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 …

Confinement of luminescent guests in metal–organic frameworks: understanding pathways from synthesis and multimodal characterization to potential applications of …

M Gutiérrez, Y Zhang, JC Tan - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
This review gives an authoritative, critical, and accessible overview of an emergent class of
fluorescent materials termed “LG@ MOF”, engineered from the nanoscale confinement of …

Electrochemical glucose sensors in diabetes management: an updated review (2010–2020)

H Teymourian, A Barfidokht, J Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
While over half a century has passed since the introduction of enzyme glucose biosensors
by Clark and Lyons, this important field has continued to be the focus of immense research …

Generation and identification of 1O2 in catalysts/peroxymonosulfate systems for water purification

Q Fang, H Yang, S Ye, P Zhang, M Dai, X Hu, Y Gu… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Catalysts for peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation are appealing in the purification of organic
wastewater. Singlet oxygen (1 O 2) is widely recognized as a crucial reactive species for …

Toward active-site tailoring in heterogeneous catalysis by atomically precise metal nanoclusters with crystallographic structures

R **, G Li, S Sharma, Y Li, X Du - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous catalysis involves solid-state catalysts, among which metal nanoparticles
occupy an important position. Unfortunately, no two nanoparticles from conventional …

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 …

Emerging strategies in enhancing singlet oxygen generation of nano-photosensitizers toward advanced phototherapy

M Tavakkoli Yaraki, B Liu, YN Tan - Nano-Micro Letters, 2022 - Springer
The great promise of photodynamic therapy (PDT) has thrusted the rapid progress of
develo** highly effective photosensitizers (PS) in killing cancerous cells and bacteria. To …

Renal clearable catalytic gold nanoclusters for in vivo disease monitoring

CN Loynachan, AP Soleimany, JS Dudani, Y Lin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Ultrasmall gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) have emerged as agile probes for in vivo imaging, as
they exhibit exceptional tumour accumulation and efficient renal clearance properties …

Ligand design in ligand‐protected gold nanoclusters

B Zhang, J Chen, Y Cao, OJH Chai, J **e - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The design of surface ligands is crucial for ligand‐protected gold nanoclusters (Au NCs).
Besides providing good protection for Au NCs, the surface ligands also play the following …

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 …