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RSC Advances breaks new ground

27 Nov 2013

For a new journal, RSC Advances has already seen significant successes:

The first articles were published just 16 weeks after the journal was announced in April 2011
It was the first chemistry journal to use topic modelling technology to automatically classify articles into one or more of 12 subject categories.
2000 articles were published by November 2012, with the journal moving to weekly issues

And now this journal is pushing the boundaries again.

The RSC Advances Issue in Progress image

From Issue 1 of 2014, RSC Advances is moving to article-based publishing, with articles assigned page numbers and published in an Issue in Progress as soon as they are in their final (fully edited and formatted) form.

As an author, this means you will receive your RSC Advances page numbers much faster.

And as a reader, you can now decide how you’d like to view articles, with the options of ordering the issue by article type, pagination, subject, or date published.

But that’s not all – the next level of topic modelling technology has just been introduced, so you can easily drill down to the topics most relevant to your research. For example, the energy category is now subdivided into eight sections, covering: biofuels & biomass; biotechnology; fossil fuels; electrochemical energy; hydrogen; materials & nanotechnology; nuclear power; and solar energy. Other subject categories have between seven and sixteen sub-categories – you can view them here.

Plus you can now select subject-specific table of content alerts – taking you straight to the most relevant articles.

Visit the RSC Advances homepage to explore these new developments – and if you have any comments, please contact us.

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HOT papers in RSC Advances

25 Nov 2013

Here are the latest HOT papers published in RSC Advances:

Synthesis of [¹⁸F]4-(4-fluorophenyl)-1,2,4-triazole-3,5-dione: an agent for specific radiolabelling of tyrosine
Flagothier Jessica, Warnier Corentin, Dammicco Sylvestre, Lemaire Christian and Luxen André
RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 24936-24940
DOI: 10.1039/C3RA44666B

Novel environmentally friendly (Bi, Ca, Zn, La)VO₄ inorganic yellow pigments
Wendusu, Taihei Honda, Toshiyuki Masui and Nobuhito Imanaka
RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 24941-24945
DOI: 10.1039/C3RA43978J

Iron-catalysed alkene hydrogenation and reductive cross-coupling using a bench-stable iron(II) pre-catalyst
Dominik J. Frank, Léa Guiet, Alexander Käslin, Elliot Murphy and Stephen P. Thomas
RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 25698-25701
DOI: 10.1039/C3RA44519D

All the papers listed above are free to access for the next 4 weeks!

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14th EuCheMS International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment

07 May 2013

The 14th EuCheMS International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment (ICCE 2013) is to be held in Barcelona from the 25-28 June 2013.

The main aims of ICCE 2013 are:

To link pioneering research with existing and up-coming environmental issues
To discuss fundamental and applicable aspects related to the fate of chemicals in the environment
To generate awareness for emerging contaminants

The scientific programme will feature contributions in the following topics:

Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols
Soil and Sediment Pollution, Wastes
Water Pollution and Treatment
(Eco-)Toxicology: Pollutants Exposure and Effects on Biota and Ecosystems
Modelling, Management and Risk Assessment
Transformation and Fate of Pollutants
Green and Sustainable Industrial Chemistry
Emerging Pollutants

Register for ICCE 2013 today through the conference website – online registration ends 1 June 2013.

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RSC Grants for the 44th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress

22 Apr 2013

The RSC are delighted to be able to provide £400 bursaries for ten UK-based PhD student and early career researcher members to participate in the 44^th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress in Istanbul, Turkey, between the 11^th and 16^th August 2013.

The main topic of this year’s congress is “Clean Energy Through Chemistry”. Speakers include Daniel Nocera from Harvard and Martin Quack from ETH Zurich. For more details, please see http://www.iupac2013.org/.

To apply for this grant, please complete the application form (my.rsc.org/content/images/Science/IUPAC-application.pdf) and include a copy of your CV by noon on Friday the 26^th April. Applications should be sent to science@rsc.org. Please note that the registration deadline for IUPAC 2013 is the 30^th April. Members wishing to apply for an RSC grant will also need to register for the congress via the IUPAC 2013 website (http://www.iupac2013.org/abstract_submissions.asp).

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email science@rsc.org.

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Professor Mike Ward welcomes the RSC Advances Advisory Board

25 Mar 2013

Professor Mike Ward, Chair of the RSC Advances Editorial Board, welcomes the new Advisory Board to the Journal.

“RSC Advances is delighted to announce the appointment of a 25-strong Advisory Board. It consists of distinguished academics from all over the world whose collective work, in keeping with the broad scope of the Journal, covers all areas of the chemical sciences with an emphasis on interdiscplinary and emerging areas. As the Journal goes from strength to strength – passing 2000 published articles and moving from monthly to weekly publication in just a year and a half after starting – the Editorial Board members and publishing team look forward to working with our Advisory Board members in helping to promote the Journal around the world, to improve the content even further, and to ensure that RSC Advances remains at the forefront of chemistry publishing.”

Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, India	Ali Khademhosseini Harvard Medical School, USA
Bruce Arndtsen McGill University, Canada	Jinghong Li Tsinghua University, China
Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil	Kenneth Lo City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Sally Brooker University of Otago, New Zealand	Hiromi Nakai Waseda University, Japan
S. Chandrasekhar Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, India	Colin Raston Flinders University, Australia
Yougtae Chang National University of Singapore, Singapore	John Roberts Caltech, USA
Hui-Ming Cheng Shenyang National Laboratory, China	Siddhartha Roy Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, India
Kilwon Cho Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea	Magnus Rueping RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Andrew deMello ETH Zurich, Switzerland	Bradley D. Smith University of Notre Dame, USA
Koichi Eguchi Kyoto University, Japan	Roman Surmenev Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia
Teruo Fujii University of Tokyo, Japan	Nico Völcker University of South Australia, Australia
Stefan Grimme University of Bonn, Germany	Christoph Weder University of Freibourg, Switzerland
Malcolm Halcrow University of Leeds, UK	Chunhua Yan Peking University, China

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Bone-repairing nanoparticles laced with DNA

28 Feb 2013

A bone-repairing nanoparticle paste has been developed that promises faster repair of fractures and breakages. DNA containing two growth-factor genes is encapsulated inside synthetic calcium-phosphate nanoparticles. These genes can enter cells and induce the synthesis of proteins that are able to accelerate bone growth.

The treatment of bone loss or fracture – after trauma, surgery or tumour extractions, for instance – represents a major challenge in clinical medicine. Matthias Epple at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, who leads the team that developed the new bone paste, explains that ‘alternatives, such as bone from donors and synthetic calcium phosphate, suffer from infection problems, poor mechanical stability or inadequate resorption to form new bone.’ The team’s approach combines the bone-forming action of calcium phosphate – the principal component of bone – at the site of injection with further stimulation of bone growth in the surrounding tissue.

Injecting the paste into the bone Genes for two growth factors are encapsulated within the nanoparticles: bone morphogenetic protein 7 (BMP-7), which stimulates bone-forming cells, and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which induces the growth of blood vessels for bone-cell nutrition. Following injection, the nanoparticles are taken up by the surrounding cells, where the acidic conditions of the lysosomes dissolves the calcium phosphate and releases the DNA. These transfected cells then produce the growth factors that accelerate bone growth and reduce the amount of time a patient is immobile. Epple expects a long-lasting stimulatory effect that will aid growth over the months and years required for bones to heal fully, preventing the need for multiple injections.

Michael Hofmann, who works on bone cements and drug delivery at the University of Birmingham, UK, remarks: ‘The bioresorbable paste would be replaced quickly by newly formed bone, so effectively you would have a vanishing implant. In a population where an increasing number of people have impaired bone-growth abilities – for instance, the elderly – the findings have tremendous potential for accelerating the regrowth of any bone loss or fracture in orthopaedic and dental applications.’

Epple’s team plan to extend their work on calcium-phosphate nanoparticles to target specific cell types by attaching antibodies to the nanoparticle surface.

by Michael Parkin

The above story was published in Chemistry World on the 13th February 2013: Bone-repairing nanoparticles laced with DNA

Read the full article for free until the 29th March 2013!

A genetically active nano-calcium phosphate paste for bone substitution, encoding the formation of BMP-7 and VEGF-A, Svetlana Chernousova, Jan Klesing, Nadia Soklakova and Matthias Epple, RSC Adv., 2013, DOI: 10.1039/C3RA23450A

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Dalton Discussion 14 – Advancing the chemistry of actinides

01 Feb 2013

Advancing the Chemistry of the Actinides – Dalton Discussion 14

The oral abstract deadline is 15 February 2013 – so submit yours now!

The chemistry of the actinides has the potential to impact upon many of the 21st century chemical challenges requisite for a secure and sustainable future. This conference will highlight the burgeoning role and exciting prospects for actinides in modern, metal-based chemistry.

Why take part in this discussion?

It’s a great way to get your own research better known.

The excellent keynote and invited speakers will focus on the following themes:

Probing structure and bonding in actinide compounds
Actinide properties and materials applications
Advances in actinide reactivity and catalysis
Actinides in the environment

Confirmed speakers:	Geoff Cloke, University of Sussex, UK
	Melissa Denecke, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
	Laurent Maron, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
	Jeffrey Long, University of California, Berkeley, USA
	Nik Kaltsoyannis, University College London, UK
	Marinella Mazzanti, CEA, Grenoble, France
	Paula Diaconescu, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
	Jonathan Lloyd, University of Manchester, UK

So don’t miss this opportunity to hear from and network with the best in the field!

For more information or to submit your abstract, visit the dedicated RSC webpage.

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2012 – A year to celebrate

28 Nov 2012

Bottle of champagne opening As 2012 begins to draw to a close, we wanted to take a few moments to reflect back on what has been a very successful year for RSC Advances…

…in July, just 11 months after the first issue was published, RSC Advances announced that it would now be publishing weekly issues. The recent publication of the 2000th RSC Advances article just reinforces what a tremendous start the Journal has had.

…in August, the Journal celebrated it’s first anniversary and marked the event with a celebratory drinks reception at the EuCheMs meeting in Prague.

And not forgetting that this year has also seen the Journal indexed in major databases, offer all submitting authors the chance to publish their manuscript on acceptance and publish its first ‘Gold for Gold’ article.

We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the success of the Journal in the last 12 months, in particular our authors and referees. We look forward to working with many more of you to continue this success into 2013.

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RSC Advances breaks new ground

HOT papers in RSC Advances

14th EuCheMS International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment

RSC Grants for the 44th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress

Professor Mike Ward welcomes the RSC Advances Advisory Board

Top 10 most accessed articles in 2012

Bone-repairing nanoparticles laced with DNA

Dalton Discussion 14 – Advancing the chemistry of actinides

Top 10 cited review articles in RSC Advances

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