The discovery of carbon fullerene cages and their solids opened a new avenue to build
materials from stable cage clusters as “artificial atoms” or “superatoms” instead of atoms …

In the future electronics, all device components will be connected wirelessly to displays that
serve as information input and/or output ports. There is a growing demand of flexible and …

The synthesis of nanoparticles with particular compositions and structures can lead to
nanoparticles with notable physicochemical properties, thus promoting their use in various …

The accumulated knowledge of nanoparticle (NP) synthesis for the last 30 years has
enabled the development of functional NPs for biomedical applications. Especially, NPs with …

Introducing a few atoms of impurities or dopants in semiconductor nanocrystals can
drastically alter the existing properties or even introduce new properties. For example, mid …

Colloidal nanocrystals have been intensively studied over the past three decades due to
their unique properties that originate, in large part, from their nanometer‐scale sizes. For …

Single crystals with chiral shapes aroused the interest of chemists due to their fascinating
polarization rotation properties. Although the formation of large-scale spiral structures is …

Circularly polarized light detection has attracted growing attention because of its unique
application in security surveillance and quantum optics. Here, through designing a chiral …

Aggregation/assembly induced emission (AIE) has been observed for metal nanoclusters
(NCs), but the origin of the enhanced emission is not fully understood, yet. In this work, the …

The unique capability of magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) in revealing geometry and
electronic information has provided new opportunities in exploring the relationship between …