RSC Advances Blog

Congratulations to Professor Daniel Shechtman, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, on winning the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasicrystals!

“Contrary to the previous belief that atoms were packed inside crystals in symmetrical patterns, Mr. Shechtman showed that the atoms in a crystal could be packed in a pattern that could not be repeated,” said the Nobel Academy.

The latest articles on materials and crystal engineering published in RSC Advances can be freely downloaded:

Insight into the crystal synthesis, activation and application of ZIF-20, Beatriz Seoane, Juan M. Zamaro, Carlos Téllez and Joaquín Coronas, RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 917-922

Tin oxide nanocrystals: controllable synthesis, characterization, optical properties and mechanistic insights into the formation process, Anshu Singhal, Bhaskar Sanyal and Avesh K. Tyagi, RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 903-910

Structures, stabilities and electronic properties of graphdiyne nanoribbons, Hongcun Bai, Ying Zhu, Weiye Qiao and Yuanhe Huang, RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 768-775

Chemical reactions under autogenic pressure at elevated temperature to fabricate photo-luminescent Ga2O3 nanocrystals and their coatings, Pani P. George, Vilas G. Pol, Yuri Koltypin, Makluf Shirly Ben-David, I. Genish and Aharon Gedanken, RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 619-624

Network forming units in alkali borate and borophosphate glasses and the mixed glass former effect, Michael Schuch, Christian Trott and Philipp Maass, RSC Adv., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00583A, Paper

Cu2O microcrystals: a versatile class of self-templates for the synthesis of porous Au nanocages with various morphologies, Xiaowang Liu, RSC Adv., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00250C, Paper

Reduction of Cu2O nanocrystals: reactant-dependent influence of capping ligands and coupling between adjacent crystal planes, Qing Hua, Kai Chen, Sujie Chang, Huizhi Bao, Yunsheng Ma, Zhiquan Jiang and Weixin Huang, RSC Adv., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00431J, Communication

Please note: The above articles can be read for free upon a simple registration process.

The Royal Society of Chemistry was proud to sponsor the workshop on frontiers in drug discovery research as well as two Young Chemists Awards at the 14th Asian Chemical Congress which was held in Thailand on the 5-8th September 2011. It was one of the largest chemical symposium in Asia with approximately 2000 delegates from over 30 countries (Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea, Malaysia, India, Brunei etc…).

Delegates gathered at the Queen Sikirit Convention Centre, in Bangkok, for four days of chemistry extravaganza. They were exposed to 13 parallel sessions covering a number of subject areas from materials and polymer chemistry to analytical and environmental chemistry, including physical, organic, inorganic and drug discovery sessions. The plenary talks included two Nobel Prize Winners: Ada E Yonath (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009) and Yuan Tseh Lee (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1986).

RSC Advances was pleased to present two Young Chemists Awards to MISS SUJITTRA POORAHONG and MISS SALUMA SAMANMAN who presented work on the following:

Cauliflower polyaniline sensor arrays and its applications to detect hydrogen peroxide, S. Poorahong et al.

Highly sensitive label-free capacitive immunosensor based on layer-by-layer self-assembled gold nanoparticles, S. Samanman et al.

Sujittra Poorahong and Kathleen Too

Saluma Samanman and Kathleen Too

Both winners were from the Prince of Songkla University, Trace Analysis and Biosensor Research Center, Faculty of Science, Thailand. The analytical young chemists sessions were chaired by Professors Orawan Chailapakul (Chulalongkorn University), Chongdee Thammakhet (Prince of Songkla University), Gunter Grampp (Graz University of Technology , Austria) and Chutintorn Punwong (Prince of Songkla University). Many congratulations to the winners!

 

From left to right: Kathleen Too, Chongdee Thammakhet, Sujittra Poorahong, Saluma Samanman, Gunter Grampp, Chutintorn Punwong

 

All RSC Advances articles published in 2011 and 2012 will be made free to access until December 2012. Please sign up to receive free access to the latest articles published in the journal.

Issue 2 has now been published online and consists of research from a wide spectrum of subject areas.  Whether you are a materials scientist, biologist, physicist or medicinal chemist, you are guaranteed to find articles of relevance to your specialist interests.

Noteworthy articles include:

Two unique (4,5,6)-connected 2D CdII coordination polymers based on the 5-nitro-1,2,3-benzenetricarboxylate ligand
Lu-Fang Ma, Jian-Hua Qin, Li-Ya Wang and Dong-Sheng Li
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 180-183
DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00119A

One-pot alkaline vapor oxidation synthesis and electrocatalytic activity towards glucose oxidation of CuO nanobelt arrays
Tetsuro Soejima, Hitomi Yagyu, Nobuo Kimizuka and Seishiro Ito
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 187-190
DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00109D

The flow of magnetic nanoparticles in magnetic drug targeting
Sibnath Kayal, Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Tapas Kumar Mandal and Raju V. Ramanujan
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 238-246
DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00023C

The electrogenerated chemiluminescence detection of IS6110 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis based on a luminol functionalized gold nanoprobe
Jie Jiang, Ying Chai and Hua Cui
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 247-254
DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00206F

Facile synthesis of 5-(alkylidene)thiophen-2(5H)-ones. A new class of antimicrobial agents
Tore Benneche, Gunnar Herstad, Marianne Rosenberg, Synnøve Assev and Anne Aamdal Scheie
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 323-332
DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00254F

Take advantage of our automated subject classification to view articles that are most relevant to you.

To be notified of our latest issue published, please sign up to our e-mail alert today!

Over the coming months, members of the team will be at the following conferences where they will be happy to talk to you:

• James Batteas, Associate Editor, will be at the Fall ACS meeting in Denver at the end of the month. Look for RSC Booth 1100! Lots of prizes to be won each day, incl. T-shirts, games & books.

• Marcos Eberlin, Associate Editor, will be at the Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale XXXVII in Brazil at the end of the month, where an RSC Advances poster prize will be awarded.

• Kathleen Too, Deputy Editor, travels to the 14th Asian Chemical Congress 2011 (14 ACC) taking place between 5-8 September 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. Please contact us if you’d like to arrange a meeting.

• Mike Ward, Chair of the Editorial Board, is attending the 3rd Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ACCC3) in New Delhi, India at the end of October. An RSC Advances poster prize will be awarded at this meeting.

And look out for our eye-catching RSC Advances materials, appearing at a variety of conferences over the coming months.