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 colloidal metal nanoclusters and nanoparticles: fundamentals and opportunities

R Jin, C Zeng, M Zhou, Y Chen - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Colloidal nanoparticles are being intensely pursued in current nanoscience research.
Nanochemists are often frustrated by the well-known fact that no two nanoparticles are the …

Quantum mechanical studies of large metal, metal oxide, and metal chalcogenide nanoparticles and clusters

A Fernando, KLDM Weerawardene… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Metal, metal oxide, and metal chalcogenide materials have a wide variety of applications.
For example, many metal clusters and nanoparticles are used as catalysts for reactions …

Roles of thiolate ligands in the synthesis, properties and catalytic application of gold nanoclusters

RR Nasaruddin, T Chen, N Yan, J Xie - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Ultrasmall (< 2 nm) ligand-protected metal nanoclusters (NCs) have been an
emerging class of functional materials with rich coordination chemistry, finding increasing …

Identification of a Highly Luminescent Au22(SG)18 Nanocluster

Y Yu, Z Luo, DM Chevrier, DT Leong… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The luminescence property of thiolated gold nanoclusters (Au NCs) is thought to involve the
Au (I)-thiolate motifs on the NC surface; however, this hypothesis remains largely …

Chiral structure of thiolate-protected 28-gold-atom nanocluster determined by X-ray crystallography

C Zeng, T Li, A Das, NL Rosi, R Jin - Journal of the American …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We report the crystal structure of a new nanocluster formulated as Au28 (TBBT) 20, where
TBBT= 4-tert-butylbenzenethiolate. It exhibits a rod-like Au20 kernel consisting of two …

Structural isomerism in gold nanoparticles revealed by X-ray crystallography

S Tian, YZ Li, MB Li, J Yuan, J Yang, Z Wu… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Revealing structural isomerism in nanoparticles using single-crystal X-ray crystallography
remains a largely unresolved task, although it has been theoretically predicted with some …

Chirality in thiolate-protected gold clusters

S Knoppe, T Bürgi - Accounts of chemical research, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Over recent years, research on thiolate-protected gold clusters Au m (SR) n has
gained significant interest. Milestones were the successful determination of a series of …

Nonsuperatomic [Au23(SC6H11)16] Nanocluster Featuring Bipyramidal Au15 Kernel and Trimeric Au3(SR)4 Motif

A Das, T Li, K Nobusada, C Zeng… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We report the X-ray structure of a cyclohexanethiolate-capped [Au23 (SR) 16]− nanocluster
(counterion: tetraoctylammonium, TOA+). The structure comprises a cuboctahedron-based …

Properties of the gold–sulphur interface: from self-assembled monolayers to clusters

T Bürgi - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The gold–sulphur interface of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) was extensively studied
some time ago. More recently tremendous progress has been made in the preparation and …