RSC Advances Blog

We at RSC Advances compile an annual collection of all Review articles published in RSC Advances. We are proud to present the complete in RSC Advances in 2025. 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. From Logic Gates to Biomass Production and everything in between, read selected reviews f…

Every year, we compile a collection of the most interesting articles published in RSC Advances, as selected by our reviewers and handling editors. We are proud to present the “top 5 from ’25”, 5 very well received articles in RSC Advances in 2025. 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. E…

RSC Advances is delighted to welcome Cynthia Ibeto, University of Nigeria as an Associate Editor. Research Areas: Environmental chemistry including: - Chemistry of soils/sediments - Environmental chemical analysis - Environmental remediation - Purification of gaseous and liquid effluents - Radioactivity - Toxicity Cynthia Nkolika Ibeto is a Professor at the Department of Pure and Industrial Chemi…

The RSC Advances team are delighted to welcome Professor Nadia Martínez-Villegas as our new Associate Editors! Professor Nadia Martínez-Villegas, Instituto Potosino de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica, Mexico Research Areas: Environmental chemistry including: - Chemistry of soils/sediments. - Environmental chemical analysis. - Environmental remediation. - Toxicity - Water chemistry Dr. Nadi…

We are delighted to present the 2024 edition of the RSC Advances Emerging Investigators series! Following the success of our 2023 edition, we are excited to continue highlighting the chemistry research being conducted by some of the leading investigators in our community. This year’s Series Editors were Professor Shirley Nakagaki (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil) and Professor Fabienne Dumou…

We are delighted to present the 2024 edition of the RSC Advances Emerging Investigators series! Following the success of our 2023 edition, we are excited to continue highlighting the chemistry research being conducted by some of the leading investigators in our community. This year’s Series Editors were Professor Shirley Nakagaki (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil) and Professor Fabienne Dumou…

We are delighted to present the 2024 edition of the RSC Advances Emerging Investigators series! Following the success of our 2023 edition, we are excited to continue highlighting the chemistry research being conducted by some of the leading investigators in our community. This year’s Series Editors were Professor Shirley Nakagaki (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil) and Professor Fabienne Dumou…

We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2024 Outstanding Student Paper Awards. We are celebrating this year’s winners with a series of webinars and encouraging submissions for 2025 and onwards! The RSC Advances Outstanding Student Paper Awards recognise outstanding work published in the journal, for which a substantial component of the research was conducted by a student. For 2024 we rece…

We are delighted to announce the winners for the RSC Advances Outstanding Student Paper Awards 2024. RSC Advances presents an annual award series to recognise the hard work of students within the chemistry community. All research articles published in RSC Advances in 2024 were considered. In order to be eligible for this award, the first author or co-first author must have been a student at the t…

We are delighted to introduce the next contribution to our New Principal Investigators collection. Read the paper Jaime Bueno, Alberto Jiménez-Solano, Miguel Anaya and Sol Carretero-Palacios This work demonstrates how embedding plasmonic nanoparticles in perovskite LEDs boosts emission efficiency, achieving up to a four-fold enhancement in external quantum efficiency at ultra-low injection curren…

Evaluating total antioxidant capacity in food samples is essential for determining the antioxidant levels and managing oxidative stress-related health risks such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes, and inflammatory conditions. However, the current methods need complex equipment and procedures. Therefore, a simple, rapid and accurate method for detection is cr…

RSC Advances is excited to launch a themed collection entitled “Nanocatalysis”, which is Guest Edited by Professor Anil Banerjee (University of Connecticut), Professor Steven Suib (University of Connecticut) and Professor Koustuv Ray (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur) Nanocatalysis represents an exciting subfield in nanoscience and nanotechnology which involves the use of nano…

We are delighted to introduce the next contribution to our New Principal Investigators collection. Read the paper Fabrication of hydroxylated norbornene foams via frontal polymerization for catalytic applications Andrew Vogler, Tina Dinh, Hanlin M. Wang, Ghaida Aldhahri, Arfa Abrar Malik and Diego Alzate-Sanchez Watch the summary on YouTube https://youtu.be/cKlQN3Q96I8?si=UR3NKgjGj0fSRkB1 Meet th…

RSC Advances is delighted to present a themed collection on 2D materials and their applications.  This themed collection collects and compiles research articles and reviews focused on characterising the structural and physiochemical properties of 2D materials. The collection aims to investigate the applications of 2D materials in various fields of fundamental and applied research, with an […]

RSC Advances is delighted to welcome Dr Lydia Rhyman, University of Mauritius as Editorial Board member and Associate Editor.   Lydia Rhyman was awarded her PhD in Computational Chemistry from the University of Mauritius under the supervision of Prof Ponnadurai Ramasami. She did her postdoctoral research at the University of Johannesburg and the University of […]

Welcome to March’s Review round up! Every month we update our 2025 Reviews in RSC Advances collection to showcase all of the review articles published in RSC Advances in 2025. Don’t forget to come back next month to check out more 2025 reviews. We hope you enjoy reading and as always, all of our articles are open access so you […]

Welcome to February’s Review round up! Every month we update our 2025 Reviews in RSC Advances collection to showcase all of the review articles published in RSC Advances in 2025. Don’t forget to come back next month to check out more 2025 reviews. We hope you enjoy reading and as always, all of our articles are open access so you […]

We are delighted to introduce the next contribution to our New Principal Investigators collection. Read the paper Simple divalent metal salts as robust and efficient initiators for the ring-opening polymerisation of rac-lactide Phoebe A. Lowy and Jennifer A. Garden Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) is emerging as a leading sustainable polymer due to its bio-derived and biodegradable nature. […]

We are delighted to introduce the next contribution to our New Principal Investigators collection. Read the paper Design strategies for organelle-selective fluorescent probes: where to start? Samira Husen Alamudi and Yong-An Lee Tracking changes inside cells is essential for understanding both normal biological functions and disease processes. Fluorescent probes are valuable tools for this purpos…

Welcome to January’s Review round up! Every month we update our 2025 Reviews in RSC Advances collection to showcase all of the review articles published in RSC Advances in 2025. Don’t forget to come back next month to check out more 2025 reviews. We hope you enjoy reading and as always, all of our articles are open access […]