Visible to NIR‐II Photoluminescence of Atomically Precise Gold Nanoclusters

Z Liu, L Luo, R Jin - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Atomically precise gold nanoclusters (NCs) have emerged as a new class of precision
materials and attracted wide interest in recent years. One of the unique properties of such …

Advances of gold nanoclusters for bioimaging

C Zhang, X Gao, W Chen, M He, Y Yu, G Gao, T Sun - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) have become a promising material for bioimaging detection
because of their tunable photoluminescence, large Stokes shift, low photobleaching, and …

Bis-Schiff base linkage-triggered highly bright luminescence of gold nanoclusters in aqueous solution at the single-cluster level

H Deng, K Huang, L Xiu, W Sun, Q Yao, X Fang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Metal nanoclusters (NCs) have been developed as a new class of luminescent
nanomaterials with potential applications in various fields. However, for most of the metal …

Metal nanoclusters as biomaterials for bioapplications: atomic precision as the next goal

J Yang, F Yang, C Zhang, X He, R Jin - ACS Materials Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Noble metal nanoclusters (NCs) have emerged as a new class of nanomaterials which have
great potential in bioapplications. Due to their ultrasmall size and versatile surface …

Source of bright near-infrared luminescence in gold nanoclusters

Q Li, CJ Zeman IV, GC Schatz, XW Gu - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Gold nanoclusters with near-infrared (NIR) photoluminescence (PL) have great potential as
sensing and imaging materials in biomedical and bioimaging applications. In this work …

Control over ligand-exchange positions of thiolate-protected gold nanoclusters using steric repulsion of protecting ligands

W Suzuki, R Takahata, Y Chiga… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Organic ligands on gold nanoclusters play important roles in regulating the structures of gold
cores. However, the impact of the number and positions of the protecting ligands on gold …

Toward controlled syntheses of diphosphine-protected homochiral gold nanoclusters through precursor engineering

WD Si, YZ Li, SS Zhang, S Wang, L Feng, ZY Gao… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Controllable syntheses of Au nanoclusters (NCs) with different nuclearities are of great
significance due to the kernel-dependent physicochemical properties. Herein, two pairs of …

Structural isomerism in atomically precise nanoclusters

X Kang, M Zhu - Chemistry of Materials, 2020 - ACS Publications
Molecular isomerization has been well established in small-sized organic molecules,
whereas bulk inorganic solids present the phase transformation. Studies of molecular …

Construction of thiol-capped ultrasmall Au–Bi bimetallic nanoparticles for X-ray CT imaging and enhanced antitumor therapy efficiency

F He, H Ji, L Feng, Z Wang, Q Sun, C Zhong, D Yang… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Thiol capped gold nanoparticles with small size, high dispersity, and broad light absorption
covering ultraviolet (UV) to near infrared (NIR) region have been developed for catalysis …

pH‐Responsive Near‐Infrared Emitting Gold Nanoclusters

S Zhou, L Gustavsson, G Beaune… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Near‐infrared (NIR) fluorophores with pH‐responsive properties suggest merits in biological
analyses. This work establishes a general and effective method to obtain pH‐responsive …