Improving the knowledge of the relationship between structure and properties is
fundamental in catalysis. Recently, researchers have developed a variety of well-controlled …

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 …

Aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) provides an efficient strategy to synthesize highly
luminescent metal nanoclusters (NCs), however, rational control of emission energy and …

Gold nanoclusters, consisting of a few to several hundred Au atoms with a core size below 2
nm, have attracted worldwide attention in the biomedicine because of their supernormal …

Noble metal nanoclusters are in the intermediate state between discrete atoms and
plasmonic nanoparticles and are of significance due to their atomically accurate structures …

Thiolate-protected noble metal (eg, Au and Ag) nanoclusters (NCs) are ultra-small particles
with a core size of less than 3 nm. Due to the strong quantum confinement effects and …

Conspectus Ligand-protected noble metal nanoclusters are of interest for their potential
applications in areas such as bioimaging, catalysis, photocatalysis, and solar energy …

We report a three-orders-of-magnitude variation of carrier lifetimes in exotic crystalline
phases of gold nanoclusters (NCs) in addition to the well-known face-centered cubic …

Recently, loading ligand-protected gold (Au) clusters as visible light photosensitizers onto
various supports for photoredox catalysis has attracted considerable attention. However, the …

The continuous development of total synthesis chemistry has allowed many organic and
biomolecules to be produced with known synthetic history–that is, a complete set of step …