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 …

Atomically precise noble metal nanoclusters as efficient catalysts: a bridge between structure and properties

Y Du, H Sheng, D Astruc, M Zhu - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Improving the knowledge of the relationship between structure and properties is
fundamental in catalysis. Recently, researchers have developed a variety of well-controlled …

Endohedrally doped cage clusters

J Zhao, Q Du, S Zhou, V Kumar - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The discovery of carbon fullerene cages and their solids opened a new avenue to build
materials from stable cage clusters as “artificial atoms” or “superatoms” instead of atoms …

Copper Do** Boosts Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction of Atomically Precise Gold Nanoclusters

G Deng, H Yun, MS Bootharaju, F Sun… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Unraveling the atomistic synergistic effects of nanoalloys on the electrocatalytic CO2
reduction reaction (eCO2RR), especially in the presence of copper, is of paramount …

Customizing the structure, composition, and properties of alloy nanoclusters by metal exchange

S Wang, Q Li, X Kang, M Zhu - Accounts of chemical research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The properties of metal materials can be greatly enriched by including various
elements to generate alloys. The galvanic replacement represents a classical method for the …

Transformation of atomically precise nanoclusters by ligand-exchange

X Kang, M Zhu - Chemistry of Materials, 2019 - ACS Publications
Owing to their atomically precise structures, metal nanoclusters have always served as
model molecular tools to dissect nanoparticle surface chemistry and to investigate structure …

Toward controlled syntheses of diphosphine-protected homochiral gold nanoclusters through precursor engineering

WD Si, YZ Li, SS Zhang, S Wang, L Feng, ZY Gao… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Controllable syntheses of Au nanoclusters (NCs) with different nuclearities are of great
significance due to the kernel-dependent physicochemical properties. Herein, two pairs of …

Toward controlling the electronic structures of chemically modified superatoms of gold and silver

T Omoda, S Takano, T Tsukuda - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Atomically precise gold/silver clusters protected by organic ligands L,[(Au/Ag) xLy] z, have
gained increasing interest as building units of functional materials because of their novel …

Bottom-Up Construction of Metal–Organic Framework Loricae on Metal Nanoclusters with Consecutive Single Nonmetal Atom Tuning for Tailored Catalysis

Q You, H Wang, Y Zhao, W Fan, W Gu… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The introduction of single or multiple heterometal atoms into metal nanoparticles is a well-
known strategy for altering their structures (compositions) and properties. However, surface …