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July 26th, 2010
New Era for Gold Bulletin
I want to inform you of a very significant change to the publication of Gold Bulletin due to be implemented from 1st January 2011.
As you may be aware Gold Bulletin dates back to 1968, when the first issue was published by the Chamber of Mines in South Africa. Since 1987 the World Gold Council (WGC) has published the journal. A major change occurred in 2005 when Gold Bulletin became an e-journal and was published on its own website, www.goldbulletin.org . This change enabled the journal to increase in size and reach a larger and growing readership. The archive of back issues was also placed on the website, so enabling ready access to the complete set of volumes published to date. During recent years the journal has achieved some very impressive Impact Factors (IF). Our current IF is 2.324.
As the size of the journal has increased we have found that the costs of producing Gold Bulletin ‘in-house’ at World Gold Council have also substantially increased. We have also found that the world of academic publishing has become increasingly complex and specialised ; producing a journal that meets current demands has become very time consuming for the WGC team, who manage many other activities alongside Gold Bulletin.
With these challenges in mind we are announcing that WGC has signed an agreement with Springer www.springer.com to facilitate the publication of Gold Bulletin from the end of this year. The journal will be published by Springer through the sponsorship of WGC. Importantly, the journal will:
- remain a free, peer reviewed, open access journal
- continue to completely focus on the science and industrial applications of gold
- benefit from Springer’s wider distribution channels and academic publishing expertise
I confirm that I will be remaining as Editor of the journal next year and will be sharing this task with Dr Trevor Keel (who also works at WGC and who you may know from this blog). He will be joining me as Associate Editor, with a particular focus on the nanotechnology coverage in the journal. For those of you that do not know Trevor, he has extensive experience in pharmaceutical research having spent a number of years working for GlaxoSmithKline, the leading healthcare company. As such he has particular interest in the use of gold in the fields of medicine, diagnostics and nanotechnology.
Under the new arrangements for Gold Bulletin, Springer will be largely responsible for the technical production and editing of the publication and so, with sadness I confirm that Dr Patricia Harris will not be continuing in her role as Technical Editor at the end of 2010. I know that many of you have had considerable dealings with Dr Harris and will wish to thank her for a great contribution to the running of the journal over many years.
Further details on the launch of the new look for Gold Bulletin will be announced in due course.
If you have any comments on this announcement we will be pleased to receive them.
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June 11th, 2010
Go easy on the Sprite
Like most parents I limit my children’s intake of fizzy drinks, not least because of the affect they can have on their teeth. This recent paper looked at how one popular make of drink affected the leaching of metal ions from gold alloys used in dentistry. Good to see that detailed research work is still being done on the longest used dental restoration material; gold.You can find out a lot more on the use of gold in dentistry in the journal Gold Bulletin here.
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May 10th, 2010
Advanced online publication
Gold Bulletin has introduced a new system of advanced online publication, allowing the publication of research papers as soon as they are ready and before a full issue of the journal. The first paper has just been published here…. -
April 14th, 2010
New issue of Gold Bulletin
The new issue of Gold Bulletin is now live at www.goldbulletin.org . There is the usual blend of original research papers covering gold-related metallurgy, nanotechnology and catalysis, as well as the quarterly highlights from recent literature. If you have any comments on the current issue or, indeed, the journal as a whole, please contact editor@goldbulletin.org -
December 23rd, 2009
Gold Bulletin online now
The latest issue of Gold Bulletin 42(4) has just been published online. This issue is a really special one – to acknowledge the magnificent contribution of Dr David Thompson to the development and promotion of the science of gold catalysis. David, co-author of the book Catalysis by Gold and Technical Editor of Gold Bulletin worked tirelessly in this field for many years. A full appreciation of his life can be found here.Blogging will be a bit lighter over the next week or so, with Christmas and the New year celebrations…
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December 10th, 2009
MRS Fall meeting 2009
I’ve spent the week at the Materials Research Society Fall meeting, and have been really impressed by much of the research presented. Gold-related work has been prominent, with literally hundreds of oral presentations and posters on offer. In fact, I’ve not been able to see everything!
There have been many highlights – Michael Natan gave an excellent overview of Oxonicas work on SERS active particles. Naomi Halas (and students) from Rice University have given a series of good presentations on plasmonics and nanotechnology, and Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli spoke about her groups work at MIT on gold nanorods. There was also an entire session devoted to gold catalysis, with contributions from the labs of Kung, Haruta and Flyzani-Stephanopoulos.
All in all an excellent meeting… Look out for a more thorough review in the next issue of Gold Bulletin.
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November 30th, 2009
Memorable research papers
According to the BBC, The Royal Society, one of the world’s oldest scientific institutions, is marking the start of its 350th year by putting 60 of its most memorable research papers online. The archive will include work by Sir Issac Newton, Benjamin Franklin and Stephen Hawking. I haven’t yet been able to establish whether Michael Faraday’s early work on gold colloid will be included, but don’t worry……you can read the late David Thompson’s account of this seminal piece of research here in Gold Bulletin.
As David explain’s, in the paper in Philosophical Transactions entitled ‘Experimental relations of gold (and other metals) to light’, which was based on Faraday’s Bakerian lecture to the Royal Society in London on 5 February 1857, it is clear that Michael Faraday was fascinated by the ruby colour of colloidal gold. This paper is definately worth a read……
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September 29th, 2009
Gold Bulletin – Advance Online Publication?
The Gold Bulletin Editorial Team is considering introducing an advance online publication process for the journal. This would allow papers to appear on the journal’s website before they have a formal issue/page number. Many journals already operate this system including Nature. We would welcome your views on this potential development.
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September 21st, 2009
The use of gold for fabrication of nanowire structures
A few weeks ago I mentioned IBM were growing silicon nanowires using gold nanoparticles. An excellent review of why gold is by far the most widely used seed particle material for growth of semiconductor nanowires has just been published by a team from Lund University (Maria E Messing, Karla Hillerich, Jonas Johansson, Knut Deppert and Kimberly A Dick) in Gold Bulletin.
The review explains that although a couple of other materials have been reported to successfully initiate growth of nanowires, gold is the most universal particle material, capable of seeding a variety of different types of nanowires at a wide range of growth conditions. In the review the group identified and described the production and deposition methods of different types of gold particles used for nanowire growth including:
gold particles made from thin films
aerosol-generated gold particles
gold particles made by lithographic methods
and colloidal gold particles.
They also discussed the different advantages and disadvantages of each particle type if the nanowires are to be used for large scale production of semiconductor devices and perhaps most importantly, the fundamental reason for gold being superior to other materials for initiating growth of nanowires. Their conclusion? The ability of gold to easily form alloys with the growth precursors, its inertness to oxygen and the high diffusivities through gold are all important and added together are what make gold such a suitable material for nanowire seed particles.
Schematic demonstrating particle-assisted nanowire growth. (a) The seed particles are formed/deposited on the substrate and (b) by heating the substrate to a desired temperature and introducing growth materials an alloy is formed. (c) When a supersaturation of the alloy particle with growth material is achieved, nucleation occurs at the particle-substrate interface. (d) Nanowire growth occurs at the particle-wire interface as long as growth material is provided. (e) By switching to growth conditions favoring planar growth radial heterostructures, known as core-shell nanowires, can be grown. (f) Nanowires containing axial heterostructures with very sharp interfaces can be formed by switching between different growth materials. (g) If a second generation of gold particles is deposited onto the as-grown nanowires and (h) the growth process is repeated, branched nanowires for formation of nanowire networks can be grown.Copyright: Gold Bulletin
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September 18th, 2009
Gold Bulletin 42(3). Available now !!!!!
Hi everyone. What a great couple of months we have had in the Gold community. A fantastic Gold 2009, conference in Heidelberg with lots of stimultaing papers and posters and whats even more important lots of science being disscussed over a few beers!
To continue the good few months you can now access the new issue of Gold Bulletin 42(3). Whats in it ? I hear you say. Well we have an editorial by our new Editor. Although he is obviously not new to the Gold Council and Gold Bulletin I am sure he will make a his own mark and style on the future issues of GB.
We have 7 exciting scientific papers covering differing aspects of nanoparticles, nanowires, thin films, metallurgy and nanosphere synthesis. We also have a review of the new Book “Gold Chemistry: Applications and future directions in the life sciences.”. There are two conference reports from the 23rd Santa Fe Symposium on jewelry Manufacturing Technology and also on The Fourth Taylor Conference on new work on gold catalyst. We also have a summary of Gold 2009 in Heidelberg and of couse our every popular section on Highlights from the recent literature.
Go on have a look and let me know what you think !!!!!
Richard Holliday
Trevor Keel
Tricia Harris
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