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

Due to their atomically precise structures and intriguing chemical/physical properties, metal
nanoclusters are an emerging class of modular nanomaterials. Photo-luminescence (PL) is …

Atomically precise pieces of matter of nanometer dimensions composed of noble metals are
new categories of materials with many unusual properties. Over 100 molecules of this kind …

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 …

Metal-enhanced photocatalysis has recently received increasing interest, mainly due to the
ability of metal to directly or indirectly degrade pollutants. In this review, we briefly review the …

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

In the past decade, the surface plasmon resonance of Ag and Au nanoparticles has been
investigated to improve the efficiency of photocatalytic processes. The photocatalytic …

Gold nanoparticles typically have a metallic core, and the electronic conduction band
consists of quasicontinuous energy levels (ie spacing δ≪ k BT, where k BT is the thermal …

Ligand protected noble metal nanoparticles are excellent building blocks for colloidal self‐
assembly. Metal nanoparticle self‐assembly offers routes for a wide range of multifunctional …

Gold nanoparticles have shown great prospective in cancer diagnosis and therapy, but they
can not be metabolized and prefer to accumulate in liver and spleen due to their large size …