Archive for February, 2026

5 Popular Advances published in RSC Advances in 2025

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Every year, we compile a collection of the most interesting articles published in RSC Advances, as selected by our reviewers and handling editors. We are proud to present the “top 5 from ’25”, 5 very well received articles in RSC Advances in 2025.

We hope you enjoy reading and as always, all of our articles are open access so you can easily share your favourites online and with your colleagues.

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Read the 5 selected articles from 2025 below:

Study on modification and electrochemical properties of COS2-based cathode materials

Rongrui Xu, Yicheng Wei, Ling Ding, Hongliang Li, Yuezhen Hua, Yong Cao* & Yanhua Cui*

RSC Adv., 2025, 15, 11337-11342

Terbium-doped gadolinium garnet thin films grown by liquid phase epitaxy for scintillation detectors

Amandine Baillard, Paul-Antoine Douissard, Pavel Loiko*, Thierry Martin, Eric Mathieu &Patrice Camy

RSC Adv., 2025, 15, 18802-18813

Multifunctional s-triazine-BODIPY conjugates: synthetic strategies, photophysical insights, and emerging applications

Laxmipriya Nayak, Subhadeep Acharya, Supriya Routray, Simran Pattnaik & Rashmirekha Satapathy*

RSC Adv., 2025, 15, 27951-27994

An aluminum-based adsorbent/zeolite molecular sieve composite for the sorption of lithium in the salt lake

Dawei Fang, Shilong Suo, Donglu Fu*, Kunhao Liang, Jing Qiao* & Zongren Song*

RSC Adv., 2025, 15, 29089-29096

Tailoring grain boundary resistance in Li-ion conducting polymer–ceramic hybrid electrolytes based on polyether and Li1.5Al0.5Ge1.5(PO4)3
Naamo Suzuki, Koji Hiraoka, Koji Ohara, Kenta Fujii & Shiro Seki*
RSC Adv., 2025, 15, 41530-4153


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Cynthia Ibeto joins RSC Advances as an Associate Editor

RSC Advances is delighted to welcome Cynthia Ibeto, University of Nigeria as an Associate Editor.

 

 

Research Areas: Environmental chemistry including:

  • Chemistry of soils/sediments
  • Environmental chemical analysis
  • Environmental remediation
  • Purification of gaseous and liquid effluents
  • Radioactivity
  • Toxicity

 

Cynthia Nkolika Ibeto is a Professor at the Department of Pure and Industrial Chemistry, University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN). In 2010, she obtained her PhD (Analytical Chemistry) from UNN. She was an Academic Research Fellow of the National Centre for Energy Research and Development, UNN (2008 – 2016) and worked extensively on optimization of the production processes of biofuels (biomass, biogas, biodiesel and bioethanol), and biofertilizer as environmentally friendly materials.

Prof. Ibeto has made extensive contributions to identifying novel materials for various applications targeted at attaining environmental sustainability. She has promoted circular economy principles by advancing research in bioenergy and waste valorization.

She is currently working on the bioremediation of emerging pollutants in the environment, which are of global interest. She has contributed to the advancement of chemistry in society through her membership of the Executive Council of the Chemical Society of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023. Prof. Ibeto was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2024. She is also a member of the UK Research and Innovation Talent Peer Review College.

Discover some of Cynthia’s recent publications:

Utilization of Waste Synthetic Hairs and Modified Forms as Novel Sorbents for Oil Clean-Up
Samson David Mbanefo, Cynthia Nkolika Ibeto and Pius Onyeoziri Ukoha
Water Air Soil Pollut., 2026, 237, 73

Physicochemical and combustion characteristics of pyrolyzed coal and biocoal briquettes via thermogravimetric analysis
Kenechukwu E. Ugwu, Chidimma G. Ezema, Cynthia N. Ibeto and Ikechukwu A. Okorie
Int. J. Coal Prep. Util., 2025, 45 (7), 1599

Impact of industrial effluent on the self-purification characteristics and oxygen sag level of Ajali River, South east Nigeria
Judith Ogechukwu Nwerem, Nwachukwu Romanus Ekere, Cynthia Nkolika Ibeto, Eberechukwu Monica Ejikeme, Janefrances Ngozi Ihedioha and Hillary Onyeka Abugu
PLoS Water, 2025, 4 (4), e0000320

 

 

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