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Hot papers in RSC Advances: Medicinal

09 Jul 2013

Enjoy reading the latest Hot articles in RSC Advances from the Medicinal category – free to access until the 7th August 2013!

De novo design of immunoreactive conformation-specific HIV-1 epitopes based on Top7 scaffold Isabelle F. T. Viana, Thereza A. Soares, Lucianna F. O. Lima, Ernesto T. A. Marques, Marco A. Krieger, Rafael Dhalia and Roberto D. Lins RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 11790-11800, DOI: 10.1039/C3RA41562G
Radio-opaque theranostic nanoemulsions with synergistic anti-cancer activity of paclitaxel and Bcl-2 siRNA Mi Hwa Oh, Jee Seon Kim, Jeong Yu Lee, Tae Gwan Park and Yoon Sung Nam RSC Adv., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3RA40883C
Pore size-optimized periodic mesoporous organosilicas for the enrichment of peptides and polymers Kun Qian, Fang Liu, Jie Yang, Xiaodan Huang, Wenyi Gu, Siddharth Jambhrunkar, Pei Yuan and Chengzhong Yu RSC Adv., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3RA41332B
Nucleobase-grafted polycaprolactones as reversible networks in a novel biocompatible material I.-Hong Lin, Chih-Chia Cheng, Cheng-Wei Huang, Mei-Chih Liang, Jem-Kun Chen, Fu-Hsiang Ko, Chih-Wei Chu, Chih-Feng Huang and Feng-Chih Chang RSC Adv., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3RA41412D
Molecular docking, design, synthesis and antifungal activity study of novel triazole derivatives containing the 1,2,3-triazole group Shichong Yu, Lunuan Wang, Yanwei Wang, Yang Song, Yongbing Cao, Yuanying Jiang, Qingyan Sun and Qiuye Wu RSC Adv., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3RA41310A

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Themed issue – Bioactive surfaces for hard tissue regeneration

01 Jul 2013

By Mary Badcock, Deputy Editor.

RSC Advances front cover 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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RSC Advances receives its first partial impact factor

24 Jun 2013

By Mary Badcock, Deputy Editor.

Since its launch, RSC Advances has reached many major milestones. From the publication of the first issue back in August 2011 to publishing its 2000^th article in November 2012 – RSC Advances has been continually moving from strength to strength.

This month sees the Journal reach another significant milestone – achieving its first impressive partial impact factor of 2.562.*

RSC Advances front cover Why is it a partial impact factor? To explain, the impact factor provides an indication of the average number of citations per paper, calculated by dividing the number of citations in a year by the number of citeable articles published in the preceding two years. The number of citeable articles that the RSC Advances 2012 impact factor is based on is only 233, from the nine issues of Volume 1 published in August – December 2011.

Professor Mike Ward, Chair of the RSC Advances Editorial Board, comments “We are very pleased to announce the first partial impact factor of 2.562 for RSC Advances. This is an excellent start and illustrates that RSC Advances is making itself noticed in the chemistry community: it is not just highly popular amongst authors – having grown from monthly to weekly issues in less than two years – but contains good quality work that is being noticed by others. The important point is that this partial IF is based on citations to papers published in 2011. As RSC Advances only started in mid-2011 the sample size is therefore small.

We are grateful to all of our authors – and those who have cited their work! – for this encouraging start and look forward to greater things in the future.”

With increased visibility of the articles published in RSC Advances the number of citations to the Journal is growing rapidly every week, a reflection of the high quality research being published in the Journal.

Read more about the latest impact factors for RSC Journals here!

*Data based on 2012 Journal Citation Reports®, (Thomson Reuters, 2013).

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HOT papers in RSC Advances

14 Jun 2013

By Bethany Johnson.

Here are the latest HOT papers published in RSC Advances, as recommended by the referees:

Synthesis of amine-tagged metal–organic frameworks isostructural to MIL-101(Cr)
Ricardo B. Ferreira, Perry M. Scheetz and André L. B. Formiga
RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 10181-10184, DOI: 10.1039/C3RA23443F

The gradient distribution of Ni ions in cation-disordered Li[Ni_1/2Mn_3/2]O₄ clarified by muon-spin rotation and relaxation (μSR)
Kazuhiko Mukai, Yutaka Ikedo, Kazuya Kamazawa, Jess H. Brewer, Eduardo J. Ansaldo, Kim H. Chow, Martin Månsson and Jun Sugiyama
RSC Adv., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3RA40878G

Molecular templates and nano-reactors: two-dimensional hydrogen bonded supramolecular networks on solid/liquid interfaces
Xuemei Zhang, Qingdao Zeng and Chen Wang
RSC Adv., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3RA40473K

All the papers listed above are free to access for the next 4 weeks!

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Better batteries to support wind and solar

06 Jun 2013

By Sara Coles, Guest Web-Writer.

Sara Coles is a guest web-writer for RSC Advances. She currently works for Johnson Matthey in Royston, UK. http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/sara-coles/39/771/899/

I seem to be talking rather a lot about energy just lately, but there is no denying it is a subject that comes up time and again.

Non-aqueous redox flow batteries (RFBs) are a technology aimed at supporting intermittent renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, by storing the energy they produce and releasing it on demand. The challenges in developing better batteries of this type are related to optimising their cell potential and designing new membrane materials to minimise cross-mixing and improve selectivity.

This review by researchers at GIST in the Republic of Korea concentrates on reported methods of preparation and characterisation of the anion exchange membranes, and also covers the general principles of RFBs which are necessary to understand the issues involved in membrane development. Non aqueous redox flow battery schematic

They start from the premise that non-aqueous RFBs are better than aqueous RFBs due to the higher energy densities made possible by the wider cell potential range that is available in solvents other than water. Metal-ligand complexes have been the main focus of research as the redox couple.

Redox couples studied in detail have included ruthenium, vanadium, chromium, manganese, nickel, iron, cobalt and uranium based systems. Those based on ruthenium, for example, have improved efficiency since the oppositely charged species generated during charging tend to revert to the same reactive species during discharge, reducing cross-over.

Electrode materials that have been investigated include glassy carbon, platinum or gold.

Read the full review in RSC Advances – free to access for 4 weeks:

A review of current developments in non-aqueous redox flow batteries: characterization of their membranes for design perspective, Sung-Hee Shin, Sung-Hyun Yun and Seung-Hyeon Moon, RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 9095.

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HOT papers in RSC Advances

29 May 2013

By Bethany Johnson.

Here are the latest HOT papers published in RSC Advances, as recommended by the referees:

Acidity and basicity of halometallate-based ionic liquids from X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
Alasdair W. Taylor, Shuang Men, Coby J. Clarke and Peter Licence
RSC Adv., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3RA40260F

Parameters in preparation and characterization of cross linked enzyme aggregates (CLEAs)
Sachin Talekar, Asavari Joshi, Gandhali Joshi, Priyanka Kamat, Rutumbara Haripurkar and Shashikant Kambale
RSC Adv., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3RA40818C

Stereoselective approach to aminocyclopentitols from Garner aldehydes
Sanjit Kumar Das and Gautam Panda
RSC Adv., 2013, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3RA40648B, Paper

All the papers listed above are free to access for the next 4 weeks!

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Graphene and platinum are brought together for fuel cells

10 May 2013

By Sara Coles, Guest Web-Writer.

Sara Coles is a guest web-writer for RSC Advances. She currently works for Johnson Matthey in Royston, UK. http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/sara-coles/39/771/899/

Graphene is certainly a hot topic in research right now. A quick look down this very blog shows that it featured in no fewer than seven of the top ten accessed articles in RSC Advances during 2012 (including all of the top three)!

This versatile material appears as oxides, composites, quantum dots, nanomaterials and foams and it has been investigated for uses in photocatalysis, energy, environmental applications and more.

Now researchers in India and China have been investigating graphene supported platinum catalysts for fuel cells. Platinum nanostructures on graphene catalysing oxygen reduction

Sreekuttan M. Unni and colleagues report the first synthesis of a 3D self-assembled single crystalline platinum nanostructure directly on a graphene surface without structural directing agents, by using a slow reduction method. In their paper, they show superior electrocatalytic activity towards the oxygen reduction reaction, a crucial reaction for hydrogen-fuelled polymer electrolyte fuel cells. They show that their material also has less vulnerability to strong hydroxyl adsorption and a higher limiting current density than other graphene supported platinum or commercial platinum-on-carbon catalysts.

Meanwhile Jian Zhao and colleagues have published about their supercritical fluid route for preparing graphene-supported platinum-ruthenium nanoparticles in an effective, simple, low temperature and environmentally benign way. They used supercritical CO₂to uniformly distribute ultrafine PtRu nanoparticles with an average size of 2.87 nm on the surfaces of functionalized graphene sheets. They found considerably improved catalytic activity and stability for methanol oxidation from their supported nanoparticles because of the uniform distribution. Their supercritical approach may have promise for development of direct methanol fuel cells.

Find out more about this research in RSC Advances:

3-Dimensionally self-assembled single crystalline platinum nanostructures on few-layer graphene as an efficient oxygen reduction electrocatalyst, Sreekuttan M. Unni, Vijayamohanan K. Pillai and Sreekumar Kurungot, RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 6913-6921

Methanol electrocatalytic oxidation on highly dispersed platinum–ruthenium/graphene catalysts prepared in supercritical carbon dioxide–methanol solution, Jian Zhao, Lin Zhang, Hao Xue, Zhaobo Wang and Haiqing Hu, RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 9651–9659

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14th EuCheMS International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment

07 May 2013

By Mary Badcock, Deputy Editor.

The 14th EuCheMS International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment (ICCE 2013) is to be held in Barcelona from the 25-28 June 2013.

The main aims of ICCE 2013 are:

To link pioneering research with existing and up-coming environmental issues
To discuss fundamental and applicable aspects related to the fate of chemicals in the environment
To generate awareness for emerging contaminants

The scientific programme will feature contributions in the following topics:

Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols
Soil and Sediment Pollution, Wastes
Water Pollution and Treatment
(Eco-)Toxicology: Pollutants Exposure and Effects on Biota and Ecosystems
Modelling, Management and Risk Assessment
Transformation and Fate of Pollutants
Green and Sustainable Industrial Chemistry
Emerging Pollutants

Register for ICCE 2013 today through the conference website – online registration ends 1 June 2013.

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RSC Advances Blog

Hot papers in RSC Advances: Medicinal

Themed issue – Bioactive surfaces for hard tissue regeneration

RSC Advances receives its first partial impact factor

HOT papers in RSC Advances

Better batteries to support wind and solar

HOT papers in RSC Advances

Top 10 most accessed articles in March

Graphene and platinum are brought together for fuel cells

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