Understanding ligand-protected noble metal nanoclusters at work

MF Matus, H Häkkinen - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Ligand-protected noble metal nanoclusters, commonly termed 'monolayer-protected metal
clusters'(MPCs), comprise a common set of structures with an inorganic core stabilized by an …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 3D printing of polymer composites to fabricate wearable sensors: A comprehensive review

A Osman, J Lu - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
The application of wearable sensors in domains related to healthcare systems, human
motion detection, robotics, and human–machine interactions has attracted significant …

Silver nanoparticles: synthesis and application for nanomedicine

SH Lee, BH Jun - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Over the past few decades, metal nanoparticles less than 100 nm in diameter have made a
substantial impact across diverse biomedical applications, such as diagnostic and medical …

Suppression of kernel vibrations by layer-by-layer ligand engineering boosts photoluminescence efficiency of gold nanoclusters

Y Zhong, J Zhang, T Li, W Xu, Q Yao, M Lu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The restriction of structural vibration has assumed great importance in attaining bright
emission of luminescent metal nanoclusters (NCs), where tremendous efforts are devoted to …

Supercrystal engineering of atomically precise gold nanoparticles promoted by surface dynamics

Q Yao, L Liu, S Malola, M Ge, H Xu, Z Wu, T Chen… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
The controllable packing of functional nanoparticles (NPs) into crystalline lattices is of
interest in the development of NP-based materials. Here we demonstrate that the size …

Tailoring the photoluminescence of atomically precise nanoclusters

X Kang, M Zhu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Due to their atomically precise structures and intriguing chemical/physical properties, metal
nanoclusters are an emerging class of modular nanomaterials. Photo-luminescence (PL) is …

Double-helical assembly of heterodimeric nanoclusters into supercrystals

Y Li, M Zhou, Y Song, T Higaki, H Wang, R Jin - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
DNA has long been used as a template for the construction of helical assemblies of
inorganic nanoparticles,,,–. For example, gold nanoparticles decorated with DNA (or with …

Platonic and Archimedean solids in discrete metal-containing clusters

XM Luo, YK Li, XY Dong, SQ Zang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal-containing clusters have attracted increasing attention over the past 2–3 decades.
This intense interest can be attributed to the fact that these discrete metal aggregates, whose …