Heterogeneous bimetallic catalysts have broad applications in industrial processes, but
achieving a fundamental understanding on the nature of the active sites in bimetallic …

Noble metal nanoparticles (NMNPs), which spring up like mushrooms, are gaining
momentum owing to their unique physicochemical characteristics. Cucurbiturils, a class of …

The discord between the insufficient abundance and the excellent electrocatalytic activity of
Pt urgently requires its atomic-level engineering for minimal Pt dosage yet maximized …

Owing to the inherent instability caused by the low Cu (I)/Cu (0) half-cell reduction potential,
Cu (0)-containing copper nanoclusters are quite uncommon in comparison to their Ag and …

The controllable packing of functional nanoparticles (NPs) into crystalline lattices is of
interest in the development of NP-based materials. Here we demonstrate that the size …

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 …

While atomically monodisperse nanostructured materials are highly desirable to unravel the
size-and structure-catalysis relationships, their controlled synthesis and the atomic-level …

The syntheses of atomically precise silver (Ag) clusters stabilized by multidentate lacunary
polyoxometalate (POM) ligands have been emerging as a promising but challenging …

Ultrasmall metal nanoparticles (NPs) with a well-defined composition and structure, the so-
called metal nanoclusters (NCs, usually smaller than 3 nm in size), represent the forefront …

Metallic-state gold nanorods are well known to exhibit strong longitudinal plasmon
excitations in the near-infrared region (NIR) suitable for photothermal conversion. However …