Issue 15 of Nanoscale is themed and now online. You can read the full issue here.
This issue on Metallic Clusters was Guest Edited by Rongchao Jin (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Sang-Kee Eah (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) and Yong Pei (Xiangtan University, China).
The outside front cover shows The halogen analogs of thiolated gold nanoclusters by De-en Jiang and Michael Walter.
The inside front cover highlights Grain size effects in polycrystalline gold nanoparticles by Chen Zhou, Jing Yu, Yanping Qin and Jie Zheng.
Highlights from this themed issue include the following Editorial, Review Articles and Communications:
Editorial
Quantum-sized metal nanoclusters
Rongchao Jin, Sang-Kee Eah and Yong Pei
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4026-4026
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR90052A
Review articles
- Stabilized gold clusters: from isolation toward controlled synthesis
Prasenjit Maity, Songhai Xie, Miho Yamauchi and Tatsuya Tsukuda
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4027-4037
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30900A - Probing the electronic properties and structural evolution of anionic gold clusters in the gas phase
Lei-Ming Wang and Lai-Sheng Wang
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4038-4053
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30186E - Investigating the structural evolution of thiolate protected gold clusters from first-principles
Yong Pei and Xiao Cheng Zeng
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4054-4072
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30685A - Different sized luminescent gold nanoparticles
Jie Zheng, Chen Zhou, Mengxiao Yu and Jinbin Liu
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4073-4083
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR31192E
Communications
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AuAg alloy nanomolecules with 38 metal atoms
Chanaka Kumara and Amala Dass
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4084-4086
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR11781A - Au25(SG)18 as a fluorescent iodide sensor
Man Wang, Zhikun Wu, Jiao Yang, Guozhong Wang, Hongzhi Wang and Weiping Cai
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4087-4090
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30169E - Ultrafast, 2 min synthesis of monolayer-protected gold nanoclusters (d < 2 nm)
Matthew N. Martin, Dawei Li, Amala Dass and Sang-Kee Eah
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4091-4094
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30890H - One-pot synthesis and characterization of subnanometre-size benzotriazolate protected copper clusters
Kirsi Salorinne, Xi Chen, Ralf W. Troff, Maija Nissinen and Hannu Häkkinen
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4095-4098
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30444A - Ligand symmetry-equivalence on thiolate protected gold nanoclusters determined by NMR spectroscopy
O. Andrea Wong, Christine L. Heinecke, Ashli R. Simone, Robert L. Whetten and Christopher J. Ackerson
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4099-4102
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30259D - Sonochemical synthesis of highly fluorescent glutathione-stabilized Ag nanoclusters and S2− sensing
Tingyao Zhou, Mingcong Rong, Zhimin Cai, Chaoyong James Yang and Xi Chen
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4103-4106
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30718A - A DNA-templated fluorescent silver nanocluster with enhanced stability
Jaswinder Sharma, Reginaldo C. Rocha, M. Lisa Phipps, Hsin-Chih Yeh, Kirill A. Balatsky, Dung M. Vu, Andrew P. Shreve, James H. Werner and Jennifer S. Martinez
Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4107-4110
DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30662J
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