The present review describes a new enhancement technique for Raman scattering in aqueous solutions. Raman scattering spectroscopy has an inherent ability to distinguish between molecules with great similarity and provides useful information on local physical and chemical environments at their functional groups' level. Since the Raman scattering signals from water molecules are quite weak, Raman...

Dendrimers have been widely used as nanostructured carriers for guest species in a variety of applications in medicine, catalysis, and environmental remediation. Theory and simulation methods are an important complement to experimental approaches that are designed to develop a fundamental understanding about how dendrimers interact with guest molecules. This review focuses on computational stud...

It was studied how the chemistry of gold nanoparticles in water is influenced by solution parameters such as the pH or the NaCl concentration under electron beam irradiation. We found that depending on these parameters the gold nanoparticles either dissolved, merged or remained unchanged.

Experimental techniques are now available which can probe the intricacies of carbohydrate structures, equilibria and dynamics. The development of theoretical tools has not kept pace with this progress; the reliance on hard sphere models and orientational averaging is unlikely to reveal the true nature of the phenomena involved. Computer simulation of PHCs in solution may, in the hands of expert...