Despite the great advances in synthesis and structural determination of atomically precise, thiolate-protected metal nanoclusters, our understanding of the driving forces for their colloidal stabilization is very limited. Currently there is a lack of models able to describe the thermodynamic stability of these 'magic-number' colloidal nanoclusters as a function of their atomic-level structural ...

In this work, we synthesized a trypsin-stabilized fluorescent gold nanocluster. It was found that sulfide interacted with the nanocluster, which could result in significant fluorescence quenching. With this quenching effect, a fluorescence sulfide sensor was developed. This sensor responded linearly to sulfide in the range of 50 nM to 8 μM, and was capable of detecting sulfide as low as 5.5 nM....

In this paper we report results on the synthesis and magnetic properties of L10 FePt nanocomposite fi lms. Three fabrication methods have been developed to produce high-anisptropy FePt fi lms: non-epitaxial growth of (0 0 1)-oriented FePt:X (X=Ag, C) composite fi lms that might be used for perpendicular media; monodispersed FePt(CFx) core–shell nanocluster-assembled fi lms grown with a gas-aggr...

Surface organic ligands are critical for the formation and properties of atomically precise metal nanoclusters. In contrast to the conventionally used protective ligands such as thiolates and phosphines, thiacalix[4]arene has been used in the synthesis of a silver nanocluster, [Ag35(H2L)2(L)(C≡CBu(t))16](SbF6)3, (H4L, p-tert-butylthiacalix[4]-arene). This is the first structurally determined ca...

Highly ordered Ag nanocluster structures have been grown on pre-patterned amorphous SiO(2) surfaces by oblique angle physical vapor deposition at room temperature. Despite the small undulation of the rippled surface, the stripe-like Ag nanoclusters are very pronounced, reproducible and well separated. Computer modeling of the growth has been performed with a lattice-based kinetic Monte Carlo (K...

Reaction of Cd(OAc)2·2H2O and selenourea in primary-amine/secondary-amine cosolvent mixtures affords crystalline CdSe quantum platelets at room temperature. Their crystallinity is established by X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and their sharp extinction and photoluminescence spectra. Reaction monitoring establishes the magic-size nanoclu...

in recent years there has been considerable interest in the structures, energies and thermodynamics of(gan)4 clusters and it is the subject of many experimental and theoretical studies because of theirfundamental importance in chemical and physical process. all calculation of this study is carried outby gaussian 98. geometry optimization for (gan)4 nanocluster are be fulfilled at b3lyp, b1lypan...

Interface microenvironment mediated surface-Mn 2+ -involving direct charge transfer with interfacial alkylamines was for the first time revealed by using an atomically precise semiconductor nanocluster model uniform near-surface Mn ions.

The tetradecanuclear FeIII pivalate nanocluster [Fe14O10(OH)₄(Piv)18], comprising a new type of metal oxide framework, has been solvothermally synthesized from a hexanuclear iron pivalate precursor in dichlormethane/acetonitrile solution. Magnetic measurements indicate the presence of very strong antiferromagnetic interactions in the cluster core.

Mixtures of an appropriate carboxylic acid and n-butylstannoic acid constitute modular gelation systems, in which the formation of a well-defined 'tin-drum' nanocluster subsequently underpins the hierarchical assembly of nanostructured fibres, which form self-supporting gel-phase networks in organic solvents.