Gas-phase studies of chemically synthesized Au and Ag clusters

Atomically precise Au and Ag clusters protected by monolayers of organic ligands have attracted growing interests as promising building units functional materials ideal platforms to study size-dependent evolution structures physicochemical properties. The use gas-phase methods including mass spectrometry, ion mobility collision-induced dissociation photoelectron spectroscopy, photodissociation spectroscopy will reveal novel complementary information on their intrinsic geometric electronic that cannot be obtained conventional characterization methods. This Perspective surveys the recent progress outlook studies chemically synthesized Au/Ag clusters.