There has been a great interest in understanding the interactions between light and noble
metal nanoparticles ever since Michael Faraday's study of the ruby-red color of colloidal …

Mass spectrometry (MS) is widely used in molecular science, and is now emerging as a
characterization technique for ultra-small nanoparticles. In the field of atomically precise …

We focus on the functional role of small silver clusters in model hybrid systems involving
peptides in the context of a new generation of nanostructured materials for biosensing. The …

Luminescent metal nanoclusters (NCs) stabilized by natural proteins are of special interest
in bioimaging applications. However, the detailed structure of the protein-templated NCs …

Silver cluster–DNA complexes are optical chromophores, and pairs of these conjugates can
be toggled from fluorescently dim to bright states using DNA hybridization. This paper …

The absorption spectra and ionization potentials of silver clusters Ag n (n= 4–20) are
examined in the framework of density-functional theory (DFT) using several different …

We present a systematic theoretical investigation of the structural and optical properties of
thiolate-protected silver clusters with the goal to design species exhibiting strong absorption …

We explored experimentally and theoretically the optical properties of isolated silver trimer-
dipeptide bioconjugates. The metallic moiety induces a strong enhancement of the optical …

Metal clusters can serve as ultimate building blocks for nanometer-scale devices because of
their unique optical and electronic properties, which are size and structure dependent.[1] …

The unique linear and non-linear optical (NLO) properties of small noble metal nanoclusters
in hybrid systems formed with peptides will be overviewed. Focus is on two aspects based …