K. Nazeeruddin, Alexander Eychmüller, Guido Viscardi and Michael Grätzel
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2748-2752
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA20192E

Efficient small molecule organic semiconductor containing bis-dimethylfluorenyl amino benzo[b]thiophene for high open circuit voltage in high efficiency solution processed organic solar cell
Jooyoung Kim, Haye Min Ko, Nara Cho, Sanghyun Paek, Jae Kwan Lee and Jaejung Ko
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2692-2695
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01271E

Exploiting the use of ionic liquids to access phosphorodiamidites
Kerri Crossey, Christopher Hardacre, Marie E. Migaud and Sarah E. Norman
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2988-2993
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA20131C

Reversible polymerization of novel monomers bearing furan and plant oil moieties: a double click exploitation of renewable resources
Carla Vilela, Letizia Cruciani, Armando J. D. Silvestre and Alessandro Gandini
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2966-2974
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA20053H

Columnar mesophases of luminescent polycatenar liquid crystals incorporating a 1,3-substituted benzene ring interconnecting two 1,3,4-oxadiazoles
Jianchuan Tang, Rong Huang, Hongfei Gao, Xiaohong Cheng, Marko Prehm and Carsten Tschierske
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2842-2847
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01362B

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Understanding the genetic mutation that causes brittle bone disease

15 Mar 2012

Brittle bone disease – osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) – is a genetic disease that affects more than 1 in 10,000 people. The genetic basis for most forms of the disease lies in the mutation, typically a glycine replacement, in the genes that encode for type I collagen, the major structural component of the extracellular matrix of bone. But the precise molecular mechanisms of how single point mutations can alter the structure of collagen molecules are unknown.

Scientists in the US and Italy have used molecular dynamics simulations to study the effect of OI mutations on the folding of mutant collagen peptides. The work shows that OI mutations lead to local unfolding of the collagen triple helix. Buehler and co-workers provide a possible molecular-level explanations of the current major OI mechanism models available in literature. The results reported is an important step towards a complete understanding of the mechanisms underlying this disease.

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Osteogenesis imperfecta mutations lead to local tropocollagen unfolding and disruption of H-bond network
Alfonso Gautieri, Simone Vesentini, Alberto Redaelli and Markus J. Buehler
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article , DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01047J, Paper

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A patch to deliver vaccines through the skin

02 Mar 2012

Are you scared of injections and syringes? Australian and UK scientists have developed a patch to deliver vaccines through the skin.

The patch consists of micropillars attached to silicon wafers for dermal penetration. In this RSC Advances article, the researchers have produced patches with a high projection density (20,000 cm^-2) by using controlled mixed plasma in a deep reactive ion etching process to produce long tapered tips without limiting the overall feature density. With this tailored process, the team fabricated structures of tuneable shape and height with high uniformity across the face of the silicon wafers.

They also showed that the patch can be used to extract specific biomarker samples from the skin.

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Reference:

High density and high aspect ratio solid micro-nanoprojection arrays for targeted skin vaccine delivery and specific antibody extraction
Derek Jenkins, Simon Corrie, Christopher Flaim and Mark Kendall
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA20153D

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Archive for March, 2012

Bacterial combo for microbial fuel cells

Meet the Editors at Conferences Throughout 2012

RSC Advances is indexed in major databases

Top ten most accessed articles in February

Open issue 7 of RSC Advances

Understanding the genetic mutation that causes brittle bone disease

Top 5 most cited RSC Advances articles

A patch to deliver vaccines through the skin

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