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Nanoscale themed collection: Hybrid Materials
Dedicated to Professor Avnir on his 65^th Birthday
Guest Editors: Mario Pagliaro and Jean-Marie Nedelec

We are delighted to announce a high-profile Nanoscale collection of review articles on hybrid materials to be published in 2014. The themed collection will be guest edited by Mario Pagliaro (CNR, Italy) and Jean-Marie Nedelec, (Institute de Chemie de Clermont Ferrand, France), two leading researchers in the the topic of the themed issue.

The articles will be dedicated to Professor David Avnir on his 65^th Birthday. Professor Avnir is well known for his research in the areas of organically doped metals and sol-gel organic hybrid materials and biomaterials, and the collection will include exciting articles in these areas.

Please email the editorial office if you are interested in submitting an article for this themed collection at nanoscale-rsc@rsc.org.

Submission Deadline: 29^th November 2013

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

• 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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We are delighted to announce that the Nanoscale themed issue on Modelling of the nanoscale has now been published online – take a look today!

The issue was Guest Edited by Amanda Barnard, Chang Ming Li, Ruhong Zhou and Yuliang Zhao – take a look at their Editorial.

The outside front cover features an article on Mn monolayer modified Rh for syngas-to-ethanol conversion: a first-principles study by Fengyu Li ,  De-en Jiang ,  Xiao Cheng Zeng and Zhongfang Chen

Ripple induced changes in the wavefunction of graphene: an example of a fundamental symmetry breaking is the article highlighted on the inside front cover by Amanda S. Barnard and Ian K. Snook

Issue 4 contains the following Review and Feature articles:

• Excitonic properties of graphene-based materials
  Min Wang and Chang Ming Li
• Atomistic theory and simulation of the morphology and structure of ionic nanoparticles
  Dino Spagnoli and Julian D. Gale
• Slowing and controlling the translocation of DNA in a solid-state nanopore
  Binquan Luan, Gustavo Stolovitzky and Glenn Martyna

Fancy submitting an article to Nanoscale? Then why not submit to us today!