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FORCE-IICS Conference 2023

On September 28 – October 1, 2023, Hyatt Regency in Nepal organised the FORCE-IICS conference bringing together scientists and facilitating the exchange of ideas on a platform entitled FORCE themed: Interdisciplinary Initiative in Chemical Sciences (IICS)

RSC Advances provided some general sponsorship money for the event, and proudly sponsored members of Tribhuvan University, Nepal, to attend the event; Prof. Dr. A. P. Yadav, and PhD students Ms. Asmita Shrestha, Ms. Maya Das,  and Ms. Anju Das.

We are delighted that RSC Advances Associate Editor Prof. Vandana Bhalla also attended and presented at the event, sharing her support for the journal.

From left to right: Prof. Sandeep Verma, IIT Kanpur (Assoc. Editor, Chem. Commun.); Prof. Dr. A. P. Yadav, Tribhuvan University, Nepal; Prof. Vandana Bhalla (Assoc. Editor RSC Advances); Ms. Asmita Shrestha, Ph.D. Student, Tribhuvan University, Nepal; Ms. Maya Das, Ph.D. Student, Tribhuvan University, Nepal; Ms. Anju Das, Ph.D. Student, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Event organiser Professor Vishal Rai, from IISER Bhopal, India, commented “FORCE-IICS-2023 was empowered by 106 participants from eight countries. The multidisciplinary scientific brainstorming over three days included 45 lectures and 50 poster presentations. It also enabled the engagement with the Chemical Science community from Nepal.

You can find more about the conference on their website.

 

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RSC Advances 2022 Outstanding Student Paper Award webinars

We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2022 Outstanding Student Paper Awards. We are celebrating this year’s winners with a series of webinars and encouraging submissions for 2023 and onwards!

The RSC Advances Outstanding Student Paper Awards recognise outstanding work published in the journal, for which a substantial component of the research was conducted by a student. For 2022 we received over 550 nominations, which were shortlisted, and the winning papers were then selected by our Editorial Board and Associate Editors.

 

You can view the winning contributions and hear more about the winners here:

Editorial        Full Collection

In the series of webinars, award winners will present their research and there will be an opportunity to ask the winners questions about their work.

Registration is free, so sign up now by clicking the your chosen session below, to support our winners and hear about the exciting research that helped them to win the award!

 

Outstanding Student Paper Award Webinars

Session 1: 11th October, 2023
9:00 BST | 10:00 CEST | 16:00 CST
Session 2: 18th October, 2023
8:00 PDT | 11:00 EDT | 16:00 BST
Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Toni Pringle, Newcastle University, UK Analytical Chemistry Margaret MacConnachie, Queen’s University, Canada
Energy Chemistry Karina Asheim, NTNU, Norway Computational & Theoretical Chemistry Stephanie Linker & Christian Schellhaas, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Nanoscience Rabia Tahir, NUST, Pakistan Inorganic Chemistry Nicole DiBlasi, University of Notre Dame, USA
Physical Chemistry Rawia Msalmi, Sfax University, Tunisia Materials Chemistry Despoina Eleftheriadou, UCL, UK
  Organic Chemistry Alejandro O. Viviano-Posadas, NAUM, Mexico
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Apologies from a few of our winners who are unable to attend: Catalysis Gen Li, Dalian University of Technology, China; Environmental Chemistry Cui Li, China University of Geosciences, China; Food Chemistry Xingyu Ding, Nanjing Tech University, China

Looking forward: RSC Advances Outstanding Student Paper Awards 2023 and onwards

We will continue to recognise outstanding student contributions and give out these awards each year. If you published a research article in 2023 or go on to publish with the journal in the future, and the first author or co-first author must have been a student at the time of carrying out the research, we invite them to join us in future editions of this series. Please look at our webpage for more information or submit now!

 

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RSC Advances Outstanding Student Paper Awards 2022

We are delighted to announce our winners for the RSC Advances Outstanding Student Paper Awards 2022.

These awards recognise outstanding work published in the journal in 2022, for which a substantial component of the research was conducted by a student. We received over 550 nominations, highlighting the incredible talent and potential within the next generation of chemists. The nominations were shortlisted, and the winning papers were then selected by our Editorial Board and Associate Editors.

Below, we congratulate the winner of each subject category, and highlight the research paper that won them the award. We look forward to witnessing their continued growth and impact as they embark on a promising career in the field of chemistry.

Analytical chemistry

Margaret MacConnachie, Queen’s University, Canada

Margaret is recognised for her outstanding contribution in the research advance presented in Sex determination of mummies through multi-elemental analysis of head hair using electrothermal vaporization coupled to inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry

Originally hailing from Alberta, Canada, Margaret moved to Ontario to pursue her bachelor’s degree at Queen’s University. She received her BScH in 2018, with a major in chemistry and a minor in classical studies. During the last year of her degree, she completed a fourth-year research project on the analysis of solder for applications in forensic science, which sparked her interest in analytical chemistry. Following the completion of her undergraduate work, she stayed at Queen’s University to complete a PhD under the supervision of Dr. Diane Beauchemin, working on projects which combine elemental analysis with both forensic and archaeological sciences. She recently submitted her thesis, titled ‘Novel Forensic and Archaeological Applications of Methods Involving the Direct Multi-Elemental Analysis of Solid Materials’. In the last year of her doctoral program, she received a MITACS Globalink Research Award which allowed her to spend six months working in an archaeometry research group at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense campus). Although interested in many areas of analytical chemistry, she has a particular passion for the intersection between chemical analysis, cultural heritage, and archaeology.

 

Biological and Medicinal Chemistry

Toni Pringle, Newcastle University, UK

Toni is recognised for her outstanding contribution in the research advance presented in The influence of degree of labelling upon cellular internalisation of antibody-cell penetrating peptide conjugates

Toni is a 4th year postgraduate researcher working with Dr James Knight at Newcastle University. Her research focuses on synthesis and preclinical evaluation of radioimmunoconjugates for positron emission tomography and fluorescence imaging, and cancer therapy. This includes the development of dual-modal antibody constructs for pre- and intra-operative imaging of sarcoma to enhance both surgical planning and the identification of tumour margins. She is also developing novel antibody constructs with cell-internalising properties for both diagnosis and therapy of cancer. Her current position follows the award of a 1st class MChem (Hons) degree in Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry from Newcastle University. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking in the Lake District, snowboarding and sailing.

 

Catalysis

Gen Li, Dalian University of Technology, China

Gen is recognised for his outstanding contribution in the research advance presented in Highly dispersed ruthenium nanoparticles on nitrogen doped carbon toward efficient hydrogen evolution in both alkaline and acidic electrolytes

Gen Li obtained his B.S degree (2019) and M.S. (2022) degree in chemical engineering from Dalian University of Technology. He is now a Ph.D. student at the Dalian University of Technology under the supervision of Professor Yujiang Song. His current research mainly focus on electrocatalysts and membrane electrode assembly toward hydrogen evolution reaction and/or oxygen evolution reaction in polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolysis.

 

Computational & Theoretical Chemistry

                      

Stephanie Linker & Christian Schellhaas, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Stephanie and Christian are recognised for their outstanding contribution in the research advance presented in Polar/apolar interfaces modulate the conformational behavior of cyclic peptides with impact on their passive membrane permeability

Stephanie holds a double degree in Biochemistry and Biophysics from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. In her studies she focused on the development of computational models for complex biological processes. Afterwards, Stephanie joined the Computational Chemistry group of Prof. Riniker at ETH Zurich, Switzerland for her PhD.  There she used molecular dynamics simulations to study the permeability mechanism of large drug molecules. After defending her PhD in January 2023, Stephanie joined Merck (EMD) as a Computational Chemist. Beyond her academic achievements, Stephanie is a passionate advocate for science and is active in the board of the Swiss chemical society where she is responsible for international collaborations.

Christian studied Interdisciplinary Sciences with a focus on Chemical Biology and Theoretical Chemistry at ETH Zurich. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the field of protein engineering under supervision of Prof. Bruno Correia at EPFL Lausanne. Initially, Christian started working on the computational design of proteins during his master’s thesis project in the research group of Prof. Possu Huang at Stanford University. Inspired by the work on the conformational behaviour of cyclic peptides, his current research interest focuses on the conformational dynamics of proteins and how these dynamics can inform the design of binding proteins. In his leisure time, Christian likes to play tennis and to make most of the Swiss Alps, be it by hiking in summer or skiing in winter.

 

Energy Chemistry

Karina Asheim, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Karina is recognised for her outstanding contribution in the research advance presented in Improved electrochemical performance and solid electrolyte interphase properties of electrolytes based on lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide for high content silicon anodes

Karina graduated from a 5-year Master’s program in chemical engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2016. During the study she specialized in materials science and materials for energy technology, finishing with a Master Thesis on Mg-ion batteries. Continuing in the world of batteries, she started on a PhD project in Li-ion batteries where the work focussed on electrolyte for silicon-based anodes. The work was supervised by Prof. Ann Mari Svensson, was carried out at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and was completed in 2021. Now Karina works on battery separators for a Norwegian polymer R&D company called Norner AS.

 

Environmental Chemistry

Cui Li, China University of Geosciences, China

Cui is recognised for her outstanding contribution in the research advance presented in Response of chlorinated hydrocarbon transformation and microbial community structure in an aquifer to joint H2 and O2

Cui Li, doctor from China University of Geosciences, majoring in Environmental Science and Engineering. The research direction focuses on microorganisms, with the goal of achieving efficient treatment of pollutants. The main researches are environmental microbiology, microbial community function and its transformation mechanism of organic pollutants. Published 3 SCI papers and applied for 2 utility model patents during the doctoral period.

 

Food Chemistry

Xingyu Ding, Nanjing Tech University, China

Xingyu is recognised for her outstanding contribution in the research advance presented in Preparation of chitosan-coated polystyrene microspheres for the analysis of trace Pb(II) ions in salt by GF-AAS assisted with solid-phase extraction

Ding Xingyu, was born in Jiangsu Province, China in 1997. Her bachelor’s and master’s degrees were obtained from Nanjing University of Technology under the supervision of Associate Professor Li Yi, and all of her research achievements are inseparable from his guidance and assistance. Her research direction is food safety, and the title of her master’s project is “Research and Preparation of Novel Polymer Carriers for Concentration and Enrichment of Harmful Heavy Metal Ions”.

This article, “Preparation of Chitosan-coated Polystyrene Microspheres for the Analysis of Trace Pb(II) Ions in Salt by GF-AAS Assisted with Solid-phase Extraction”, focuses on the enrichment and analysis of harmful heavy metal lead in food. This article studies and prepares a polymer microsphere to overcome the interference of high salt background and achieve the separation and detection of heavy metal lead.

In the future, food safety will receive increasing attention, and the enrichment materials and detection methods for heavy metals will also show diversified development. Xingyu hopes that the food safety industry will flourish and more scholars will join in.

 

Inorganic Chemistry

Nicole DiBlasi, University of Notre Dame, USA

Nicole is recognised for her outstanding contribution in the research advance presented in Pu(III) and Cm(III) in the presence of EDTA: aqueous speciation, redox behavior, and the impact of Ca(II)

Nicole A. DiBlasi is a Scientist in Actinide Analytical Chemistry at Los Alamos National Lab with 8 years of experience in actinide and environmental radiochemistry. After receiving her bachelor’s in chemistry from the University of Missouri in 2016, Nicole pursued her doctorate in actinide chemistry at the University of Notre Dame under the guidance of Dr. Amy E. Hixon where her doctoral research focused on the speciation, solubility, and redox behaviour of the Pu-EDTA system under conditions relevant for deep geological repositories. In addition to her dissertation work, Nicole was able to participate in other projects including work with novel actinide compound synthesis and characterization and the development of synthesis methods for post-detonation nuclear melt glass reference materials for use in nuclear forensics. Following the completion of her Ph.D. in 2021, Nicole became a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute for Nuclear Waste Disposal at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany, where she performed research on actinide- and technetium-organic interactions under alkaline and high ionic strength conditions. In late 2022, Nicole accepted a position as a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory where she performs high accuracy, high precision analyses on actinide materials as part of the Radiochemistry team in the Actinide Analytical Chemistry group.

 

Materials Chemistry

Despoina Eleftheriadou, University College London, UK

Despoina is recognised for her outstanding contribution in the research advance presented in An alginate-based encapsulation system for delivery of therapeutic cells to the CNS

Despoina Eleftheriadou obtained her MEng in Chemical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2016. She then completed her M.Sc. in Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine at University College London in 2018. During this time, she was able to work on various projects including nanobiomaterials for Alzheimer’s disease treatment and immunomodulation for therapeutic cell transplantation in the CNS. She is currently a Ph.D. student at the University College London Centre for Nerve Engineering, focusing on mathematical modelling led design of nerve repair constructs. Her research interest lies in working at the interface of engineering and life sciences.

 

Nanoscience

Rabia Tahir, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan

Rabia is recognised for her outstanding contribution in the research advance presented in First observation on emergence of strong room-temperature ferroelectricity and multiferroicity in 2D-Ti3C2Tx free-standing MXene film

Born in Multan (southern Punjab city of Pakistan) and completed her Bachelor’s degree from The Women University Multan (WUM), Rabia Tahir is currently enrolled as a PhD student at Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences (SNS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. Under the expert guidance of her supervisor, Prof. Dr. Syed Rizwan, she embarks on a journey to explore the unique properties and potential applications of 2D materials such as MXene and their potential as a ferroelectric and multiferroic material that has been a long-standing issue of interest in the research community. Rabia Tahir reported the ferroelectricity and multiferroicity in 2D Ti3C2Tx MXene for the first time that may revolutionize next-generation data storage devices with enhanced functionalities.

Rabia Tahir is also hired as research associate under the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan under project No. 20-14784/NRPU/R&D/HEC/2021. In her leisure time, she likes to play sports and reads books with inspiring lessons.

 

Organic Chemistry

Alejandro O. Viviano-Posadas, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Alejandro is recognised for his outstanding contribution in the research advance presented in Efficient fluorescent recognition of ATP/GTP by a water-soluble bisquinolinium pyridine-2,6-dicarboxamide compound. Crystal structures, spectroscopic studies and interaction mode with DNA

Alejandro Viviano was born in Mexico City. He received his B.Sc. (2019) and M.Sc. (2021) degrees with theses focused on the synthesis and luminescent properties of novel Pd/Pt-based complexes with analytical applications. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. with Professor Alejandro Dorazco at the Chemistry Institute from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

His research involves the molecular recognition of neurotransmitters and nucleotides using novel organometallic and organic receptors. To date, their scientific results have been published in seven research articles. (ORCID: 0000-0002-3588-5836)

 

Physical Chemistry

Rawia Msalmi, Sfax University, Tunisia

Rawia is recognised for her outstanding contribution in the research advance presented in Organically tuned white-light emission from two zero-dimensional Cd-based hybrids

Dr. Rawia Msalmi obtained a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, Sfax University, Tunisia. During her thesis, she performed the physico-chemical characterization of Cd- and Pb-based white light emitter hybrid materials (WLEHMs). Her research focus was on the contribution of the organic molecules and the tridimensional assembly mode in the performance of the emitted white light. She has published the findings of her Ph.D. study in four peer-reviewed journal articles. In line with her Ph.D. work, she contributed in other research papers on the study of optical behavior of one-dimensional Cu-based perovskites published in Journal of Material Chemistry C as second co-author.

Dr. Rawia Msalmi is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Physico-Chemistry of the Solid State, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, Sfax University, Tunisia, under the supervision of professor Houcine Naïli. Her present investigation focuses on the stabilization and physico-chemical characterization of lead-free hybrid materials for environmentally friendly photovoltaic solar cells and lighting sources. She co-supervises research activities in the same field. Thus far, she has 10 publications in highly impacted journals.

 

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Open Call for Papers: Cutting-Edge Research in Green Biomaterials

RSC Advances (Royal Society of Chemistry) is delighted to announce a new themed collection on Cutting-Edge Research in Green Biomaterials. This collection is Guest Edited by Prof. Yasser Vasseghian, Soongsil University, Prof. Tebogo Mashifana, University of Johannesburg and Prof. Elena-Niculina Dragoi, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi.

This themed collection aims to showcase the latest advancements in the field of green biomaterials and their diverse applications in various domains, including environmental, energy, biomedical, agricultural, and biotechnological sectors. The collection will feature original research articles and reviews on the development and utilization of eco-friendly biomaterials for sustainable solutions. The collection encourages researchers, scientists, engineers, and professionals working in the field of biomaterials, environmental science, energy, biomedical, agriculture, and related disciplines to present their latest research results on below specific topics (but not limited to):

  • Green biomaterials for wide array of uses in sustainable environmental
  • Eco-friendly biomaterials for environmental remediation and pollution control
  • Green biomaterials for water purification and resource conservation
  • Harnessing green biomaterials for renewable energy generation and storage
  • Green biomaterials for bioenergy production
  • Green biomaterials for biological applications: From agriculture to biotechnology
  • Sustainable solutions with green biomaterials for agriculture and food industry
  • Biodegradable green biomaterials for sustainable packaging
  • Bio-based composites, nanomaterials, and electrochemical devices
  • Bioinspired green biomaterials for advanced therapeutics, diagnostics, and biosensors
  • Advances in green biomaterials for biomedical implants and tissue engineering
  • Sustainable nanocomposites with green biomaterials: synthesis, properties, and applications
  • Biodegradable polymers for wide-ranging uses

We welcome your submission to the series.

 

Submission deadline 29 December 2023

 

How to submit

Both Papers and Review articles will be considered for this collection. All submissions will be subject to an initial assessment by Associate Editors and, if suitable for the journal, they will be subject to rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of RSC Advances.

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Welcome to our new Editorial Board member: Leyong Wang

We are delighted to welcome Professor Leyong Wang to the RSC Advances Editorial Board!

Leyong Wang is a Professor of Organic and Supramolecular Chemistry in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Nanjing University. He was born and brought up in Shandong, China. He obtained his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Nanjing University, China in 2000 with Prof. Xiaoqiang Sun and Prof. Hongwen Hu. After his postdoctoral stays at the Institute of Chemistry, CAS (2000-2002) with Prof. Wenhua Sun and Prof. Youliang Hu, at Université de Bourgogne, France (2002-2003) with Dr. Jean-Claude Chambron and Prof. Roger Guilard, and at Mainz University, Germany (2003-2004) with Dr.Voker Böhmer, he then became a Humboldt Research Fellow in Erlangen-Nürnberg University, Germany affiliated with Professor John A Gladysz. In 2006, he settled in Nanjing, China. He assumed the position of the vice-director of key lab. of mesoscopic chemistry, Ministry of Education (MOE), situated in Nanjing University in 2016. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2013.

Leyong has previously served or has been serving on the editorial board of several international academic journals including Supramolecular Chemistry, Chinese Chemical Letter, Green Synthesis and Catalysis, Frontier in Chemistry, and on the advisory board of Chemical Society Review, et al. Moreover, he is an Associate Editor of RSC Advances since 2015.

He has authored or coauthored over 200 papers in international peer reviewed journals. His main research area is supramolecular chemistry and biomaterials. The current research covers the dynamic macrocycles and cages to topological molecules, as well as smart supramolecular dynamic materials for drug delivery and molecular sensing.

Browse a selection of Leyong’s RSC publications:

A highly efficient artificial light-harvesting system with two-step sequential energy transfer based on supramolecular self-assembly
Guangping Sun, Weirui Qian, Jianmin Jiao, Tingting Han, Yukun Shi, Xiao-Yu Hu and Leyong Wang
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2020, 8, 9590-9596

Stimuli-responsive nanocarriers constructed from pillar [n] arene-based supra-amphiphiles
Tangxin Xiao, Lijie Qi, Weiwei Zhong, Chen Lin, Ruibing Wang and Leyong Wang
Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, 3, 1973-1993

pH-Responsive supramolecular vesicles assembled by water-soluble pillar [5] arene and a BODIPY photosensitizer for chemo-photodynamic dual therapy
Lu-Bo Meng, Wenyi Zhang, Dongqi Li, Yan Li, Xiao-Yu Hu, Leyong Wang and Guigen Li
Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 14381-14384

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RSC Advances Popular Advances Interview with Dr Machhindra K. Lande

We are very pleased to introduce Dr. Machhindra K. Lande who is the corresponding author of the RSC Advances article, Silica supported lanthanum trifluoroacetate and trichloroacetate as an efficient and reusable water compatible Lewis acid catalyst for synthesis of 2,4,5-triarylimidazoles via a solvent-free green approach. This was well received by reviewers and was handpicked by our handling editors to be part of our Popular Advances collection – a big congratulations to all the authors!

Dr Lande told us more about his research group and the work that went into this study and what he hopes to achieve in the future. You can explore other articles in our 2023 Popular Advances online collection here!

Meet the Author

Dr. M. K. Lande is a professor and head of the department of chemistry at Dr. B. A. M. University, Aurangabad (Maharashtra, India). His research group includes Mr. Dnyaneshwar Purushottam Gholap, Mr. Ramdas Huse and Mr. Dipake Sudarshan, who were actively involved in contributing towards this popular advances article. Dr. M. K. Lande’s group’s research area includes Natural and synthetic zeolites catalysts, Lewis acid catalysts for organic transformation, mixed metal oxides as catalysts for organic transformations, metal-organic frameworks and DFT studies of chemical compounds using Gaussian 09 software.

Could you briefly explain the focus of your article to the non-specialist (in one or two sentences only) and why it is of current interest?

The present research work is mainly focused on the development of novel water-compatible, environment-friendly and economically cheaper heterogeneous Lewis acid catalysts as competitive alternatives to highly expensive Metal triflate catalysts.

How big an impact could your results potentially have?

The currently prepared water-competent Lewis acid catalyst shows excellent catalytic efficiency in 2,4,5-triaryl imidazole synthesis via green route, compared to many catalysts, especially Metal triflate Lewis acid catalyst. Further, these Lewis catalysts were prepared by commercially available cheaper starting material hence it is economically more favourable as compared to highly expensive Metal triflate Lewis acid.

Could you explain the motivation behind this study?

By considering the special attention and importance of Lewis acid as a catalyst in many industrial processes and organic transformations, we had planned to design novel water-compatible Lewis acid. However, currently, many conventional Lewis acids and green Lewis acids were used in the reaction, but they have many limitations.
Among all these, metal triflate is one of the most widely used green Lewis acids but they are highly expensive and moisture sensitive. In regard to this, we have developed economically favourable and environment-friendly green silica supported Lanthanum trifluoroacetate and trichloroacetate Lewis acid catalysts.

In your opinion, what are the key design considerations for your study?

The key design considerations of the present research work are as follows

– Water-competent Green Lewis acid catalysts
– Highly efficient, clean, environment-friendly and recyclable Lewis acids
– Catalyst work superiorly in water and organic solvents
– Solvent-free green synthesis in a short time with excellent product yield

Which part of the work towards this paper proved to be most challenging?

The synthesis of present Lewis acids was found to be most challenging as special precaution and care were needed during the handling of trifluoracetic acid and trichloroacetic acid.

What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment?

The present Lewis acid can become a good competitive alternative to green Lewis acid catalysts, especially highly expensive metal triflate Lewis acids.


What is the next step? What work is planned?

To design and develop more novel, environment-friendly and economically favorable green Lewis acid catalysts & utilize them in various industrially demanded processes and organic transformations.

 

Silica supported lanthanum trifluoroacetate and trichloroacetate as an efficient and reusable water compatible Lewis acid catalyst for synthesis of 2,4,5-triarylimidazoles via a solvent-free green approach

Dnyaneshwar Purushottam Gholap,

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Call for papers: Environmental Electrochemistry for Industrial Wastewater Treatment

RSC Advances is delighted to announce ‘Environmental Electrochemistry for Industrial Wastewater Treatment’, a new themed collection. This collection is Guest Edited by Dr Maulin Shah (Enviro Technology Ltd., India), Professor Yujie Feng (Harbin Institute of Technology, China), Dr Kiran Bala (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India) and Professor Dr Günay Yıldız Töre (Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, Turkey).

Scope

In the present era, conventional wastewater treatment is facing the challenge of low pre and post treatment efficiency and hence it can be controlled with electrochemical based reactors. This themed collection aims to emphasise understanding the basics of electrochemistry and the way forward towards its application in environmental science and environmental bioremediation technology. It will include basics of environmental electrochemistry, redox reactions for contaminant removal and success stories of various electrochemistry-based techniques with microbial approach in the direction of practical wastewater degradation. With this collection we aim to stimulate new directions for environmental scientists and policymakers to work on advanced electrochemistry-based treatment systems and electrochemical sensor applications by overcoming the existing limitations. This collection will offer the way forward for electrochemically controlled bioreactors for refractory pollutant removal and monitoring purposes. Several successive technologies are key indicators for addressing the various aspects of environmental electrochemistry may be covered.

Topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Advancement in bio electrochemical system for wastewater treatment and resource recovery
  • Role of electrochemistry and electrochemical techniques for environmental bioremediation
  • Electrochemical redox reactions for contaminant removal and valuable resource recovery from wastewater
  • Advances in microbial electrochemical technology
  • Advances of pilot scale electrochemical system for industrial wastewater treatment
  • Decomposition and transformation of refractory pollutants in bio electrochemical systems
  • The reaction mechanisms at the electrode-electrolyte interface
  • Developing and applying electrochemical sensors in treating industrial wastewater

Please make sure that your submission provides an insight that advances the chemistry field or is of interest to the chemistry community.

How to submit

Both Papers and Review articles will be considered for this issue. All submissions will be subject to an initial assessment by Associate Editors and, if suitable for the journal, they will be subject to rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of RSC Advances.

Our APC is among the lowest in the industry and there are no submission charges. Discounts and waivers are offered to authors from developing countries.

If you would like to submit to this issue the manuscript should be prepared according to our article guidelines and submitted via our online system anytime before the submission deadline of 21st of September 2023. During submission, authors will be asked if they are submitting for a themed collection and should include the name of the themed collection. If you would like to submit but require additional time to prepare your article, please do let us know by contacting the journal.

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Editors’ collection: Elegant Synthetic Routes to Indole Derivatives

RSC Advances are delighted to share our latest collection on Elegant Synthetic Routes to Indole Derivatives, guest edited by Dr. Sarbani Pal (MNR Degree and PG College, India) and Associate Editor Prof. Manojit Pal (Dr Reddy’s Institute of Life Sciences, India).

Indoles are attractive targets in organic synthesis because of not only their widespread existences in nature especially in alkaloids but also their importance as privileged structures in Medicinal / Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Drug Discovery. It is not surprising that the indole framework is a commonly found N-heteroarene moiety in many bioactive agents and drugs. Additionally, many indoles served as key precursors to a range of valuable compounds that find applications in various areas of science. Thus, enormous efforts have been devoted for the development of elegant synthetic routes to various indole derivatives or indole based complex structures. This current web collection is mainly a compilation of relevant important and interesting research papers already published in RSC Advances during last 7 years. The major focus of this compilation was on selection of the elegant synthetic methods including single or multi-step approaches, multi-component reactions, transition or other metal catalysed methods, cascade reactions, environmentally friendly approaches etc reported for indole derivatives. The reports on simple or mere derivatization / functionalization of indole ring are generally excluded. Some selected papers reporting synthesis as well as biological activities of indole derivatives are also included.

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Featured articles:

TCCA-mediated oxidative rearrangement of tetrahydro-β-carbolines: facile access to spirooxindoles and the total synthesis of (±)-coerulescine and (±)-horsfiline
Manda Sathish, Akash P. Sakla, Fabiane M. Nachtigall, Leonardo S. Santos and Nagula Shankaraiah
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 16537-16546

Dual C–H activation: Rh(iii)-catalyzed cascade π-extended annulation of 2-arylindole with benzoquinone
Qijing Zhang, Qianrong Li and Chengming Wang
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 13030-13033

l-Isoleucine derived bifunctional phosphine catalyses asymmetric [3 + 2]-annulation of allenyl-esters and -ketones with ketimines
Muthukumar G. Sankar, Miguel Garcia-Castro, Christopher Golz, Carsten Strohmann and Kamal Kumar
RSC Adv., 2016,6, 56537-56543

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Meet the Editors

Dr. Sarbani Pal (nee Das) is a faculty and Head of the Chemistry Department, MNR Degree and Post-Graduate College, Hyderabad, India. After receiving PhD degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata (India) in 1996, she joined the Department of Chemistry, M.S. University, Baroda, Gujarat (India) where she worked as a Lecturer in Chemistry (1996–1997). Subsequently, she moved to Hyderabad (India), where she joined the MNR College (affiliated to Osmania University, Hyderabad) and continuing since then. Her research interests include the total synthesis of bicyclic and tricyclic sesquiterpenes, synthesis of organo-ruthenium complexes, click reactions, design and synthesis of anti-inflammatory agents and macrolide antibiotics etc. She has supervised several PhD students, authored / co-authored a book and a book chapter along with more than 60 research papers and 5 review articles in various international journals. She is a recipient of Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters Top 10 Cited Author award for 2011–2012, certificate for being outstanding reviewer for RSC Advances in 2017, Publons peer review awards 2017, certificate for top cited article 2020-2021 from Wiley etc. Her review article on macrolides and ketolides was recognized as a “top-50 most downloaded” article from Tetrahedron on ScienceDirect 2006. She is currently a member of board of Management of MNR University, Hyderabad, India.

 

Prof. Manojit Pal received his PhD degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata (India) in 1995 under the guidance of Prof. Nitya G. Kundu and then worked in various industrial R & D centres including Alembic, Sun Pharma, Matrix Lab, and Dr Reddy’s Lab Ltd. In 2009, he joined the Dr. Reddy’s Institute of Life Science, Hyderabad and presently continuing as a Senior Professor of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry as well as Chief Scientist of CIMPS Department. He became Associate Editor of RSC Advances in 2015, FRSC in 2016, Adjunct Faculty-Manipal University in 2018 and member of Editorial Board-Bioorganic Chemistry in 2019. He also became invited member of ACS in 2019. His name is featured in Stanford’s list of top 2% scientists in the world 2020. In 2022, he received a certificate for publishing open access articles with Elsevier some of which were linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. His research interests include the development of new chemical entities under the new drug discovery programme in various therapeutic areas namely tuberculosis, inflammation, obesity, psoriasis and cancer. The other major areas of his focus include transition metal / non-metal catalysed reactions, sonochemical approaches, green chemistry, heterocycle synthesis etc. He has authored/co-authored more than 280 research publications, as well as 18 review articles, a number of patents, a book chapter and a book. So far he has reviewed more than 1200 manuscripts, a number of PhD thesis from both national and international universities and grant proposals at national and international level.

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RSC Advances Emerging Investigators series 2021 – Meet the Authors

Welcome to our Emerging Investigator Series 2021. This series showcases some of the very best work from chemists in the early stages of their independent careers. In keeping with the theme of RSC Advances as a cross-cutting chemistry journal, in this inaugural issue with the help of our Series Editor Professor James Batteas, we have 23 papers spanning the breadth of chemistry on topics ranging from the development and application of analytical tools and devices for chemical analysis, to the design and synthesis of bioactive materials for disease treatments, to catalysis and synthesis of new materials. You can read all about the contributions in this accompanying Editorial, prepared by the 2021 Series Editor James Batteas.

You can read below the biographies of some of the brilliant authors who have been published in the 2021 collection:

Thiago Regis Longo Cesar da Paixão

Enhanced performance of pencil-drawn paper-based electrodes by laser-scribing treatment

Thiago Regis Longo Cesar da Paixão received a B.Sc. from the Institute of Chemistry of the University of São Paulo in 2001 and became a graduate student at the same institution, where he received his M.Sc. (2004) and Ph.D. (2007). For a year (2008/2009), he was a postdoctoral fellow at the same University. Following his postdoctoral fellowship, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University Federal of ABC, where he stayed for two years. In 2011, he was hired as an assistant professor at the University of São Paulo and promoted to Associate Professor in 2016. At the beginning of 2018, he was nominated as an affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Science as a promising young researcher. His fields of interest include chemical sensors, paper-based devices, and electronic tongues aiming at forensic and clinical applications.

Zbigniew Pianowski

Selective release of a potent anticancer agent from a supramolecular hydrogel using green light

Zbigniew Pianowski received his PhD in chemistry in 2008 under the supervision of Prof. Nicolas Winssinger at the ISIS ULP Strasbourg, France, investigating peptide nucleic acids (PNA) – functional oligonucleotide analogues – for templated reactions and catalytic RNA sensing. Then, he joined the group of Prof. Donald Hilvert at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland, as a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow. There, he worked in the area of protein engineering, like de novo enzyme design and engineering of protein capsids. Since 2014 he has been an independent group leader at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, and served as a deputy professor of organic chemistry at the University of Heidelberg (2017-2019). His current research interests are focused on applications of molecular photoswitches in smart materials and biological systems. Within this area, his group intensively explores photochromic supramolecular hydrogels reversibly disassembled with light, their use for light-controlled drug release, and other photopharmacology applications of photochromic cyclic dipeptides.

Darci Trader

Identification of a covalent binder to the oncoprotein gankyrin using a NIR-Based OBOC screening method

Prof. Trader obtained her Ph.D. under the mentorship of Erin E. Carlson while at Indiana University in 2013. She then went on to do a NIH-funded postdoc with Prof. Thomas Kodadek, where she was introduced to proteasome-related research. She began her independent career at Purdue University in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology in 2016. Her lab is focused on furthering the understanding of how small molecules can be used to perturb the activity of the proteasome. Her lab has developed activity probes for both the standard proteasome and immunoproteasome, and is actively applying these probes to discover proteasome inhibitors and stimulators.

Christine Beemelmanns

GNPS-guided discovery of xylacremolide C and D, evaluation of their putative biosynthetic origin and bioactivity studies of xylacremolide A and B

Dr. Beemelmanns studied Chemistry at the RWTH Aachen. She then went to Japan for a one year research stay in the group of Prof.  Sodeoka at RIKEN. Back in Germany she worked at the FU Berlin with Prof. Reißig and received her PhD in Organic Chemistry. She then worked another six month in Japan at the University of Tokyo under the supervision of Prof K. Suzuki and joined shortly afterwards the group of Prof. Clardy at Harvard Medical School (Boston) in 2011. End of 2013, she received an offer from the Hans-Knöll Institute (HKI), where she established the Leibniz Junior Research Group in the field of Natural Products Chemistry and Chemical Biology. In 2021 she accepted a call from the Leipzig University for a Professorship Biochemistry of Microbial Physiology. Her research combines different aspects of chemical ecology and organic and natural product chemistry and aims to chemically and functionally characterize microbial signaling and defense molecules in different symbiotic model systems. By analyzing coevolved microbial interactions, unprecedented chemical core structures with potential pharmaceutical application are likely to appear.

Abisola Egbedina

Green synthesis of ZnO coated hybrid biochar for the synchronous removal of ciprofloxacin and tetracycline in wastewater

Abisola Egbedina is a PhD student in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria under the supervision of Professor Kayode Adebowale and Professor Bamidele Olu-Owolabi. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Industrial Chemistry from Bowen University, Iwo, Nigeria (2009) and her master’s degree in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Ibadan (2012). She received the 2017 Commonwealth Science Conference follow-on grant from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2018 to conduct research at the University of Toronto, Canada under the supervision of Professor Ya-Huei (Cathy) Chin.

Her research interests lie in the synthesis of low-cost and environmentally benign materials for applications in wastewater treatment. Specifically, she focuses on tuning the surface properties of these materials for optimum selectivity and efficiency. Her current research focuses on the synthesis of carbon materials from biomass for the removal of pharmaceuticals and other emerging contaminants from water. She has a number of peer-reviewed publications in international journals. She has also presented some of her research findings at various local and international conferences.

Abisola Egbedina was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, University of Ibadan in November 2016, and is currently a Lecturer II. Besides teaching and carrying out research, Abisola loves reading novels, watching movies, swimming and dancing.

Kishor Sarkar

RAFT polymerization mediated core–shell supramolecular assembly of PEGMA-co-stearic acid block co-polymer for efficient anticancer drug delivery

Dr. Kishor Sarkar was awarded PhD in Polymer Science and Technology from University of Calcutta, India in August 2014. In 2016, he has joined as Assistant Professor in the Department of Polymer Science and Technology, University of Calcutta in June 2016. Before joining here, he worked as postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, USA (May 2015-April 2016). He was awarded Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship in India and carried out his postdoctoral work under Prof. Giridhar Madras, Department of Chemical Engineering and Dr. Kaushik Chatterjee, Dept. Of Materials Engineering, IISc, Bangalore, India from Nov. 2013 to March 2015. Dr. Sarkar has broad background in Polymer Chemistry with specific training and expertise on the development of polymeric non-viral vectors for gene therapy application. After joining as Assistant Professor, Dr. Sarkar received Early Career Research Award from SERB, Govt. of India in March 2017. Presently, the main research area of Dr. Sarkar focuses on the development of efficient polymeric vector for drug delivery or gene therapy application and synthesis of novel biopolymers from recycled plastic wastes for Tissue Engineering applications.

Michiel Dusselier

On the key role of aluminium and other heteroatoms during interzeolite conversion synthesis

Prof. Michiel Dusselier obtained his Ph.D. degree in Bioscience Engineering (Catalytic Technology, 2013) at KU Leuven, Belgium, with Bert Sels, inventing new catalytic routes for bioplastics synthesis. In 2014–15, he did postdoctoral work with Mark Davis at Caltech, studying the synthesis of zeolites and methanol-to-olefins. In 2017, he accepted a tenure track professorship at KU Leuven and co-founded the new Center for Sustainable Catalysis and Engineering (CSCE) in 2019. He is focusing on zeolite synthesis methods, reactor design, functional biodegradable plastics and heterogeneous catalysis (CO2 activation). In particular, he is enthusiastic about elaborate synthesis-structure-activity relations and bottom-up catalyst design. He has (co)authored over 60 peer-reviewed papers and 7 patents, of which one transferred to industry. He is the holder of an ERC starting Grant (2020) called Z-EURECA, studying unusual reactors for zeolite synhtesis. In 2021, he received the alumni award in applied sciences of the Belgian American Educational Foundation.

Erin Leitao

The photophysical properties of naphthalene bridged disilanes

Dr Erin Leitao obtained her BSc degree in Chemistry from the University of Victoria (BC, Canada) in 2006.  Her final project, with Prof Scott McIndoe, involved the synthesis of electrospray active distannoxane catalysts.  Erin’s PhD degree was awarded from the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada) in 2011 and was supervised by Prof Warren Piers. Her research project investigated the decomposition and re-design of an olefin metathesis catalyst. Erin was then a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof Ian Manners at the University of Bristol (UK) where she transitioned into researching catalysis of main-group compounds as well as polymer self-assembly. Erin has been at the University of Auckland for six years and in 2016 she was the NZ recipient of the L-Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science fellowship. Members of the Leitao lab are working towards the synthesis of new main-group molecules and materials using catalysis.

Chandra Sekhar Tiwary

Development of a schwarzite-based moving bed 3D printed water treatment system for nanoplastic remediation

Chandra Sekhar Tiwary is a professor at Department of metallurgical and materials engineering, at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur India. After receiving his Ph.D from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore India. He worked as postdoc at Rice University, Houston, USA. His group works on 3D printing, 2D materials, nanomaterials, development of new alloys and its applications in environment, energy, electronics and catalysis etc. Based on his contributions, all three Academies of India (Indian National Science Academy, National Science Academy, India and Indian National Academy of Engineers) awarded him the Young Scientist Awards. Apart from this, the Ministry of Steel, India, has awarded him the Young Metallurgist of the year 2020 for his contributions to metal research. Electron microscopy society of India has recognized his contribution to electron microscopy and awarded him the Excellent Microscopist of 2020. He has been also awarded the Alain Reza Yavari Young/Junior Scientist Award -International Society of ISMANAM and many more. For carrying out cutting-edge research in India, the Department of Science and Technology, India, has awarded Prof. Tiwary the Ramanujan Fellowship in 2018.

Jiangshui Luo

Phase-dependent dielectric properties and proton conduction of neopentyl glycol

Dr. Jiangshui Luo has been a Professor in College of Materials Science and Engineering, Sichuan University in China since 2020, where he is the Head of the team of Electrolytes and Phase Change Materials. He has been appointed by Sichuan province as a distinguished expert since 2021. He has also been appointed by KU Leuven in Belgium as a visiting professor.

He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Xiamen University and Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, respectively. From 2008 and 2011, he worked as a project researcher on high temperature electrolytes in EWE Research Center for Energy Technology in Germany. He completed his PhD study on protic salt electrolytes for fuel cells in KU Leuven within 2 years in November 2012.

His research interest includes electrolytes, phase change materials, electrocatalysts, heat transfer fluids, solid-state refrigeration, isotope effects and scientometrics. So far, he has published 52 journal papers and holds 10 patents. He proposed and demonstrated protic organic ionic plastic crystals (POIPCs) as a novel type of proton conductors for fuel cells. He has been the PI of 7 national projects and received several governmental awards. He is an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Ionic Liquids.

Daniel A. Heredia

Photoactive antimicrobial coating based on a PEDOT-fullerene C60 polymeric dyad

Daniel A. Heredia is an Adjunct Researcher of CONICET at National University of Río Cuarto (UNRC). He graduated in 2009 with a BSc and he received his PhD degree in material science and electrochemistry in 2014 from UNRC. He obtained a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Institute of Chemistry of Rosario, where he did research into the total synthesis of structurally relevant natural products. He was visiting researcher at Complutense University of Madrid, at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH and at Arizona State University. His interests are wide, ranging from organic synthesis to the development of new materials and their photophysical characterization. His current research activities focus on the synthesis of organic materials to apply in photodynamic inactivation and optoelectronic devices.

Frank Hahn

Cross-linking of a polyketide synthase domain leads to a recyclable biocatalyst for chiral oxygen heterocycle synthesis

Frank studied Chemistry at the Universities of Karlsruhe, Paris VI and Bonn and finished his PhD on solid phase synthesis and biological evaluation of polyamines in 2008. He then moved to the University of Cambridge (UK) to study polyketide biosynthetic pathways with Prof. Peter F. Leadlay. In 2011, he returned to Germany to start his independent career at the Leibniz University Hannover, where he became leader of a DFG-funded Emmy Noether Research Group in 2013. In 2016, he moved to his current position as a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Bayreuth. His research interests are in the fields of natural product synthesis and biosynthesis as well as the biotechnological exploitation of the microbial secondary metabolism.

David J. Lewis

Preparation of solution processed photodetectors comprised of two-dimensional tin(ii) sulfide nanosheet thin films assembled via the Langmuir–Blodgett method

David J. Lewis (DJL, h = 31) is Deputy Head of Department, Head of Research & Reader in Materials Chemistry in the Department of Materials at The University of Manchester, UK. DJL leads a research group actively researching soft processing and applications of nanostructured and low-dimensional materials broadly related to energy generation. DJL’s research has led to over 100 publications and he has been the recipient of funding from EPSRC and The Royal Society as well as a number of industrially-sponsored grants. In 2021 he was elected by Members and Fellows to serve on the RSC Materials Chemistry Division council for 3 years.

Binju Wang

The molecular mechanism of P450-catalyzed amination of the pyrrolidine derivative of lidocaine: insights from multiscale simulations

Binju Wang obtained his PhD in 2012 from Xiamen University in China. After two periods of post-doctoral research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (with Prof. Sason Shaik) and Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (with Prof. Carme Rovira), he joined Xiamen University in 2018 as a full professor. His current research interest focuses on the use of multiscale modeling to decipher the catalytic mechanisms of metalloenzymes, including O2 and H2O2 activations, electronic state and spin-state reactivities, protein environment effects, as well as the rational design of metalloenzymes for biocatalysis. Professor Wang has published over 50 peer reviewed publications.

Scott Tsai

An ultrafast enzyme-free acoustic technique for detaching adhered cells in microchannels

Dr. Scott Tsai is the Director of the Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). His undergraduate training in Mechanical Engineering is from the University of Toronto, and his masters and PhD degrees in Engineering Sciences are from Harvard University. Dr. Tsai’s laboratory specializes in droplet and bubble microfluidics. His group also collaborates actively with hospital researchers to implement these technologies in medical applications related to kidney disease and prostate cancer. Dr. Tsai is a recipient of the United States’ Fulbright Visiting Research Chair Award, Government of Ontario’s Early Researcher Award, and Toronto Metropolitan University’s Deans’ Teaching Award.

Daniel Globisch

Investigation of the individual human sulfatome in plasma and urine samples reveals an age-dependency

Daniel Globisch is an Associate Professor in Analytical Chemistry at Uppsala University. He studied Chemistry at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (Germany) and the University of Southern Denmark, Odense (Denmark). He received his Ph.D. from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany) with Professor Thomas Carell in March 2011 and joined the laboratory of Professor Kim D. Janda at The Scripps Research Institute (CA, USA) for his postdoctoral studies for 4.5 years. He started his independent career in September 2015 at Uppsala University (Sweden) after recruitment as a Science For Life Laboratory Fellow. He was appointed as Associate Professor in 2017 and joined the Department of Chemistry – BMC after securing a tenured position in December 2020. Daniel has been elected as a board member of the Nordic Metabolomics Society for two terms and as an Editorial Board Member for the metabolomics society journal Metabolites. The interdisciplinary nature of his research projects is focused on the elucidation of the metabolic interaction between the gut microbiota and their human host. Towards this goal, his laboratory develops new Chemical Biology tools to extend the scope of metabolomics research for the selective discovery of unknown biomarkers and bioactive metabolites.

Tangxin Xiao

Efficient artificial light-harvesting system constructed from supramolecular polymers with AIE property

Tangxin Xiao was born in China in 1987. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in chemistry from Hubei Normal University in 2009. Then he joined the laboratory of Prof. Leyong Wang at Nanjing University and got his Ph.D. in supramolecular chemistry in 2014. After postdoctoral research on fine chemicals at Zhejiang University-NHU Company United R&D Center, he joined Changzhou University in 2017, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020. Between March 2021 and June 2022, he worked as a visiting scholar in Prof. Oren Scherman group at University of Cambridge. His current research interests concern the supramolecular chemistry and luminescent materials. He has co-authored more than 50 publications with a total citation of more than 2700 times and his H-index is 23.

Xiao-Yu Hu

Influence of water-soluble pillararene hosts on Kemp elimination

Xiao-Yu Hu obtained her Ph.D. in pharmaceutical chemistry from the Chengdu Institute of Biology (CAS) in 2011. After postdoctoral research with Prof. Leyong Wang, she joined Nanjing University as an associate research professor in 2013. In 2016, she joined University of Duisburg-Essen as a senior AvH Fellow (“The Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researcher”) working with Prof. Carsten Schmuck. Since 2018, she has been appointed as the Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Her current research interests are focused on supramolecular self-assembly and functional supramolecular materials. She is currently the associate editor of Frontiers in Chemistry, and an editorial board member of Chinese Chemical Letters, Green Synthesis & Catalysis, and Molecules.

She has authored and coauthored over 100 research publications, including Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Acc. Chem. Res., CCS Chem. and so on. Moreover, has received many grants and awards, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province for Outstanding Young Scholar, the Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researcher, the Science and Technology Award of Jiangsu Province, the National New Star Award in Supramolecular Chemistry of Aromatic Macrocycles, and the Teaching and Research Achievement Award of Jiangsu Province.

 

 

We would like to give a huge thank you to Series Editor James Batteas, Associate Editors and to all our reviewers at RSC Advances for their ongoing support and contribution, helping us to bring together such a fantastic collection of articles.

 

Looking forward: Emerging Investigator Series 2022!

We are pleased to announce the Series Editors of the next Emerging Investigator series of 2022: Fabienne Dumoulin and Shirley Nakagaki, and we can’t wait to see what the next early career investigators have been working on in Chemistry! Selection for the Emerging Investigators series comes in part from the recommendations of our Editorial Board as well as our Associate Editors. Authors can also self-nominate for participation and review by our Associate Editors for the journal, articles can be submitted to the series at any time and will be accepted and published throughout the year.

If you would like to be involved in our up coming series, please look at our webpage here for more information or submit now!

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RSC Advances Popular Advances – an interview with Emanuele Moioli

We are very pleased to introduce Dr Emanuele Moioli, the sole author of the RSC Advances article Linking heat and electricity supply for domestic users: an example of power-to-gas integration in a building. This paper became one of the newest additions to our Popular Advances collection. The Popular Advances Collection is a selection of well received RSC Advances articles, handpicked by our reviewers and handling editors.

Emanuele told us more about the work that went into this article and what he hopes to achieve in the future. If you would like to explore more of our Popular Advances, please find the full online collection here.

Meet the Author:

Emanuele Moioli studied chemical engineering at Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino (Italy). He then pursued a PhD focused on chemical reactor design and optimization as Marie-Curie fellow at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany), in collaboration with the Swiss multinational Lonza. After graduation, he moved to EPFL (Switzerland) for a postdoc focused on the development of new catalysts and reactors for the CO2 methanation reaction. In 2020 he started working as scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland) where he expanded his interest in the field of CO2 methanation, including the research aspects considering the integration of energy storage technologies in the energy system.

 

 

  1. Could you briefly explain the focus of your article to the non-specialist (in one or two sentences only) and why it is of current interest?

The focus of the research is a feasibility assessment of micro-scale power-to-gas systems to be applied in residential buildings. These systems link electricity to the gas grid, increasing the energy efficiency of the house.

 

  1. How big an impact could your results potentially have?

These results could be directly applied in the realisation of such systems, generating a disruptive change in the way electricity and gas supply are guaranteed in residential buildings. This can significantly increase the renewable energy production in micro-scale applications.

 

  1. Could you explain the motivation behind this study?

The motivation behind the study consists in finding the key points to link electricity and gas grids, increasing energy storage potential and the penetration of renewable energy.

 

  1. In your opinion, what are the key design considerations for your study?

The key design consideration of the study is the possibility of linking electricity and heat supply in the system. While standard power-to-gas systems suffer from low efficiency, this study shows that the self consumption of waste heat from the reaction is beneficial to decrease the global energy demand.

 

  1. Which part of the work towards this paper proved to be most challenging?

The most challenging part of the study is the collection of reliable data, which can be used for the system design. To overcome this limitation, the study was based on field observations, linking weather conditions and electricity, heat demand and availability.

 

  1. What aspect of your work are you most excited about at the moment?

I am most excited at the fact that this study shows how close we are from the application of power-to-gas in a wide range of specific cases!

 

  1. What is the next step? What work is planned

The next step is the implementation of the results in the case investigated. We are currently working with an industrial partner to make this demonstration possible.

 

Linking heat and electricity supply for domestic users: an example of power-to-gas integration in a building

Emanuele Moioli*

RSC Adv., 2022,12, 10355-10365    DOI:10.1039/D2RA00951J

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