Welcome to our new Associate Editor: P. Sujatha Devi

We are delighted to welcome Dr P. Sujatha Devi to the RSC Advances team!

Dr. P. Sujatha Devi received her Ph.D in Chemistry from the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry department,  Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1991. Dr. Devi has made outstanding research contributions in frontier and diverse areas of solid state chemistry, spanning from material synthesis, surface functionalization and characterization through to application and device development.  Dr. Devi’s main research contributions are essentially in the synthesis, processing and study of the properties of functional materials, alongside assessment of their structure-property correlations.

Her contributions in processing and characterization of functional nanomaterials for applications ranging from fuel cell, dye sensitized solar cell, chemical and biosensors and drug delivery are noteworthy.

She is currently Chief Scientist and was heading the Chemical Sciences and Technology Division at CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India prior to taking up this position.

She was Editor of the Taylor & Francis Journal Transactions of the Indian Ceramic Society from 2015 to 2018. She is also very active in contributing to the enhancement of science in the society through being a member of the Executive Council of the major scientific societies in India, CRSI and MRSI.

P. Sujatha was elected as a Fellow of the RSC in 2017, and was featured in the cross journal themed collection Celebrating Excellence in Research: 100 Women of Chemistry.

Browse a selection of P. Sujatha’s RSC publications: 

Redistribution of native defects and photoconductivity in ZnO under pressure
Partha Pratim Das, Sudeshna Samanta, Lin Wang, Jaeyong Kim, Thomas Vogt, P. Sujatha Devi and Yongjae Lee
RSC Adv., 2019, 9, 4303-4313
DOI: 10.1039/C8RA10219H

Water soluble blue-emitting AuAg alloy nanoparticles and fluorescent solid platforms for removal of dyes from water
Srikrishna Pramanik, Arindam Saha and Parukuttyamma Sujatha Devi
RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 33946-33954
DOI: 10.1039/C4RA14176H

Frequency dependent energy storage and dielectric performance of Ba–Zr Co-doped BiFeO3 loaded PVDF based mechanical energy harvesters: effect of corona poling
Abhishek Sasmal, Shrabanee Sen and P. Sujatha Devi
Soft Matter, 2020, 16, 8492-8505
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM01031F

Role of suppressed oxygen vacancies in the BiFeO3 nanofiller to improve the polar phase and multifunctional performance of poly(vinylidene fluoride)
Abhishek Sasmal, Shrabanee Sen and P. Sujatha Devi
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 5974-5988
DOI: 10.1039/C8CP07281G

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Welcome to our new Associate Editor: Xi Chen

We are delighted to welcome Dr Xi Chen to the RSC Advances team!

Xi Chen received her Bachelor (2010) and Master (2012) degrees in Chemistry from Wuhan University in China. She then obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS) under the supervision of Prof. Ning Yan in 2016, where she stayed as a postdoc. She joined the China-UK Low Carbon College at Shanghai Jiao Tong University as Assistant Professor in 2018 and promoted to Associate Professor in 2020. Her research focuses on the chemical transformations of various waste streams including biomass, plastics and CO2 into high-value chemicals, materials and fuels.

Browse a selection of Xi’s RSC publications: 

Conversion of chitin and N-acetyl-D-glucosamine into a N-containing furan derivative in ionic liquids
Xi Chen, Yi Liu, Francesca M. Kerton and Ning Yan
RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 20073-20080
DOI: 10.1039/C5RA00382B

Haber-independent, diversity-oriented synthesis of nitrogen compounds from biorenewable chitin
Thuy Trang Pham, Xi Chen, Tilo Söhnel, Ning Yan and Jonathan Sperry
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 1978-1984
DOI: 10.1039/C5RA00382B

Room temperature, near-quantitative conversion of glucose into formic acid
Can Wang, Xi Chen, Man Qi, Jianeng Wu, Gökalp Gözaydın, Ning Yan, Heng Zhong and Fangming Jin
Green Chem., 2019, 21, 6089-6096
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC02201E

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January 2022 RSC Advances Reviews

Welcome to January’s review round up!

Every month we update our 2022 Reviews in RSC Advances collection to showcase all of the review articles published in RSC Advances in 2022. Don’t forget to come back next month to check out our latest reviews.

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.

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Browse a selection of our January reviews below:

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) based nanofiber architectures for the removal of heavy metal ions
Heja Ibrahim Adil, Mohammad R. Thalji, Suhad A. Yasin, Ibtisam A. Saeed, Mohammed A. Assiri, Kwok Feng Chong and Gomaa A. M. Ali
RSC Adv., 2022,12, 1433-1450
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA07034G

Sustainable biodiesel generation through catalytic transesterification of waste sources: a literature review and bibliometric survey
Walid Nabgan, Aishah Abdul Jalil, Bahador Nabgan, Arvind H. Jadhav, Muhammad Ikram, Anwar Ul-Hamid, Mohamad Wijayanuddin Ali and Nurul Sahida Hassan
RSC Adv., 2022,12, 1604-1627
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA07338A

Bio-click chemistry: a bridge between biocatalysis and click chemistry
Diego F. Rodríguez, Yanina Moglie, César A. Ramírez-Sarmiento, Sachin Kumar Singh, Kamal Dua and Flavia C. Zacconi
RSC Adv., 2022,12, 1932-1949
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA08053A

A minireview on catalysts for photocatalytic N2 fixation to synthesize ammonia
Ping Qi, Xiaoxu Gao, Jian Wang, Huimin Liu, Dehua He and Qijian Zhang
RSC Adv., 2022,12, 1244-1257
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA08002D

Application of polypyrrole-based adsorbents in the removal of fluoride: a review
Ting Wang, Lvji Yan, Yingjie He, Sikpaam Issaka Alhassan, Haiyin Gang, Bichao Wu, Linfeng Jin and Haiying Wang
RSC Adv., 2022,12, 3505-3517
DOI:10.1039/D1RA08496H

Brookite, a sometimes under evaluated TiO2 polymorph
Maela Manzoli, Francesca S. Freyria, Nicola Blangetti and Barbara Bonelli
RSC Adv., 2022,12, 3322-3334
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA09057G

 

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January 2022 HOT Articles

Welcome to January’s HOT article round up!

Every month we update our 2022 RSC Advances HOT Article Collection to showcase all of the articles selected by our reviewers and handling editors as HOT in 2022. Don’t forget to come back next month to check out our latest HOT articles.

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New insights into the competition between antioxidant activities and pro-oxidant risks of rosmarinic acid
Dinh Hieu Truong, Thi Chinh Ngo, Nguyen Thi Ai Nhung, Duong Tuan Quang, Thi Le Anh Nguyen, Dorra Khiri, Sonia Taamalli, Florent Louis, Abderrahman El Bakalid and Duy Quang Dao
RSC Adv., 2022,12, 1499-1514
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA07599C

Recovery of copper, zinc and lead from photovoltaic panel residue
Panagiotis Xanthopoulos, Srećko Bevandić, Jeroen Spooren, Koen Binnemans and Frantisek Kukurugya
RSC Adv., 2022,12, 2351-2360
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA09268E

CoAl-LDHs@Fe3O4 decorated with cobalt nanowires and cobalt nanoparticles for a heterogeneous electro-Fenton process to degrade 1-hydroxyethane-1,1-diphosphonic acid and glyphosate
Kexin Zhou, Xing-peng Liu, Hongyun Guo, Hui-qiang Li and Ping Yang
RSC Adv., 2022,12, 2623-2631
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA08493C

NS3 helicase inhibitory potential of the marine sponge Spongia irregularis
Enas Reda Abdelaleem, Mamdouh Nabil Samy, Taha F. S. Ali, Muhamad Mustafa, Mahmoud A. A. Ibrahim, Gerhard Bringmann, Safwat A. Ahmed, Usama Ramadan Abdelmohsen and Samar Yehia Desoukey
RSC Adv., 2022,12, 2992-3002
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA08321J

Design and synthesis of amino acid derivatives of substituted benzimidazoles and pyrazoles as Sirt1 inhibitors
Nikil Purushotham, Mrityunjay Singh, Bugga Paramesha, Vasantha Kumar, Sharad Wakode, Sanjay K. Banerjee, and Shailendra Asthana
RSC Adv., 2022,12, 3809-3827
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA06149F

 

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December 2021 HOT Articles

Welcome to December’s HOT article round up!

Every month we update our 2021 RSC Advances HOT Article Collection to showcase all of the articles selected by our reviewers and handling editors as HOT in 2021. Don’t forget to come back next month to check out our latest HOT articles.

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.

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Browse a selection of our December HOT articles below:

Graphene oxide-catalyzed trifluoromethylation of alkynes with quinoxalinones and Langlois’ reagent
Hong Li, Xiangjun Peng, Liang Nie, Lin Zhou, Ming Yang, Fan Li, Jian Hu, Zhiyang Yao and Liangxian Liu
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 38667-38673
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA07014B

Synthesis of 7-amino-6-halogeno-3-phenylquinoxaline-2-carbonitrile 1,4-dioxides: a way forward for targeting hypoxia and drug resistance of cancer cells
Galina I. Buravchenko, Alexander M. Scherbakov, Lyubov G. Dezhenkova, Lianet Monzoted and Andrey E. Shchekotikhin
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 38782-38795
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA07978F

One-pot synthesis of α-aminophosphonates by yttrium-catalyzed Birum–Oleksyszyn reaction
Davide Ceradini and Kirill Shubin
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 39147-39152
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA07718J

Asymmetric [4 + 2] cycloaddition synthesis of 4H-chromene derivatives facilitated by group-assisted-purification (GAP) chemistry
Hossein Rouh, Yao Tang, Sai Zhang, Ahmed I. M. Ali, Kazimierz Surowiec, Daniel Unruh and Guigen Li
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 39790-39796
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA08323F

 

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December 2021 RSC Advances Reviews

Welcome to December’s review round up!

Every month we update our 2021 Reviews in RSC Advances collection to showcase all of the review articles published in RSC Advances in 2021. Don’t forget to come back next month to check out our latest reviews.

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.

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Browse a selection of our December reviews below:

Recent progress in Pickering emulsions stabilised by bioderived particles
Kazi M. Zakir Hossain, Laura Deeming and Karen J. Edler
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 39027-39044
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA08086E

Protein nanofibrils and their use as building blocks of sustainable materials
Christofer Lendel and Niclas Solin
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 39188-39215
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA06878D

Recent trends in dehydroxylative trifluoro-methylation, -methoxylation, -methylthiolation, and -methylselenylation of alcohols
Yan Cao, Roya Ahmadi, Mohammad Reza Poor Heravi, Alibek Issakhov, Abdol Ghaffar Ebadif and Esmail Vessally
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 39593-39606
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA05018D

Synthetic strategy and structure–activity relationship (SAR) studies of 3-(5′-hydroxymethyl-2′-furyl)-1-benzyl indazole (YC-1, Lificiguat): a review
Ko-Hua Yua and Hsin-Yi Hung
RSC Adv., 2022,12, 251-264
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA08120A

Modification of carbon-based nanomaterials by polyglycerol: recent advances and applications
Zeinab Rafiee and Sakineh Omidi
RSC Adv., 2022,12, 181-192
DOI:10.1039/D1RA07554C

Application of double-pulse laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (DP-LIBS), Fourier transform infrared micro-spectroscopy and Raman microscopy for the characterization of copper-sulfides
Constantinos Varotsis, Charalampos Tselios, Konstantinos A. Yiannakkos, Charalampos Andreou, Marios Papageorgiou and Antonis Nicolaides
RSC Adv., 2022,12, 631-639
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA07189K

 

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RSC Advances 10th Anniversary collections

Over the last 6 months, we have published a series of collections on selected topics to celebrate RSC Advances 10th Anniversary. The collections contain some outstanding work published in the journal over the 10 years.

All collections published so far have been collated below for everyone to browse and enjoy – all articles are free to read and access.

Many of these papers have been cited hundreds of times, providing valuable advances for further research, and some continue to be among the journal’s most downloaded articles as of today. Over the years, new findings in chemistry have been published in the journal but there are also high quality reviews – they truly are gifts between researchers serving as valuable sources of information for anyone needing an update or new to a field.

Would you like to submit a paper on a topic highlighted in our 10th Anniversary collections? Do you have a great idea for a review? Please submit here or contact the Editorial Office to discuss, we welcome work in every area of the chemical sciences and related disciplines.

Happy New Year – we hope you enjoy our 10th Anniversary collections!

RSC Advances Editorial team

 

Synthesis of nanomaterials

Nanostructures

Nanomaterial applications

 

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November 2021 RSC Advances Reviews

Welcome to November’s review round up!

Every month we update our 2021 Reviews in RSC Advances collection to showcase all of the review articles published in RSC Advances in 2021. Don’t forget to come back next month to check out our latest reviews.

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Browse a selection of our November reviews below:

Recent progresses in the synthesis of MnO2 nanowire and its application in environmental catalysis
Huikang Song, Leilei Xu, Mindong Chen, Yan Cui, Cai-e Wu, Jian Qiu, Liang Xu, Ge Chenga and Xun Hu
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 35494-35513
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA06497E

Journey of anthraquinones as anticancer agents – a systematic review of recent literature
M. Shaheer Malik, Reem I. Alsantali, Rabab S. Jassas, Abdulrahman A. Alsimaree, Riyaz Syed, Meshari A. Alsharif, Kulkarni Kalpana, Moataz Morad, Ismail I. Althagafia and Saleh A. Ahmed
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 35806-35827
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA05686G

Recent advances in dye and metal ion removal using efficient adsorbents and novel nano-based materials: an overview
Ahmad K. Badawi, M. Abd Elkodousb and Gomaa A. M. Ali
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 36528-36553
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA06892J

Additive manufacturing technology of polymeric materials for customized products: recent developments and future prospective
Akhilesh Kumar Pal, Amar K. Mohanty and Manjusri Misra
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 36398-36438
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA04060J

Recent advances in the transition-metal-free synthesis of quinoxalines
Biplob Borah and L. Raju Chowhan
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 37325-37353
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA06942J

Deciphering the sensing of α-amyrin acetate with hs-DNA: a multipronged biological probe
Amol V. Pansare, Amol A. Shedge, Maryappa C. Sonawale, Shubham V. Pansare, Akshay D. Mahakal, Shyam R. Khairkar, Shraddha Y. Chhatre, Dnyaneshwar K. Kulalb and Vishwanath R. Patil
RSC Adv., 2022,12, 1238-1243
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA07195E

 

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November 2021 HOT Articles

Welcome to November’s HOT article round up!

Every month we update our 2021 RSC Advances HOT Article Collection to showcase all of the articles selected by our reviewers and handling editors as HOT in 2021. Don’t forget to come back next month to check out our latest HOT articles.

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Browse a selection of our November HOT articles below:

New triterpenes from Cimicifuga yunnanensis down-regulating the mRNA expression of CD147, MMP-2, and MMP-9
Ni-Hong Lu, Jie Li, Yong-Rui Yang, Hong-Lu Liua and Ying-Rong Du
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 36978-36988
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA07828C

A catalytic ozonation process using MgO/persulfate for degradation of cyanide in industrial wastewater: mechanistic interpretation, kinetics and by-products
Ali Behnami, Jean-Philippe Croué, Ehsan Aghayanic and Mojtaba Pourakbar
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 36965-36977
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA07789A

 

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October 2021 HOT Articles

Welcome to October’s HOT article round up!

Every month we update our 2021 RSC Advances HOT Article Collection to showcase all of the articles selected by our reviewers and handling editors as HOT in 2021. Don’t forget to come back next month to check out our latest HOT articles.

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A periodic review of chemical and pharmacological profiles of Tubiechong as insect Chinese medicine
Jiayu Xie, Dapeng Zhang, Cheng Liu and Lingchong Wang
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 33952-33968
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA05425B

Photoelectron photofragment coincidence spectroscopy of carboxylates
J. A. Gibbard and R. E. Continetti
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 34250-34261
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA06340E

Advances in Pd-catalyzed C–C bond formation in carbohydrates and their applications in the synthesis of natural products and medicinally relevant molecules
Nazar Hussain and Altaf Hussain
RSC Adv., 2021,11, 34369-34391
DOI: 10.1039/D1RA06351K

 

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