Size and charge effects of metal nanoclusters on antibacterial mechanisms

HT Draviana, I Fitriannisa, M Khafid… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Nanomaterials, specifically metal nanoclusters (NCs), are gaining attention as a promising
class of antibacterial agents. Metal NCs exhibit antibacterial properties due to their …

Progress and prospects in the design of functional atomically-precise Ag (I)-thiolate nanoclusters and their assembly approaches

S Biswas, S Das, Y Negishi - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Atomically-precise noble metal nanoclusters have raised nanomaterials research to new
heights by merit of their distinct structural, optical and electronic properties, which can be …

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 …

Atomically precise thiolate‐protected gold nanoclusters: Current status of designability of the structure and physicochemical properties

S Hossain, D Hirayama, A Ikeda, M Ishimi… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Thiolate (SR)‐protected gold nanoclusters (Aun (SR) m NCs) are a rare type of material
capable of simultaneously exhibiting multiple physicochemical properties well‐suited to …

Unconventional-phase crystalline materials constructed from multiscale building blocks

J Liu, J Huang, W Niu, C Tan, H Zhang - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Crystal phase, an intrinsic characteristic of crystalline materials, is one of the key parameters
to determine their physicochemical properties. Recently, great progress has been made in …

Thiolate‐protected metal nanoclusters: Recent development in synthesis, understanding of reaction, and application in energy and environmental field

T Kawawaki, A Ebina, Y Hosokawa, S Ozaki, D Suzuki… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Metal nanoclusters (NCs), which are composed of about 250 or fewer metal atoms, possess
great potential as novel functional materials. Fundamental research on metal NCs gradually …

Assembly-induced spin transfer and distance-dependent spin coupling in atomically precise AgCu nanoclusters

N **a, J **ng, D Peng, S Ji, J Zha, N Yan, Y Su… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Nanoparticle assembly paves the way for unanticipated properties and applications from the
nanoscale to the macroscopic world. However, the study of such material systems is greatly …

Ligand-protected gold/silver superatoms: current status and emerging trends

H Hirai, S Ito, S Takano, K Koyasu, T Tsukuda - Chemical Science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Monolayer-protected gold/silver clusters have attracted much interest as nano-scale building
units for novel functional materials owing to their nonbulk-like structures and size-specific …

A Recent progress in atomically precise silver nanocluster assembled materials

S Mandal, N Alam, AK Das, C Priyanka, P Baidya - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
In the dynamic landscape of nanotechnology, atomically precise silver nanoclusters (Ag
NCs) have emerged as a novel and promising category of materials with their fascinating …

Toward the creation of high-performance heterogeneous catalysts by controlled ligand desorption from atomically precise metal nanoclusters

T Kawawaki, Y Kataoka, M Hirata, Y Iwamatsu… - Nanoscale …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Ligand-protected metal nanoclusters controlled by atomic accuracy (ie atomically precise
metal NCs) have recently attracted considerable attention as active sites in heterogeneous …