Metal, metal oxide, and metal chalcogenide materials have a wide variety of applications.
For example, many metal clusters and nanoparticles are used as catalysts for reactions …

Gold is an element whose unique properties are strongly influenced by relativistic effects. A
large body of appropriate calculations now exists and its main conclusions are summarized …

There has been a great interest in understanding the interactions between light and noble
metal nanoparticles ever since Michael Faraday's study of the ruby-red color of colloidal …

Optical activity and its relation with chiral metal nanoparticles are revised in this tutorial
review. The experimental evidence as well as the different mechanisms to explain the …

Chiral metal clusters with atomically precise structure are considered as promising
candidates for disclosing the chirality origin and potential chiroptical applications compared …

The near-infrared fluorescence of gold nanoclusters stabilized with bovine serum albumin
(BSA-AuNCs) centered at 675 nm could be enhanced by cysteine and then effectively …

A class of nanomaterials possessing the highest degree of chiral symmetry, the chiral
icosahedral symmetry, is found by a combination of global optimization searches and first …

At the nanoscale, the investigation of structural features becomes fundamental as we can
establish relationships between cluster geometries and their physicochemical properties …

Gold nanoclusters (Au NCs) are one of the most promising fluorescent nanomaterials for
bioimaging, targeting, and cancer therapy due to their tunable optical properties, yet their …

The thiolate-for-thiolate ligand exchange was performed on well-defined gold nanoparticles
under an inert atmosphere without any modification of the core size. This reaction is faster …