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 …

Metal, metal oxide, and metal chalcogenide materials have a wide variety of applications.
For example, many metal clusters and nanoparticles are used as catalysts for reactions …

We report on how the transition from the bulk structure to the cluster-specific structure occurs
in n-dodecanethiolate-protected gold clusters, Au n (SC12) m. To elucidate this transition …

We report the structure determination of a large gold nanocluster formulated as Au130 (p-
MBT) 50, where p-MBT is 4-methylbenzenethiolate. The nanocluster is constructed in a four …

Well-defined thiolate-gold nanoclusters (generally described as Au n (SR) m NCs, where “n”
and “m” are the numbers of gold atoms and thiolate ligands (–SR), respectively), comprise a …

With ultrasmall particle sizes of∼ 1 nm, thiolate-protected silver nanoclusters (or thiolated
Ag NCs) have recently emerged as an attractive frontier of nanoparticle research because of …

X-ray crystallography has been fundamental in discovering fine structural features of
ultrasmall gold clusters capped by thiolated ligands. For still unknown structures, however …

We present a method for atomically precise nanocluster synthesis. As an illustration, we
introduced the reducing‐ligand induction combined method and synthesized a novel …

Assembling instable ultrasmall nanoparticles (NPs) into uniform nanoarchitectures with
excellent stability and controllability in aqueous solution is still challenging. Herein, taking …

Fine metal clusters have attracted much attention from the viewpoints of both basic and
applied science for many years because of their unique physical/chemical properties and …