Nanometer-scale, ligand-stabilized noble metal clusters have emerged in recent years as a novel form of nanoscale matter with potential applications in molecular electronics, optics, sensing, drug delivery and biolabeling. Tremendous advances have been achieved in discovering their structures due to contributions from synthetic work, X-ray crystallography, atomic-resolution microscopy and density functional theory computations. This talk discusses recent work aimed at understanding how directed chemistry or spontaneous assembly of monodispersed gold clusters in aqueous phase can modify their properties for potential plasmonic or biological applications.<br/>

Towards functional assemblies of ligand-stabilized gold nanoclusters

2019 Spring National Meeting

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