ACS Omega Monthly Update - February 2021
What's New
Black history month
We are excited to read ACS Omega EAB member Davita L. Watkins share her experience, research and views on the chemistry field in this Axial blog. http://ow.ly/nmrL50DIWx6
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
We celebrate ACS Omega EAB member Katja Loos and the other awardees of the IUPAC 2021 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering, announced on International Day of Women and Girls in Science this February 11. https://iupac.org/iupac-2021-distinguished-women
First joint-virtual BPS & LASA meeting
ACS Omega sponsored the 2021 joint meeting of the British Pharmacological Society and the Laboratory Animal Science Association, focused on “Exploring the status of animal models of psychiatric disorders - their validity and scope for successful translation”. https://buff.ly/3qKRg1N
ACS Omega - In The News
WorldQuant Predictive (WQP), an AI predictive products company, and CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society that specializes in scientific information solutions, have partnered to develop a groundbreaking methodology that can save time and lives by helping research teams rapidly prioritize the most promising drug candidates to treat COVID-19 and other critical diseases. The scientific paper detailing this methodology and collaboration was recently published in ACS Omega.
News coverage… for the wrong reasons! Or are they good?
As for most wildlife, the Sonoran Desert toad’s natural habitat in northern Mexico and the southern United States has been severely encroached on by human development. In addition, this toad has one more reason to be worries: from its glands you can extract a potent psychedelic compound. A recent study in the journal ACS Omega outlines a new method for synthesizing 5-MeO-DMT that is 99.86 percent pure. According to the authors, psychedelic research is currently being hindered by a lack of access to pure research chemicals, yet they believe their method could now be used to produce the drug for clinical trials.
Key Journal Metrics
- The journal published 269 articles in February, for a total of 506 YTD. Articles at ACS Omega were downloaded 478,938 times in February for a total of 962,852 YTD
Published Issues
February 23, 2021
Vol. 6, Issue 7
pp. 4506-5074
February 16, 2021
Vol. 6, Issue 6
pp. 4111-4505
February 09, 2021
Vol. 6, Issue 5
pp. 3435-4110
February 02, 2021
Vol. 6, Issue 4
pp. 2434-3434
Featured Articles
Saqib Rafique, Nafiseh Badiei, Matthew R. Burton*, Jorge Eduardo Gonzalez-Feijoo, Matthew J. Carnie, Afshin Tarat, and Lijie Li*
In this article, authors from Swansea University and Perpetuus Carbon Technologies have prepared a p-n thermoelectric generator on standard office paper by interspersing few-layered graphene domains with HB pencil traces. The article demonstrates a neat and scalable approach to frugal innovation in the area of sustainable energy using ubiquitously available office supplies.
Aref Aasi, Sadegh Mehdi Aghaei*, and Balaji Panchapakesan*
Carbon-based nanomaterials have been extensively investigated toward breath analysis. Recent reports have shown the possibility of testing human breath for the detection of serious illnesses like different types of cancers and lung, kidney, and Alzheimer’s diseases.
Eva McCord, Shreya Pawar, Tejaswi Koneru, Katyayani Tatiparti, Samaresh Sau, and Arun K. Iyer*
Targeted nanoparticulate drug delivery systems offer a good opportunity to traverse the BBB and selectively target the tumor cells. Folate receptors are found to be one of the most useful targets for drug delivery to the brain.
Suprakas Sinha Ray* and Austine Ofondu Chinomso Iroegbu
Among the many initiatives to increase access to clean water, the scientific community has focused on wastewater remediation through the utilization of bioderived materials, such as nanocellulosics. Nanocellulosics, derived from cellulose, have the advantages of being ubiquitous, nontoxic, and excellent adsorbents.
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