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 …

Atomically precise alloy nanoclusters: syntheses, structures, and properties

X Kang, Y Li, M Zhu, R Jin - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal nanoclusters fill the gap between discrete atoms and plasmonic nanoparticles,
providing unique opportunities for investigating the quantum effects and precise structure …

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 …

Suppression of kernel vibrations by layer-by-layer ligand engineering boosts photoluminescence efficiency of gold nanoclusters

Y Zhong, J Zhang, T Li, W Xu, Q Yao, M Lu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The restriction of structural vibration has assumed great importance in attaining bright
emission of luminescent metal nanoclusters (NCs), where tremendous efforts are devoted to …

Ligand-protected metal nanoclusters as low-loss, highly polarized emitters for optical waveguides

X Wang, B Yin, L Jiang, C Yang, Y Liu, G Zou, S Chen… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Photoluminescent molecules and nanomaterials have potential applications as active
waveguides, but such a use has often been limited by high optical losses and complex …

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 …

Platonic and Archimedean solids in discrete metal-containing clusters

XM Luo, YK Li, XY Dong, SQ Zang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal-containing clusters have attracted increasing attention over the past 2–3 decades.
This intense interest can be attributed to the fact that these discrete metal aggregates, whose …

Endohedrally doped cage clusters

J Zhao, Q Du, S Zhou, V Kumar - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The discovery of carbon fullerene cages and their solids opened a new avenue to build
materials from stable cage clusters as “artificial atoms” or “superatoms” instead of atoms …

Atomic-level doping of metal clusters

A Ghosh, OF Mohammed, OM Bakr - Accounts of Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Atomically precise noble metal (mainly silver and gold) nanoclusters are an
emerging category of promising functional materials for future applications in energy …

Au 25 (SR) 18: the captain of the great nanocluster ship

X Kang, H Chong, M Zhu - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Noble metal nanoclusters are in the intermediate state between discrete atoms and
plasmonic nanoparticles and are of significance due to their atomically accurate structures …