Cover Picture: In Situ Spectroscopic Analysis of Nanocluster Formation (ChemPhysChem 1/2004)

✍ Scribed by Jia Wang; Hans F. M. Boelens; Mehul B. Thathagar; Gadi Rothenberg

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 19 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1439-4235
• DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200490000

✦ Synopsis

The cover picture shows an artist's impression of the formation of a metal nanocluster in a solution containing ions and atoms of two different metals. Nanoclusters are UV/Vis active, and in theory it should be possible to follow the exact kinetics of their formation by UV/Vis spectroscopy. In practice, however, the decomposition of the spectra presents a formidable problem. To read how Rothenberg et al. managed to solve this problem, turn to p. 93.