Frontiers in circularly polarized luminescence: molecular design, self-assembly, nanomaterials, and applications

ZL Gong, X Zhu, Z Zhou, SW Zhang, D Yang… - Science China …, 2021 - Springer
The research in circularly polarized luminescence has attracted wide interest in recent
years. Efforts on one side are directed toward the development of chiral materials with both …

Visible to NIR‐II Photoluminescence of Atomically Precise Gold Nanoclusters

Z Liu, L Luo, R Jin - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Atomically precise gold nanoclusters (NCs) have emerged as a new class of precision
materials and attracted wide interest in recent years. One of the unique properties of such …

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 …

Supercrystal engineering of atomically precise gold nanoparticles promoted by surface dynamics

Q Yao, L Liu, S Malola, M Ge, H Xu, Z Wu, T Chen… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

Biomimetic chiral hydrogen-bonded organic-inorganic frameworks

J Guo, Y Duan, Y Jia, Z Zhao, X Gao, P Liu, F Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Assembly ubiquitously occurs in nature and gives birth to numerous functional biomaterials
and sophisticated organisms. In this work, chiral hydrogen-bonded organic-inorganic …

Atomically precise nanoclusters predominantly seed gold nanoparticle syntheses

L Qiao, N Pollard, RD Senanayake, Z Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Seed-mediated synthesis strategies, in which small gold nanoparticle precursors are added
to a growth solution to initiate heterogeneous nucleation, are among the most prevalent …

Tailoring Carbon Tails of Ligands on Au52(SR)32 Nanoclusters Enhances the Near-Infrared Photoluminescence Quantum Yield from 3.8 to 18.3%

Y Wang, Z Liu, A Mazumder… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
One of the important factors that determine the photoluminescence (PL) properties of gold
nanoclusters pertain to the surface. In this study, four Au52 (SR) 32 nanoclusters that feature …

Chiral Hydride Cu18 Clusters Transform to Superatomic Cu15Ag4 Clusters: Circularly Polarized Luminescence Lighting

MM Zhang, KK Gao, XY Dong, Y Si, T Jia… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The manipulation of metal cluster enantiomers and their reconstruction remain challenging.
Here, for the first time, we report an enantiomeric pair of hydride copper clusters [Cu18H …

Smart reversible transformations between chiral superstructures of copper clusters for optical and chiroptical switching

Z Han, Y Si, XY Dong, JH Hu, C Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Superstructures made from nanoscale clusters with new collective properties are promising
in high-tech applications; however, chiral superstructures remain elusive, and the limited …