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RSC Advances is delighted to announce innovations in responsive switchable magnetic materials, a new themed collection.

This collection is Guest Edited by Irina Kühne (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences FZU, Czech Republic), Yann Garcia (Université catholique de Louvain UCLouvain, Belgium), Patrick Rosa (Institute of Condensed Matter Chemistry of Bordeaux CNRS, France) and Paulo Nuno Martinho (Universidade de Lisboa Campo Grande, Portugal).

This themed collection in RSC Advances aims to develop our current knowledge of responsive switchable magnetic materials, offering opportunities for the development of technologies.

Spin crossover (SCO) compounds are a unique class of materials characterised by their ability to switch between two spin states, low-spin and high-spin. This switching occurs in response to external stimuli, such as temperature, pressure, magnetic and electric fields, or light. The transition is often accompanied by dramatic changes in the physical properties of the material, making SCO compounds highly desirable for applications in sensors, data storage, and smart materials. The study of SCO materials is at the forefront of materials science, offering opportunities for the development of responsive and adaptive technologies.

Current challenges in the field of SCO materials include achieving precise control over the SCO phenomenon and developing scalable synthetic methods for SCO compounds. Opportunities lie in the integration of SCO materials into nanotechnology and electronics, exploring new stimuli-responsive mechanisms, and using their unique properties for applications in smart devices, data storage, and sensing technologies. Advances in computational studies also offer opportunities to predict and design materials with well-defined properties.

Research topics of interest:
• Synthesis and characterisation of responsive switchable magnetic materials.
• Studies on the mechanisms of responsiveness and switching behaviour at the molecular or material level.
• Development and optimisation of fabrication techniques for scalable production.
• Integration of responsive magnetic materials into devices and systems.
• Theoretical and computational studies to predict and optimise the behaviour of switchable magnetic materials.
• Review articles that summarise recent advances, challenges, and future directions in the field.

We welcome your submission to the series.

Submission deadline: 30th November 2024

Submit your article to this collection

Both Papers and Review articles will be considered for this themed collection. All submissions will be subject to an initial assessment by Associate Editors and, if suitable for the journal, they will be subject to rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of RSC Advances.

RSC Advances’ article processing charge (APC) is among the lowest in chemistry and waivers are also available for authors who meet the eligibility criteria outlined here. We have a number of Read & Publish deals in place with institutions, please see Chronoshub for more information on specific institutions and funders.

If you would like to submit to this themed collection the manuscript should be prepared according to our article guidelines and submitted via our online system any time before the submission deadline of 30th November 2024. During submission, authors will be asked if they are submitting for a themed collection and should include the name of the themed collection. If you would like to submit but require additional time to prepare your article, please do let us know by contacting the journal.

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RSC Advances is delighted to announce Functional nanoelectronics of low-dimensional nanomaterials, a new themed collection.

This collection is Guest Edited by Prof. Byungjin Cho (Chungbuk National University), Prof. Yung Joon Jung (Northeastern University), Prof. Bogyu Lim (Chungbuk National University), Prof. Han Seul Kim (Chungbuk National University)

In this themed collection, we aim to provide the recent advancements and key developments in the field of nanoelectronics.

Nanoelectronics holds a pivotal role in revolutionizing various technological challenges, employing the extraordinary electronic properties of nanomaterials, such as quantum confinement effects, high electron mobility, and tunable band structures. In particular, the continuous drive towards miniaturization in electronics has led to the exploration of the nanoscale materials and structures to develop the next-generation electronic devices with enhanced performance, reduced power consumption, and novel capability. In the past few decades, the emergence of diverse low-dimensional nanomaterials (quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, semiconductor nanowires, molecules, graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and three-dimensional nanostructures) has contributed to substantial progress in nanoelectronics, resulting in unprecedented functionalities.

For this themed collection, we encourage contributions from the academia/industrial researchers focusing on the areas such as nanomaterial synthesis, device fabrication, characterization, and simulation. More specifically, prospective research topics encompass, but are not limited to:

• Approaches to synthesizing low-dimensional nanomaterials for nanoelectronic applications.
• Investigation of novel or enhanced electronic functionalities enabled by low-dimensional nanomaterials.
• In-depth analysis techniques for fundamental properties of low-dimensional nanomaterials.
• Development of novel device structures and fabrication methods for integrating low-dimensional nanomaterials into electronic devices.
• Utilization of computational methods such as simulation, data-driven analysis, and machine learning for the design and optimization of nanomaterials and electronic devices.
• Exploration of diverse electronic applications such as computation, memory storage, communication, sensing, display, quantum computing, energy production/storage, and medical diagnostics.

We welcome your submission to the series.

Submission deadline: 8 December 2024

Submit your article to this collection

Both Papers and Review articles will be considered for this themed collection. All submissions will be subject to an initial assessment by Associate Editors and, if suitable for the journal, they will be subject to rigorous peer review to meet the usual high standards of RSC Advances.

RSC Advances’ article processing charge (APC) is among the lowest in chemistry and waivers are also available for authors who meet the eligibility criteria outlined here. We have a number of Read & Publish deals in place with institutions, please see Chronoshub for more information on specific institutions and funders.

If you would like to submit to this themed collection the manuscript should be prepared according to our article guidelines and submitted via our online system any time before the submission deadline of 8th December 2024. During submission, authors will be asked if they are submitting for a themed collection and should include the name of the themed collection. If you would like to submit but require additional time to prepare your article, please do let us know by contacting the journal.

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RSC Advances is delighted to present a themed collection on Advances in Sustainable Hydrogen Energy!

This themed collection has been motivated by the new wave of research on the design, analysis, and assessment of future hydrogen energy systems. Thermodynamic, technoeconomic and environmental analyses are central to such efforts to complement elements of socioeconomics and policy making. The purpose of this collection is to bring together the latest research findings of the international, multidisciplinary community of hydrogen energy on the system-level analyses of hydrogen technologies.

This collection is Guest Edited by Nader Karimi (Queen Mary University of London, UK), Manosh C. Paul (University of Glasgow, UK), Mohammad Hossein Doranehgard (University of Alberta, Canada), Larry K. B. Li (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong), and Freshteh Sotoudeh (Houston University, USA).

A selection of articles have been highlighted below, and you can view the full collection here.

Microwave-enhanced hydrogen production: a review
Jun Zhao, Duanda Wang, Lei Zhang, Minyi He, Wangjing Ma and Sui Zhao
RSC Adv., 2023,13, 15261-15273

Effects of throat sizing and gasification agents in a biomass downdraft gasifier: towards CO2-free syngas production
Ahmed M. Salem and Manosh C. Paul
RSC Adv., 2023,13, 10221-10238

H2-rich syngas production from gasification involving kinetic modeling: RSM-utility optimization and techno-economic analysis
Ajay Sharma and Ratnadeep Nath
RSC Adv., 2023,13, 10308-10321

View the full collection here

We welcome you to contribute to this collection. Please contact the Editorial Office to highlight your interest in submitting to this collection.

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RSC Advances (Royal Society of Chemistry) is delighted to announce a new themed collection on Advanced materials for thermoelectric systems.

This collection is Guest Edited by Dr. Maiyong Zhu (Jiangsu University, China), Prof. JungHo Kim (University of Wollongong, Australia) & Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Ali (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia)

This special collection aims to showcase the latest advancements in the field of thermoelectric systems and their diverse applications in various domains.

Besides developing more green energy technologies, improving the current energy efficiency is also urgent for realizing double carbon goals (carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals). Thermoelectric materials have gathered huge interest for their ability to harvest and convert the waste heat into useful electrical energy. They are expected to play a significant role in self-power wearable electronics depending on the temperature gradient between human body and the environment. Furthermore, thanks to their high cooling power density and the potential to be miniaturized and incorporated into chips, thermoelectric systems provide a compact all-solid-state solution for thermal management of advanced microelectronic/optoelectronic devices. In addition, thermoelectric systems may offer more opportunities to utilize renewable clean energies since there are abundant heat source around us, such as solar, geothermal, microwave irradiation, and so on. The past decades gave witness to the substantial achievement of thermoelectric research in view of innovative concepts, strategies to improve thermoelectric performance of conventional thermoelectric materials, and advanced materials systems.

Notably, although substantial progress has been made in the area of thermoelectric systems, there are still numerous challenges. For example, the low efficiency and high cost of current thermoelectric materials restricted the wide and practical application of thermoelectric. Interdisciplinary efforts are required for solving these issues and exploring high performance thermoelectric. Both engineering the existing thermoelectric materials need knowledge and techniques from different fields such as heat transfer, microelectronics, solid state physics, synthetic chemistry and nano science. In addition, it is also necessary to further develop the surrounding technologies, and there are practical requirements which need to be taken into account in depth. Specially, some in-situ techniques are need to reveal the beyond scientific principles.

Considering above context, it is meaningful for this themed collection of advance materials for thermoelectric systems to highlight recent key progress in studies related to thermoelectric systems, covering design, enhancement, and application of all thermoelectric systems. Both original research and review articles are welcome in this themed collection.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

• Synthesis and characterization of novel thermoelectric materials
• Strategies to improve performance of traditional thermoelectric materials
• Thermoelectric systems for recovery industry waste heat
• Thermoelectric generators
• Thermoelectric cooling devices
• Electrolytes for thermoelectrical cells
• Thermal charging cells
• Thermal self-power devices

We welcome your submission to the collection! Both papers and review articles will be considered for this themed collection. To be suitable for consideration, RSC Advances submissions should provide insight that advances the chemistry field.

The deadline for manuscript submission is 31^st October 2024. 

All manuscripts will be subject to the journal’s usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be published in a regular issue of the journal as soon as possible and then added to the themed collection on the journal webpage.

RSC Advances’ article processing charge (APC) is among the lowest in chemistry and waivers are also available for authors who meet the eligibility criteria outlined here. We have a number of Read & Publish deals in place with institutions, please see Chronoshub for more information on specific institutions and funders.

If you would like to submit to this themed collection the manuscript should be prepared according to our article guidelines and submitted via our online system any time before the submission deadline. During submission, authors will be asked if they are submitting for a themed collection and should include the name of the themed collection. If you would like to submit but require additional time to prepare your article, please do let us know by contacting the journal.

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RSC Advances is delighted to present this themed collection titled ‘New Insights into Biomolecular Systems from Large-Scale Simulations’.

This themed collection in RSC Advances highlights recent applications of computer simulations to understand the structural and functional dynamics of biomolecular systems, with the goal to extract insights from large datasets and permit direct comparisons to experimental data. An emphasis is placed on the application of large-scale models to address unexplored areas in protein folding, intrinsically disordered proteins, protein aggregation, nucleic acid structure and function, membrane proteins, signaling molecules crossing membranes, and ligand interactions, among other topics.

This collection was Guest Edited by RSC Advances Editorial Board member Professor Stacey Wetmore (University of Lethbridge, Canada), RSC Advances Associate Editor Professor Megan O’Mara (Australian National University) and Dr Sarah Rauscher (University of Toronto). They provide an overview of the collection in this accompanying Editorial.

A selection of articles have been highlighted below, and you can view the full collection here.

Partial peptide dissociation and binding groove plasticity in two major histocompatibility complex class I alleles – differences between alleles versus force field and sampling effects
Sebastian Wingbermühle and Lars V. Schäfer
RSC Adv., 2022, 12, 29908-29914

Polar/apolar interfaces modulate the conformational behavior of cyclic peptides with impact on their passive membrane permeability
Stephanie M. Linker, Christian Schellhaas, Benjamin Ries, Hans-Jörg Roth, Marianne Fouché, Stephane Rodde and Sereina Riniker
RSC Adv., 2022, 12, 5782-5796

How a single mutation alters the protein structure: a simulation investigation on protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP2
Yingnan Hou, Xiaoli Lu, Ziyao Xu, Jiarun Qu and Jing Huang
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 4263-4274

Simulation of defects, flexibility and rupture in biopolymer networks
Matthew H. J. Bailey and Mark Wilson
RSC Adv., 2022, 12, 2171-2180

View the full collection here

We welcome you to contribute to this collection. Please contact the Editorial Office to highlight your interest in submitting to this collection.

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Welcome to the RSC Fellows collection!

As part of the RSC Fellows collection, a growing collection highlights the scientific accomplishments of RSC Fellows and features cutting-edge developments and future prospects across our journals portfolio, we want to highlight contributions published by authors in RSC Advances!

We hope you enjoy reading and as always, all of our articles are open access so you can easily share your favourites online and with your colleagues.

Explore the full collection!

Boric acid catalysed hydrolysis of peroxyacids
Michael E. Deary
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 11826-11837

Carbon dots using a household cleaning liquid as a dopant for iron detection in hydroponic systems
Robert G. Hjort, Cícero C. Pola, Lisseth Casso-Hartmann, Diana C. Vanegas, Eric McLamore and Carmen L. Gomes
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 17244-17252

Type-II ternary Bi₂WO₆/rGO/SnFe₂O₄ heterojunction nanocomposites and their photocatalytic efficiency towards 4-nitrophenol reduction
Vani Narayanan and Badal Kumar Mandal
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 22616-22629

Journey of micronanoplastics with blood components
Durgalakshmi Rajendran and Natarajan Chandrasekaran
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 31435-31459

Crafting mono- and novel bis-methylated pyrroloquinoxaline derivatives from a shared precursor and its application in the total synthesis of marinoquinoline A
Margarita Damai, Norman Guzzardi, Viliyana Lewis, Zenobia X. Rao, Daniel Sykes and Bhaven Patel
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 29561-29567

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RSC Advances is delighted to announce a new themed collection on CRISPR-Based Diagnostics Methods, Devices, and Applications. 

This collection is Guest Edited by Dr Zhen Rong (Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, China), Prof Wataru Nomura (Hiroshima University, Japan) and Prof Weihua Guan (Pennsylvania State University, USA).

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat (CRISPR)-based diagnostics have been widely applied to sensitive and accurate nucleic acid analysis based on its highly efficient trans-cleavage activity. CRISPR assays can be integrated with nucleic acid amplification testing methods, microfluidic devices, and novel biosensors to simplify operation workflow and improve analytical performance, thus making it more applicable at point-of-care needs. Current challenges focus on the development of single-step nucleic acid amplification cascade CRISPR assays, “sample-in, answer-out” devices, and multiplex CRISPR assays.

This themed collection focuses on the development and applications of novel CRISPR-based diagnostics methods and devices. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

1. CRISPR-based diagnostics methods: nucleic acid amplification cascade CRISPR assays, amplification-free CRISPR assays, and digital CRISPR assays.
2. CRISPR-based diagnostics devices: CRISPR-integrated microfluidic devices, paper-based analytical devices, field-effect transistors, surface plasmon resonance biosensors, and other novel analytical devices.
3. CRISPR-based diagnostics applications: point-of-care detection of emerging pathogens, molecular diagnosis of genetic diseases, genotyping of variants, and discrimination of drug resistance mutations.
4. Chemistry-oriented CRISPR research for analytical and diagnostic applications.

This collection welcomes primary research articles as well as review articles in related fields to contribute to our special issue. To be suitable for consideration, RSC Advances submissions should provide insight that advances the chemistry field.

We welcome your submission to the collection!

The deadline for manuscript submission is 21^st September 2024. 

Please note our data requirements and guidelines here. If your manuscript contains electrophoresis data, please be aware we require images of the full, raw, and uncropped images.

All manuscripts will be subject to the journal’s usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be published in a regular issue of the journal as soon as possible and then added to the themed collection on the journal webpage.

RSC Advances’ article processing charge (APC) is among the lowest in chemistry and waivers are also available for authors who meet the eligibility criteria outlined here. We have a number of Read & Publish deals in place with institutions, please see Chronoshub for more information on specific institutions and funders.

If you would like to submit to this themed collection the manuscript should be prepared according to our article guidelines and submitted via our online system any time before the submission deadline of 21st September 2024. During submission, authors will be asked if they are submitting for a themed collection and should include the name of the themed collection. If you would like to submit but require additional time to prepare your article, please do let us know by contacting the journal.

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