Analyst, 2011, 136(24): 5093-5312
The final issue of Analyst for 2011 is now online.
On the front cover is a Minireview from Blake Plowman, Suresh Bhargava and Anthony O’Mullane of RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. They highlight recent developments in the electrochemical fabrication of nanostructured materials on electrode surfaces that can be utilised for electroanalytical applications of environmental and biological importance.
Minireview: Electrochemical fabrication of metallic nanostructured electrodes for electroanalytical applications
Blake J. Plowman, Suresh K. Bhargava and Anthony P. O’Mullane
Analyst, 2011, 136, 5107-5119
DOI: 10.1039/C1AN15657H
The back cover shows work from Zhihui Dai and colleagues at Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China. They describe the use of water-soluble CdSe QDs as labels linked to anti-AFP, a sensitive and specific immunoassay method with sandwich assay approach for detecting α-fetoprotein (AFP) based on ECL.
CdSe quantum dots as labels for sensitive immunoassay of cancer biomarker proteins by electrogenerated chemiluminescence
Qian Liu, Min Han, Jianchun Bao, Xiaoqing Jiang and Zhihui Dai
Analyst, 2011, 136, 5197-5203
DOI: 10.1039/C1AN15581D
Thank you to all the authors who have provided us with excellent cover articles all through 2011. It’s been great to have twice as many opportunities to highlight work in this way now that we have 24 issues a year, and we look forward to more imaginative images in 2012!
