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 …

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 …

Symmetry Breaking Enhancing the Activity of Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction on an Icosahedron‐Kernel Cluster by Cu Atoms Regulation

Y Tan, G Sun, T Jiang, D Liu, Q Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, CO2 hydrogenation had a new breakthrough resulting from the design of catalysts
to effectively activate linear CO2 with symmetry‐breaking sites. However, understanding the …

Chemically modified gold/silver superatoms as artificial elements at nanoscale: design principles and synthesis challenges

S Takano, T Tsukuda - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021 - ACS Publications
Pure and doped gold/silver clusters protected by monolayers of organic ligands have
attracted much interest as novel functional materials owing to their nonbulk-like, size-specific …

Chirality and surface bonding correlation in atomically precise metal nanoclusters

Y Li, T Higaki, X Du, R ** - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and occurs at all length scales. The development of
applications for chiral nanostructures is rising rapidly. With the recent achievements of …

Programmable metal nanoclusters with atomic precision

Y Li, M Zhou, R ** - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With the recent establishment of atomically precise nanochemistry, capabilities toward
programmable control over the nanoparticle size and structure are being developed …

Correlations between the fundamentals and applications of ultrasmall metal nanoclusters: Recent advances in catalysis and biomedical applications

Z Liu, Z Wu, Q Yao, Y Cao, OJH Chai, J **e - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Ultrasmall metal nanoparticles (NPs) with a well-defined composition and structure, the so-
called metal nanoclusters (NCs, usually smaller than 3 nm in size), represent the forefront …

Metal nanoclusters as biomaterials for bioapplications: atomic precision as the next goal

J Yang, F Yang, C Zhang, X He, R ** - ACS Materials Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Noble metal nanoclusters (NCs) have emerged as a new class of nanomaterials which have
great potential in bioapplications. Due to their ultrasmall size and versatile surface …

Ultrafast Size Expansion and Turn‐On Luminescence of Atomically Precise Silver Clusters by Hydrogen Sulfide

WM He, Z Zhou, Z Han, S Li, Z Zhou… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The formation of high‐nuclearity silver (I) clusters remains elusive and their potential
applications are still underdeveloped. Herein, we firstly prepared a chain‐like thiolated AgI …

Fluorescent metal nanoclusters: From luminescence mechanism to applications in enzyme activity assays

T Wang, HS Tan, AJ Wang, SS Li, JJ Feng - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2024 - Elsevier
Metal nanoclusters (MNCs) have outstanding fluorescence property and biocompatibility,
which show widespread applications in biological analysis. Particularly, evaluation of …