There has been a great interest in understanding the interactions between light and noble
metal nanoparticles ever since Michael Faraday's study of the ruby-red color of colloidal …

Ag nanoclusters have received considerable attention in the past decade due to their
distinguished photo-physical properties, which lead to very wide potential applications for …

Theoretical approaches can provide insight into the mechanisms and magnitudes of
electromagnetic and chemical effects in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) …

The optical properties of alloyed Ag–Au 147-atom cuboctahedral nanoclusters are
theoretically investigated as a function of composition and chemical ordering via a time …

We focus on the functional role of small silver clusters in model hybrid systems involving
peptides in the context of a new generation of nanostructured materials for biosensing. The …

Luminescent metal nanoclusters (NCs) stabilized by natural proteins are of special interest
in bioimaging applications. However, the detailed structure of the protein-templated NCs …

The absorption spectra and ionization potentials of silver clusters Ag n (n= 4–20) are
examined in the framework of density-functional theory (DFT) using several different …

We present a systematic theoretical investigation of the structural and optical properties of
thiolate-protected silver clusters with the goal to design species exhibiting strong absorption …

We explored experimentally and theoretically the optical properties of isolated silver trimer-
dipeptide bioconjugates. The metallic moiety induces a strong enhancement of the optical …

Metal clusters can serve as ultimate building blocks for nanometer-scale devices because of
their unique optical and electronic properties, which are size and structure dependent.[1] …