Understanding seed-mediated growth of gold nanoclusters at molecular level

Synthetic nanochemistry currently lacks the molecular step-by-step routes afforded to organic chemistry by total synthesis. Here, the authors track the seeded growth of atom-precise gold nanoclusters using mass spectrometry, revealing that the clusters evolve through a series of intermediates in two...

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Main Authors: Qiaofeng Yao, Xun Yuan, Victor Fung, Yong Yu, David Tai Leong, De-en Jiang, Jianping Xie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00970-1