ACS Omega Monthly Update - October 2021
What's New
Record usage for ACS Omega in October 2021
ACS Omega experienced a surge in article views in October 2021, recording close to 760,000 downloads, an increase of >150,000 or 25% over the previous record set in March 2021. Total usage in 2021 is at 5.8M, growth in usage of 77% over the same period of Jan-Oct 2020.
A leadership and diversity award
ACS Omega Senior Editor Prof. Sarbajit Banerjee was the recipient of the Leadership in Equity and Diversity (LEAD) award at Texas A&M University and the 2021 ACS Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences.
"In these challenging and divided times, there is much we can learn from Professor Banerjee’s unique ability to mentor students from vastly different backgrounds and his forthright approach to building trust, communicating the opportunities made available by science, and turning diversity into strength” Dr. Marcetta Y. Darensbourg, Texas A&M Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, nominator.
Congratulations from the whole ACS Omega team and thanks for championing such an important cause!
ACS Omega - In The News
Adulteration of milk is a pressing concern in developing countries like India, where a significant portion of supplied milk fails to comply with the standards set by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India. Water is frequently added to increase the volume of milk, along with urea, which makes the watered-down version whiter and foamier – this can potentially endanger the normal functioning of the liver, heart, and kidneys. Virkeshwar Kumar and Susmita Dash from the Indian Institute of Science have developed a low-cost and effective method to detect adulterants in milk, by analyzing deposition patterns after evaporation.
Reference: Virkeshwar Kumar et al., Evaporation-Based Low-Cost Method for the Detection of Adulterant in Milk, ACS Omega (2021).
An international research team led by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has invented a 'smart' window material that controls heat transmission without blocking views, which could help cut the energy required to cool and heat buildings. The new energy-saving material for electrochromic (EC) windows that operate at the flick of a switch is designed to block infrared radiation—which is the major component of sunlight that emits heat. Moving forward, the research team hopes to take the invention from lab to market. It has partnered with glass manufacturer iGlass Asia Pacific for further tests, and to look at potentially incorporating the smart window into its projects for improved efficiency and sustainability.
Reference: Ronn Goei et al, Nd–Nb Co-doped SnO2/α-WO3 Electrochromic Materials: Enhanced Stability and Switching Properties, ACS Omega (2021).
Key Journal Metrics
- ACS Omega published 320 articles in the month of October 2021, for a total of 2,772 YTD.
- Articles published by ACS Omega were downloaded an impressive 759,267 times in October and brings the total YTD usage for ACS Omega articles to 5,790,085, which represents a 77% increase in usage compared to the equivalent time period in 2020.
Published Issues
pp. 25846-26821
pp. 25109-25845
Featured Articles
Cyclic ureas are important intermediates for pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals, natural products, chiral auxiliaries, and so on. In this study, the greener, direct synthesis of 2-imidazolidinone from CO2 and EDA is achieved without requiring further addition of CO2 in the reaction system.
Masazumi Tamura of Osaka University, Keiichi Tomishige of Osaka University et al.
ACS Omega 2021, 6, 41, 27527–27535
Surface coating is one of the techniques used to improve the electrochemical performance and enhance the resistance against decomposition of cathode materials in lithium-ion batteries. In this work, calculations based on the density functional theory have been employed to investigate the adsorption of the organic solvent ethylene carbonate (EC) on the major α-Al2O3(0001) surface.
David Santos-Carballal (Leeds University, United Kingdom), Phuti E. Ngoepe, University of Limpopo, South Africa et al.
ACS Omega 2021, 6, 44, 29577–29587
Nanometric manganese(II) sulfide is an attractive material to target as it possesses useful optical, electrical, and magnetic properties that vary in the nanometer size domain, that is, below 100 nm. In this work, the novel bis(O-alkylxanthato) manganese(II) complexes (alkyl = Me, Et, nPr, nBut, nPen, nHex, and nOct) stabilized by the bidentate N-donor ligand tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA) are synthesized and their crystal structures determined.
David J. Lewis et al., University of Manchester, United Kingdom
ACS Omega 2021, 6, 42, 27716–27725
Natural products have proven themselves extremely useful within the fields of drug discovery and pharmacotherapy, due to the fact that natural products possess both high structural diversity and a broad range of biological activities and functions as a result of natural selection. This study explores how the basicity of several natural products is tied to changes in aromaticity.
Dean J. Tantillo et al., University of California, United States
ACS Omega 2021, 6, 44, 29685–2969
Taking advantage of renewable energies to generate hydrogen (H2) from water is greatly viewed as a promising strategy for reducing fossil dependence. This study explores transition-metal-based phosphides as cost-efficient and robust alternatives toward high-efficiency water splitting.
Ailing Fan et al., Beijing University of Technology, China
ACS Omega 2021, 6, 41, 26822–26828
Endoxifen is the primary active metabolite of tamoxifen, a nonsteroidal-selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) and widely used medication to treat estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer. In this study, endoxifen was conjugated to the surface of polymeric nanoparticles (polymersomes) for targeted delivery of doxorubicin (DOX) to estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer cells (MCF7).
Sanku Mallik et al., North Dakota State University, Unites States
ACS Omega 2021, 6, 42, 27654–27667
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