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 colloidal metal nanoclusters and nanoparticles: fundamentals and opportunities

R Jin, C Zeng, M Zhou, Y Chen - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
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 …

Atomically tailored gold nanoclusters for catalytic application

T Higaki, Y Li, S Zhao, Q Li, S Li, XS Du… - Angewandte …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in the synthetic chemistry of atomically precise metal nanoclusters (NCs)
have significantly broadened the accessible sizes and structures. Such particles are well …

Engineering functional metal materials at the atomic level

Q Yao, X Yuan, T Chen, DT Leong, J Xie - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
With continuous research efforts devoted into synthesis and characterization chemistry of
functional nanomaterials in the past decades, the development of metal materials is …

Chirality and surface bonding correlation in atomically precise metal nanoclusters

Y Li, T Higaki, X Du, R Jin - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and occurs at all length scales. The development of
applications for chiral nanostructures is rising rapidly. With the recent achievements of …

Programmable metal nanoclusters with atomic precision

Y Li, M Zhou, R Jin - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With the recent establishment of atomically precise nanochemistry, capabilities toward
programmable control over the nanoparticle size and structure are being developed …

Toward the tailoring chemistry of metal nanoclusters for enhancing functionalities

T Higaki, Q Li, M Zhou, S Zhao, Y Li… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Ultrasmall metal nanoparticles (often called nanoclusters) possess unique
geometrical structures and novel functionalities that are not accessible in conventional …

Transformation of atomically precise nanoclusters by ligand-exchange

X Kang, M Zhu - Chemistry of Materials, 2019 - ACS Publications
Owing to their atomically precise structures, metal nanoclusters have always served as
model molecular tools to dissect nanoparticle surface chemistry and to investigate structure …

Thiolated gold nanoclusters for light energy conversion

MA Abbas, PV Kamat, JH Bang - ACS Energy Letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
Few-atom gold nanoclusters (NCs) exhibit molecule-like properties due to a discrete
electronic structure driven by the quantum confinement effect. Unlike plasmonic Au particles …

Crystal Structure of Faradaurate-279: Au279(SPh-tBu)84 Plasmonic Nanocrystal Molecules

NA Sakthivel, S Theivendran, V Ganeshraj… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report the discovery of an unprecedentedly large, 2.2 nm diameter, thiolate protected
gold nanocrystal characterized by single crystal X-ray crystallography (sc-XRD), Au279 (SPh …