Issue 7, 2013
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Nanoscale

Stabilizing subnanometer Ag(0) nanoclusters by thiolate and diphosphine ligands and their crystal structures†

Huayan Yang,a   Yu Wanga  and  Nanfeng Zheng*a  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
E-mail: nfzheng@xmu.edu.cn
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Abstract

The combined use of thiolate and diphosphine as surface ligands helps to stabilize subnanometer Ag(0) nanoclusters, resulting in the successful crystallization of two Ag(0)-containing nanoclusters (Ag16 and Ag32) for X-ray single crystal analysis. Both clusters have core–shell structures with Ag86+ and Ag2212+ as their cores, which are not simply either fragments of face-centered cubic metals or their five-fold twinned counterparts. The clusters display UV-Vis absorption spectra consisting of molecule-like optical transitions.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3NR34328F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
28 Dec 2012
Accepted
22 Feb 2013
First published
26 Feb 2013

Nanoscale, 2013,5, 2674-2677

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Stabilizing subnanometer Ag(0) nanoclusters by thiolate and diphosphine ligands and their crystal structures

H. Yang, Y. Wang and N. Zheng, Nanoscale, 2013, 5, 2674 DOI: 10.1039/C3NR34328F

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