RSC Advances Blog

Our latest themed collection, ‘Materials for energy storage,’ Guest Edited by Professor Chang Ming Li (Southwest University, China), presents a broad range of materials for energy storage, in particular for sustainable clean energies such as Li batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells and solar cells.

This collection demonstrates various novel methods to tailor nanoscale materials in both physical structure and chemical composition for superior performance of energy storage. In addition the collection gives fundamental insights into the relation of energy storage to the nanostructure of the materials.

These excellent works – just a few of which are illustrated below – powerfully illustrate the great promise of nanoscience for solutions to the fast depletion of fossil fuels and environmental contamination issues.

View the themed collection here.

RSC Advances has recently published a themed collection: Cellular and Tissue Imaging – Luminescent Tags and Probes.

Cellular and tissue imaging provide critical tools for scientists to understand cellular functions, combat disease and develop better medicines. There are a broad range of molecules and compounds that are effective in this function, including fluorescent organic dyes, phosphorescent metal complexes, luminescent lanthanide compounds and nanoparticles.

The themed collection features articles showcasing the very latest research from this emerging field and is Guest Edited by Professor Suning Wang (Queen’s University, Canada) and Professor J. Gareth Williams (University of Durham, UK).

Highlights in the collection include comprehensive reviews on fluorescent indicators for imaging biological Zn ions (Professor Lei Zhu, Florida State University, USA) and carbon-based quantum dots for fluorescence imaging of cells and tissues (Professors Sheng-Tao Yang, Southwest University for Nationalities, China and Ya-Ping Sun, Clemson University, USA).

Some articles in the collection feature supplementary videos, including this video of a pollen root stained with an emissive europium complex from a paper by Professor David Parker (Durham University):

Links to all the articles can be found on the themed collection landing page

We are delighted to announce that submissions are open for our new web-themed issue on Tribology. 

This collection is Guest Edited by Professor James Batteas (Texas A&M University, USA), Professor Graham Leggett (University of Sheffield, UK) and Professor Scott Perry (University of Florida, USA).

In this themed issue we seek to highlight the highly interdisciplinary nature of the field of Tribology to illustrate the rich chemistry found within interfaces in sliding contacts and the tight connection between chemistry, biology and mechanics.

We would like to encourage you to submit to this special issue to help highlight the important innovations in this field and illustrate the challenges faced in examining such systems from experimental and theoretical perspectives. 

Articles can be submitted from now until the 28th February 2014 – submit your work today!  Please indicate in your covering letter that your submission is for consideration for the Tribology issue. 

If you have any queries or for more information, please contact the Editorial Office: advances-rsc@rsc.org.  

 
This collection will also include contributions from the BP Castrol- RSC International Symposium on Tribology and Lubricants.  This symposium will be held in Wuhan (19th November 2013) and Shanghai (21st November 2013). More details of the excellent speakers are on the website. Register for this event for free online.

Take at look at issue 28 of RSC Advances to read our latest themed issue on:

Bioactive surfaces for hard tissue regeneration

This issue is Guest Edited by Professors Matthias Epple and Roman Surmenev and features work covering the modification of the surface properties of different implant materials to control their interaction with the biological environment.

Read the Editorial for the issue here.

Take a look also at the recent Chemistry World story on Bone-repairing nanoparticles laced with DNA.

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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, ChemComm and RSC Advances are delighted to announce the publication of a timely web collection on:

Nucleic Acids: new life, new materials

Guest-edited by:

Through over 70 communications, full papers, feature articles and perspectives, this collection guides the reader through the most recent and exciting findings in nucleic acids research and applications in emerging areas.

Some of the work presented in this virtual collection is also dedicated to the memory of Professor Har Gobind Khorana (1922 – 2011) and Dr Daniel McGillivray Brown (1923 – 2012) acknowledging their legacy to the nucleic acids community.

“The ingenuity of nucleic acids chemists is formidable, particularly in the newly emerging areas involving DNA architecture combined with novel chemical modifications and material composites. This web collection nicely showcases this potential.”
… Read this and more in the guest-editors’ Editorial for the issue.

As a taster, this collection of articles includes:

Pyridostatin analogues promote telomere dysfunction and long-term growth inhibition in human cancer cells
Sebastian Müller, Deborah A. Sanders, Marco Di Antonio, Stephanos Matsis, Jean-François Riou, Raphaël Rodriguez and Shankar Balasubramanian
Org. Biomol. Chem., DOI: 10.1039/C2OB25830G, Paper

A clocked finite state machine built from DNA
Cristina Costa Santini, Jonathan Bath, Andy M. Tyrrell and Andrew J. Turberfield
Chem. Commun., DOI: 10.1039/C2CC37227D

Theoretical model of substrate-assisted self-assembly of DNA nanostructures
Shogo Hamada and Satoshi Murata
RSC Adv., DOI: 10.1039/C2RA20764H

Reduction of metal ions by boranephosphonate DNA
Subhadeep Roy, Magdalena Olesiak, Petra Padar, Heather McCuen and Marvin H. Caruthers
Org. Biomol. Chem., DOI: 10.1039/C2OB26661J

Dehydration from conserved stem regions is fundamental for ligand-dependent conformational transition of the adenine-specific riboswitch
Vinit Kumar, Tamaki Endoh, Kentaro Murakami and Naoki Sugimoto
Chem. Commun., DOI: 10.1039/C2CC34506D

DNA glycoclusters and DNA-based carbohydrate microarrays: From design to applications
François Morvan, Sébastien Vidal, Eliane Souteyrand, Yann Chevolot and Jean-Jacques Vasseur
RSC Adv., DOI: 10.1039/C2RA21550K

The bacterial second messenger c-di-GMP: probing interactions with protein and RNA binding partners using cyclic dinucleotide analogs
Carly A. Shanahan and Scott A. Strobel
Org. Biomol. Chem., DOI: 10.1039/C2OB26724A

A DNA based five-state switch with programmed reversibility
Jonathan R. Burns, Søren Preus, Daniel G. Singleton and Eugen Stulz
Chem. Commun., DOI: 10.1039/C2CC35799B

Two-photon excitation of the fluorescent nucleobase analogues 2-AP and tC
R. S. K. Lane and S. W. Magennis
RSC Adv., DOI: 10.1039/C2RA21881J

…and many more.

We hope that you will find this collection enjoyable and stimulating to read!

Please feel free to send the link to the issue to other researchers who you think may be interested.