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 …

Atomic-precision Pt6 nanoclusters for enhanced hydrogen electro-oxidation

X Wang, L Zhao, X Li, Y Liu, Y Wang, Q Yao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The discord between the insufficient abundance and the excellent electrocatalytic activity of
Pt urgently requires its atomic-level engineering for minimal Pt dosage yet maximized …

Chemically modified gold/silver superatoms as artificial elements at nanoscale: design principles and synthesis challenges

S Takano, T Tsukuda - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021 - ACS Publications
Pure and doped gold/silver clusters protected by monolayers of organic ligands have
attracted much interest as novel functional materials owing to their nonbulk-like, size-specific …

Highly exposed active sites of Au nanoclusters for photocatalytic CO2 reduction

J Tian, K Zhong, X Zhu, J Yang, Z Mo, J Liu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The selectivity and activity of photocatalytic CO 2 reduction can be effectively enhanced by
modulating the reduction pathway of CO 2 molecules and promoting the separation of …

Self‐Assembly of Precision Noble Metal Nanoclusters: Hierarchical Structural Complexity, Colloidal Superstructures, and Applications

JV Rival, P Mymoona, KM Lakshmi, Nonappa… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Superatoms in materials science

EA Doud, A Voevodin, TJ Hochuli… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Clusters are ensembles of bound atoms intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk
solid. Some of these clusters form stable units with atomically precise structures that give …

Transformation of atomically precise nanoclusters by ligand-exchange

X Kang, M Zhu - Chemistry of Materials, 2019 - ACS Publications
Owing to their atomically precise structures, metal nanoclusters have always served as
model molecular tools to dissect nanoparticle surface chemistry and to investigate structure …

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 …

Seeing ligands on nanoclusters and in their assemblies by X-ray crystallography: atomically precise nanochemistry and beyond

Y Li, R Jin - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020 - ACS Publications
Ligands are of tremendous importance for colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) in terms of surface
protection, size and shape control, tailoring properties, self-assembly, and applications …