Nanoscale & Nanoscale Advances joint themed collection on nanocarbons
Nianjun
Yang
*a,
Dai-Wen
Pang
b and
Yasuaki
Einaga
c
aInstitute of Materials Engineering, University of Siegen, Siegen 57076, Germany. E-mail: nianjun.yang@uni-siegen.de
bCollege of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China. E-mail: dwpang@whu.edu.cn
cDepartment of Chemistry, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan. E-mail: einaga@chem.keio.ac.jp
 Nianjun Yang, Uni. Siegen, Germany | Dr Nianjun Yang is a senior scientist and group leader at the Institute of Materials Engineering, University of Siegen, Germany. He works on the growth and electrochemical applications of advanced carbon materials. In these fields, he has published over 140 journal papers, edited 1 book series and 4 books, contributed 9 book chapters, organized 10 European Materials Research Society symposiums, and acted as the Guest Editor of several journals. He is currently working as an Editorial Board Member for the journals of Scientific Reports and Diamond and Related Materials as well as a Program Committee Member of several diamond-related international conferences. |
 Dai-Wen Pang, Nankai Uni., China | Dr. Dai-Wen Pang is full professor of chemistry at Nankai University, Director of the Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine, member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Analytical Chemistry (ACS), Associate Editor for New Journal of Chemistry (RSC, CNRS), the Technical Founder of Wuhan Jiayuan Quantum Dots Co., Ltd, and so on. He has been committing himself to developing fluorescent quantum dots for biomedical imaging and biodiagnostics, authored over 300 publications, 3 books, 30 authorized patents and one national standard for quantum dots. He has delivered more than 200 invited lectures all over the world. |
 Yasuaki Einaga, Keio Uni., Japan | Dr Yasuaki Einaga received his BS (1994), MS (1996), and PhD (1999) from the University of Tokyo. After 2 years as a Research Associate at the University of Tokyo, he started a faculty career as an Assistant Professor in Keio University in 2001, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003, and Professor in 2011. He has also been a research director of JST-CREST (2011–2014), and JST-ACCEL (2014–present). He was awarded “The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work” in 2016 for his work on diamond electrodes. His research interests include functional materials science, photochemistry, and diamond electrochemistry. |
Nanocarbon research was spawned after the discovery of the soccer-ball shaped buckminsterfullerene (C60) and fullerene-structures (C70, C84) in the 1980s, carbon nanotubes in the early 1990s, and later graphene at the beginning of the 2000s. As new members of the nanocarbon family, carbon nanoparticles have emerged such as diamond nanoparticles, carbon dots, and graphene (quantum) dots. Fully determined by the structures and surface chemistry of these nanocarbons, their physical, chemical, and engineering features are different, leading to their numerous applications in the fields of biomedicine, energy, catalysis, detection, environment, engineering, and electronics.
As a high impact international journal, this themed issue at Nanoscale publishes high quality and interdisciplinary research across nanoscience and nanotechnology of nanocarbons. It mixes reviews, communications, and full papers, covering the most recent progress and achievements in the synthesis and characterization of various nanocarbon films (DOI: 10.1039/C9NR01722D) (e.g., graphene (DOI: 10.1039/C9NR02281C), diamond (DOI: 10.1039/C9NR02593F), diamond-like carbon, carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, etc.), their nanostructures (e.g., graphene/carbon dots, diamond particles (DOI: 10.1039/C9NR01716J), etc.), and their composites. Of special focus, this themed issue reflects the extraordinarily rapid development in energy (DOI: 10.1039/C9NR02476J), environmental (DOI: 10.1039/C9NR02007A and DOI: 10.1039/C9NR02376C), catalytic (DOI: 10.1039/C9NR01639B), and biomedical (DOI: 10.1039/C9NR01997A) applications. In addition, the scope of this issue loosely aligns with an accompanying symposium held at the 2019 Spring E-MRS meeting: Symposium M – Advanced carbon materials: electrochemical aspects, which was held in Nice, France from 27–31 May, 2019.
As guest editors of this themed issue, we thank all authors for their great contributions. The guidance and support from the editors and editorial staff of Nanoscale throughout the whole process is highly appreciated. We hope such an issue appeals to scientists, researchers and professionals interested in nanoscience and nanotechnology, including those in the areas of physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, materials, energy, environment, information technology, detection science, healthcare and drug discovery, electronics, and those beyond.
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