The discovery of carbon fullerene cages and their solids opened a new avenue to build
materials from stable cage clusters as “artificial atoms” or “superatoms” instead of atoms …

Gold is an element whose unique properties are strongly influenced by relativistic effects. A
large body of appropriate calculations now exists and its main conclusions are summarized …

We report a simple and yet effective method to introduce Mn2+ ions into semiconducting
nanoclusters with atomically precise control. Our method utilizes one type of micrometer …

Gold nanoparticles have been discovered to exhibit remarkable catalytic properties in
contrast to the chemical inertness of bulk gold. A prerequisite to elucidate the molecular …

The recently developed adaptive natural density partitioning (AdNDP) method has been
applied to a series of golden clusters. The pattern of chemical bonding in Au20 revealed by …

We report real-space, atomic-resolution images of Au20 clusters obtained with the
aberration-corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy. The proposed tetrahedral …

How nanoclusters transform from one structural type to another as a function of size is a
critical issue in cluster science. Here we report a study of the structural transition from the …

Structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of the golden cage doped with a transition-
metal atom, M Au 16−(M= Fe, Co, Ni), are investigated using trapped ion electron diffraction …

We report a joint experimental and theoretical study on the structures of a series of gold
clusters doped with a group-14 atom: MAu x−(M= Si, Ge, Sn; x= 5− 8). Well-resolved …

The geometries, electronic, and magnetic properties of the 3d transition-metal-doped gold
cluster: M@ Au6 clusters (M= Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) have been systematically …