Rice nano research among most-cited and downloaded papers

Rice nano research among most-cited and downloaded papers

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Research from Chemistry’s Gustavo Scuseria regarding the electronic structure of graphene nanoribbons is among the most-cited papers featured online this month at the American Chemical Society’s “Hot Papers” Web site.

GUSTAVO SCUSERIA

The paper, “Electronic Structure and Stability of Semiconducting Graphene Nanoribbons,” published in Nano Letters in 2006, was co-authored by former student Veronica Barone and postdoctoral researcher Oded Hod.

As defined by Thomson ISI’s Essential Science Indicators, hot papers are articles published within the last two years that have received the most citations over the most recent two-month period.

In other news, publisher Wiley InterScience reports that a review article published in the journal Small in December by Chemistry’s Vicki Colvin, Bioengineering’s Rebekah Drezek and graduate student Nastassja Lewinski titled “Cytotoxicity of Nanoparticles” was the journal’s most frequently downloaded article in January.

In addition, a paper from Chemical and Molecular Engineering’s Michael Wong and colleagues was among Small’s most-downloaded articles for all of 2007. The paper, titled “Shape-Controlled Synthesis of CdSe Tetrapods Using Cationic Surfactant Ligands,” was co-authored by Colvin and graduate students Subashini Asokan and Karl Krueger.