The field of chiral inorganic nanostructures is rapidly expanding. It started from the
observation of strong circular dichroism during the synthesis of individual nanoparticles …

Metal, metal oxide, and metal chalcogenide materials have a wide variety of applications.
For example, many metal clusters and nanoparticles are used as catalysts for reactions …

We introduce density functional theory and review recent progress in its application to
transition metal chemistry. Topics covered include local, meta, hybrid, hybrid meta, and …

This critical review highlights recent advances in using electronic structure methods to study
surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Examples showing how electronic structure methods …

There has been a great interest in understanding the interactions between light and noble
metal nanoparticles ever since Michael Faraday's study of the ruby-red color of colloidal …

Gold is an element whose unique properties are strongly influenced by relativistic effects. A
large body of appropriate calculations now exists and its main conclusions are summarized …

Building metal materials with well-defined components and the monomer-genetic property is
one of the foremost challenges in chemistry and materials science. In recent years, metal …

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 …

A general two-step approach has been developed for the synthesis of very small and
sintering-resistant bimetallic gold− silver nanoparticles on inert supports including …

The review is concerned with correlations between the synergistic effects and structural
organization of the surface of bimetallic alloys that are used as active components of …