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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A Heteroleptic Gold Hydride Nanocluster for Efficient and Selective Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to CO

ZH Gao, K Wei, T Wu, J Dong, D Jiang… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
It has been a long-standing challenge to create and identify the active sites of
heterogeneous catalysts, because it is difficult to precisely control the interfacial chemistry at …

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 …

Small‐scale big science: From nano‐to atomically dispersed catalytic materials

L Wang, H Liu, J Zhuang, D Wang - Small Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of nanomaterials (NMs) has made everyone more aware of the close
relationship between the size and performance of materials. Especially, the catalytic …

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 …

Electrochemistry of atomically precise metal nanoclusters

K Kwak, D Lee - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Thiolate-protected metal nanoparticles containing a few to few hundred metal atoms are
interesting materials exhibiting unique physicochemical properties. They encompass the …

Nonclassical nucleation and growth of inorganic nanoparticles

J Lee, J Yang, SG Kwon, T Hyeon - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
The synthesis of nanoparticles with particular compositions and structures can lead to
nanoparticles with notable physicochemical properties, thus promoting their use in various …