Understanding ligand-protected noble metal nanoclusters at work

MF Matus, H Häkkinen - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Ligand-protected noble metal nanoclusters, commonly termed 'monolayer-protected metal
clusters'(MPCs), comprise a common set of structures with an inorganic core stabilized by an …

Toward active-site tailoring in heterogeneous catalysis by atomically precise metal nanoclusters with crystallographic structures

R **, G Li, S Sharma, Y Li, X Du - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous catalysis involves solid-state catalysts, among which metal nanoparticles
occupy an important position. Unfortunately, no two nanoparticles from conventional …

Atomically precise alloy nanoclusters: syntheses, structures, and properties

X Kang, Y Li, M Zhu, R ** - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal nanoclusters fill the gap between discrete atoms and plasmonic nanoparticles,
providing unique opportunities for investigating the quantum effects and precise structure …

Two triplet emitting states in one emitter: Near-infrared dual-phosphorescent Au20 nanocluster

WD Si, C Zhang, M Zhou, WD Tian, Z Wang, Q Hu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Intrinsic dual-emission (DE) of gold nanoclusters in the near-infrared (NIR) are fascinating
for fundamental importance and practical applications, but their synthesis remains a …

Near-unity NIR phosphorescent quantum yield from a room-temperature solvated metal nanocluster

WQ Shi, L Zeng, RL He, XS Han, ZJ Guan, M Zhou… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Metal nanoclusters have emerged as promising near-infrared (NIR)–emissive materials, but
their room-temperature photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY), especially in solution, is …

Elucidating the Near-Infrared Photoluminescence Mechanism of Homometal and Doped M25(SR)18 Nanoclusters

Z Liu, M Zhou, L Luo, Y Wang, E Kahng… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
More than a decade of research on the photoluminescence (PL) of classic Au25 (SR) 18 and
its doped nanoclusters (NCs) still leaves many fundamental questions unanswered due to …

Shell engineering to achieve modification and assembly of atomically-precise silver clusters

Y **, C Zhang, XY Dong, SQ Zang… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Continuing research on the preparation and structural determination of monolayer-protected
silver clusters has been performed. The compounds include mixed-valence Ag0/1+ clusters …

Endohedrally doped cage clusters

J Zhao, Q Du, S Zhou, V Kumar - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Tailoring gold nanocluster properties for biomedical applications: From sensing to bioimaging and theranostics

SM Farkhani, P Dehghankelishadi, A Refaat… - Progress in Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Gold nanomaterials have emerged as versatile systems which hold a great promise for
several biomedical applications. Among them, gold nanoclusters (AuNCs)—ultra-small …

Phosphorylcholine-conjugated gold-molecular clusters improve signal for Lymph Node NIR-II fluorescence imaging in preclinical cancer models

A Baghdasaryan, F Wang, F Ren, Z Ma, J Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Sentinel lymph node imaging and biopsy is important to clinical assessment of cancer
metastasis, and novel non-radioactive lymphographic tracers have been actively pursued …