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Issue 6 is a good mix!

28 Feb 2012

Check out RSC Advances issue 6 which has just been published online! It contains 66 articles across a broad range of multidisciplinary topics such as electrochemistry, materials, graphene, photocatalysis, solar cells, DNA, photocleavable biotags, green chemistry etc… Below is a taster of what is in issue 6. Please note that all of our 2011-2012 content is free to access upon a simple registration process.

There are 3 reviews covering:

Tissue engineering
Scaffold-free tissue engineering using cell sheet technology
Yuji Haraguchi, Tatsuya Shimizu, Masayuki Yamato and Teruo Okano
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2184-2190

Catalysis
Catalytic versus stoichiometric dehydrocoupling using main group metals
Robert J. Less, Rebecca L. Melen and Dominic S. Wright
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2191-2199

Bioanalytical
Potential applications of SPR in early diagnosis and progression of Alzheimer’s disease
Lin Liu, Ning Xia and Jianxiu Wang
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2200-2204

Papers and Communications cover topics such as:

Physical Organic
Proton-transfer paths in CHO hydrogen bonds
Irena Majerz and Ivar Olovsson
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2545-2552

Organometallic
Mononuclear and dinuclear complexes of manganese(III) and Iron(III) supported by 2-salicyloylhydrazono-1,3-dithiane ligand: synthesis, characterization and magnetic properties
Weiwei Zuo, Vitor Rosa, Clarisse Tourbillon, David Specklin, Cheaib Khaled, Mohamedally Kurmoo and Richard Welter
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2517-2526

Medicinal
Synthesis, characterization and cytotoxicity study of magnetic (Fe3O4) nanoparticles and their drug conjugate
Biswadip Banerji, Sumit Kumar Pramanik, Samir Mandal, Nakul Chandra Maiti and Keya Chaudhuri
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2493-2497

β-Lactam-host defence peptide conjugates as antibiotic prodrug candidates targeting resistant bacteria
Stéphane Desgranges, Carol C. Ruddle, Liam P. Burke, Tara M. McFadden, John E. O’Brien, Deirdre Fitzgerald-Hughes, Hilary Humphreys, Timothy P. Smyth and Marc Devocelle
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2480-2492

Green
Cellulose solubilities in carboxylate-based ionic liquids
Bin Zhao, Lasse Greiner and Walter Leitner
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2476-2479

CO2 Capture
Polyethylenimine covalently grafted on mesostructured porous silica for CO2 capture
Hodna Kassab, Mahmoud Maksoud, Sonia Aguado, Marc Pera-Titus, Belén Albela and Laurent Bonneviot
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2508-2516

CO2 capture from flue gas at high temperatures by new ionic liquids with high capacity
Shuhang Ren, Yucui Hou, Weize Wu, Shidong Tian and Weina Liu
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2504-2507

Surface chemistry
Mechanical properties of carbon nanotube–PMMA based hybrid coatings: the importance of surface chemistry
Fayna Mammeri, Joan Teyssandier, Carole Connan, Eric Le Bourhis and Mohamed M. Chehimi
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2462-2468

Organic
Synthesis of the novel trimeric benzamides—potential inhibitors of protein–protein interactions
Oleg V. Kulikov and Andrew D. Hamilton
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2454-2461

Microchips
The development of affinity capture devices—a nanoscale purification platform for biological in situ transmission electron microscopy
Katherine Degen, Madeline Dukes, Justin R. Tanner and Deborah F. Kelly
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2408-2412

Printed conductive features for DNA chip applications prepared on PET without sintering
Albert R. Liberski, Joseph T. Delaney, Aleksandra Liberska, Jolke Perelaer, Martha Schwarz, Thomas Schüler, Robert Möller and Ulrich S. Schubert
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2308-2313

Polymers
Phase-separated binary polymers spin coated onto microwrinkles
Takuya Ohzono and Hiroyuki Kitahata
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2395-2398

Food
Changes in morphological and nano-mechanical properties of the milk fat globule membrane during processing
Thakshila S. Balasuriya, Lydia Ong, Sally L. Gras and Raymond R. Dagastine
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2384-2394

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Issue 5, Live!

15 Feb 2012

By Kathleen Too, Deputy Editor.

Issue 5 of RSC Advances is now live consisting of 63 articles. Below is a brief taster of the wide scope and international authorship of the Journal:

China

Transition metal complexes with strong absorption of visible light and long-lived triplet excited states: from molecular design to applications
Jianzhang Zhao, Shaomin Ji, Wanhua Wu, Wenting Wu, Huimin Guo, Jifu Sun, Haiyang Sun, Yifan Liu, Qiuting Li and Ling Huang
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1712-1728

Co-delivery of genes and drugs with nanostructured calcium carbonate for cancer therapy
Si Chen, Dong Zhao, Feng Li, Ren-Xi Zhuo and Si-Xue Cheng
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1820-1826

Germany

A potential nanobiotechnology platform based on infectious bursal disease subviral particles
Omid Taghavian, Manoj K. Mandal, Nicole F. Steinmetz, Stefan Rasche, Holger Spiegel, Rainer Fischer and Stefan Schillberg
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1970-1978

Italy

Activation of aliphatic C–H bonds by tetracyanobenzene photosensitization. A time-resolved and steady-state investigation
Stefano Protti, Maurizio Fagnoni, Sandra Monti, Julien Réhault, Olivier Poizat and Angelo Albini
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1897-1904

India

Polyaniline/multiwalled carbon nanotubes nanocomposite-an excellent reversible CO2 capture candidate
Ashish Kumar Mishra and Sundara Ramaprabhu
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1746-1750

Japan

Effective recovery of some precious metals by using alternative quaternary amine types of anion-exchangers prepared from biofuel-extracted microalgal residues
Kanjana Khunathai, Katsutoshi Inoue, Keisuke Ohto, Hidetaka Kawakita, Minoru Kurata, Kinya Atsumi and Shafiq Alam
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1856-1862

Portugal

A new outlook on solubility of carbohydrates and sugar alcohols in ionic liquids
Lucinda J. A. Conceiçao, Ewa Bogel-Łukasik and Rafał Bogel-Łukasik
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1846-1855

Singapore

Photocatalytic superhydrophilic TiO2 coating on glass by electrospinning
V. Anand Ganesh, A. Sreekumaran Nair, Hemant Kumar Raut, Timothy Michael Walsh and Seeram Ramakrishna
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2067-2072

South Korea

Fabrication of highly ordered multi-segment line pattern over a large-area
Jisun Lee, Su Kyoung Lee, Jin-Mi Jung, Youn Kyoung Baek and Hee-Tae Jung
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2043-2046

Spain

Monosaccharide derivatives as central scaffolds in the synthesis of glycosylated drugs
Marco Filice and Jose M. Palomo
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1729-1742

Switzerland

Gas-phase basicity of several common MALDI matrices measured by a simple experimental approach
Konstantin Barylyuk, Lukas Fritsche, Roman M. Balabin, Robert Nieckarz and Renato Zenobi
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1962-1969

Freezing and glass transition phenomena for 1,2-dichloroethane under high pressure as revealed by fluorescence spectroscopy
Mohammed A. H. Alamiry, Andrew C. Benniston, Graeme Copley and Anthony Harriman
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1936-1941

Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) as an effective tool in reducing auto-oxidation of dried pine sawdust for power generation
Mehrdad Arshadi, Andrew J. Hunt and James H. Clark
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1806-1809

USA

Lipid storage compounds in raw activated sludge microorganisms for biofuels and oleochemicals production
Emmanuel D. Revellame, Rafael Hernandez, William French, William E. Holmes, Tracy J. Benson, Patrisha J. Pham, Allison Forks and Robert Callahan II
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 2015-2031

Adsorption and structural properties of ordered mesoporous carbons synthesized by soft-templating in the presence of boric acid and tetraethyl orthosilicate
Nilantha Wickramaratne and Mietek Jaroniec
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1877-1883

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Publish in 2012 and your article will be free to access

15 Feb 2012

By Kathleen Too, Deputy Editor.

Did you know that if you publish an article in RSC Advances in 2012, your article is free to access*?

The Royal Society of Chemistry has updated its free access content, meaning that all of articles published in RSC Advances in 2011 and 2012 will be free to access. Take this opportunity to submit your article today!

*This is subject to the user/reader registering on our website to download the free content.

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Purifying and picturing proteins

10 Feb 2012

By Kathleen Too, Deputy Editor.

Device for fast nanopurification and imaging of biological entities

Do you spend your day running HPLC or other lengthy column chromatography to purify your proteins or other biological entities?

Deborah F. Kelly and co-workers have found the perfect solution for a rapid purification of proteins and in-situ imaging using transmission electron microscopy (TEM).

The purification of biological complexes such as proteins remains the rate-limiting step for structural studies in the electron microscopy (EM) field. In a recent RSC Advances article, the team led by Kelly developed an improved affinity capture device capable of purifying tagged biomacromolecules of interest while viewing them in a liquid-flow environment within a TEM column. The purification component of the device works at high specificity and nanogram sensitivity.

“The method also lends itself for use with antibodies against cell surface proteins to isolate whole cells. The isolation of rare cells or cancer cells may be possible in combination with TEM imaging. This opens a new avenue for the visual screening of therapeutic interventions aimed at multiscale imaging—from the molecular to the cellular levels. Overall, the use of affinity capture devices and live TEM imaging provide a unique platform to view active biological processes at nanometer resolution,” say the US scienstists.

Read the full article online. Free to access upon a simple registration process.

The development of affinity capture devices—a nanoscale purification platform for biological in situ transmission electron microscopy
Katherine Degen , Madeline Dukes , Justin R. Tanner and Deborah F. Kelly
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01163H

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Nucleic Acids collection in RSC Advances

08 Feb 2012

By Kathleen Too, Deputy Editor.

Below is a list of recently published articles involving nucleic acids:

Synthetic 5′-phosphorylated oligodeoxynucleotide purification through catching full-length sequences by polymerization
Yinan Yuan, Suntara Fueangfung, Xi Lin, Durga Pokharel and Shiyue Fang
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01357F, Paper

Label-free detection of target DNA sequence and single-base mismatch in hepatitis C virus corresponding to oligonucleotide by resonance light scattering technique
Zhanguang Chen, Sihua Qian, Xi Chen, Junhui Chen, Yuejuan Lin and Jinbin Liu
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01141G, Paper

Synthesis, characterization and DNA binding properties of rutin–iron complex
Stalin Selvaraj, Sridharan Krishnaswamy, Venkappayya Devashya, Swaminathan Sethuraman and Uma Maheswari Krishnan
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01319C, Paper

Base recognition by L-nucleotides in heterochiral DNA
Shuji Ogawa, Shun-ichi Wada and Hidehito Urata
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01013E, Communication

Co-delivery of genes and drugs with nanostructured calcium carbonate for cancer therapy
Si Chen, Dong Zhao, Feng Li, Ren-Xi Zhuo and Si-Xue Cheng
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00527H, Paper

Highly flexible and stable aptamer-caged nanoparticles for control of thrombin activity
Chia-Lun Hsu, Shih-Chun Wei, Jyun-Wei Jian, Huan-Tsung Chang, Wei-Hsi Chen and Chih-Ching Huang
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1577-1584

Nanoporous carbon as a sensing platform for DNA detection: The use of impedance spectroscopy for hairpin-DNA based assay
Hwee Ling Poh, Alessandra Bonanni and Martin Pumera
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 1021-1024
DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00812A, Paper

A pyridyl carboxamide molecule selectively stabilizes DNA G-quadruplex and regulates duplex–quadruplex competition
Liang Xu, Weixin Wu, Jie Ding, Shuo Feng, Xiwen Xing, Minggang Deng and Xiang Zhou
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 894-899

Protein–dendron conjugates for DNA binding: understanding the effect of the protein core on multivalency
Giovanni M. Pavan, Mauri A. Kostiainen and Andrea Danani
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1677-1681

Fast repair of DNA radicals in the earliest stage of carcinogenesis suppresses hallmarks of cancer
Rongliang Zheng, Zhongjian Jia, Ji Li, Shuangsheng Huang, Ping Mu, Fangxin Zhang, Chunming Wang and Chengshan Yuan
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1610-1619

DNA hybridization of pathogenicity island of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis with discretely functionalized gold nanoparticles in organic solvent mixtures
Chun-Pong Chak, Josie M. Y. Lai, Kathy W. Y. Sham, Christopher H. K. Cheng and Ken Cham-Fai Leung
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1342-1348

Detection of single-stranded nucleic acids by hybridization of probe oligonucleotides on polystyrene nanospheres and subsequent release and recovery of fluorescence
Lei Wang, Hailong Li, Yonglan Luo, Yingwei Zhang, Jingqi Tian and Xuping Sun
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1318-1323

Large-scale synthesis of coordination polymer microdendrites and their application as a sensing platform for fluorescent DNA detection
Hailong Li, Junfeng Zhai and Xuping Sun
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 725-730
DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00359C, Paper

Control of synthesis and optical properties of DNA templated silver nanoclusters by varying DNA length and sequence
Guo-Yu Lan, Wei-Yu Chen and Huan-Tsung Chang
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 802-807

A novel application of porphyrin nanoparticles as an effective fluorescent assay platform for nucleic acid detection
Junfeng Zhai, Hailong Li and Xuping Sun
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 36-39

Target-induced biomolecular release for sensitive aptamer-based electrochemical detection of small molecules from magnetic graphene
Dianping Tang, Juan Tang, Qunfang Li, Bingqian Liu, Huanghao Yang and Guonan Chen
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 40-43

All the above articles are free to access if you register by December 2012.

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Towards light-controllable anticoagulant drug

02 Feb 2012

By Kathleen Too, Deputy Editor.

Aptamers are single-stranded oligonucleotides that fold into 3-D structures to specifically bind targets such as ions, small biological organic or inorganic molecules. Previously, it has been shown that thrombin binding aptamers (TBA) have good anticoagulant activity with high-affinity, non-immunogenicity, and non-toxicity.

In a recently published RSC Advances article, Huang et al. show that multivalent TBA bound to gold nanoparticles have 10000 times higher binding affinity than TBA15 (thrombin binding aptamer containing 15 bases). The anticoagulant activity of multivalent TBA-gold nanoparticles is reported to be extremely high, even better than the commercial drugs, argatroban and hirudin.

Moreover, the authors have also developed a photocleavable (PC) version of the multivalent TBA-gold nanoparticles. Upon irradiation with near UV light (365 nm), the 2-nitrobenzyl PC linker of the terminal-modified TBA can be cleaved resulting in the reversal of thrombin activity. The authors are confident that the light-controllable anticoagulant drug will be potentially useful in biomedical aplications.

“We believe that our described technique can be widely used to modify nanoparticles with other DNA or RNA aptamers for different proteins or cancer targets”, say Huang and co-workers from National Taiwan University.

The article was published in our latest issue of RSC Advances, issue 4, 2012. It is free to access by simply registering online before December 2012.

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Biofunctionalised graphene as an anticoagulant

30 Jan 2012

By Kathleen Too, Deputy Editor.

Scientists in China have come up with a green way to reduce graphene oxide so that it can be used in the biomedical field.

The team has used the anticoagulant heparin, a straight-chain anionic glycosaminoglycan and a natural polymer, to reduce and stabilise the graphene oxide. The heparin–reduced graphene oxide sheets show excellent biocompatibility and activity as a blood anticoagulant, according to the researchers. They also say that the heparin–reduced graphene oxide could bind strongly to anticancer drugs for highly efficient loading.

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Green and easy synthesis of biocompatible graphene for use as an anticoagulant
Yi Wang, Pu Zhang, Chun Fang Liu, Lei Zhan, Yuan Fang Li and Cheng Zhi Huang
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA00841F, Paper

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Articles from Oz

26 Jan 2012

By Kathleen Too, Deputy Editor.

RSC Advances wishes to celebrate Australia Day by highlighting all of our articles that are written by authors from Australia. Please note that all the articles are free to download upon a simple registration process.

Articles from Down Under:

Research progress and materials selection guidelines on mixed conducting perovskite-type ceramic membranes for oxygen production
Kun Zhang, Jaka Sunarso, Zongping Shao, Wei Zhou, Chenghua Sun, Shaobin Wang and Shaomin Liu
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1661-1676, Review

Effect of different additives on the hydrogen storage properties of the MgH2-LiAlH4 destabilized system
M. Ismail, Y. Zhao, X. B. Yu and S. X. Dou
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 408-414

Graphene–V2O5·nH2O xerogel composite cathodes for lithium ion batteries
Guodong Du, Kuok Hau Seng, Zaiping Guo, Jun Liu, Wenxian Li, Dianzeng Jia, Chris Cook, Zongwen Liu and Huakun Liu
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 690-697

Ultraflexible plasmonic nanocomposite aerogel
Yi Chen, Khee Chaw Ng, Wenyi Yan, Yue Tang and Wenlong Cheng
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1265-1270

Copper(I) speciation in mixed thiosulfate-chloride and ammonia-chloride solutions: XAS and UV-Visible spectroscopic studies
Barbara E. Etschmann, Jay R. Black, Pascal V. Grundler, Stacey Borg, Dale Brewe, D. C. McPhail, Leone Spiccia and Joël Brugger
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1554-1566

Formation of a chrome-free and coloured conversion coating on AA6063 aluminium alloy
Tingyi Chen, Wenfang Li and Jackie Cai
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 607-610

Controlled hydrolysis of aryltellurium trichlorides using 2-pyrrolidinones: isolation and structural characterization of monomeric aryltellurium(IV) monohydroxides
Shafalika Misra, Ashok K. S. Chauhan, Ramesh C. Srivastava, Andrew Duthie and R. J. Butcher
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 808-816

Dispersion of SnO2 nanocrystals on TiO2(B) nanowires as anode material for lithium ion battery applications
Zunxian Yang, Guodong Du, Qing Meng, Zaiping Guo, Xuebin Yu, Zhixin Chen, Tailiang Guo and Rong Zeng
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1834-1840

A novel bath lily-like graphene sheet-wrapped nano-Si composite as a high performance anode material for Li-ion batteries
Yu-Shi He, Pengfei Gao, Jun Chen, Xiaowei Yang, Xiao-Zhen Liao, Jun Yang and Zi-Feng Ma
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 958-960

Selective adsorption and photocatalysis of low-temperature base-modified anatase nanocrystals
Manoj A. Lazar and Walid A. Daoud
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 447-452

Analytical-scale purification of trichostatin A from bacterial culture in a single step and with high selectivity using immobilised metal affinity chromatography
Najwa Ejje, Ernest Lacey and Rachel Codd
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 333-337

K0.25Mn2O4 nanofiber microclusters as high power cathode materials for rechargeable lithium batteries
Chaofeng Zhang, Chuanqi Feng, Peng Zhang, Zaiping Guo, Zhixin Chen, Sean Li and Huakun Liu
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00510C, Paper

Enhanced hydrogen storage properties of NaAlH4 co-catalysed with niobium fluoride and single-walled carbon nanotubes
Jianfeng Mao, Zaiping Guo and Huakun Liu
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00645B, Paper

Clicking dendritic peptides onto single walled carbon nanotubes
Eli Moore, Peng-Yuan Wang, Andrew P. Vogt, Christopher T. Gibson, Vattekat Haridas and Nicolas H. Voelcker
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA00791F, Communication

Self assembly of bivalent glycolipids on single walled carbon nanotubes and their specific molecular recognition properties
Bandaru Narasimha Murthy, Susanne Zeile, Monessha Nambiar, Matthew R. Nussio, Christopher T. Gibson, Joseph G. Shapter, Narayanaswamy Jayaraman and Nicolas H. Voelcker
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA01192A, Communication

Design of low-charge peptide sequences for high-yield formation of titania nanoparticles
Chun-Xia Zhao, Lei Yu and Anton P. J. Middelberg
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C2RA00726F, Communication

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