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Happy Diwali!

Diwali is also known as the “festival of lights”and RSC Advances joins in the celebration by highlighting the latest articles published that involve light. Please note that all our content are free to download upon a simple registration process.

A lot of reactions need light to happen and other molecules emit light. These chemical reactions have applications in organoelectronics such as organic light-emitting diodes, photovoltaics or in bio-labelling techniques and photocatalytic reactions such as light-induced water splitting, etc…

Below is a selection of RSC Advances articles that may be of interests to you:

Blue phosphorescent iridium(III) complexes containing carbazole-functionalized phenylpyridine for organic light-emitting diodes: energy transfer from carbazolyl moieties to iridium(III) cores
Hoe-Joo Seo, Myungkwan Song, Sung-Ho Jin, Jung Hei Choi, Seong-Jae Yun and Young-Inn Kim
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 755-757, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00140J, Communication

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, Paper

Monodisperse CeO2/CdS heterostructured spheres: one-pot synthesis and enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen activity
Xi-Hong Lu, Shi-Lei Xie, Teng Zhai, Yu-Feng Zhao, Peng Zhang, Yue-Li Zhang and Ye-Xiang Tong
RSC Adv., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00252J, Communication

Hierarchical Bi7O9I3 micro/nano-architecture: facile synthesis, growth mechanism, and high visible light photocatalytic performance
Xin Xiao and Wei-De Zhang
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1099-1105, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00323B, Paper

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, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00277E, Paper

Synthesis of FeS2 and Co-doped FeS2 films with the aid of supercritical carbon dioxide and their photoelectrochemical properties
Jiqing Jiao, Liuping Chen, Daibin Kuang, Wei Gao, Huajie Feng and Jian Xia
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 255-261, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00066G, Paper

Well-crystallized square-like 2D BiOCl nanoplates: mannitol-assisted hydrothermal synthesis and improved visible-light-driven photocatalytic performance
Jinyan Xiong, Gang Cheng, Guangfang Li, Fan Qin and Rong Chen
RSC Adv., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00335F, Paper

Length control of Ag nanorods in mesoporous SiO2–TiO2 by light irradiation
Go Kawamura, Mai Murakami, Teruhisa Okuno, Hiroyuki Muto and Atsunori Matsuda
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 584-587, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00317H, Communication

A dithienyl benzotriazole-based poly(2,7-carbazole) for field-effect transistors and efficient light-emitting diodes
Bo Liu, Yingping Zou, Shanghui Ye, Yuehui He and Kechao Zhou
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 424-428, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00134E, Paper

One-pot synthesis and characterization of well defined core–shell structure of FePt@CdSe nanoparticles
Thuy T. Trinh, Derrick Mott, Nguyen T. K. Thanh and Shinya Maenosono
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 100-108, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00012H, Paper

RSC Advances wishes a Happy Diwali to all our hindu authors, referees, readers and editors!

RSC Advances was proud to sponsor a poster prize at the 3rd Asian Coordination Chemistry conference in New Delhi, India.

Congratulations to Dr Sandeep Kumar Dey, from the group of Prof Gopal Das of the Indian Institute of Technology in Gauhati, for his poster on anion binding and host-guest chemistry with tripodal ligands.  Unfortunately, Dr Dey could not stay for the closing ceremony so the prize was accepted on his behalf by Professor M. Yamashita. See picture below.

Professor M. Yamashita (left) accepting the poster prize on behalf of Sandeep Dey. The prize was awarded by Professor Mike Ward (right), Editorial Board Chair of RSC Advances

In addition to the certificate Dr Dey was awarded a copy of the book ‘Organometallic Chemistry’ by Ian J S Fairlamb, Jason M Lynam, M G Humphrey, and published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

The latest inorganic chemistry articles published in RSC Advances can be freely downloaded here.

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

 

We’re delighted to welcome Professor Matthias Epple, from University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, as an Associate Editor for RSC Advances. He will handle manuscripts in the areas of biomaterials, biomineralization and nanosciences.

Since obtaining his PhD in physical chemistry from the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1992, Professor Epple has worked at University of Washington (Seattle, USA), and the Universities of Hamburg and Bochum (Germany). In 2003, he was appointed chair of inorganic chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen, his current position.

His research interests are focused on the synthesis and biomedical application of inorganic materials (especially nanoparticles), and crystallisation phenomena and solid-state reactions. He is currently the President of the German Society for Biomaterials.

Professor Epple’s Editorial office is now open– and we look forward to receiving your submissions.  

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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

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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.

From Argentina to New Zealand, Korea to USA, scientists around the world have shown their support for RSC Advances by submitting their work. Our first issue is online now and access is free.*

Communications, full papers and reviews are all represented in the mix that encompasses all the main areas of the chemical sciences. But finding the articles that are most relevant to you won’t be a problem: our sophisticated behind-the-scenes topic modelling classifies the content into one or more of twelve subject categories, accessible via the subject tab on the website. 

Among the highlights in this issue:

• Al Postigo (Buenos Aires) reviews radical syntheses in water to make a wide array of organic compounds
• Rueping and Volla from RWTH Aachen report on a one-pot, highly stereoselective synthesis of indoloquinolizidines
• Sally Brooker et al deliver their findings on the spin states of two iron (II) complexes of 4-phenylpyrazole-5-carbaldehyde derived ligands
• Craig Banks, winner of the 2011 Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize, and co-authors show that carbon nanotubes can electrochemically detect biologically-important molecules

Marcos Eberlin, who is one of RSC Advances’ Associate Editors, has demonstrated his support through publishing his work on charge-tagged N-heterocyclic carbenes.

Of the first issue Marcos commented: “Very nice collection indeed … The subject tab is superb!”

Plus, Editorial Board Chair Mike Ward and RSC Publishing Editor Sarah Ruthven share their aspirations for the journal in the Editorial. 

Let us know what you think of this first issue by adding your comments below.

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