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Precise synthesis, functionalization and application of thiolate-protected gold clusters
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Aun(SR)m has received significant attention as new functional nanomaterials because they exhibit size-specific physical and chemical properties that are not seen in bulk gold.About:
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Atomically Precise Colloidal Metal Nanoclusters and Nanoparticles: Fundamentals and Opportunities
TL;DR: This review summarizes the major progress in the field, including the principles that permit atomically precise synthesis, new types of atomic structures, and unique physical and chemical properties ofatomically precise nanoparticles, as well as exciting opportunities for nanochemists to understand very fundamental science of colloidal nanoparticles.
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Atomically Precise Noble Metal Nanoclusters as Efficient Catalysts: A Bridge between Structure and Properties.
TL;DR: The model catalyst role of NCs in catalysis is illustrated from theoretical and experimental perspectives, particularly in electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, photoelectric conversion, and catalysis of organic reactions.
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Tailoring the photoluminescence of atomically precise nanoclusters.
Xi Kang,Manzhou Zhu +1 more
TL;DR: Promising applications of metal nanoclusters are reviewed, with particular focus on their potential to impact the fields of chemical sensing, bio-imaging, and bio-labeling, and scope for improvements and future perspectives of these novel nanomaterials are highlighted.
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Antimicrobial silver nanomaterials
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Super Atomic Clusters: Design Rules and Potential for Building Blocks of Materials
Puru Jena,Qiang Sun +1 more
TL;DR: This Review describes how different electron-counting rules can lead to the design of stable clusters, mimicking the chemistry of atoms, and highlights the potential of these "superatoms" as building blocks of cluster-assembled materials.
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Synthesis of thiol-derivatised gold nanoparticles in a two-phase liquid-liquid system
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Structure of a thiol monolayer-protected gold nanoparticle at 1.1 A resolution
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TL;DR: The crystallization and x-ray structure determination of a p-mercaptobenzoic acid–protected gold nanoparticle, which comprises 102 gold atoms and 44 p-MBAs, is reported, which is chiral, with the two enantiomers alternating in the crystal lattice.