RSC Advances Blog

In 2011 the Royal Society of Chemistry published the first issue of RSC Advances, and to celebrate our 10th anniversary we would like to share with you some of the very best articles that have been published in the journal throughout the years.

In this blog collection some of the most highly cited reviews published in RSC Advances are showcased, demonstrating the consistency over time and our commitment to publishing quality research across the breadth of the chemical sciences.

Do you have a great idea for a review? We welcome work in every area of the chemical sciences and related disciplines – free to read and access for everyone who needs it.

Find out more about the history of RSC Advances and how we got to where we are today in the Editorial: RSC Advances: celebrating 10 years of publication.

We will continue to celebrate RSC Advances 10th Anniversary over the next few months and we look forward to sharing more articles and activities with you – follow us on Twitter or sign up for RSC Advances news for updates on our anniversary celebrations.

We hope you enjoy our 10^th Anniversary collections!

RSC Advances Editorial team

All time most downloaded RSC Advances article

Free radicals, natural antioxidants, and their reaction mechanisms
Satish Balasaheb Nimse and Dilipkumar Pa

Most downloaded articles by year

2011

Graphene–inorganic nanocomposites
Song Bai and Xiaoping She

2012

Chemical treatment technologies for waste-water recycling—an overview
Vinod Kumar Gupta, Imran Ali, Tawfik A. Saleh, Arunima Nayak and Shilpi Agarwal

2013

Size-controlled silver nanoparticles synthesized over the range 5–100 nm using the same protocol and their antibacterial efficacy
Shekhar Agnihotri, Soumyo Mukherji and Suparna Mukherji

2014

Free radicals, natural antioxidants, and their reaction mechanisms
Satish Balasaheb Nimse and Dilipkumar Pal

2015

Electrically conductive polymers and composites for biomedical applications
Gagan Kaur, Raju Adhikari, Peter Cass, Mark Bown and Pathiraja Gunatillake

2016

Carbon steel corrosion: a review of key surface properties and characterization methods
Deepak Dwivedi, Kateřina Lepková and Thomas Becker

2017

Graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, and their heterostructures: properties and applications
Jingang Wang, Fengcai Ma and Mengtao Sun

2018

Large-area perovskite solar cells – a review of recent progress and issues
Yichuan Chen, Linrui Zhang, Yongzhe Zhang, Hongli Gao and Hui Yan

2019

Facile fabrication of amphiphobic surfaces on copper substrates with a mixed modified solution
Ning Wang, Qing Wang, Shuangshuang Xu, Xu Zheng and Mingya Zhang

2020

Recent advances in the design of cathode materials for Li-ion batteries
Nourhan Mohamed and Nageh K. Allam

2021

Recent progress of conductive 3D-printed electrodes based upon polymers/carbon nanomaterials using a fused deposition modelling (FDM) method as emerging electrochemical sensing devices
Muhamad Huzaifah Omar, Khairunisak Abdul Razak, Mohd Nadhir Ab Wahab and Hairul Hisham Hamzah

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Looking back over the last 10 years, we would like to share with you some of the very best articles that have been published in RSC Advances. 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 is new to a field.

Do you have a great idea for a review? Will you be the author of our next historical paper? Please share it with the world, we welcome work in every area of the chemical sciences and related disciplines – free to read and access for everyone who needs it.

We hope you enjoy our 10^th Anniversary collections!

RSC Advances Editorial team

Highlighted articles

PLGA nanoparticle preparations by emulsification and nanoprecipitation techniques: effects of formulation parameters
Karol Yesenia Hernández-Giottonini, Rosalva Josefina Rodríguez-Córdova, Cindy Alejandra Gutiérrez-Valenzuela, Omar Peñuñuri-Miranda, Paul Zavala-Rivera, Patricia Guerrero-Germán and Armando Lucero-Acuña
Article, 2020

A functional chitosan-based hydrogel as a wound dressing and drug delivery system in the treatment of wound healing
He Liu, Chenyu Wang, Chen Li, Yanguo Qin, Zhonghan Wang, Fan Yang, Zuhao Li and Jincheng Wang
Review, 2018

Green synthesis of zinc oxide nanoparticles using Hibiscus subdariffa leaf extract: effect of temperature on synthesis, anti-bacterial activity and anti-diabetic activity
Niranjan Bala, S. Saha, M. Chakraborty, M. Maiti, S. Das, R. Basu and P. Nandy
Article, 2015

Polymeric micelles as drug delivery vehicles
Zaheer Ahmad, Afzal Shah, Muhammad Siddiq and Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz
Review, 2014

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Looking back over the last 10 years, we would like to share with you some of the very best articles that have been published in RSC Advances. 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 is new to a field.

Do you have a great idea for a review? Will you be the author of our next historical paper? Please share it with the world, we welcome work in every area of the chemical sciences and related disciplines – free to read and access for everyone who needs it.

We hope you enjoy our 10^th Anniversary collections!

RSC Advances Editorial team

Highlighted articles

CuAAC-ensembled 1,2,3-triazole-linked isosteres as pharmacophores in drug discovery: review
Alisha Rani, Gurjaspreet Singh, Akshpreet Singh, Ubair Maqbool, Gurpreet Kaur and Jandeep Singh
Review, 2020

Discovery of new acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase inhibitors through structure-based virtual screening
Yao Chen, Hongzhi Lin, Hongyu Yang, Renxiang Tan, Yaoyao Bian, Tingming Fu, Wei Li, Liang Wu, Yuqiong Pei and Haopeng Sun
Article, 2017

Synthesis, DNA/protein binding, molecular docking, DNA cleavage and in vitro anticancer activity of nickel(II) bis(thiosemicarbazone) complexes
Jebiti Haribabu, Kumaramangalam Jeyalakshmi, Yuvaraj Arun, Nattamai S. P. Bhuvanesh, Paramasivan Thirumalai Perumal and Ramasamy Karvembu
Article, 2015

Recent developments in solvent-free multicomponent reactions: a perfect synergy for eco-compatible organic synthesis
Maya Shankar Singh and Sushobhan Chowdhury
Review, 2012

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Looking back over the last 10 years, we would like to share with you some of the very best articles that have been published in RSC Advances. 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 is new to a field.

Do you have a great idea for a review? Will you be the author of our next historical paper? Please share it with the world, we welcome work in every area of the chemical sciences and related disciplines – free to read and access for everyone who needs it.

We hope you enjoy our 10^th Anniversary collections!

RSC Advances Editorial team

Highlighted articles

A new C–C bond formation model based on the quantum chemical topology of electron density
Luis R. Domingo
Review, 2014

Mechanical stabilities of silicene
Qing Peng, Xiaodong Wen and Suvranu De
Article, 2013

Substituted spirooxindole derivatives as potent anticancer agents through inhibition of phosphodiesterase 1
Assem Barakat, Mohammad Shahidul Islam, Hussien Mansur Ghawas, Abdullah Mohammed Al-Majid, Fardous F. El-Senduny, Farid A. Badria, Yaseen A. M. M. Elshaier and Hazem A. Ghabbour
Article, 2018

Design, eco-friendly synthesis, molecular modeling and anticancer evaluation of thiazol-5(4H)-ones as potential tubulin polymerization inhibitors targeting the colchicine binding site
Abeer M. El-Naggar, Ibrahim H. Eissa, Amany Belal and Amira A. El-Sayed
Article, 2020

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Looking back over the last 10 years, we would like to share with you some of the very best articles that have been published in RSC Advances. 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 is new to a field.

Do you have a great idea for a review? Will you be the author of our next historical paper? Please share it with the world, we welcome work in every area of the chemical sciences and related disciplines – free to read and access for everyone who needs it.

We hope you enjoy our 10^th Anniversary collections!

RSC Advances Editorial team

Highlighted articles

Graphene oxide and its reduction: modeling and experimental progress
Shun Mao, Haihui Pu and Junhong Chen
Review, 2012

A new C–C bond formation model based on the quantum chemical topology of electron density
Luis R. Domingo
Review, 2014

Experimental and computational studies of a graphene oxide barrier layer covalently functionalized with amino acids on Mg AZ13 alloy in salt medium
N. Palaniappan, I. S. Cole, A. E. Kuznetsov, Balasubramanian K. and K. R. Justin Thomas
Article, 2019

Identifying misbonded atoms in the 2019 CoRE metal–organic framework database
Taoyi Chen and Thomas A. Manz
Article, 2020

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Looking back over the last 10 years, we would like to share with you some of the very best articles that have been published in RSC Advances. 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 is new to a field.

Do you have a great idea for a review? Will you be the author of our next historical paper? Please share it with the world, we welcome work in every area of the chemical sciences and related disciplines – free to read and access for everyone who needs it.

We hope you enjoy our 10^th Anniversary collections!

RSC Advances Editorial team

Highlighted articles

Predictive methods for the estimation of thermophysical properties of ionic liquids
João A. P. Coutinho, Pedro J. Carvalho and Nuno M. C. Oliveira
Review, 2012

Machine-learning prediction of the d-band center for metals and bimetals
Ichigaku Takigawa, Ken-ichi Shimizu, Koji Tsuda and Satoru Takakusagi
Article, 2016

Effects of cooling rate on structural relaxation in amorphous drugs: elastically collective nonlinear langevin equation theory and machine learning study
Anh D. Phan, Katsunori Wakabayashi, Marian Paluch and Vu D. Lam
Article, 2019

Local structure order parameters and site fingerprints for quantification of coordination environment and crystal structure similarity
Nils E. R. Zimmermann and Anubhav Jain
Article, 2020

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Looking back over the last 10 years, we would like to share with you some of the very best articles that have been published in RSC Advances. 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 is new to a field.

Do you have a great idea for a review? Will you be the author of our next historical paper? Please share it with the world, we welcome work in every area of the chemical sciences and related disciplines – free to read and access for everyone who needs it.

We hope you enjoy our 10^th Anniversary collections!

RSC Advances Editorial team

Highlighted articles

Surface characteristics influencing bacterial adhesion to polymeric substrates
Yue Yuan, Michael P. Hays, Philip R. Hardwidge and Jooyoun Kim
Article, 2017

Antibiofilm peptides: overcoming biofilm-related treatment failure
Melanie Dostert, Michael J. Trimble and Robert E. W. Hancock
Review, 2021

Size-controlled silver nanoparticles synthesized over the range 5–100 nm using the same protocol and their antibacterial efficacy
Shekhar Agnihotri, Soumyo Mukherji and Suparna Mukherji
Article, 2014

A comprehensive review on antimicrobial face masks: an emerging weapon in fighting pandemics
Gayathri Pullangott, Uthradevi Kannan, Gayathri S., Degala Venkata Kiran and Shihabudheen M. Maliyekkal
Review, 2021

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In 2011 the Royal Society of Chemistry published the first issue of RSC Advances, and to celebrate our 10th anniversary we would like to share with you some of the very best articles that have been published in the journal throughout the years.

In this blog collection some of the most highly cited reviews published in RSC Advances are showcased, demonstrating the consistency over time and our commitment to publishing quality research across the breadth of the chemical sciences.

Do you have a great idea for a review? We welcome work in every area of the chemical sciences and related disciplines – free to read and access for everyone who needs it.

Find out more about the history of RSC Advances and how we got to where we are today in the Editorial: RSC Advances: celebrating 10 years of publication.

We will continue to celebrate RSC Advances 10th Anniversary over the next few months and we look forward to sharing more articles and activities with you – follow us on Twitter or sign up for RSC Advances news for updates on our anniversary celebrations.

We hope you enjoy our 10^th Anniversary collections!

RSC Advances Editorial team

2011

Triplet–triplet annihilation based upconversion: from triplet sensitizers and triplet acceptors to upconversion quantum yields
Jianzhang Zhao, Shaomin Ji and Huimin Guo

Graphene-based photocatalytic composites
Xiaoqiang An and Jimmy C. Yu

CO₂ chemistry: task-specific ionic liquids for CO₂ capture/activation and subsequent conversion
Zhen-Zhen Yang, Ya-Nan Zhao and Liang-Nian He

2012

Chemical treatment technologies for waste-water recycling—an overview
Vinod Kumar Gupta, Imran Ali, Tawfik A. Saleh, Arunima Nayak and Shilpi Agarwal

Cucurbituril chemistry: a tale of supramolecular success
Eric Masson, Xiaoxi Ling, Roymon Joseph, Lawrence Kyeremeh-Mensah and Xiaoyong Lu

Progress in redox flow batteries, remaining challenges and their applications in energy storage
Puiki Leung, Xiaohong Li, Carlos Ponce de León, Leonard Berlouis, C. T. John Low and Frank C. Walsh

2013

Recent advances in electrochemical glucose biosensors: a review
Chao Chen, Qingji Xie, Dawei Yang, Hualing Xiao, Yingchun Fu, Yueming Tan and Shouzhuo Yao

Bioinspired self-cleaning surfaces with superhydrophobicity, superoleophobicity, and superhydrophilicity
Shunsuke Nishimoto and Bharat Bhushan

Review of recent advances in carbon dioxide separation and capture
Saeed Danaei Kenarsari, Dali Yang, Guodong Jiang, Suojiang Zhang, Jianji Wang, Armistead G. Russell, Qiang Wei and Maohong Fan

2014

Glutaraldehyde in bio-catalysts design: a useful crosslinker and a versatile tool in enzyme immobilization
Oveimar Barbosa, Claudia Ortiz, Ángel Berenguer-Murcia, Rodrigo Torres, Rafael C. Rodrigues and Roberto Fernandez-Lafuente

Role of graphene/metal oxide composites as photocatalysts, adsorbents and disinfectants in water treatment: a review
Ravi Kant Upadhyay, Navneet Soin and Susanta Sinha Roy

Recent development of direct asymmetric functionalization of inert C–H bonds
Chao Zheng and Shu-Li You

2015

Recent developments in heterogeneous photocatalytic water treatment using visible light-responsive photocatalysts: a review
Shuying Dong, Jinglan Feng, Maohong Fan, Yunqing Pi, Limin Hu, Xiao Han, Menglin Liu, Jingyu Sun and Jianhui Sun

Zinc oxide based photocatalysis: tailoring surface-bulk structure and related interfacial charge carrier dynamics for better environmental applications
S. Girish Kumar and K. S. R. Koteswara Rao

Optical temperature sensing of rare-earth ion doped phosphors
Xiangfu Wang, Qing Liu, Yanyan Bu, Chun-Sheng Liu, Tao Liu and Xiaohong Yan

2016

Polyurethane types, synthesis and applications – a review
John O. Akindoyo, M. D. H. Beg, Suriati Ghazali, M. R. Islam, Nitthiyah Jeyaratnam and A. R. Yuvaraj

Graphene oxide: strategies for synthesis, reduction and frontier applications
Rajesh Kumar Singh, Rajesh Kumar and Dinesh Pratap Singh

Nanomaterials for biocatalyst immobilization – state of the art and future trends
Eliane P. Cipolatti, Alexsandra Valério, Rosana O. Henriques, Denise E. Moritz, Jorge L. Ninow, Denise M. G. Freire, Evelin A. Manoel, Roberto Fernandez-Lafuente and Débora de Oliveira

2017

Graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, and their heterostructures: properties and applications
Jingang Wang, Fengcai Ma and Mengtao Sun

Auxetic mechanical metamaterials
H. M. A. Kolken and A. A. Zadpoor

Eosin Y catalysed photoredox synthesis: a review
Vishal Srivastava and Praveen P. Singh

2018

A short review of recent advances in CO₂ hydrogenation to hydrocarbons over heterogeneous catalysts
Wenhui Li, Haozhi Wang, Xiao Jiang, Jie Zhu, Zhongmin Liu, Xinwen Guo and Chunshan Song

A functional chitosan-based hydrogel as a wound dressing and drug delivery system in the treatment of wound healing
He Liu, Chenyu Wang, Chen Li, Yanguo Qin, Zhonghan Wang, Fan Yang, Zuhao Li and Jincheng Wang

Adsorptive environmental applications of MXene nanomaterials: a review
Yujuan Zhang, Lin Wang, Ningning Zhang and Zhangjian Zhou

2019

Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles: biomolecule-nanoparticle organizations targeting antimicrobial activity
Anupam Roy, Onur Bulut, Sudip Some, Amit Kumar Mandal and M. Deniz Yilmaz

A review on graphene-based nanocomposites for electrochemical and fluorescent biosensors
Siva Kumar Krishnan, Eric Singh, Pragya Singh, Meyya Meyyappan and Hari Singh Nalwa

A review on the biosynthesis of metal and metal salt nanoparticles by microbes
Geeta Gahlawat and Anirban Roy Choudhury

2020

Progress in the functional modification of graphene/graphene oxide: a review
Wang Yu, Li Sisi, Yang Haiyan and Luo Jie

Carbon and graphene quantum dots: a review on syntheses, characterization, biological and sensing applications for neurotransmitter determination
Somayeh Tajik, Zahra Dourandish, Kaiqiang Zhang, Hadi Beitollahi, Quyet Van Le, Ho Won Jang and Mohammadreza Shokouhimehr

CuAAC-ensembled 1,2,3-triazole-linked isosteres as pharmacophores in drug discovery: review
Alisha Rani, Gurjaspreet Singh, Akshpreet Singh, Ubair Maqbool, Gurpreet Kaur and Jandeep Singh

Submit to RSC Advances today! Check out our author guidelines for information on our article types or find out more about the advantages of publishing in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.

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Looking back over the last 10 years, we would like to share with you some of the very best articles that have been published in RSC Advances. 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 is new to a field.

Do you have a great idea for a review? Will you be the author of our next historical paper? Please share it with the world, we welcome work in every area of the chemical sciences and related disciplines – free to read and access for everyone who needs it.

We hope you enjoy our 10^th Anniversary collections!

RSC Advances Editorial team

Highlighted articles

ZnO/Ag/Mn₂O₃ nanocomposite for visible light-induced industrial textile effluent degradation, uric acid and ascorbic acid sensing and antimicrobial activity
R. Saravanan, Mohammad Mansoob Khan, Vinod Kumar Gupta, E. Mosquera, F. Gracia, V. Narayanan and A. Stephen
Article, 2015

Aqueous-phase detection of antibiotics and nitroaromatic explosives by an alkali-resistant Zn-MOF directed by an ionic liquid
Jian-Hua Qin, Ya-Dan Huang, Ming-Yu Shi, Hua-Rui Wang, Min-Le Han, Xiao-Gang Yang, Fei-Fei Li and Lu-Fang Ma
Article, 2020

A review on graphene-based nanocomposites for electrochemical and fluorescent biosensors
Siva Kumar Krishnan, Eric Singh, Pragya Singh, Meyya Meyyappan and Hari Singh Nalwa
Review, 2019

Nanotechnology-based approaches for food sensing and packaging applications
Fatima Mustafa and Silvana Andreescu
Review, 2020

Submit to RSC Advances today! Check out our author guidelines for information on our article types or find out more about the advantages of publishing in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.

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