Issue 24, 2024

Rethinking the stability of metal nanoclusters: the individual versus the collective

Abstract

Research on the stability of metal nanoclusters and their molecular/supramolecular chemistry has proceeded significantly independently thus far. We herein have demonstrated that the stability of a nanocluster-based system should be assessed from both the cluster individual aspect (i.e., the energy of the molecular conformer) and the cluster collective aspect (i.e., the energy of the supramolecular lattice). A pair of Au2Cu6 cluster polymorphs, including Au2Cu6-triclinic and Au2Cu6-trigonal, was developed here to reveal the energy and stability contributions of both cluster conformers and crystalline lattices to their total systems. This work hopefully promotes a comprehensive understanding of the stability of cluster-based nano-systems which is beneficial for their downstream applications.

Graphical abstract: Rethinking the stability of metal nanoclusters: the individual versus the collective

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 Mme 2024
Accepted
28 Mot 2024
First published
05 Jan 2024

Nanoscale, 2024,16, 11513-11517

Rethinking the stability of metal nanoclusters: the individual versus the collective

D. Zhang, P. Pan, X. Du, X. Kang and M. Zhu, Nanoscale, 2024, 16, 11513 DOI: 10.1039/D4NR01748J

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