1. Editorial

   • Christopher W Corti

   EditorialNotes Open access Pages: 87 - 87

2. Gold 2009 The 5th International Conference on Gold Science, Technology and its Applications

   Announcement Open access Pages: 88 - 88

3. Preface

   • Catherine Louis

   EditorialNotes Open access Pages: 89 - 89

4. Gold nanoparticles designed for combining dual modality imaging and radiotherapy

   • Christophe Alric
   • Raphaël Serduc
   • Olivier Tillement

   Scientific Papers Open access Pages: 90 - 97

5. Au-Fe system: application in electro-catalysis

   • Malaknaz Mirdamadi-Esfahani
   • Mehran Mostafavi
   • Hynd Remita

   Scientific Papers Open access Pages: 98 - 104

6. Gold nanoparticle assemblies: Thermal behaviour under optical excitation

   • Bruno Palpant
   • Yannick Guillet
   • Dominique Prot

   Scientific Papers Open access Pages: 105 - 115

7. Impacts of gold nanoparticle exposure on two freshwater species: a phytoplanktonic alga (Scenedesmus subspicatus) and a benthic bivalve (Corbicula fluminea)

   • S. Renault
   • M. Baudrimont
   • A. Brisson

   Scientific Papers Open access Pages: 116 - 126

8. Supported gold catalysts for selective hydrogenation of 1,3-butadiene in the presence of an excess of alkenes

   • Antoine Hugon
   • Laurent Delannoy
   • Catherine Louis

   Scientific Papers Open access Pages: 127 - 138

9. Ultra-sensitive detection of individual gold nanoparticles: spectroscopy and applications to biology

   • Laurent Cognet
   • Brahim Lounis

   Scientific Papers Open access Pages: 139 - 146

10. Optical response of a single gold nanoparticle

    • N. Del Fatti
    • D. Christofilos
    • Dimitris Christofilos

    Scientific Papers Open access Pages: 147 - 158

11. Looking by grazing incidence small angle x-ray scattering at gold nanoparticles supported on rutile TiO2(110) during CO oxidation

    • M. C. Saint-Lager
    • A Bailly
    • P. Taunier

    Scientific Papers Open access Pages: 159 - 166

12. Dynamic observations of Au catalysts by environmental electron microscopy

    • S. Giorgio
    • M. Cabié
    • C. R. Henry

    Review of Activities Open access Pages: 167 - 173

13. Two examples of nanostructured gold surfaces as biosensors. Surface-enhanced chemiluminescence and double detection by surface plasmon resonance and luminescence

    • Grégory Barbillon
    • Meigui Ou
    • Pascal Perriat

    Review of Activities Open access Pages: 174 - 186

14. Impact of gold nanoparticles combined to X-Ray irradiation on bacteria

    • A. Simon-Deckers
    • E. Brun
    • C. Sicard-Roselli

    Review of Activities Open access Pages: 187 - 194

15. Synthesis of non-spherical gold nanoparticles

    • M. Tréguer-Delapierre
    • J. Majimel
    • S. Ravaine

    Review of Activities Open access Pages: 195 - 207

16. Gold in the News A look at recent stories concerning gold

    News Open access Pages: 208 - 208

17. Rainbow’s End: Gold-themed papers at the 2008 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

    • Michael Cortie

    Conference report Open access Pages: 209 - 209

18. Highlights from recent literature

    Announcement Open access Pages: 211 - 216

19. Calendar

    Events Open access Pages: 217 - 217

20. Cat Gold News

    News Open access Pages: 218 - 222

21. NanoTech Gold News

    News Open access Pages: 223 - 225