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Read July’s Editors’ Collection: Fluorescent Sensors by Associate Editor Andrea Pucci

We are delighted to share with you our latest collection of recently published articles focusing on Fluorescent sensors handpicked by Associate Editor Professor Andrea Pucci.

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Fluorescent carbon dots: rational synthesis, tunable optical properties and analytical applications
Yifan Wang, Yanwu Zhu, Shaoming Yu and Changlong Jiang
RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 40973–40989. DOI: 10.1039/C7RA07573A

Skin cancer detection using non-invasive techniques
Vigneswaran Narayanamurthy, P. Padmapriya, A. Noorasafrin, B. Pooja, K. Hema, Al’aina Yuhainis Firus Khan, K. Nithyakalyani and Fahmi Samsuri
RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 28095–28130. DOI: 10.1039/C8RA04164D

A review on graphene-based nanocomposites for electrochemical and fluorescent biosensors
Siva Kumar Krishnan, Eric Singh, Pragya Singh, Meyya Meyyappan and Hari Singh Nalwa
RSC Adv., 2019, 9, 8778–8881, DOI: 10.1039/C8RA09577A

 

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Meet the Editor

Andrea Pucci, RSC Advances Associate Editor Royal Society of Chemistry

Associate Editor Andrea Pucci is an Associate Professor in industrial chemistry at the University of Pisa. His scientific interests are expressed in the field of chromogenic and functional polymers.

His recent publications in RSC Advances include:

 

Room temperature amine sensors enabled by sidewall functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes
Clara Paoletti, Maggie He, Pietro Salvo, Bernardo Melai, Nicola Calisi, Matteo Mannini, Brunetto Cortigiani, Francesca G. Bellagambi, Timothy M. Swager, Fabio Di Francesco and Andrea Pucci
RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 5578-5585, DOI: 10.1039/C7RA13304A

 

 

A push–pull silafluorene fluorophore for highly efficient luminescent solar concentrators
Federico Gianfaldoni, Francesca De Nisi, Giuseppe Iasilli, Annamaria Panniello, Elisabetta Fanizza, Marinella Striccoli, Daiki Ryuse, Masaki Shimizu, Tarita Bivera and Andrea Pucci
RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 37302-37309, DOI: 10.1039/C7RA08022K

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Welcome to our new Editorial Board member: Norio Shibata

We are delighted to welcome Professor Norio Shibata as our newest Editorial Board member!Professor Norio Shibata, Royal Society of Chemistry RSC Advances Editorial Board

Norio Shibata has been a Professor at the Nagoya Institute of Technology since 2008. He received a Ph.D. (1993) in pharmaceutical sciences from Osaka University under the direction of Professor Yasuyuki Kita. He worked at Dyson Perrins Laboratory (Professor Sir Jack. E. Baldwin), Oxford University (JSPS fellow, 1994−1996), Sagami Chemical Research Institute (Dr. Shiro Terashima, 1996), after which he was a lecturer at Toyama Medical & Pharmaceutical University (1997−2003), and an associate professor at the Nagoya Institute of Technology (2003−2008). He also acted as a visiting professor at the University of Rouen (2008, 2012) and Zhejiang Normal University (2017−), an academic visitor at the University of Oxford (2017, 2018) and University of Valencia (2017, 2019), a senior technical consultant at the National Engineering Technology Center of Fluoro Materials, Juhua Group Corporation (2017−).

He has received the ‘RSC Fluorine Prize’ (2005, UK), ‘The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Divisional Scientific Promotions’ (2010, Japan), ‘Prizes for Science and Technology, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’ (2014, Japan), ‘CSJ Award for Creative Work in Chemical Society of Japan’ (2015, Japan), ‘Chinese Chemical Society, W.-Y. Huang Fluorine Prize’ (2015, China), ‘ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry’ (2019, US) and ‘The 18th Green and Sustainable Chemistry Awards by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’ (2019, Japan). His research interests are synthetic and medicinal fluorine chemistry.

Browse a selection of work published by Norio:

Synthesis of fluorinated donepezil by palladium-catalyzed decarboxylative allylation of α-fluoro-β-keto ester with tri-substituted heterocyclic alkene and the self-disproportionation of its enantiomers
Mayaka Maeno, Hiroya Kondo, Etsuko Tokunaga and Norio Shibata
RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 85058-8506
DOI: 10.1039/C6RA21253K, Communication

Flow trifluoromethylation of carbonyl compounds by Ruppert–Prakash reagent and its application for pharmaceuticals, efavirenz and HSD-016
Satoshi Okusu, Kazuki Hirano, Yoshimasa Yasuda, Etsuko Tokunaga and Norio Shibata
RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 82716-82720
DOI: 10.1039/C6RA19790F, Communication

Synthesis of aryl and heteroaryl tetrafluoro-λ6-sulfanyl chlorides from diaryl disulfides using trichloroisocyanuric acid and potassium fluoride
Ibrayim Saidalimu, Yumeng Liang, Kiyoteru Niina, Kazuhiro Tanagawa, Norimichi Saito and Norio Shibata
Org. Chem. Front., 2019, 6, 1157-1161
DOI: 10.1039/C9QO00191C, Research Article

An eccentric rod-like linear connection of two heterocycles: synthesis of pyridine trans-tetrafluoro-λ6-sulfanyl triazoles
Prajwalita Das, Kiyoteru Niina, Tomoya Hiromura, Etsuko Tokunaga, Norimichi Saito and Norio Shibata
Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 4931-4936
DOI: 10.1039/C8SC01216D, Edge Article

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Welcome to our new Editorial Board Member: Qingdong Zheng

We are pleased to introduce Professor Qingdong Zheng as our latest Editorial Board member!

Professor Qingdong Zheng, RSC Advances Editorial Board MemberQingdong Zheng is a Professor of State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry in the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He obtained his B.S. (1998), and M.S. (2001) degrees from East China University of Science and Technology, and his Ph.D. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2005. After carrying out his postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University, he joined CAS and took his current position in 2010.

Selected honors and awards include the “100 Talents Programme” of CAS in 2010, and distinguished Young Scholars of National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2013. His main interests lie in optoelectronic materials and the related energy, photonic, and electronic devices, especially conjugated small-molecule or polymeric materials for applications such as solar cells, photodetectors, field-effect transistors, light-emitting diodes, and sensors. He has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has previously worked with RSC Advances as an Associate Editor.

Browse a selection of work published by Qingdong:

 

Indenothiophene-based asymmetric small molecules for organic solar cells
Qi Shang, Meng Wang, Jiajun Weib and Qingdong Zheng
RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 18144-18150
DOI: 10.1039/C7RA01902E, Paper

Solution-processed MoSx thin-films as hole-transport layers for efficient polymer solar cells
Jiajun Wei, Zhigang Yin, Shan-Ci Chen, Dongdong Cai and Qingdong Zheng
RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 39137-39143
DOI: 10.1039/C6RA01204C, Paper

Ladder-type dithienocyclopentadibenzothiophene-cored wide-bandgap polymers for efficient non-fullerene solar cells with large open-circuit voltages
Qisheng Tu, Changquan Tang and Qingdong Zheng
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019, 7, 3307-3316
DOI: 10.1039/C8TA11404H, Paper

Enhancing the performance of photomultiplication-type organic photodetectors using solution-processed ZnO as an interfacial layer
Jianbin Wang and Qingdong Zheng
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019, 7, 1544-1550
DOI: 10.1039/C8TC04962A, Paper

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RSC Advances’ latest Impact Factor: 3.049

RSC Advances new Impact Factor Royal Society fo Chemistry

RSC Advances is very pleased to announce that our latest Impact Factor has increased to 3.049*, demonstrating our continuting commitment to quality and increased visibility of published work following its transition to gold open access.

As the largest gold open access journal dedicated to the chemical sciences, RSC Advances is here for everyone who wants to publish quality chemistry research and share it with the world.

We are here for everyone who needs access to work in every area of the chemical sciences and related disciplines. And as part of the Royal Society of Chemistry, we are at the heart of open, international research dissemination for the chemistry community.

Great science matters. We make sure the world knows it.

RSC Advances in numbers:

A 5-year impact factor above 3
Submissions from 90+countries in 2018
An average of 30 days from submission to first decision
An acceptance rate of 44%
Associate editors in 30+ countries
10,000+ articles free to access and growing

 

We would like to thank all our authors, readers, reviewers along with our Editorial and Advisory Board members for their continued support.

Find all of the RSC’s newly published 2018 Impact Factors* here.

*The Impact Factor provides an indication of the average number of citations per paper. Produced annually, Impact Factors are calculated by dividing the number of citations in a year, by the number of citeable articles published in the preceding two years. Data based on Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science Group, 2019).

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Read our Editors’ Collection on Catalytic Organic Transformations by Thierry Ollevier

We are delighted to share with you our latest collection of recently published articles focusing on Catalytic Organic Transformations handpicked by Associate Editor Professor Thierry Ollevier.

As the world’s largest gold open access chemistry journal, all publications in RSC Advances are free to access. We hope you enjoy reading these articles.

We invite you to submit your research to this collection and give your work the global visibility it deserves.

 

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Featured articles:

Chan–Lam coupling reaction of sulfamoyl azides with arylboronic acids for synthesis of unsymmetrical N-arylsulfamides
Suk-Young Won, Seo-Eun Kim, Yong-Ju Kwon, Inji Shin, Jungyeob Ham and Won-Suk Kim
RSC Adv., 2019, 9, 2493-2497. DOI: 10.1039/C8RA09219B

Recent metal-catalysed approaches for the synthesis of cyclopenta[b]indoles
Thavaraj Vivekanand, Bishnupada Satpathi, Siddheshwar K. Bankar and S. S. V. Ramasastry
RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 18576-18588. DOI: 10.1039/C8RA03480J

Rh(III)-catalyzed sequential C–H activation and annulation: access to N-fused heterocycles from arylazoles and α-diazocarbonyl compounds
Jiyang Jie, Haoyi Li, Songxiao Wu, Qingyu Chai, Haining Wang and Xiaobo Yang
RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 20548-20552, DOI: 10.1039/C7RA03262E

 

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RSC Advances Associate Editor Thierry Ollevier

 

 

Meet the Editor

Born in Brussels, Thierry Ollevier obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. at the Université de Namur, Belgium, and was Postdoctorate Fellow at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium under István E. Markó (1997), NATO Postdoctorate Fellow at Stanford University under Barry M. Trost (1998–2000), then Postdoctorate fellow at the Université de Montréal under André B. Charette (2000–2001).

After being appointed as an Assistant Professor in 2001 at Université Laval, he became an Associate and is currently Full Professor. Current research in his group aims at designing novel catalysts, developing catalytic reactions and applying these methods to chemical synthesis. He is active in the areas of Lewis acids, asymmetric catalysis, and synthetic green chemistry. He has served as an Associate Editor of RSC Advances since 2015 and was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2016).

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Welcome to our new Associate Editors: Angela Meireles & Amanda Garner

A warm welcome to both Professor M. Angela. A. Meireles and Professor Amanda L. Garner who start as Associate Editors for RSC Advances in June!

Angela Meireles. RSC Advances Associate Editor RSCEmployed for close to 34 years at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in São Paulo, Brazil, Professor Meireles completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering at Iowa State University. Starting as an Assistant Professor in the School of Food Engineering in 1983, she has since become a Professor and has supervised 50 PhD dissertations, 30 MSc theses and approximately 72 undergraduate research projects. She has also coordinated scientific exchange projects between UNICAMP and European universities in France, Germany, Holland, and Spain. Angela has served as a Head of Department, as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies of Food Engineering and as Associated Director at the Chemical, Biological, and Agricultural Pluridisciplinary Research Center.

Professor Meireles’ expertise helped her serve as the coordinator of Food Science for the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) between 2014 and 2018. She is a partner and innovative director of Bioativos Naturais, Ltd. and a current invited Professor at the School of Food Engineering at the University of Campinas.

Angela is excited to join the RSC Advances team, saying “I am truly grateful to belong to the Editorial team of this prestigious Open Access Journal: this is the future of scientific publications.”

 

Browse a selection of work published by Angela:

Sub-2 μm fully porous and partially porous (core–shell) stationary phases for reversed phase liquid chromatography
Endler M. Borges, Mauricio A. Rostagno and M. Angela A. Meireles
RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 22875-22887
DOI: 10.1039/ C3RA45418E, Review Article

Fast analysis of phenolic terpenes by high-performance liquid chromatography using a fused-core column
Giovani L. Zabot, Moyses N. Moraes, Maurício A. Rostagno and M. Angela A. Meireles
Anal. Methods, 2014, 6, 7457-7468
DOI: 10.1039/ C4AY01124D, Paper

Fast analysis of β-ecdysone in Brazilian ginseng (Pfaffia glomerata) extracts by high-performance liquid chromatography using a fused-core column
Mauricio A. Rostagno, Isabel C. N. Debien, Renata Vardanega, Gislaine C. Nogueira, Gerardo F. Barbero and M. Angela A. Meireles
Anal. Methods, 2014, 6, 2452-2459
DOI: 10.1039/ C3AY42276C, Paper

 

Amanda L Garner. RSC Advances Associate Editor RSCAmanda Garner received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh working under the supervision of Prof. Kazunori Koide and completed NIH-funded postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Prof. Kim Janda at The Scripps Research Institute. She began her independent career in 2013 in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Michigan.
Her laboratory uses chemical biology, medicinal chemistry and molecular and cellular biology approaches to investigate the high-risk/high-reward areas of targeting microRNAs, RNA-protein and protein-protein interactions for probe and drug discovery.

Amanda looks forward to her new role, saying “I am excited for the opportunity to help RSC Advances in promoting the high-quality and impactful chemical research being performed within the global community.”

 

 

 

 

 

Browse a selection of work published by Amanda:

cat-ELCCA: catalyzing drug discovery through click chemistry
Amanda L. Garner
Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 6531-6539
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC02332H, Feature Article

A click chemistry-based microRNA maturation assay optimized for high-throughput screening
Daniel A. Lorenz and Amanda L. Garner
Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 8267-8270
DOI: 10.1039/C6CC02894B, Communication

Antagonism of a zinc metalloprotease using a unique metal-chelating scaffold: tropolones as inhibitors of P. aeruginosa elastase
Jessica L. Fullagar, Amanda L. Garner, Anjali K. Struss, Joshua A. Day, David P. Martin, Jing Yu, Xiaoqing Cai, Kim D. Janda and Seth M. Cohen
Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 3197-3199
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC41191E, Communication

Submit your research or reviews to Angela & Amanda now, they will be delighted to receive them!

See our author guidelines for information on our article types or find out more about the advantages of publishing in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.

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Read our Editors’ Collection on Graphene by Pablo Denis

We are delighted to share with you our latest collection of recently published articles focusing on Graphene, handpicked by Associate Editor Pablo Denis.

As the world’s largest gold open access chemistry journal, all publications in RSC Advances are free to access. We hope you enjoy reading these articles.

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Featured articles:

Graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, and their heterostructures: properties and applications
Jingang Wang, Fengcai Ma and Mengtao Sun
RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 16801-16822. DOI: 10.1039/C7RA00260B

Uniform nanoporous graphene sponge from natural polysaccharides as a metal-free electrocatalyst for hydrogen generation
Jinan Niu, Antonio Domenech-Carbó, Ana Primo and Hermenegildo Garcia
RSC Adv., 2019, 9, 99-106. DOI: 10.1039/C8RA08745H

Synthesis and characterization of sulfophenyl-functionalized reduced graphene oxide sheets
Benjamin Diby Ossonon and Daniel Bélanger
RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 27224-27234. DOI: 10.1039/C6RA28311J

 

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Pablo Denis, RSC Advances Associate Editor

 

 

Meet the Editor

Associate Editor Pablo A. Denis was born in 1975 in Uruguay. He received a PhD in Chemistry in 2004 before becoming a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at Davis, and is now based at the Universidad de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay, Uruguay. His research interests include the investigation of 2D materials by means of first principle calculations.

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Read our Editors’ Collection on Supramolecular Chemistry by Leyong Wang

We are delighted to share with you our latest collection of recently published articles focusing on Supramolecular Chemistry, handpicked by Associate Editor Leyong Wang.

As the world’s largest gold open access chemistry journal, all publications in RSC Advances are free to access. We hope you enjoy reading these articles.

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Featured articles:

Bioinspired temporal supramolecular polymerization
Shikha Dhiman, Aritra Sarkara and Subi J. George
RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 18913-18925. DOI: 10.1039/C8RA03225D

Supramolecular control of liquid crystals by doping with halogen-bonding dyes
Jaana Vapaavuori, Antti Siiskonen, Valentina Dichiarante, Alessandra Forni, Marco Saccone, Tullio Pilati, Christian Pellerin, Atsushi Shishido, Pierangelo Metrangolo and Arri Priimagi
RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 40237-40242. DOI: 10.1039/C7RA06397K

Preparation of prolinamide with adamantane for aldol reaction catalysis in brine and separation using a poly(AN-MA-β-CD) nanofibrous film via host–guest interaction
Rui Wang, Enjie Xu, Zhenming Su, Haifeng Duan, Jinjin Wang, Longqi Xue, Yingjie Lin, Yaoxian Li, Zhonglin Wei and Qingbiao Yang
RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 28376-28385, DOI: 10.1039/C8RA04802A

 

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Professor Leyong Wang, RSC Advances Associate Editor, Editor's Collection: Supramolecular Chemistry

 

 

 

Meet the Editor

Associate Editor Leyong Wang is a Professor at Nanjing University. His research focuses on supramolecular systems of molecular devices, from molecular macrocycles and cages, to topological molecules, and supramolecular dynamic materials for drug delivery and molecular sensing.

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