Recent developments in the investigation of driving forces for transforming coinage metal nanoclusters

X Zou, X Kang, M Zhu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal nanoclusters serve as an emerging class of modular nanomaterials. The
transformation of metal nanoclusters has been fully reflected in their studies from every …

Atomically precise alloy nanoclusters: syntheses, structures, and properties

X Kang, Y Li, M Zhu, R Jin - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal nanoclusters fill the gap between discrete atoms and plasmonic nanoparticles,
providing unique opportunities for investigating the quantum effects and precise structure …

Dicarboxylic acids induced tandem transformation of silver nanocluster

Z Wang, RK Gupta, F Alkan, BL Han… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Structural transformation of metal nanoclusters (NCs) is of great ongoing interest regarding
their synthesis, stability, and reactivity. Although sporadic examples of cluster …

Au 25 (SR) 18: the captain of the great nanocluster ship

X Kang, H Chong, M Zhu - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Noble metal nanoclusters are in the intermediate state between discrete atoms and
plasmonic nanoparticles and are of significance due to their atomically accurate structures …

Molecular reactivity of thiolate-protected noble metal nanoclusters: synthesis, self-assembly, and applications

Q Yao, Z Wu, Z Liu, Y Lin, X Yuan, J Xie - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Thiolate-protected noble metal (eg, Au and Ag) nanoclusters (NCs) are ultra-small particles
with a core size of less than 3 nm. Due to the strong quantum confinement effects and …

Metal Single‐Atom Cocatalyst on Carbon Nitride for the Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction: Effects of Metal Species

Y Akinaga, T Kawawaki, H Kameko… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐atom (SA) catalysts exhibit high activity in various reactions because there are no
inactive internal atoms. Accordingly, SA cocatalysts are also an active research fields …

Engineering functional metal materials at the atomic level

Q Yao, X Yuan, T Chen, DT Leong, J Xie - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
With continuous research efforts devoted into synthesis and characterization chemistry of
functional nanomaterials in the past decades, the development of metal materials is …

Atom-precise modification of silver (I) thiolate cluster by shell ligand substitution: a new approach to generation of cluster functionality and chirality

S Li, XS Du, B Li, JY Wang, GP Li… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
To realize the molecular design of new functional silver (I) clusters, a new synthetic
approach has been proposed, by which the weakly coordinating ligands NO3–in a Ag20 …

Hard‐Sphere Random Close‐Packed Au47Cd2(TBBT)31 Nanoclusters with a Faradaic Efficiency of Up to 96 % for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to CO

S Zhuang, D Chen, L Liao, Y Zhao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Metal nanoclusters have recently attracted considerable attention, not only because of their
special size range but also because of their well‐defined compositions and structures …

Thiolate‐protected metal nanoclusters: recent development in synthesis, understanding of reaction, and application in energy and environmental field

T Kawawaki, A Ebina, Y Hosokawa, S Ozaki, D Suzuki… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Metal nanoclusters (NCs), which are composed of about 250 or fewer metal atoms, possess
great potential as novel functional materials. Fundamental research on metal NCs gradually …