Using remarkably simple experimental techniques it is possible to gently break a metallic
contact and thus form conducting nanowires. During the last stages of the pulling a neck …

Optical activity and its relation with chiral metal nanoparticles are revised in this tutorial
review. The experimental evidence as well as the different mechanisms to explain the …

Atomically precise metal nanoclusters (NCs) are an intriguing class of crystalline solids with
unique physicochemical properties derived from tunable structures and compositions. Most …

A series of giant metal-cluster compounds, each composed of a gold core and a glutathione
(GSH) adsorbate layer, have been prepared from Au (I) SG polymers and separated by gel …

Abstract Several researchers,,,,,,, have demonstrated, through experiments and analysis,
that the structure and properties of nanometre-scale materials can be quite different to those …

Suspended gold nanowires were made in an ultra-high vacuum. The finest of them was 0.6
nanometer in diameter and 6 nanometers in length. By high-resolution electron microscopy …

The recent years have seen an explosive interest in one‐dimensional nanostructures 1, as
testified by the number of citations this field has accrued; as customary, its blossoming was …

We present atomistic simulations of the tensile and compressive loading of single crystal
face-centered cubic (FCC) nanowires with〈 100〉 and〈 110〉 orientations to study the …

We performed atomistic simulations to study the effect of free surfaces on the structure and
elastic properties of gold nanowires aligned in the〈 1 0 0〉 and〈 1 1 1〉 crystallographic …

We have created insulated C60 nanowire by packing C60 molecules into the interior of
insulating boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs). For small-diameter BNNTs, the wire consists of …