Improving the knowledge of the relationship between structure and properties is
fundamental in catalysis. Recently, researchers have developed a variety of well-controlled …

Due to their atomically precise structures and intriguing chemical/physical properties, metal
nanoclusters are an emerging class of modular nanomaterials. Photo-luminescence (PL) is …

Conspectus A comprehensive understanding of chemical bonding and reactions at the
surface of nanomaterials is of great importance in the rational design of their functional …

Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) originates from the chiral emissive excited states.
CPL materials have promising applications in 3D optical displays, encryptions, biological …

We report a new enantiomeric pair of superatomic silver clusters, R/S-Ag 17, prepared from
chiral alkynyl ligands. R-Ag 17 and S-Ag 17 possess C 3 symmetry and emit near-infrared …

N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) represent one of the most important organic ligands in
coordination chemistry, and have been recently attracting increasing attention in …

Understanding how the chiral or achiral section in chiral nanostructures contributes to
circularly polarized light emission (CPLE) at the atomic level is of fundamental importance …

Noble metal nanoclusters are in the intermediate state between discrete atoms and
plasmonic nanoparticles and are of significance due to their atomically accurate structures …

Atomically precise enantiomeric metal clusters are scarce, and copper (I) alkynyl clusters
with intense circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) responses have not been reported. A …

The review presents a bird-eye view on the state of research in the field of giant
nonbiological discrete metal complexes and ions of nanometer size, which are structurally …