Recent developments in the investigation of driving forces for transforming coinage metal nanoclusters

X Zou, X Kang, M Zhu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal nanoclusters serve as an emerging class of modular nanomaterials. The
transformation of metal nanoclusters has been fully reflected in their studies from every …

Near-infrared II emissive metal clusters: From atom physics to biomedicine

H Ma, J Wang, XD Zhang - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Near-infrared II (NIR-II) imaging at 1100–1700 nm supports deep tissue
penetration, low auto-fluorescence interruption, and high imaging resolution due to …

Control over ligand-exchange positions of thiolate-protected gold nanoclusters using steric repulsion of protecting ligands

W Suzuki, R Takahata, Y Chiga… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Organic ligands on gold nanoclusters play important roles in regulating the structures of gold
cores. However, the impact of the number and positions of the protecting ligands on gold …

Preorganized Nitrogen Sites for Au11 Amidation: A Generalizable Strategy toward Precision Functionalization of Metal Nanoclusters

Y Zhang, SR He, Y Yang, TS Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Atomically precise metal nanoclusters have received tremendous attention due to their
unique structures and properties. Although synthetic approaches to this kind of nanomaterial …

Ligand exchange reactions on thiolate-protected gold nanoclusters

Y Wang, T Bürgi - Nanoscale advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
As a versatile post-synthesis modification method, ligand exchange reaction exhibits great
potential to extend the space of accessible nanoclusters. In this review, we summarized this …

Folic acid functionalized gold nanoclusters for enabling targeted fluorescence imaging of human ovarian cancer cells

AM Hada, AM Craciun, M Focsan, R Borlan, O Soritau… - Talanta, 2021 - Elsevier
Photoluminescent gold nanoclusters have attracted an extensive research interest in
bioimaging and therapeutics due to several distinctive advantages such as high fluorescent …

[Au23(SR)16]: A Step** Stone towards the Rational Design of Atomically Precise Metal Nanoclusters

S Gratious, EN Nahan, R **… - Accounts of Materials …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Atomically precise metal nanoclusters (MNCs) have revolutionized the field of
nanoscience and material chemistry with their well-defined structure, quantum confinement …

The Pivotal Radical Intermediate [Au21(SR)15]+ in the Ligand-Exchange-Induced Size-Reduction of [Au23(SR)16] to Au16(SR)12

M Cui, Y Shi, X Ma, Q Li, L Chen, L Zhang, J Wu, H Yu… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The atomic precision of sub-nanometer-sized metal nanoclusters makes it possible to
elucidate the kinetics of metal nanomaterials from the molecular level. Herein, the size …

Engineering ligand chemistry on Au 25 nanoclusters: from unique ligand addition to precisely controllable ligand exchange

J Zhao, A Ziarati, A Rosspeintner, Y Wang, T Bürgi - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Au25 nanoclusters (NCs) protected by 18 thiol-ligands (Au25SR18, SR is a thiolate ligand)
are the prototype of atomically precise thiolate-protected gold NCs. Studies concerning the …

The emergence of mass spectrometry for characterizing nanomaterials. Atomically precise nanoclusters and beyond

C Comby-Zerbino, X Dagany, F Chirot, P Dugourd… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Mass spectrometry (MS) is widely used in molecular science, and is now emerging as a
characterization technique for ultra-small nanoparticles. In the field of atomically precise …