Suppression of kernel vibrations by layer-by-layer ligand engineering boosts photoluminescence efficiency of gold nanoclusters

Y Zhong, J Zhang, T Li, W Xu, Q Yao, M Lu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The restriction of structural vibration has assumed great importance in attaining bright
emission of luminescent metal nanoclusters (NCs), where tremendous efforts are devoted to …

Excimer and exciplex formation in gold (I) complexes preconditioned by aurophilic interactions

H Schmidbaur… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Excimers and exciplexes are defined as assemblies of atoms or molecules A/A′ where
interatomic/intermolecular bonding appears only in excited states such as [A2]*(for …

Photochemistry and photophysics of metal-metal bonded dinuclear transition metal complexes

C Cui, Y Shi, J Li, T Cheng - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Transition metal complexes (TMCs) play a crucial role in a wide range of light-mediated
processes across chemical, material, and physical systems, attracting significant attention …

Enhanced electron–hole separation in SnS2/Au/g-C3N4 embedded structure for efficient CO2 photoreduction

S Yin, L Sun, Y Zhou, X Li, J Li, X Song, P Huo… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of semiconductor photocatalytic reduction technology has higher efficiency and
lower energy consumption for CO 2 reduction, but its existence of some mismatched energy …

Direct observation of bond formation in solution with femtosecond X-ray scattering

KH Kim, JG Kim, S Nozawa, T Sato, KY Oang, TW Kim… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The making and breaking of atomic bonds are essential processes in chemical reactions.
Although the ultrafast dynamics of bond breaking have been studied intensively using time …

Tracking ultrafast structural dynamics by time-domain Raman spectroscopy

H Kuramochi, T Tahara - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In traditional Raman spectroscopy, narrow-band light is irradiated on a sample, and its
inelastic scattering, ie, Raman scattering, is detected. The energy difference between the …

Photoinduced single-crystal-to-single-crystal phase transition and photosalient effect of a gold (I) isocyanide complex with shortening of intermolecular aurophilic …

T Seki, K Sakurada, M Muromoto, H Ito - Chemical science, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the first photoinduced single-crystal-to-single-crystal (SCSC) phase transition of a
gold complex that involves the shortening of intermolecular aurophilic bonds. This is also the …

Map** the emergence of molecular vibrations mediating bond formation

JG Kim, S Nozawa, H Kim, EH Choi, T Sato, TW Kim… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Fundamental studies of chemical reactions often consider the molecular dynamics along a
reaction coordinate using a calculated or suggested potential energy surface,,,–. But fully …

Controlling Metallophilic Interactions in Chiral Gold (I) Double Salts towards Excitation Wavelength‐Tunable Circularly Polarized Luminescence

JG Yang, K Li, J Wang, S Sun, W Chi… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Materials exhibiting excitation wavelength‐dependent photoluminescence (Ex‐De PL) in the
visible region have potential applications in bioimaging, optoelectronics and anti …

Vibrational coherence transfer in the ultrafast intersystem crossing of a diplatinum complex in solution

R Monni, G Capano, G Auböck, HB Gray… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
We investigate the ultrafast transient absorption response of tetrakis (μ-pyrophosphito)
diplatinate (II),[Pt2 (μ-P2O5H2) 4] 4−[hereafter abbreviated Pt (pop)], in acetonitrile upon …