Chemical Science Blog

We are delighted to announce that Professor Yi-Tao Long has joined Chemical Science as an Associate Editor.

Yi-Tao is a Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Nanjing University in China. He received his B.S. in Chemistry at Shandong University in 1989 and his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Hongyuan Chen from Nanjing University in 1998. After undertaking two-year postdoctoral studies at Heidelberg University, Yi-Tao worked at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Alberta in Canada for over five years. Following one more year of research at UC Berkeley, he started his independent career at the East China University of Science and Technology in 2007.

Yi-Tao’s research interests focus on the development of new electrochemical measurement methods to reveal the characteristics and dynamics of single entities. This involves nanopore single molecule electroanalysis, biointerface spectroelectrochemistry and integrated biosensors.

Yi-Tao looks forward to receiving cutting-edge submissions that lead to the frontiers of analytical science and electrochemistry.

Below is a selection of articles published in Chemical Science which Yi-Tao would like to highlight – all free to read! We hope you enjoy them.

A lithium-ion-active aerolysin nanopore for effectively trapping long single-stranded DNA
Zheng-Li Hu, Meng-Yin Li, Shao-Chuang Liu, Yi-Lun Ying and Yi-Tao Long
Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 354-358
DOI: 10.1039/C8SC03927E, Edge Article

Impact and oxidation of single silver nanoparticles at electrode surfaces: one shot versus multiple events
Jon Ustarroz, Minkyung Kang, Erin Bullions and Patrick R. Unwin
Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 1841-1853
DOI: 10.1039/C6SC04483B, Edge Article

Electrochemical imaging of cells and tissues
Tzu-En Lin, Stefania Rapino, Hubert H. Girault and Andreas Lesch
Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 4546-4554
DOI: 10.1039/C8SC01035H, Minireview

Selective single molecule nanopore sensing of proteins using DNA aptamer-functionalised gold nanoparticles
Xiaoyan Lin, Aleksandar P. Ivanov and Joshua B. Edel
Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 3905-3912
DOI: 10.1039/C7SC00415J, Edge Article

Enhanced annihilation electrochemiluminescence by nanofluidic confinement
Hanan Al-Kutubi, Silvia Voci, Liza Rassaei, Neso Sojic and Klaus Mathwig
Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 8946-8950
DOI: 10.1039/C8SC03209B, Edge Article

We are delighted to announce Professor Andrew Cooper as the new Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Science.

Andrew Cooper is Professor of Chemistry, Director of the Centre for Materials Discovery and Director of the Materials Innovation Factory at the University of Liverpool. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and has won several prizes and awards for his research.

Professor Cooper’s research interests lie in polymeric materials, supercritical fluids, microporous materials, hydrogen storage, metal nanoparticles, organometallics, emulsion-templated materials, and high-throughput materials methodology.

As we thank Professor Daniel Nocera for his valuable contributions to the journal during his term as Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Science over the past four years, we warmly welcome Professor Cooper as he leads the journal to continued success.

As the Royal Society of Chemistry’s flagship journal, Chemical Science publishes findings of exceptional significance from across the chemical sciences. Chemical Science is free to read, and free to publish in – with all publication charges currently waived.

Professor Cooper joins us in inviting you to submit your most exceptional research to Chemical Science today!

We are delighted to announce that Professor Serena DeBeer has joined Chemical Science as an Associate Editor.

Serena is a Professor and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University, an honorary faculty member at Ruhr University in Bochum, and the group leader of the PINK Beamline at the Energy Materials In‐Situ Laboratory at Helmholtz Zentrum in Berlin. She received her B.S. in Chemistry at Southwestern University in 1995 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2002. From 2002-2009, she was a staff scientist at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, before moving to her faculty position at Cornell.

Serena’s research interests lie in the development and application of advanced X-ray spectroscopic tools for understanding processes in biological, heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis. This includes advances to X-ray spectroscopy techniques as well as applications focused on understanding electronic structural changes in catalytic processes such as N₂ reduction, CH₄ oxidation, H₂O oxidation and H₂ production.

Serena looks forward to receiving submissions in the areas of (bio)inorganic chemistry, heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis and spectroscopy.

Below is a selection of articles published in Chemical Science which Serena would like to highlight – all free to read! We hope you enjoy them.

Excited state electron and energy relays in supramolecular dinuclear complexes revealed by ultrafast optical and X-ray transient absorption spectroscopy
Dugan Hayes, Lars Kohler, Ryan G. Hadt, Xiaoyi Zhang, Cunming Liu, Karen L. Mulfort and Lin X. Chen
Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 860-875
DOI: 10.1039/C7SC04055E, Edge Article

Infrared spectroscopy of the nitrogenase MoFe protein under electrochemical control: potential-triggered CO binding
P. Paengnakorn, P. A. Ash, S. Shaw, K. Danyal, T. Chen, D. R. Dean, L. C. Seefeldt and K. A. Vincent
Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 1500-1505
DOI: 10.1039/C6SC02860H, Edge Article

Metal oxidation states in biological water splitting
Vera Krewald, Marius Retegan, Nicholas Cox, Johannes Messinger, Wolfgang Lubitz, Serena DeBeer, Frank Neese and Dimitrios A. Pantazis
Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 1676-1695
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC03720K, Edge Article

Structurally characterized terminal manganese(IV) oxo tris(alkoxide) complex
Robert L. Halbach, David Gygi, Eric D. Bloch, Bryce L. Anderson and Daniel G. Nocera
Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 4524-4528
DOI: 10.1039/C8SC01164H, Edge Article

Magnetic circular dichroism and computational study of mononuclear and dinuclear iron(IV) complexes
Shengfa Ye, Genqiang Xue, Itana Krivokapic, Taras Petrenko, Eckhard Bill, Lawrence Que Jr and Frank Neese
Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 2909-2921
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC03268C, Edge Article