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A new nanomaterial that may reduce the manufacturing cost of pharmaceuticals and chemicals resembles the surface of Mars

Czech scientists become first to observe an inhomogeneous electron charge distribution on an atom

Students focus on detection of breast cancer markers

Graphene acid makes lithium-ion batteries more efficient

Defects as chemical traps to anchor metal atoms—a way to a new generation of photocatalysts

NANOBIOWAT receives honorary mention in Vizionáři 2021

Tomas Malina wins postdoc position at Karolinska Institute

New graphene-based electrode material protected by European patent

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Top 2021’s publications

B. Singh, M. B. Gawande, A. D. Kute, R. S. Varma, P. Fornasiero, P. McNeice, R. V. Jagadeesh, M. Beller and R. Zbořil

"Single-Atom (Iron-Based) Catalysts: Synthesis and Applications",

CHEMICAL REVIEWS, vol. 121, iss. 21, pp. 13620-13697, 2021.
IF = 60.622

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00158

R. K. Sharma, S. Yadav, S. Dutta, H. B. Kale, I. R. Warkad, R. Zbořil, R. S. Varma and M. B. Gawande

"Silver nanomaterials: synthesis and (electro/photo) catalytic applications",

CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS, vol. 50, iss. 20, pp. 11293-11380, 2021.
IF = 54.564

DOI: 10.1039/d0cs00912a

B. Mallada, A. Gallardo, M. Lamanec, B. de la Torre, V. Špirko, P. Hobza and P. Jelinek

"Real-space imaging of anisotropic charge of σ-hole by means of Kelvin probe force microscopy",

SCIENCE, vol. 374, iss. 6569, pp. 863-867, 2021.
IF = 47.728

DOI: 10.1126/science.abk1479

V. G. Chandrashekhar, T. Senthamarai, R. G. Kadam, O. Malina, J. Kašlík, R. Zbořil, M. B. Gawande, R. V. Jagadeesh and M. Beller

"Silica-supported Fe/Fe–O nanoparticles for the catalytic hydrogenation of nitriles to amines in the presence of aluminium additives",

NATURE CATALYSIS, 2021.
IF = 41.813

DOI: 10.1038/s41929-021-00722-x

K. Jayaramulu, M. Horn, A. Schneemann, H. Saini, A. Bakandritsos, V. Ranc, M. Petr, V. Stavila, C. Narayana, B. Scheibe, Š. Kment, M. Otyepka, N. Motta, D. Dubal, R. Zbořil and R. A. Fischer

"Covalent Graphene‐MOF Hybrids for High‐Performance Asymmetric Supercapacitors",

ADVANCED MATERIALS, vol. 33, iss. 4, pp. 2004560, 2021.
IF = 30.849

DOI: 10.1002/adma.202004560

M. Delfi, R. Sartorius, M. Ashrafizadeh, E. Sharifi, Y. Zhang, P. De Berardinis, A. Zarrabi, R. S. Varma, F. R. Tay, B. R. Smith and P. Makvandi

"Self-assembled peptide and protein nanostructures for anti-cancer therapy: Targeted delivery, stimuli-responsive devices and immunotherapy",

NANO TODAY, vol. 38, art. no. 101119, 2021.
IF = 20.722

DOI: 10.1016/j.nantod.2021.101119

V. M. Santhini, O. Stetsovych, M. Ondráček, J. I. Mendieta Moreno, P. Mutombo, B. Torre, M. Švec, J. Klívar, I. G. Stará, H. Vázquez, I. Starý and P. Jelínek

"On‐Surface Synthesis of Polyferrocenylene and its Single‐Chain Conformational and Electrical Transport Properties",

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, vol. 31, iss. 5, pp. 2006391, 2021.
IF = 18.808

DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202006391

X. Zhou, I. Hwang, O. Tomanec, D. Fehn, A. Mazare, R. Zboril, K. Meyer and P. Schmuki

"Advanced Photocatalysts: Pinning Single Atom Co‐Catalysts on Titania Nanotubes",

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, vol. 31, iss. 30, pp. 2102843, 2021.
IF = 18.808

DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202102843

I. Tantis, A. Bakandritsos, D. Zaoralová, M. Medveď, P. Jakubec, J. Havláková, R. Zbořil and M. Otyepka

"Covalently Interlinked Graphene Sheets with Sulfur‐Chains Enable Superior Lithium–Sulfur Battery Cathodes at Full‐Mass Level",

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, vol. 31, iss. 30, pp. 2101326, 2021.
IF = 18.808

DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202101326

H. L. Chia, C. C. Mayorga‐Martinez, Z. Sofer, P. Lazar, R. D. Webster and M. Pumera

"Vanadium Dopants: A Boon or a Bane for Molybdenum Dichalcogenides‐Based Electrocatalysis Applications",

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, vol. 31, iss. 8, pp. 2009083, 2021.
IF = 18.808

DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202009083

L. Mascaretti, A. Schirato, R. Zbořil, Š. Kment, P. Schmuki, A. Alabastri and A. Naldoni

"Solar steam generation on scalable ultrathin thermoplasmonic TiN nanocavity arrays",

NANO ENERGY, vol. 83, art. no. 105828, 2021.
IF = 17.881

DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2021.105828

T. Raček, O. Schindler, D. Toušek, V. Horský, K. Berka, J. Koča and R. Svobodová

"Atomic Charge Calculator II: web-based tool for the calculation of partial atomic charges",

NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH, vol. 48, iss. W1, pp. W591-W596, 2020.
IF = 16.971

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa367

I. Sillitoe, N. Bordin, N. Dawson, V. P. Waman, P. Ashford, H. M. Scholes, C. S. M. Pang, L. Woodridge, C. Rauer, N. Sen, M. Abbasian, S. Le Cornu, S. D. Lam, K. Berka, I. Varekova, R. Svobodova, J. Lees and C. A. Orengo

"CATH: increased structural coverage of functional space",

NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH, vol. 49, iss. D1, pp. D266-D273, 2021.
IF = 16.971

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1079

J. Chen, M. Cheng, G. Salgado, P. Stadlbauer, X. Zhang, S. Amrane, A. Guédin, F. He, J. Šponer, H. Ju, J. Mergny and J. Zhou

"The beginning and the end: flanking nucleotides induce a parallel G-quadruplex topology",

NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH, Article in press, 2021.
IF = 16.971

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab681

D. Panáček, L. Hochvaldová, A. Bakandritsos, T. Malina, M. Langer, J. Belza, J. Martincová, R. Večeřová, P. Lazar, K. Poláková, J. Kolařík, L. Válková, M. Kolář, M. Otyepka, A. Panáček and R. Zbořil

"Silver Covalently Bound to Cyanographene Overcomes Bacterial Resistance to Silver Nanoparticles and Antibiotics",

ADVANCED SCIENCE, vol. 8, iss. 12, pp. 2003090, 2021.
IF = 16.806

DOI: 10.1002/advs.202003090

T. Qin, Z. Wang, Y. Wang, F. Besenbacher, M. Otyepka and M. Dong

"Recent Progress in Emerging Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Carbides",

NANO-MICRO LETTERS, vol. 13, iss. 1. art. no. 183, 2021.
IF = 16.419

DOI: 10.1007/s40820-021-00710-7

S. Iravani and R. S. Varma

"Plant Pollen Grains: A Move Towards Green Drug and Vaccine Delivery Systems",

NANO-MICRO LETTERS, vol. 13, iss. 1, pp. , 2021.
IF = 16.419

DOI: 10.1007/s40820-021-00654-y

P. Mayorga-Burrezo, J. Muñoz, D. Zaoralová, M. Otyepka and M. Pumera

"Multiresponsive 2D Ti3C2Tx MXene via Implanting Molecular Properties",

ACS NANO, vol. 15, iss. 6, pp. 10067-10075, 2021.
IF = 15.881

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c01742

Y. Zuo, T. Li, N. Zhang, T. Jing, D. Rao, P. Schmuki, Š. Kment, R. Zbořil and Y. Chai

"Spatially Confined Formation of Single Atoms in Highly Porous Carbon Nitride Nanoreactors",

ACS NANO, vol. 15, iss. 4, pp. 7790-7798, 2021.
IF = 15.881

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c01872

S. Kalytchuk, L. Zdražil, Z. Bad’ura, M. Medved’, M. Langer, M. Paloncýová, G. Zoppellaro, S. V. Kershaw, A. L. Rogach, M. Otyepka and R. Zbořil

"Carbon Dots Detect Water-to-Ice Phase Transition and Act as Alcohol Sensors via Fluorescence Turn-Off/On Mechanism",

ACS NANO, vol. 15, iss. 4, pp. 6582–6593, 2021.
IF = 15.881

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c09781

V. Urbanová, N. Antonatos, J. Plutnar, P. Lazar, J. Michalička, M. Otyepka, Z. Sofer and M. Pumera

"Rhenium Doping of Layered Transition-Metal Diselenides Triggers Enhancement of Photoelectrochemical Activity",

ACS NANO, vol. 15, iss. 2, pp. 2374-2385, 2021.
IF = 15.881

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c04437

J. Kolařík, A. Bakandritsos, Z. Bad’ura, R. Lo, G. Zoppellaro, Š. Kment, A. Naldoni, Y. Zhang, M. Petr, O. Tomanec, J. Filip, M. Otyepka, P. Hobza and R. Zbořil

"Carboxylated Graphene for Radical-Assisted Ultra-Trace-Level Water Treatment and Noble Metal Recovery",

ACS NANO, vol. 15, iss. 2, pp. 3349-3358, 2021.
IF = 15.881

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c10093

B. Mallada, B. de la Torre, J. I. Mendieta-Moreno, D. Nachtigallová, A. Matěj, M. Matoušek, P. Mutombo, J. Brabec, L. Veis, T. Cadart, M. Kotora and P. Jelínek

"On-Surface Strain-Driven Synthesis of Nonalternant Non-Benzenoid Aromatic Compounds Containing Four- to Eight-Membered Rings",

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, vol. 143, iss. 36, pp. 14694-14702, 2021.
IF = 15.419

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c06168

V. M. Santhini, C. Wäckerlin, A. Cahlík, M. Ondráček, S. Pascal, A. Matěj, O. Stetsovych, P. Mutombo, P. Lazar, O. Siri and P. Jelínek

"1D Coordination π–d Conjugated Polymers with Distinct Structures Defined by the Choice of the Transition Metal: Towards a New Class of Antiaromatic Macrocycles",

ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, vol. 60, iss. 1, pp. 439-445, 2021.
IF = 15.336

DOI: 10.1002/anie.202011462

M. Lamanec, R. Lo, D. Nachtigallová, A. Bakandritsos, E. Mohammadi, M. Dračínský, R. Zbořil, P. Hobza and W. Wang

"The Existence of a N→C Dative Bond in the C60–Piperidine Complex",

ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE, vol. 133, iss. 4, pp. 1970-1978, 2021.
IF = 15.336

DOI: 10.1002/ange.202012851

P. Makvandi, Z. Baghbantaraghdari, W. Zhou, Y. Zhang, R. Manchanda, T. Agarwal, A. Wu, T. K. Maiti, R. S. Varma and B. R. Smith

"Gum polysaccharide/nanometal hybrid biocomposites in cancer diagnosis and therapy",

BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES, vol. 48, iss. , pp. 107711, 2021.
IF = 14.227

DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2021.107711

M. Telychko, G. Li, P. Mutombo, D. Soler-Polo, X. Peng, J. Su, S. Song, M. J. Koh, M. Edmonds, P. Jelínek, J. Wu and J. Lu

"Ultrahigh-yield on-surface synthesis and assembly of circumcoronene into a chiral electronic Kagome-honeycomb lattice",

SCIENCE ADVANCES, vol. 7, iss. 3, pp. eabf0269, 2021.
IF = 14.136

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf0269

E. N. Zare, X. Zheng, P. Makvandi, H. Gheybi, R. Sartorius, C. K. Y. Yiu, M. Adeli, A. Wu, A. Zarrabi, R. S. Varma and F. R. Tay

"Nonspherical Metal‐Based Nanoarchitectures: Synthesis and Impact of Size, Shape, and Composition on Their Biological Activity",

SMALL, vol. 17, iss. 17, pp. 2007073, 2021.
IF = 13.281

DOI: 10.1002/smll.202007073