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 …

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 …

Visible-light copper nanocluster catalysis for the C–N coupling of aryl chlorides at room temperature

A Sagadevan, A Ghosh, P Maity… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Activation of aryl chlorides in cross-coupling reactions is a long-standing challenge in
organic synthesis that is of great interest to industry. Ultrasmall (< 3 nm), atomically precise …

Structural chemistry of giant metal based supramolecules

AV Virovets, E Peresypkina, M Scheer - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
The review presents a bird-eye view on the state of research in the field of giant
nonbiological discrete metal complexes and ions of nanometer size, which are structurally …

Chirality and surface bonding correlation in atomically precise metal nanoclusters

Y Li, T Higaki, X Du, R Jin - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and occurs at all length scales. The development of
applications for chiral nanostructures is rising rapidly. With the recent achievements of …

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 …

Small symmetry-breaking triggering large chiroptical responses of Ag70 nanoclusters

XM Luo, CH Gong, F Pan, Y Si, JW Yuan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The origins of the chiroptical activities of inorganic nanostructures have perplexed scientists,
and deracemization of high-nuclearity metal nanoclusters (NCs) remains challenging. Here …

Atomically precise thiolate‐protected gold nanoclusters: Current status of designability of the structure and physicochemical properties

S Hossain, D Hirayama, A Ikeda, M Ishimi… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Thiolate (SR)‐protected gold nanoclusters (Aun (SR) m NCs) are a rare type of material
capable of simultaneously exhibiting multiple physicochemical properties well‐suited to …

New advances in atomically precise silver nanoclusters

J Yang, R Jin - ACS Materials Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
Atomically precise noble metal nanoclusters are ultrasmall particles that are typically
composed of tens to hundreds of metal atoms in the core (equivalent sizes 1–3 nm). This …

Sandwich‐Kernelled AgCu Nanoclusters with Golden Ratio Geometry and Promising Photothermal Efficiency

L Fang, W Fan, G Bian, R Wang, Q You… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Metal nanoclusters have recently attracted extensive interest from the scientific community.
However, unlike carbon‐based materials and metal nanocrystals, they rarely exhibit a sheet …