RSC Advances Blog

RSC Advances are delighted to welcome Sandip Murarka, IIT Jodhpur, India as an Associate Editor! Dr. Murarka pursued his PhD from WWU Münster under the supervision of Prof. Armido Studer. After completing his Ph.D. (2013), he worked as a Max-Planck postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Herbert Waldmann at Max Planck Institute of […]

RSC Advances is delighted to welcome Andrea Goldson-Barnaby, The University of the West Indies, Jamaica, as an Associate Editor!   Dr. Andrea Goldson-Barnaby is a graduate of The University of the West Indies, Jamaica where she pursued a BSc, doing a double major in Chemistry and Food Chemistry followed by a M Phil in Applied […]

We are delighted to introduce the next contribution to our New Principal Investigators collection. Read the paper Para-substituted benzoic acid ruthenium(ii) complexes: structural features modulating cytotoxicity Jocely L. Dutra, Pedro H. S. Marcon, Gustavo Moselli, Fabiano M. Niquini, João Victor F. da Costa, Carlos André F. Moraes, Ataualpa A. C. Braga, Javier Ellena, Alzir A. Batista […]

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 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…

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…

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 […]

Looking back over 2024, RSC Advances is delighted to present a collection of most popular articles in the area of energy chemistry. View the full collection here Featured articles Hydrogen production, storage, and transportation: recent advances M. M. Rampai, C. B. Mtshali, N. S. Seroka and L. Khotseng RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 6699-6718 Pt/C catalysts synthesized in […]

Looking back over 2024, RSC Advances is delighted to present a collection of most popular articles in the area of organic chemistry. View the full collection here Featured articles Spectroscopic and photochemical evaluation of stereochemically biased 3′-substituted spiropyran photoswitches Vojtěch Boháček, Tereza Erbenová, Jakub Dávid Malina, Marie Kloubcová, Michal Šmahel, Václav Eigner and Jiří…

Looking back over 2024, RSC Advances is delighted to present a collection of most popular articles in the area of inorganic chemistry. View the full collection here Featured articles A catalytic approach for the dehydrogenative upgradation of crude glycerol to lactate and hydrogen generation Satabdee Tanaya Sahoo, Anurita Sinku and Prosenjit Daw RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 37082-37086 […]

Looking back over 2024, RSC Advances is delighted to present a collection of most popular articles in the area of physical chemistry. View the full collection here Featured articles Label-free detection of Aβ-42: a liquid crystal droplet approach for Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis Saumya Ranjan Pradhan,  Ramadevi Suguru Pathinti, Ramesh Kandimalla, Krishnakanth Chithari, Madhava Rao Veeramal…

Looking back over 2024, RSC Advances is delighted to present a collection of most popular articles in nanoscience. View the full collection here Featured articles Designing transition metal-based porous architectures for supercapacitor electrodes: a review Feitian Ran, Meijie Hu, Shulin Deng, Kai Wang, Wanjun Sun, Hui Peng and Jifei Liu RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 11482-11512 Promoting photoswitching […]

Looking back over 2024, RSC Advances is delighted to present a collection of most popular articles in the area of materials chemistry. View the full collection here Featured articles Recycling of e-waste power cables using microwave-induced pyrolysis – process characteristics and facile recovery of copper metal Satoshi Horikoshi, Naoki Hachisuga and Nick Serpone RSC Adv., 2024, 14, […]

Looking back over 2024, RSC Advances is delighted to present a collection of most popular articles in the area of food chemistry.   View the full collection here Featured articles Self-assembled copper nanoclusters used to mimic peroxidase for glucose detection Ailing Han, Yameng Zhao, Jianhu Wu, Jianping Guo and Jianguo Xv RSC Adv., 2024, 14, 3261-3266 O-Alkyl […]