Metal nanoclusters fill the gap between discrete atoms and plasmonic nanoparticles,
providing unique opportunities for investigating the quantum effects and precise structure …

Building metal materials with well-defined components and the monomer-genetic property is
one of the foremost challenges in chemistry and materials science. In recent years, metal …

Silver nanoclusters have emerged as promising candidates for optoelectronic applications,
but their room-temperature photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) is far from ideal to …

Thiacalix [4] arenes have emerged as a family of macrocyclic ligands to protect metal
nanoparticles, but it remains a great challenge to solve the mystery of their structures at the …

The complete ligation of nanoclusters significantly reduces their chemical reactivity, catalytic
activity, and charge transfer properties. Therefore, in applications, nanoclusters are activated …

Abstract Near-infrared II (NIR-II) imaging at 1100–1700 nm supports deep tissue
penetration, low auto-fluorescence interruption, and high imaging resolution due to …

Understanding the composition, structure and stability of larger synthetic molecules is crucial
for their design, yet currently the analytical tools commonly used do not always provide this …

Atomically precise gold/silver clusters protected by organic ligands L,[(Au/Ag) xLy] z, have
gained increasing interest as building units of functional materials because of their novel …

Understanding the fundamental reactivity of polymetallic complexes is challenging due to
the complexity of their structures with many possible bond breaking and forming processes …

Precision loading of nanoclusters in confined spaces, which has been enthusiastically
pursued in the scientific realm, is still associated with some mysteries of “how”,“when”, and …