Metal, metal oxide, and metal chalcogenide materials have a wide variety of applications.
For example, many metal clusters and nanoparticles are used as catalysts for reactions …

Modern concepts of the structure and properties of atomic gold clusters protected by thiolate,
selenolate, phosphine and phenylacetylene ligands are analyzed. Within the framework of …

Monostibine-protected ionic Au13 nanoclusters, namely,[Au13 (L) 8 (Cl) 4][Cl](L= SbPh3, 2a·
Cl; Sb (p-tolyl) 3, 2b· Cl) were prepared by the direct reduction of Au (L) Cl with NaBH4 in …

We analyze and compare the UV–visible absorption profiles, computed at the TD-DFT level,
of several thiolate, chloride, and phosphine ligand protected gold clusters with Au13, Au25 …

The catalytic, electrochemical, and optical properties of gold clusters and small
nanoparticles depend on the cluster size, on the nature of the ligand shell and on the solvent …

A systematic evaluation of small phosphine ligand-protected gold clusters with six to nine
gold atoms using density functional theory with dispersion correction has been performed in …

We report chiroptical activity in Au13 clusters protected by binary mixed ligands of chiral and
achiral diphosphines. S, S-DIOP is used as the chiral diphosphine, and the achiral …

Delocalization of excitons promoted by electronic coupling between clusters or quantum
dots (QD) changes the dynamical processes in nanostructured aggregates enhancing …

From the smallest biological molecules to complex living organisms, the organisation of the
living matter follows highly hierarchical organisation. As depicted in Fig. 1, starting from the …

The structure and reactivity of rhombic Au 4 cluster protected by bis (
dimethylphosphinomethyl) and phenylacetylide ligands towards CO and O 2 were studied in …