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 …

Atomically precise colloidal metal nanoclusters and nanoparticles: fundamentals and opportunities

R **, C Zeng, M Zhou, Y Chen - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Colloidal nanoparticles are being intensely pursued in current nanoscience research.
Nanochemists are often frustrated by the well-known fact that no two nanoparticles are 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 …

Atomic‐precision gold clusters for NIR‐II imaging

H Liu, G Hong, Z Luo, J Chen, J Chang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Near‐infrared II (NIR‐II) imaging at 1100–1700 nm shows great promise for medical
diagnosis related to blood vessels because it possesses deep penetration and high …

Catalytically potent and selective clusterzymes for modulation of neuroinflammation through single-atom substitutions

H Liu, Y Li, S Sun, Q **n, S Liu, X Mu, X Yuan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Emerging artificial enzymes with reprogrammed and augmented catalytic activity and
substrate selectivity have long been pursued with sustained efforts. The majority of current …

Gold nanomaterials at work in biomedicine

X Yang, M Yang, B Pang, M Vara, Y **a - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Gold is a precious metal with a characteristic bright and beautiful hue known as the golden
yellow color.(1) As of 2012, a total of 174,100 tons of Au has been mined in human history …

Unraveling the impact of gold (I)–thiolate motifs on the aggregation‐induced emission of gold nanoclusters

Z Wu, Q Yao, OJH Chai, N Ding, W Xu… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) provides an efficient strategy to synthesize highly
luminescent metal nanoclusters (NCs), however, rational control of emission energy and …

Alloy clusters: Precise synthesis and mixing effects

S Hossain, Y Niihori, LV Nair, B Kumar… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Metal alloys exhibit functionalities unlike those of single metals. Such alloying
has drawn considerable research interest, particularly for nanoscale particles (metal …

Nonclassical nucleation and growth of inorganic nanoparticles

J Lee, J Yang, SG Kwon, T Hyeon - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
The synthesis of nanoparticles with particular compositions and structures can lead to
nanoparticles with notable physicochemical properties, thus promoting their use in various …

Au 25 (SR) 18: the captain of the great nanocluster ship

X Kang, H Chong, M Zhu - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Noble metal nanoclusters are in the intermediate state between discrete atoms and
plasmonic nanoparticles and are of significance due to their atomically accurate structures …