Announcements

1. “Tunable Fano Resonance and Enhanced Sensing in a Simple Au/TiO₂ Hybrid Metasurface”
by Zhihui He, Weiwei Xue, Wei Cui, Chunjiang Li, Zhenxiong Li, Lihui Pu, Jiaojiao Feng, Xintao Xiao, Xuyang Wang and Gang Li
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(4), 687; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10040687
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/4/687

2. “Latest Novelties on Plasmonic and Non-Plasmonic Nanomaterials for SERS Sensing”
by Grégory Barbillon
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(6), 1200; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10061200
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/6/1200

3. “Tunable Split-Disk Metamaterial Absorber for Sensing Application”
by Yusheng Zhang, Peng Lin and Yu-Sheng Lin
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(3), 598; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11030598
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/3/598

4. “Using Dual Microresonant Cavity and Plasmonic Effects to Enhance the Photovoltaic Efficiency of Flexible Polymer Solar Cells”
by Wenfei Shen, Guoqing Zhao, Xiaolin Zhang, Fanchen Bu, Jungheum Yun and Jianguo Tang
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(5), 944; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10050944
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/5/944

5. “A Review of Fluorescent Carbon Dots, Their Synthesis, Physical and Chemical Characteristics, and Applications”
by Mychele Jorns and Dimitri Pappas
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(6), 1448; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11061448
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/6/1448

6. “Tunable Bound States in the Continuum in All-Dielectric Terahertz Metasurfaces”
by Xu Chen and Wenhui Fan
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(4), 623; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10040623
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/4/623

7. “Recent Advances in the Design of Plasmonic Au/TiO₂ Nanostructures for Enhanced Photocatalytic Water Splitting”
by Jehad Abed, Nitul S Rajput, Amine El Moutaouakil and Mustapha Jouiad
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(11), 2260; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10112260
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/11/2260

8. “Color Centers Enabled by Direct Femto-Second Laser Writing in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors”
by Stefania Castelletto, Jovan Maksimovic, Tomas Katkus, Takeshi Ohshima, Brett C. Johnson and Saulius Juodkazis
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(1), 72; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11010072
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/1/72

9. “Performance of Graphene–CdS Hybrid Nanocomposite Thin Film for Applications in Cu(In,Ga)Se₂ Solar Cell and H₂ Production”
by Salh Alhammadi, Vasudeva Reddy Minnam Reddy, Sreedevi Gedi, Hyeonwook Park, Mostafa Saad Sayed, Jae-Jin Shim and Woo Kyoung Kim
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(2), 245; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10020245
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/2/245

10. “Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Cancer Immunotherapy Applications: Opportunities, Challenges, and Current Progress in Nanomaterial Strategies”
by Shuvashis Dey, Matt Trau and Kevin M. Koo
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(6), 1145; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10061145
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/6/1145
 

1. “State of the Art and Future Perspectives in Advanced CMOS Technology”
by Henry H. Radamson, Huilong Zhu, Zhenhua Wu, Xiaobin He, Hongxiao Lin, Jinbiao Liu, Jinjuan Xiang, Zhenzhen Kong, Wenjuan Xiong, Junjie Li et al.
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(8), 1555; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10081555
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/8/1555

2. “Current Trends in Nanomaterials for Metal Oxide-Based Conductometric Gas Sensors: Advantages and Limitations. Part 1: 1D and 2D Nanostructures”
by Ghenadii Korotcenkov
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(7), 1392; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10071392
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/7/1392

3. “Carbon-Based Quantum Dots for Supercapacitors: Recent Advances and Future Challenges”
by Fitri Aulia Permatasari, Muhammad Alief Irham, Satria Zulkarnaen Bisri and Ferry Iskandar
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(1), 91; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11010091
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/1/91

4. “Tunable Infrared Metamaterial Emitter for Gas Sensing Application”
by Ruijia Xu and Yu-Sheng Lin
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(8), 1442; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10081442
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/8/1442

5. “Surface and Interface Designs in Copper-Based Conductive Inks for Printed/Flexible Electronics”
by Daisuke Tomotoshi and Hideya Kawasaki
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(9), 1689; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10091689
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/9/1689

6. “Silicon Nanowires for Gas Sensing: A Review”
by Mehdi Akbari-Saatlu, Marcin Procek, Claes Mattsson, Göran Thungström, Hans-Erik Nilsson, Wenjuan Xiong, Buqing Xu, You Li and Henry H. Radamson
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(11), 2215; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10112215
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/11/2215

7. “Electrochemical Sensors Based on Conducting Polymers for the Aqueous Detection of Biologically Relevant Molecules”
by Álvaro Terán-Alcocer, Francisco Bravo-Plascencia, Carlos Cevallos-Morillo and Alex Palma-Cando
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(1), 252; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11010252
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/1/252

8. “Hydrothermal Synthesis and Gas Sensing of Monoclinic MoO₃ Nanosheets”
by Teodóra Nagyné-Kovács, Levente Studnicka, István Endre Lukács, Krisztina László, Pawel Pasierb, Imre Miklós Szilágyi and György Pokol
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(5), 891; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10050891
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/5/891

9. “Recent Progress on Vanadium Dioxide Nanostructures and Devices: Fabrication, Properties, Applications and Perspectives”
by Yanqing Zhang, Weiming Xiong, Weijin Chen and Yue Zheng
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(2), 338; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11020338
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/2/338

10. “Application of Nanostructured Carbon-Based Electrochemical (Bio)Sensors for Screening of Emerging Pharmaceutical Pollutants in Waters and Aquatic Species: A Review”
by Álvaro Torrinha, Thiago M. B. F. Oliveira, Francisco W. P. Ribeiro, Adriana N. Correia, Pedro Lima-Neto and Simone Morais
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(7), 1268; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10071268
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/7/1268

1. “Charge Transfer and Biocompatibility Aspects in Conducting Polymer-Based Enzymatic Biosensors and Biofuel Cells”
by Simonas Ramanavicius and Arunas Ramanavicius
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(2), 371; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11020371
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/2/371

2. “Exploiting Fruit Waste Grape Pomace for Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis, Assessing Their Antioxidant, Antidiabetic Potential and Antibacterial Activity Against Human Pathogens: A Novel Approach”
by Ganesh Dattatraya Saratale, Rijuta Ganesh Saratale, Dong-Su Kim, Do-Yeong Kim and Han-Seung Shin
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(8), 1457; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10081457
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/8/1457

3. “Hypericum perforatum L.-Mediated Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles Exhibiting Antioxidant and Anticancer Activities”
by Abdalrahim Alahmad, Armin Feldhoff, Nadja C. Bigall, Pascal Rusch, Thomas Scheper and Johanna-Gabriela Walter
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(2), 487; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11020487
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/2/487

4. “On the Role of Nanofluids in Thermal-hydraulic Performance of Heat Exchangers—A Review”
by Salah Almurtaji, Naser Ali, Joao A. Teixeira and Abdulmajid Addali
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(4), 734; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10040734
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/4/734

5. “Materials, Electrical Performance, Mechanisms, Applications, and Manufacturing Approaches for Flexible Strain Sensors”
by Fei Han, Min Li, Huaiyu Ye and Guoqi Zhang
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(5), 1220; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11051220
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/5/1220 

6. “Strategies for SERS Detection of Organochlorine Pesticides”
by Rebeca Moldovan, Bogdan-Cezar Iacob, Cosmin Farcău, Ede Bodoki and Radu Oprean
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(2), 304; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11020304
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/2/304 

7. “Silver Nanowire Synthesis and Strategies for Fabricating Transparent Conducting Electrodes”
by Amit Kumar, Muhammad Omar Shaikh and Cheng-Hsin Chuang
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(3), 693; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11030693
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/3/693 

8. “Tribological Behavior of Nanolubricants Based on Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles and Trimethylolpropane Trioleate Base Oil”
by José M. Liñeira del Río, Enriqueta R. López, Manuel González Gómez, Susana Yáñez Vilar, Yolanda Piñeiro, José Rivas, David E. P. Gonçalves, Jorge H. O. Seabra and Josefa Fernández
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(4), 683; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10040683
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/4/683 

9. “Nanofluid Development Using Silver Nanoparticles and Organic-Luminescent Molecules for Solar-Thermal and Hybrid Photovoltaic-Thermal Applications”
by James Walshe, Pauraic Mc Carron, Conor McLoughlin, Sarah McCormack, John Doran and George Amarandei
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(6), 1201; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10061201
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/6/1201 

10. “Gold Nanorod Assemblies: The Roles of Hot-Spot Positioning and Anisotropy in Plasmon Coupling and SERS”
by Priyanka Dey, Verena Baumann and Jessica Rodríguez-Fernández
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(5), 942; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10050942
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/5/942

MDPI has just become the first open access (OA) publisher to reach the milestone of one million articles published. That is one million articles freely available to all, to circulate and build upon! We are proud to share this special moment with the global scientific community.

This landmark has been reached thanks to the immeasurable support of more than 600,000 expert reviewers, 66,000 editorial board members and 6700 hard-working colleagues across MDPI’s global offices.

Within more than 25 years of publishing, our journals received 2.1 million manuscripts and generated 4.6 million peer review reports to get to one million papers published.

Reaching the milestone of one million articles published reinforces our mission to remove any existing barriers and to make scientific research accessible to all. Since its inception, MDPI’s goal has been to create reliable processes to make science open. This is a path towards facilitating the dissemination of novel insights in scientific communities.

Regular feedback from authors and reviewers shows that our service is greatly appreciated and needed. At the same time, the feedback helps us identify areas for further improvement.

As it stands, a significant share of published research findings remain closed access. More than half of the content published with the most well-known legacy publishers stays behind a paywall, and that is not including articles published in hybrid OA journals, or made available months or years after publication.

A new policy announced by the US administration in August 2022 requires that, as of January 2026, all US federally funded research be made freely and immediately available after publication. While the new policy does not mandate articles be published under an open access license, it is aligned with the open access movement in removing all barriers to research. Similarly, some of the most advanced research institutions in the world intend to have all funded research articles published in open access by 2025.

MDPI is proud to be the leading agent of the transition to open access.

"Thanks a Million" to all the contributors!

We are pleased to announce that the website of the MDPI Sustainability Foundation has been revamped! For the past couple of months, our UX UI team and front-end developers have been working hard to launch the website in time for the opening of the Sustainability Awards nominations.

The website is not the only thing that has had a remodeling. Indeed, the format of the Emerging Sustainability Leader Award (ESLA) has been updated. ESLA is now a competition open to individual researchers or start-ups founded by researchers under the age of 35. Nominee applications will go through 2 rounds of selection until the final 3 are decided. The finalists will then be invited to give pitch presentations during the Award Ceremony to win either first place (10,000 USD) or runner-up (2 x 5000 USD).

The World Sustainability Award, on the other hand, remains the same: a total prize money of 100,000 USD is up for grabs by senior individual researchers or groups of researchers from the international research community.

Nominations for both the World Sustainability Award and the Emerging Sustainability Leader award are now open! Check out our new website for more information on how to nominate.

Recently, Clarivate™ revealed its 2022 list of Highly Cited Researchers™—individuals at universities, research institutes and commercial organizations.

The scientists who were selected into this year’s list of Highly Cited Researchers have published highly cited papers in the 11-year period from January 2011 to December 2021, with citation frequency in the top 1% of academic subjects and the same year of publication in the Web of Science^™ database. Based on Web of Science Citation data, 6,938 researchers from across the globe who have demonstrated a disproportionate level of significant and broad influence in their chosen field or fields over the last decade have been awarded Highly Cited Researcher 2022 designations. The list is truly global, spanning 69 countries or regions and spread across a diverse range of research sciences and social sciences.

According to statistics, 46 members of the editorial board of Nanomaterials (ISSN: 2079-4991) have been selected into the list of Highly Cited Researchers of Clarivate in 2022. They are being recognized for their high-quality scientific research achievements and outstanding contributions to their professional fields. The Nanomaterials journal office sincerely congratulates all elected Editorial Board Members and hopes that they continue to have an academically productive relationship with the journal.

“Biocompatible Magnetic Fluids of Co-Doped Iron Oxide Nanoparticles with Tunable Magnetic Properties”
by Silvio Dutz, Norbert Buske, Joachim Landers, Christine Gräfe, Heiko Wende and Joachim H. Clement
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(6), 1019; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10061019
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/6/1019
Cited by 27 | Viewed by 2512

“A Guided Walk through the World of Mesoporous Bioactive Glasses (MBGs): Fundamentals, Processing, and Applications”
by Carla Migneco, Elisa Fiume, Enrica Verné and Francesco Baino
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(12), 2571; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10122571
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/12/2571
Cited by 22 | Viewed by 1924

“MIL-88A Metal-Organic Framework as a Stable Sulfur-Host Cathode for Long-Cycle Li-S Batteries”
by Almudena Benítez, Juan Amaro-Gahete, Dolores Esquivel, Francisco José Romero-Salguero, Julián Morales and Álvaro Caballero
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(3), 424; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10030424
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/3/424
Cited by 21 | Viewed by 3740

“Magnetocrystalline and Surface Anisotropy in CoFe₂O₄ Nanoparticles”
by Alexander Omelyanchik, María Salvador, Franco D’Orazio, Valentina Mameli, Carla Cannas, Dino Fiorani, Anna Musinu, Montserrat Rivas, Valeria Rodionova, Gaspare Varvaro et al.
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(7), 1288; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10071288
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/7/1288
Cited by 18 | Viewed by 2117

“Recent Developments in Lanthanide-Doped Alkaline Earth Aluminate Phosphors with Enhanced and Long-Persistent Luminescence”
by Doory Kim
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(3), 723; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11030723
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/3/723
Cited by 17 | Viewed by 2676

“Polydopamine-Modified Metal–Organic Frameworks, NH₂-Fe-MIL-101, as pH-Sensitive Nanocarriers for Controlled Pesticide Release”
by Yongpan Shan, Chunli Xu, Hongjun Zhang, Huiping Chen, Muhammad Bilal, Shujun Niu, Lidong Cao and Qiliang Huang
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(10), 2000; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10102000
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/10/2000
Cited by 17 | Viewed by 2545

“Zinc Gallium Oxide—A Review from Synthesis to Applications”
by Mu-I Chen, Anoop Kumar Singh, Jung-Lung Chiang, Ray-Hua Horng and Dong-Sing Wuu
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(11), 2208; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10112208
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/11/2208
Cited by 16 | Viewed by 3586

“Carbon Nanotube Sheet-Synthesis and Applications”
by Megha Chitranshi, Anuptha Pujari, Vianessa Ng, Daniel Chen, Devika Chauhan, Ronald Hudepohl, Motahareh Saleminik, Sung Yong Kim, Ashley Kubley, Vesselin Shanov et al.
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(10), 2023; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10102023
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/10/2023
Cited by 14 | Viewed by 5991

“Inkjet Printing of Flexible Transparent Conductive Films with Silver Nanowires Ink”
by Xiaoli Wu, Shuyue Wang, Zhengwu Luo, Jiaxin Lu, Kaiwen Lin, Hui Xie, Yuehui Wang and Jing-Ze Li
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(6), 1571; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11061571
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/6/1571
Cited by 13 | Viewed by 1565

“Synthesis and Performance of MOF-Based Non-Noble Metal Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: A Review”
by Nicolas Delaporte, Etienne Rivard, Sadesh K. Natarajan, Pierre Benard, Michel L. Trudeau and Karim Zaghib
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(10), 1947; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10101947
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/10/1947
Cited by 13 | Viewed by 2549

Date: 25 November 2022
Time: 10:00 a.m. CET | 4:00 a.m. EST | 5:00 p.m. CST Asia
Webinar ID: 874 0094 0079
Register here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8016666193194/WN_57Jdo8RzTfeu3NdlKyrgrw
Participation fee: None
Language: English
Webinar keywords: carbon materials; nanostructured carbon gels; electrochemistry; fuel cells; batteries; advanced oxidation processes; photocatalysis
Related Special Issues:

• "Carbon-Based Nanomaterials for Visible-Light Photocatalysis and Photoelectrocatalysis";
• "Synthesis of Nanocomposites and Catalysis Applications II".

Chair:

Speakers：

If you have any questions about this webinar, please contact nanomaterials@mdpi.com.

We look forward to your participation in this event.

Nanomaterials Editorial Office

Peer Review Week began 19 September 2022 under the theme of “Research Integrity: Creating and Supporting Trust in Research”. Through various blog articles, podcast, and webinar, we discussed this crucial subject throughout the week, celebrating the essential role peer review plays in maintaining research quality.

To begin, we held a Webinar on the topic. Professor Peter W. Choate and Dr. Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi joined Dr. Ioana Craciun, one of MDPI’s scientific officers, for an in-depth discussion.

We invite you to view the event recording:

During the week, the MDPI Blog in a series articles highlighted how good Peer Review safeguards research integrity. The following topics were covered:

• Peer Review Week 2022
• Research Integrity
• What We’ve Learned About Peer Review Reports
• 4 Steps to the Perfect Peer Review Report
• How to Write the Perfect Peer Review Report: An Interview
• Inviting Great Peer Reviewers

In a new edition of Insight Faster, an MDPI podcast, we were delighted to talk to the co-chairs of the Peer Review Week committee, Jayashree Rajagopalan (Senior Manager of Global Community Engagement for CACTUS) and Danielle Padula (Head of Marketing and Community Development at Scholastica) to get their take on this year’s event and its related topics.

You can find the Podcast here.

We hope you enjoy the contents!

A range of MDPI journals will be attending the 11th National Conference on Environmental Chemistry as an exhibitor. This meeting will be held in Harbin, China, from 25 to 29 July 2022.

The theme of this conference will be “Innovating Environmental Sciences, Low-Carbon Protecting Environment and Health”, which fully reflects the conference’s purpose of innovation, participation, cooperation, and foresight. More than 50 branches have been set up in the fields of interface process, toxicology and health, public health, environmental safety, pollution control, remediation technology, green and low-carbon, and environmental policy, and various well-known experts at home and abroad have been invited to produce conference and branch reports and deliver speeches. We invite experts in the field and environmental protection companies to participate in the exhibition, for which academic activities such as paper exhibitions, postgraduate forums, and Editor-in-Chief meetings have been organized.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Toxics (leading);
• Water (leading);
• Sustainability (leading);
• Applied Sciences;
• JoX;
• Nanomaterials;
• Soil Systems;
• Sustainable Chemistry;
• IJERPH;
• Pollutants;
• Environments.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference and our booth, please visit the following link: https://www.ncec2021.com/Home/Default.