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An insight, at the atomic level, into the structure and catalytic properties of the isomers of the Cu22 cluster

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Multiple neighboring active sites of an atomically precise copper nanocluster catalyst for efficient bond-forming reactions

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Bonding and Electronic Interactions of Hydrogen with Gold Superatoms

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Atomically precise Cu32 nanoclusters with selenide doping: Synthesis, bonding, and catalysis

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All-Calixarene-Protected Silver Nanocluster with All Silver Atoms in a Face-Centered Cubic Arrangement

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Atomically precise coinage metal nanoclusters with defects in catalysis

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Chemical Flexibility of Atomically Precise Metal Clusters

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Lighting up metal nanoclusters by the H2O-dictated electron relaxation dynamics

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Atomically precise Cu41 clusters as model catalysts: Open metal sites matter

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Atom-precise copper nanoclusters based on FCC, BCC, and HCP structures

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Atomically Precise Defective Copper Nanocluster Catalysts for Highly Selective C−C Cross‐Coupling Reactions

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Cu66 nanoclusters from hierarchical square motifs: Synthesis, assembly, and catalysis

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Decorating an Anticuboctahedral Copper Kernel with Labile Surface Coatings for Controlling Optical and Catalytic Properties

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Isostructural Nanocluster Manipulation Reveals Pivotal Role of One Surface Atom in Click Chemistry

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Labile Ligands Protected Cu50 Nanoclusters with Tailorable Optical Limiting Effect

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Structural Transformation of Metastable Two-Electron Superatom Au-Doped Cu-Rich Alloy Nanocluster

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Unshielded Ino Decahedral Core Copper Nanoclusters Enable Efficient Photocatalytic Sulfonylation of Aryl Halides

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Isostructural Nanocluster Manipulation Reveals Pivotal Role of One Surface Atom in Click Chemistry

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High-Yield Synthesis of Cu29 Nanoclusters and Their Applications in Photothermal Conversion and Catalysis

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Single-molecule manipulation of copper nanoclusters for modulating nonlinear optics

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Total Structure, Structural Transformation and Catalytic Hydrogenation of [Cu41(SC6H3F2)15Cl3(P(PhF)3)6(H)25]2− Constructed from Twisted Cu13 Units

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