Metal nanoclusters fill the gap between discrete atoms and plasmonic nanoparticles,
providing unique opportunities for investigating the quantum effects and precise structure …

Monolayer-protected gold/silver clusters have attracted much interest as nano-scale building
units for novel functional materials owing to their nonbulk-like structures and size-specific …

Mass spectrometry (MS) is widely used in molecular science, and is now emerging as a
characterization technique for ultra-small nanoparticles. In the field of atomically precise …

Nanoparticles (NPs) with atomic precision, known as nanoclusters (NCs), are an emerging
field in materials science in view of their fascinating structure–property relationships …

Mass spectrometry (MS), a hundred-year-old subject, has been a technique of profound
importance to molecular science. Its impact in solid-state materials science has not been …

Atomically precise Au and Ag clusters protected by monolayers of organic ligands have
attracted growing interests as promising building units of functional materials and ideal …

Nanoparticles and metallic clusters continue to make a remarkable impact on novel and
emerging technologies. In recent years, there have been impressive advances in the …

Cyclic arginyl-glycyl-aspartic acid peptide (cRGD) peptides show a high affinity towards
αVβ3 integrin, a receptor overexpressed in many cancers. We aimed to combine the …

The influence of passivating ligands on electron–phonon relaxation dynamics of the
smallest-sized gold clusters was studied using ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy …

Atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis has been widely used to investigate
nanocrystalline and structurally disordered materials. Experimental PDFs retrieved from …