Improving the knowledge of the relationship between structure and properties is
fundamental in catalysis. Recently, researchers have developed a variety of well-controlled …

In this review article, we discuss advances in the chemistry of metal carbonyl clusters
(MCCs) spanning the last three decades, with an emphasis on the more recent reports and …

Gold nanoparticles protected by thiolates, including thiolterminated DNA and simple thiols,[1–
5] possess extraordinary stability and constitute perhaps the most widely studied system in …

A relationship between the size of metal particles and their catalytic activity has been
established over a nanometer scale (2–10 nm). However, application on a subnanometer …

On a subnanometer scale, an only one‐atom difference in a metal cluster may cause
significant transitions in the catalytic activity due to the electronic and geometric …

This work presents a combined approach of kinetic control and thermodynamic selection for
the synthesis of monodisperse 19 gold atom nanoclusters protected by thiolate groups. The …

We report a facile, one-pot method for synthesizing atomically monodisperse Au144 (SR) 60
nanoclusters under ambient conditions. In this method, gold salt precursor is first mixed with …

We recently found that [Pt17 (CO) 12 (PPh3) 8] z (Pt= platinum; CO= carbon monoxide;
PPh3= triphenylphosphine; z= 1+ or 2+) is a Pt nanocluster (Pt NC) that can be synthesized …

Atomically precise metal nanoclusters with tailored surface structures are important for both
fundamental studies and practical applications. The development of new methods for …

Classical metal-based nanomaterials come in two prominent types: a mononuclear or
multinuclear complex chemically stabilized by organic ligands or a nanoparticle (also called …