Dynamic Metal Nanoclusters: A Review on Accurate Crystal Structures [PDF]
Molecules, 2023 Dynamic metal nanoclusters have garnered widespread attention due to their unique properties and potential applications in various fields. Researchers have been dedicated to developing new synthesis methods and strategies to control the morphologies ...
Xiang Liu, Fan Peng, Gao Li, Kai Diao
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Metal Nanoclusters Synthesized in Alkaline Ethylene Glycol: Mechanism and Application [PDF]
Nanomaterials, 2023 The “unprotected” metal and alloy nanoclusters (UMCs) prepared by the alkaline ethylene glycol method, which are stabilized with simple ions and solvent molecules, have the advantages of a small particle size, a narrow size distribution, good stability ...
Yuan Wang, Menggeng Hao
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Protein-Templated Metal Nanoclusters: Molecular-like Hybrids for Biosensing, Diagnostics and Pharmaceutics [PDF]
Molecules, 2023 The use of proteins as biomolecular templates to synthesize atomically precise metal nanoclusters has been gaining traction due to their appealing properties such as photoluminescence, good colloidal- and photostability and biocompatibility.
Sherwin Chong Li Tan +4 more
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First-Principles Investigation of Size Effects on Cohesive Energies of Transition-Metal Nanoclusters [PDF]
Nanomaterials, 2023 The cohesive energy of transition-metal nanoparticles is crucial to understanding their stability and fundamental properties, which are essential for developing new technologies and applications in fields such as catalysis, electronics, energy storage ...
Amogh Vig, Ethan Doan, Kesong Yang
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Antibacterial metal nanoclusters [PDF]
Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 2022 Combating bacterial infections is one of the most important applications of nanomedicine. In the past two decades, significant efforts have been committed to tune physicochemical properties of nanomaterials for the development of various novel ...
Youkun Zheng +4 more
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Ligand effect on switching the rate-determining step of water oxidation in atomically precise metal nanoclusters [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 The ligand effects of atomically precise metal nanoclusters on electrocatalysis kinetics have been rarely revealed. Herein, we employ atomically precise Au25 nanoclusters with different ligands (i.e., para-mercaptobenzoic acid, 6-mercaptohexanoic acid ...
Zhihe Liu +7 more
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Lighting up metal nanoclusters by the H2O-dictated electron relaxation dynamics [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe modulation of traps has found attractive attention to optimize the performance of luminescent materials, while the understanding of trap-involved photoluminescence management of metal nanoclusters greatly lags behind, thus extensively impeding their ...
Yuan Zhong +14 more
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Engineering of TiN (N = 1 – 15) nanoclusters by doping osmium impurity [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2023 Bimetallic transition metal nanoclusters have attracted significant attention in recent years due to their wide range of applications such as heterogeneous catalysts, electrochemistry and alloy design.
Moeti Ramalebana +3 more
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An Overview on Coinage Metal Nanocluster-Based Luminescent Biosensors via Etching Chemistry
Biosensors, 2022 The findings from the synthetic mechanism of metal nanoclusters yield the etching chemistry based on coinage metal nanoclusters. The utilization of such chemistry as a tool that can alter the optical properties of metal nanoclusters has inspired the ...
Hongxin Si +4 more
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Polyoxometalates, 2023 The ligand exchange-induced size/structural transformation (LEIST) reaction of metal nanoclusters gives researchers an effective way to understand the structural transition, broaden the methods of synthesis, and enhance the relevant performance of metal ...
Wenwen Fei +4 more
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