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 …

Photoluminescent characterization of metal nanoclusters: Basic parameters, methods, and applications

H Lin, X Song, OJH Chai, Q Yao, H Yang… - Advanced …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Metal nanoclusters (MNCs) can be synthesized with atomically precise structures and
molecule formulae due to the rapid development of nanocluster science in recent decades …

Near-unity NIR phosphorescent quantum yield from a room-temperature solvated metal nanocluster

WQ Shi, L Zeng, RL He, XS Han, ZJ Guan, M Zhou… - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Metal nanoclusters have emerged as promising near-infrared (NIR)–emissive materials, but
their room-temperature photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY), especially in solution, is …

Suppression of kernel vibrations by layer-by-layer ligand engineering boosts photoluminescence efficiency of gold nanoclusters

Y Zhong, J Zhang, T Li, W Xu, Q Yao, M Lu… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The restriction of structural vibration has assumed great importance in attaining bright
emission of luminescent metal nanoclusters (NCs), where tremendous efforts are devoted to …

Bioactive NIR-II gold clusters for three-dimensional imaging and acute inflammation inhibition

H Ma, X Zhang, L Liu, Y Huang, S Sun, K Chen… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
Strong fluorescence and high catalytic activities cannot be achieved simultaneously due to
conflicts in free electron utilization, resulting in a lack of bioactivity of most near-infrared-II …

Tailoring the photoluminescence of atomically precise nanoclusters

X Kang, M Zhu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Due to their atomically precise structures and intriguing chemical/physical properties, metal
nanoclusters are an emerging class of modular nanomaterials. Photo-luminescence (PL) is …

Photosynthetic semiconductor biohybrids for solar-driven biocatalysis

S Cestellos-Blanco, H Zhang, JM Kim, Y Shen… - Nature Catalysis, 2020‏ - nature.com
Photosynthetic semiconductor biohybrids integrate the best attributes of biological whole-
cell catalysts and semiconducting nanomaterials. Enzymatic machinery enveloped in its …

Atomically precise clusters of noble metals: emerging link between atoms and nanoparticles

I Chakraborty, T Pradeep - Chemical reviews, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Atomically precise pieces of matter of nanometer dimensions composed of noble metals are
new categories of materials with many unusual properties. Over 100 molecules of this kind …

Metal Single‐Atom Cocatalyst on Carbon Nitride for the Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction: Effects of Metal Species

Y Akinaga, T Kawawaki, H Kameko… - Advanced Functional …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Single‐atom (SA) catalysts exhibit high activity in various reactions because there are no
inactive internal atoms. Accordingly, SA cocatalysts are also an active research fields …

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 …