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We are delighted to welcome Dr Marvadeen Singh-Wilmot, University of the West Indies, Jamaica, as an Associate Editor!

Marvadeen Singh-Wilmot is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Jamaica, and the founder and Head of crXstal, the Caribbean Regional X-ray Science Toward Advancement Laboratory, the only single-crystal X-ray diffraction hub in the English-speaking Caribbean. She obtained her PhD in lanthanide chemistry from UWI Mona in 2003, following a BSc in Pure and Applied Chemistry from the same institution.

Her current research focuses on establishing a systematic structure–property framework for lanthanide coordination polymers (CPs) and metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), showing how lanthanide-ion size, linker design, supramolecular interactions (including halogen bonds) and synthetic conditions govern CP/MOF architecture and optical behaviour. Her group has designed, synthesised and structurally authenticated an extensive library of lanthanide CPs and framework materials across various ligand families, spanning the complete lanthanide series (La–Lu), all deposited in the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD).  In recognition of this contribution, Dr. Singh-Wilmot was designated a “CSD Champion” in 2025. Members of the library act as selective luminescent sensors for Fe³⁺, Cu²⁺ and nitroaromatic compounds with further testing on the way to explore their gas adsorption and storage capacity, and modify and screen them for anticancer activity. The library is also being currently expanded to include mixed ligand CPs and MOFs as well ligands that undergo photoisomerization for use as molecular switches.

Dr. Singh-Wilmot has made extensive contributions to research capacity building in the Caribbean, establishing crXstal as a regional platform for diffraction-based structural characterisation and crystallographic training. She is the co-founder and coordinator of the Caribbean Crystallography School and a member of the Executive Committee of the Greater Caribbean Light Source, an initiative to establish a synchrotron light source for the region. In 2010 she was inducted as a Young Affiliate Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and in 2023 she was elected Fellow of the Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS). She is also a member of the International Science Council’s Global Roster of Experts, one of the co-authors of IUPAC’s Guiding Principles for the Responsible Practice of Chemistry, and a former member of IUPAC’s Committee on Ethics, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (CEDEI).

Research areas
Inorganic Chemistry, including:

• Coordination chemistry and crystal engineering
• Metal–organic frameworks and coordination polymers
• Lanthanide chemistry and luminescence
• Luminescent sensing
• Functional and materials chemistry
• X-ray crystallography and diffraction

Discover some of Marvadeen’s publications:

Responsible chemistry for a changing world: IUPAC’s guiding principles
J. Garcia-Martinez, Peter G. Mahaffy, Mark C. Cesa, Mei-Hung Chiu, Jonathan E. Forman, Mary J. Garson, Richard M. Hartshorn, Tanja Junkers, Leah McEwen, Akiko Nakamura, Daniel O. Reddy, Marvadeen A. Singh-Wilmot, Christine M. Straut Langlinais, Supawan Tantayanon and Rylee E. Van’t Land
Chem. Sci., 2026, 17, 10804–10812

New lanthanide coordination polymers (Ln-CPs) from 2-hydroxyterephthalate: Excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) and sensing capabilities
Marvadeen A. Singh-Wilmot*, Jermaine A. Smith, Zeyar Min, Christopher H. Hossack, Elizabeth A. Decoteau, Christopher L. Cahill and Peter N. Nelson
Polyhedron, 2026, 294, 118160

Expanding the Library: Twenty New Ln(III) Metal–Organic Frameworks, Including Two Isoreticular Pairs, from Dihaloterephthalic Acid
Jermaine A. Smith, Marvadeen A. Singh-Wilmot*, Christopher H. Hossack; Christopher L. Cahill and Risan A. C. Ford
Cryst. Growth Des., 2024, 24, 7822–7836

Supramolecular assembly of lanthanide-2,3,5,6-tetrafluoroterephthalic acid coordination polymers via fluorine⋯fluorine interactions: a platform for luminescent detection of Fe3+ and nitroaromatic compounds
Jermaine A. Smith, Marvadeen A. Singh-Wilmot*, Korey P. Carter, Christopher L. Cahill and J. August Ridenour
New J. Chem., 2020, 44, 12317–12330

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We are delighted to welcome Professor Tiancheng Mu to the RSC Advances Editorial Board!

Tiancheng Mu is a Professor in the School of Chemistry and Life Sciences at Renmin University of China. He earned his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2004. From 2005 to 2007, he expanded his research expertise as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Industrial Chemistry at Oldenburg University, Germany, collaborating with Professor Jürgen Gmehling.

Dr. Mu’s research focuses primarily on ionic liquids, chemical thermodynamics, and green chemistry. He has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications and 8 books or chapters, holds 12 patents, and has accumulated more than 18,000 citations. His significant contributions to the field have earned him prestigious accolades, including the First-Class Science and Technology Award from the China Association for Instrumental Analysis (2016) and the Second-Class Natural Science Award from the Liangxi Forestry Science and Technology Award of the Chinese Forestry Society (2019).

In addition to his research, Dr. Mu holds several prominent editorial and leadership roles. He serves as an Associate Editor for RSC Advances and as Section Editor-in-Chief for Processes. He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards for the Journal of Molecular Liquids (Elsevier), Clean – Soil, Air, Water (Wiley), and Chemical Thermodynamics and Thermal Analysis (Elsevier). Furthermore, he is the Vice Dean of the Ionic Liquids Professional Committee of the Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China (CIESC), a former Vice Director of the Beijing Thermal Analysis Society, and a committee member across multiple specialized divisions within the Chinese Chemical Society (CCS) and CIESC—including supercritical fluids, chemical thermodynamics and thermal analysis, green chemistry, high purity chemicals technology and equipment, chemical industry big data and intelligent design.

Browse a selection of Tiancheng’s RSC publications:

Closed-loop upcycling of PET waste into defect-engineered Ni@C electrocatalysts for efficient formate production
Rui Qin, Chenyang Wei, Yijun Yin, Zhaohui Yang, Shao Wang, Yurun Tian, Lan Chen, Zhimin Xue and Tiancheng Mu
Green Chem., 2025, 27, 14279–14289

Weakened hydrogen bond connectivity promotes interfacial mass transfer for industrial level scalable biomass electrooxidation
Zhaohui Yang, Lan Chen, Yijun Yin, Chenyang Wei, Zhimin Xue and Tiancheng Mu
Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17, 8801–8809

Small organic molecules with tailored structures: initiators in the transition-metal-free C–H arylation of unactivated arenes
Zhenghui Liu, Peng Wang, Yu Chen, Zhenzhong Yan, Suqing Chen, Wenjun Chen and Tiancheng Mu
RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 14500–14509

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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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The RSC Advances team are delighted to welcome Professor Nadia Martínez-Villegas as our new Associate Editors!

Professor Nadia Martínez-Villegas, Instituto Potosino de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica, Mexico

Research Areas: Environmental chemistry including:

• Chemistry of soils/sediments.
• Environmental chemical analysis.
• Environmental remediation.
• Toxicity
• Water chemistry

Dr. Nadia Valentina Martínez-Villegas is a chemical engineer with an MSc in Chemical Engineering from the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí and a PhD in Soil Sciences from The Pennsylvania State University, USA. She is an environmental (bio)(hydro)(geo)chemist specializing in the behavior, mobility, and risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in soil–water systems. She is currently a Full Professor in the Division of Applied Geosciences at IPICYT (Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica) in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

Her research focuses on environmental geochemistry, particularly arsenic and trace metals in contaminated soils, sediments, urban dust, groundwater, and surface waters. Her work integrates field studies, laboratory experiments, geochemical modeling, and data-driven approaches to support environmental diagnosis, risk assessment, and decision-making in vulnerable and mining-impacted regions.

Dr. Martínez-Villegas has published over 60 peer-reviewed research articles and has supervised five PhD students, 13 MSc students, and 10 undergraduate theses. She has led and contributed to more than 12 national and international research projects and actively promotes interdisciplinary and international collaboration.

She serves as an Editor for RSC Advances and previously served as an Associate Editor for Royal Society Open Science. She has also acted as Guest Editor for journals including Frontiers in Geochemistry, Applied Geochemistry, and the International Journal of Environmental Pollution. She is the former President of the National Institute of Geochemistry (INAGEQ), Mexico, and Coordinator of the Arsenic Research and Action Network (ARAN).

Her scientific recognitions include the Royal Society–Newton Advanced Fellowship (2015), finalist for the Newton Prize UK–Mexico (2018), recognition by the Cuban Agency for Nuclear Energy and Advanced Technologies (2019), and an Honorable Mention of the Francisco Estrada Award from the Government of San Luis Potosí. She is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and serves on national and international scientific evaluation committees.

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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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We are delighted to welcome Professor Surajit Ghosh, Dr Fabienne Dumoulin and Dr Bob Baker the RSC Advances team!

Surajit Ghosh was born in West Bengal, India. He studied Organic Chemistry at the University of Calcutta, India, and gained his Master of Science in Organic Chemistry in 2000. Then, he moved to Syngene International Pvt. Ltd (Biocon INDIA Group) and worked as a Scientist till July 2004 on a drug discovery project. Subsequently, he moved to the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in August 2004 for his doctoral studies in the group of Prof. Sandeep Verma in the area of Peptide Self-assembly.

After completing his Ph.D. in July 2008, he received a postdoctoral fellowship at the Cell Biology and Biophysics Division of European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany with Dr Thomas Surrey (August 2008), where he worked on the organization of microtubule and molecular motor proteins till December 2010. He joined CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology Kolkata, India in 2011, and worked as a Principal Scientist till July 2019. Subsequently, he joined as a Professor in the Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur in July 2019. He is a recipient of the BIOCON Tribute award, EMBL Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Ramanujan Fellowship, Indian Peptide Society Young Scientist Award, Asima Chatterjee Young Scientist Award, Syamasri Gupta Young Scientist Award, CSIR-CDRI Award for Excellence in Drug Research (2020) and SERB-STAR Award (2020). He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2016), and the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (2018). At IIT Jodhpur he is leading his group with current research focus on the areas of Chemical Neuroscience, Chemical Biology and the Development of Biophysical Platform/Biosensor.

Browse a selection of Surajit’s RSC publications:

Designed hybrid anticancer nuclear-localized peptide inhibits aggressive cancer cell proliferation
Prasenjit Mondal, Saswat Mohapatra, Debmalya Bhunia, Prabir Kumar Gharai, Nabanita Mukherjee, Varsha Gupta, Satyajit Ghosh and Surajit Ghosh
RSC Med. Chem., 2022, 13, 196-201

An overview of key potential therapeutic strategies for combat in the COVID-19 battle
Gaurav Das, Surojit Ghosh, Shubham Garg, Satyajit Ghosh, Aniket Jana, Ramkamal Samat, Nabanita Mukherjee, Rajsekhar Roy and Surajit Ghosh
RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 28243-28266

A bis-indole/carbazole based C5-curcuminoid fluorescent probe with large Stokes shift for selective detection of biothiols and application to live cell imaging
Pinaki Bhattacharjee, Sourav Chatterjee, Anushree Achari, Abhijit Saha, Debkumar Nandi, Chiranjit Acharya, Kasturi Chatterjee, Surajit Ghosh, Snehasikta Swarnakar and Parasuraman Jaisankar
Analyst, 2020, 145, 1184-1189

Fabienne Dumoulin is a faculty at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University. She studied first biology, graduated in biochemistry then completed her PhD with a European Label in Organic Chemistry at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France (2002). After a post-doc in Pisa, Italy, she settled in Turkey in 2005. She has been awarded several Young Scientist Awards: TUBA-GEBİP from the Turkish Academy of Sciences (2015), BAGEP from the Bilim Akademisi (2015) and the Mustafa N Parlar Foundation of METU (2016). She guest-edited a themed issue ‘Nano- and Molecular Engineering of Photosensitisers’ for Photobiol. Photochem. Sci. (Nov 2018), has co-edited the book series “Porphyrin Science by Women” published in January 2021, and recently contributed to the book series Fundamentals of Porphyrin Chemistry: A 21st Century Approach. She has co-authored 85+ publications (research articles, reviews and book chapters), and has supervised a dozen of Master and PhD students so far. She is an associate editor of RSC Advances since 2015.

Her research interests focus on the design and synthesis of tetrapyrrolic derivatives, mainly phthalocyanines for photodynamic therapy to treat cancer and combat AMR, either molecular or with nanotechnology. She is also interested in the energy and catalytic applications of phthalocyanines.

Browse a selection of Fabienne’s RSC publications:

The unique features and promises of phthalocyanines as advanced photosensitisers for photodynamic therapy of cancer
Pui-Chi Lo, M. Salomé Rodríguez-Morgade, Ravindra K. Pandey, Dennis K. P. Ng, Tomás Torres and Fabienne Dumoulin
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2020, 49, 1041-1056

Phthalocyanine-based mesoporous organosilica nanoparticles: NIR photodynamic efficiency and siRNA photochemical internalization
Gülçin Ekineker, Christophe Nguyen, Sümeyra Bayır, Sofia Dominguez Gil, Ümit İşci, Morgane Daurat, Anastasia Godefroy, Laurence Raehm, Clarence Charnay, Erwan Oliviero, Vefa Ahsen, Magali Gary-Bobo, Jean-Olivier Durand and Fabienne Dumoulin
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 11619-11622

Photophysical properties of palladium/platinum tetrasulfonyl phthalocyanines and their application in triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion
Yuanyuan Che, Wenbo Yang, Geliang Tang, Fabienne Dumoulin, Jianzhang Zhao, Lang Liu and Ümit İşci
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018, 6, 5785-5793

Dr Bob Baker was born in Blaenavon, South Wales. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Warwick and his PhD studies under the supervision of Prof. P. G. Edwards at Cardiff University (1997-2001) on early transition metal triphosphamacrocycles. He then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow with Prof. Cameron Jones (2001-2005), working on low oxidation state group 13 compounds, followed by an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship held at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, working with Prof. Dr. Matthias Tamm on substituted cyclohepatrienyl early transition metal complexes. From 2006-2008 he was a Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at Nottingham Trent University, before moving to Trinity College in January 2009. His research interests are in fundamental and applied actinide chemistry and the development of new transition metal complexes for catalysis.

Browse a selection of Bob’s RSC publications:

A multi-technique study of altered granitic rock from the Krunkelbach Valley uranium deposit, Southern Germany
Ivan Pidchenko, Stephen Bauters, Irina Sinenko, Simone Hempel, Lucia Amidani, Dirk Detollenaere, Laszlo Vinze, Dipanjan Banerjee, Roelof van Silfhout, Stepan N. Kalmykov, Jörg Göttlicher, Robert J. Baker and Kristina O. Kvashnina
RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 25529-25539

A computational investigation of orbital overlap: Versus energy degeneracy covalency in [UE2]²⁺ (E = O, S, Se, Te) complexes
James A. Platts and Robert J. Baker
Dalton Trans., 2020, 49, 1077-1088

Perfluorinated phosphine and hybrid P–O ligands for Pd catalysed C–C bond forming reactions in solution and on Teflon supports
Farzana Begum, Muhammad Ikram, Brendan Twamley and Robert J. Baker
RSC Adv., 2019, 9, 28936-28945

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