Continuing research on the preparation and structural determination of monolayer-protected
silver clusters has been performed. The compounds include mixed-valence Ag0/1+ clusters …

The design of surface ligands is crucial for ligand‐protected gold nanoclusters (Au NCs).
Besides providing good protection for Au NCs, the surface ligands also play the following …

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 …

Atomic clusters, consisting of a few to a few thousand atoms, have emerged over the past 40
years as the ultimate nanoparticles, whose structure and properties can be controlled one …

Silver (i) chalcogenide/chalcogenolate clusters are promising photofunctional materials for
sensing, optoelectronics and solar energy harvesting applications. However, their instability …

Thiolate-protected metal nanoclusters (or thiolated metal NCs) have recently emerged as a
promising class of functional materials because of their well-defined molecular structures …

Silver nanoparticles with an atomically precise molecular formula [Ag25 (SR) 18]−(− SR:
thiolate) are synthesized, and their single-crystal structure is determined. This synthesized …

Atomically precise enantiomeric metal clusters are scarce, and copper (I) alkynyl clusters
with intense circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) responses have not been reported. A …

Silver cluster-assembled materials (SCAMs), by virtue of their tunable structure, accessible
surface area and excellent stability, hold great promise as highly efficient catalysts. Herein …

Convenient generation of stable superatomic silver clusters and their systematic site-specific
tailoring and directional assembly present an enduring and significant challenge. In this …