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 …

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Materials Chemistry

CA Smith, MR Narouz, PA Lummis, I Singh… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have become one of the most widely studied class of
ligands in molecular chemistry and have found applications in fields as varied as catalysis …

Two triplet emitting states in one emitter: Near-infrared dual-phosphorescent Au20 nanocluster

WD Si, C Zhang, M Zhou, WD Tian, Z Wang, Q Hu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Intrinsic dual-emission (DE) of gold nanoclusters in the near-infrared (NIR) are fascinating
for fundamental importance and practical applications, but their synthesis remains a …

Supercrystal engineering of atomically precise gold nanoparticles promoted by surface dynamics

Q Yao, L Liu, S Malola, M Ge, H Xu, Z Wu, T Chen… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
The controllable packing of functional nanoparticles (NPs) into crystalline lattices is of
interest in the development of NP-based materials. Here we demonstrate that the size …

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 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 …

Super atomic clusters: design rules and potential for building blocks of materials

P Jena, Q Sun - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Atomic clusters, consisting of a few to a few thousand atoms, have emerged over the past 40
years as the ultimate nanoparticles, whose structure and properties can be controlled one …

N-heterocyclic carbene-functionalized magic-number gold nanoclusters

MR Narouz, KM Osten, PJ Unsworth, RWY Man… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Magic-number gold nanoclusters are atomically precise nanomaterials that have enabled
unprecedented insight into structure–property relationships in nanoscience. Thiolates are …

A review on the use of DFT for the prediction of the properties of nanomaterials

P Makkar, NN Ghosh - RSC advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanostructured materials have gained immense attraction because of their extraordinary
properties compared to the bulk materials to be used in a plethora of applications in myriad …

Light-Emitting Self-Assembled Materials Based on d8 and d10 Transition Metal Complexes

VWW Yam, VKM Au, SYL Leung - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The spontaneous self-organization of matters has always been one of the most fascinating
wonders in the world. Self-assembly refers to “the autonomous organization of components …