Open Call for Papers: CRISPR-Based Diagnostics Methods, Devices, and Applications

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 21st 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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November 2023 Popular Advances Articles

Welcome to November’s Popular Advances article round up!

Every month we update our 2023 RSC Advances Popular Advances Article Collection to showcase all of the articles selected by our reviewers and handling editors as Popular Advances in 2023. Don’t forget to come back next month to check out our latest Popular articles.

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Enhancing drilling mud performance through CMITS-modified formulations: rheological insights and performance optimization
Imtiaz Ali, Maqsood Ahmad, Syahrir Ridha, Cajetan Chimezie Iferobia and Najeebullah Lashari
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 32904-32917

The effects of Fe, Mg, and Pt-doping on the improvement of Ni stabilized on Al2O3-CeO3 catalysts for methane dry reforming
Abbas Jawad
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 33129-33145

Asymmetric total synthesis strategies of halichlorine and pinnaic acid
Lu Liu, Minghua Jiang, Qingkang Zhang, Hong Chen, Yifu Zhang and Jian Zhang
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 33754-33769

 

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November 2023 RSC Advances Review Articles

Welcome to November’s Review round up!

Every month we update our 2023 Reviews in RSC Advances collection to showcase all of the review articles published in RSC Advances in 2023. 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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Structure and properties of nitrocellulose: approaching 200 years of research
Edmund Morris, Colin R. Pulham and Carole A. Morrison
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 32321-32333

Recent synthetic strategies for the construction of functionalized carbazoles and their heterocyclic motifs enabled by Lewis acids
Marappan Pradeep Kumar, Mahantesh G., P. Amaladass, Chitrarasu Manikandan and Vasudevan Dhayalan
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 32596-32626

Recent advances in catalytic and non-catalytic epoxidation of terpenes: a pathway to bio-based polymers from waste biomass
Mohamad Faiz Mukhtar Gunam Resul, Abdul Rehman, Faisal Saleem, Muhammd Usman, Ana María López Fernández, Valentine C. Eze and Adam P. Harvey
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 32940-32971

Recent advances in biopolymers-based carbon materials for supercapacitors
Hongjie Li, Yanyu Li, Shenmin Zhu, Yulong Li, Imran Zada and Yao Li
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 33318-33335

Advances in photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants in wastewaters: harnessing the power of phthalocyanines and phthalocyanine-containing materials
Sara R. D. Gamelas, João P. C. Tomé, Augusto C. Tomé and Leandro M. O. Lourenço
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 33957-33993

 

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Open Call for Papers – Modern Catalytic Approaches in Organic Chemistry

RSC Advances is delighted to announce a new themed collection on Modern Catalytic Approached in Organic Chemistry.

This collection is Guest Edited by Dr Giacomo Filippini (University of Trieste, Italy), Prof Airton Gonçalves Salles Junior (State University of Campinas, Brazil), Dr Arnau Call Quintana (University of Girona, Spain), and Dr Artur Keppler (Federal University of ABC, Brazil).

Catalysis has a fundamental role to solve arduous tasks in synthetic chemistry and is thus involved in the global economy in many industrial fields. In fact, in the last 50 years, catalysis has seen enormous progress in the development of optimized large-scale productions within the area of pharmaceutical, agrochemical and petrochemical industry. Moreover, a catalytic approach presents multiple benefits for business and sustainability compared to stoichiometric processes. These include cost reduction, time and energy saving, waste reduction, carbon-footprint minimization, among others. For these reasons, it is estimated that more than 90% of all chemical productions have at least one catalytic step in their manufacture. Not surprisingly, an ever-growing interest in developing novel catalytic transformations has been exhibited both from academia and industry, in order to resolve the related present-day challenges in organic synthesis.

Thus, in this themed collection, we would like to invite researchers to submit contributions directed to deepen the current knowledge of catalytic organic transformations. Potential research topics include:

– Use of organocatalysts for the synthesis of organic compounds.
– Use of photocatalysts for the production of relevant organic molecules.
– Exploitation of nano-catalytic systems in the synthesis of organic compounds.
– New catalytic strategies for the valorisation of biomasses.
– Catalytic methods for the degradation of organic molecular pollutants.
– Biocatalytic processes for the synthesis of organic compounds.

We welcome your submission to the series!

The deadline for manuscript submission is the 30th of April 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 of 30 04 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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Themed collection: Metal extraction and recycling

RSC Advances is delighted to present this themed collection titled ‘Metal extraction and recycling’.

This collection aims to highlight the chemistry and chemical processes that underpin, and provide insight into, metal extraction and recycling. Metal extraction and recycling is an exciting and diverse topic for which fundamental chemical knowledge and its application are required. It is hoped that this collection will provide both greater awareness of the issues in metal extraction and recycling, and showcase the advances provided by chemists and researchers in allied disciplines.

This collection is Guest Edited by Professor Isabelle Billard (Université Grenoble Alpes), Professor Alexandre Chagnes (University of Lorraine), Dr Euan Doidge (Imperial College London), Professor Jason B. Love (University of Edinburgh) and Professor Magdalena Regel-Rosocka (Poznan University of Technology). 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.

Towards electrochemical iridium recycling in acidic media: effect of the presence of organic molecules and chloride ions
L. Moriau, K. Stojanovski, P. Jovanovič, D. Escalera-López, S. Cherevko and N. Hodnik
RSC Adv., 2023, 137980-7987

A multi-faceted approach to probe organic phase composition in TODGA systems with 1-alcohol phase modifiers
Allison A. Peroutka, Shane S. Galley and Jenifer C. Shafer
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 6017-6026

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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October 2023 RSC Advances Review Articles

Welcome to October’s Review round up!

Every month we update our 2023 Reviews in RSC Advances collection to showcase all of the review articles published in RSC Advances in 2023. 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 October reviews below:

Polymer-based nanocomposite adsorbents for resource recovery from wastewater 
Aminat Mohammed Ahmed, Menbere Leul Mekonnen and Kebede Nigussie Mekonnen
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 31687-31703

Progress in organic photovoltaics for indoor application
Swarup Biswas, Yongju Lee, Hyojeong Choi, Hyeong Won Lee and Hyeok Kim
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 32000-32022

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

Recent development of piezoelectric biosensors for physiological signal detection and machine learning assisted cardiovascular disease diagnosis
Shunyao Huang, Yujia Gao, Yian Hu, Fengyi Shen, Zhangsiyuan Jin and Yuljae Cho
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 29174-29194

 

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September 2023 RSC Advances Review Articles

Welcome to September’s Review round up!

Every month we update our 2023 Reviews in RSC Advances collection to showcase all of the review articles published in RSC Advances in 2023. 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 September reviews below:

A mini-review on liquid air energy storage system hybridization, modelling, and economics: towards carbon neutrality
Ahmed M. Salem and Ahmed M. Khaira
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 26380-26391

Emerging developments in dye-sensitized metal oxide photocatalysis: exploring the design, mechanisms, and organic synthesis applications
Dana A. Kader and Sewara J. Mohammed
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 26484-26508

Phytoremediative adsorption methodologies to decontaminate water from dyes and organic pollutants
Ayesha Kanwal, Rabia Rehman, Muhammad Imran, Ghufrana Samin, Muhammad Muzammil Jahangir and Saadat Ali
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 26455-26474

Research progress of bionic fog collection surfaces based on special structures from natural organisms
Jia-Lei Yang, Yun-Yun Song, Xu Zhang, Zhong-Qiang Zhang, Guang-Gui Cheng, Yan Liu, Guo-Jun Lv and Jian-Ning Ding
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 27839-27864

Dielectric barrier discharge plasma catalysis as an alternative approach for the synthesis of ammonia: a review
Hamideh Hosseini
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 28211-28223

 

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September 2023 Popular Advances Articles

Welcome to September’s Popular Advances article round up!

Every month we update our 2023 RSC Advances Popular Advances Article Collection to showcase all of the articles selected by our reviewers and handling editors as Popular Advances in 2023. Don’t forget to come back next month to check out our latest Popular 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 September Popular Advances articles below:

Novel practical stereoselective synthesis of a bicyclic hydantoino-thiolactone as the key intermediate for production of (+)-biotin
Lei Shu, Zhi-Wei Yang, Ren-Xu Cao, Xiao-Xia Qiu, Feng Ni and Xiao-Xin Shi
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 26160-26168

Novel pyrene-calix[4]arene derivatives as highly sensitive sensors for nucleotides, DNA and RNA
Ivana Nikšić-Franjić, Benoit Colasson, Olivia Reinaud, Aleksandar Višnjevac, Ivo Piantanida and Dijana Pavlović Saftić
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 27423-27433

Synthesis of novel coumarin–hydrazone hybrids as α-glucosidase inhibitors and their molecular docking studies
Hafiza Zara Tariq, Aamer Saeed, Saeed Ullah, Noor Fatima, Sobia Ahsan Halim, Ajmal Khan, Hesham R. El-Seedi, Muhammad Zaman Ashraf, Muhammad Latif and Ahmed Al-Harrasi
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 26229-26238

Chemical biology fluorescent tools for in vitro investigation of the multidrug resistant P-glycoprotein (P-gp) expression in tumor cells
Pierre Daumar, Antoine Goisnard, Clémence Dubois, Manon Roux, Marie Depresle, Frédérique Penault-Llorca, Mahchid Bamdad and Emmanuelle Mounetou
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 27016-27035

Stereo/regio-selective access to substituted 3-hydroxy-oxindoles with anti-proliferative assessment and in silico validation
Preeti, Asif Raza, Amit Anand, Natacha Henry, Arun K. Sharma, Pascal Roussel and Vipan Kumar
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 28434-28443

 

 

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FORCE-IICS Conference 2023

On September 28 – October 1, 2023, Hyatt Regency in Nepal organised the FORCE-IICS conference bringing together scientists and facilitating the exchange of ideas on a platform entitled FORCE themed: Interdisciplinary Initiative in Chemical Sciences (IICS)

RSC Advances provided some general sponsorship money for the event, and proudly sponsored members of Tribhuvan University, Nepal, to attend the event; Prof. Dr. A. P. Yadav, and PhD students Ms. Asmita Shrestha, Ms. Maya Das,  and Ms. Anju Das.

We are delighted that RSC Advances Associate Editor Prof. Vandana Bhalla also attended and presented at the event, sharing her support for the journal.

From left to right: Prof. Sandeep Verma, IIT Kanpur (Assoc. Editor, Chem. Commun.); Prof. Dr. A. P. Yadav, Tribhuvan University, Nepal; Prof. Vandana Bhalla (Assoc. Editor RSC Advances); Ms. Asmita Shrestha, Ph.D. Student, Tribhuvan University, Nepal; Ms. Maya Das, Ph.D. Student, Tribhuvan University, Nepal; Ms. Anju Das, Ph.D. Student, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Event organiser Professor Vishal Rai, from IISER Bhopal, India, commented “FORCE-IICS-2023 was empowered by 106 participants from eight countries. The multidisciplinary scientific brainstorming over three days included 45 lectures and 50 poster presentations. It also enabled the engagement with the Chemical Science community from Nepal.

You can find more about the conference on their website.

 

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Themed collection: Chemistry in Biorefineries

RSC Advances is delighted to present this themed collection titled ‘Chemistry in Biorefineries’.

This collection aims to deepen the current knowledge of chemistry in biorefineries. The non-renewable nature of fossil fuels makes the current economic model unsustainable. The biorefinery concept, which takes traditional refineries as a starting point and adapts them to environmentally friendly processes based on bioresources as raw materials, has attracted the interest of a large number of scientists. Achieving a sustainable production of bio-based fuels, chemicals and materials requires a deep understanding of the chemistry behind biorefining processes.

This collection has been Guest Edited by Professor Alejandro Rodríquez Pascual (Universidad de Cordoba), Professor Fabio Montagnaro (University of Naples Federico II) and Professor Carlos Martín Medina (Umeå University and Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences). 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.

Variable lignin structure revealed in Populus leaves
Nathan Bryant, Nancy Engle, Timothy Tschaplinski, Yunqiao Pu and Arthur J. Ragauskas
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 20187-20197

From liquid to solid-state, solvent-free oxidative ammonolysis of lignins – an easy, alternative approach to generate “N-lignins”
Gerhild K. Wurzer, Markus Bacher, Oliver Musl, Nadine Kohlhuber, Irina Sulaeva, Theres Kelz, Karin Fackler, Robert H. Bischof, Hubert Hettegger, Antje Potthast and Thomas Rosenau
RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 9479-9490

Lignocellulosic residues from bioethanol production: a novel source of biopolymers for laccase immobilization
Valeria Vázquez, Victoria Giorgi, Fernando Bonfiglio, Pilar Menéndez, Larissa Gioia and Karen Ovsejevi

RSC Adv., 2023, 13, 13463-13471

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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