Molecularly Engineered Room-Temperature Phosphorescence for Biomedical Application: From the Visible toward Second Near-Infrared Window

B Chang, J Chen, J Bao, T Sun, Z Cheng - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Phosphorescence, characterized by luminescent lifetimes significantly longer than that of
biological autofluorescence under ambient environment, is of great value for biomedical …

Eight-Electron Superatomic Cu31 Nanocluster with Chiral Kernel and NIR-II Emission

T Jia, ZJ Guan, C Zhang, XZ Zhu, YX Chen… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Owing to the inherent instability caused by the low Cu (I)/Cu (0) half-cell reduction potential,
Cu (0)-containing copper nanoclusters are quite uncommon in comparison to their Ag and …

A Highly NIR Emissive Cu16Pd1 Nanocluster

SK Peng, H Yang, D Luo, GH Ning, D Li - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The construction of stable copper nanoclusters (Cu‐NCs) with near‐infrared (NIR) emission
that can be used for catalysis is highly desired, yet remains a challenge. Herein, an …

Solvent-Mediated Hetero/Homo-Phase Crystallization of Copper Nanoclusters and Superatomic Kernel-Related NIR Phosphorescence

C Zhang, WD Si, Z Wang, A Dinesh… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Atomically precise superatomic copper nanoclusters (Cu NCs) have been the subject of
immense interest for their intriguing structures and diverse properties; nonetheless, the …

Single-atom “surgery” on chiral all-dialkynyl-protected superatomic silver nanoclusters

C Zhang, WD Si, WD Tian, WJ Xiao, ZY Gao, Z Wang… - Science Bulletin, 2024 - Elsevier
The manipulation of single atom within the metallic kernel of nanoclusters has attracted
considerable attention due to its potentials to elucidate kernel-based structure–property …

Photophysics of transition metal complexes (2021–2022)

S La Cognata, D Vadivel, A Poggi, D Dondi… - 2023 - books.rsc.org
This Chapter summarizes the major advances in the photophysics of transition metal
complexes, achieved in 2021 and 2022, covering mainly d-block metal complexes. The …

Of corpses, light and electricity

A Albini - 2023 - books.rsc.org
What is the essential requirement for the existence of living beings? In the early 19th
century, this question was approached in two different ways. The first approach proposed …