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 …

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 …

Subnanometric transition-metal (TM) clusters have attracted great attention due to their
unexpected physical and chemical properties, leastwise compared to their bulk …

Human life toll by cancer, one of the highest among most dreaded diseases in advanced
societies, could be reduced by implementing evidence-based strategies for its prevention …

A promising trend in plasmonics involves shrinking the size of plasmon-supporting
structures down to a few nanometers, thus enabling control over light–matter interaction at …

The surface plasmon resonance (SPR) of noble metal nanoparticles is reviewed in terms of
both classical and quantum mechanical approaches. The collective oscillation of the free …

Conductive and plasmon-supporting noble metals exhibit an especially wide range of size-
dependent properties, with discrete electronic levels, strong optical absorption, and efficient …

Due to desirable optical properties, such as efficient luminescence and large Stokes shift,
DNA-templated silver nanoclusters (DNA-AgNCs) have received significant attention over …

Geometries and electronic properties of neutral Ag n, cationic Ag n+, and anionic Ag n–silver
clusters with n= 2–22 were investigated by density functional theory (DFT) with M06 …

Spin accommodation is demonstrated to play a determining role in the reactivity of silver
cluster anions with oxygen. Odd-electron silver clusters are found to be especially reactive …