Monolayer-protected nanoclusters

The electrochemical characteristics of anthraquinone-derivatized Au clusters prepared by an electroreduction method are similar to those observed on a planar surface. Ho vever, the double layer capacitance values reveal that it is possible to control the charging phenomenon stepwise when multiple redox activity is present. 

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Recently the idea of solid contact made of monolayer-protected nanocluster (MPC) characterized by an equimolar mixed-valent functionalized to... 

Ellis, A.V., et al., Hydrophobic anchoring of monolayer-protected gold nanoclusters to carbon nanotubes. Nano Letters, 2003. 3(3) p. 279-282. 

Su, B., Eugster, N., and Girault, H.H. (2005) Reactivity of monolayer-protected gold nanoclusters at dye-sensitized liquid/liquid interfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127, 10760-10766. 

Philip, R., Kumar, G.R., Sandhyarani N.. Pradeep. T. Picosecond optical nonlinearity in monolayer-protected gold, silver, and gold-silver alloy nanoclusters. Phys. Rev. B 62, 13160-13166(2000)... 

This chapter promotes the perspective that this new class of nearly monodisperse nanoparticles, which have been called quanmm dots, nanoclusters, monolayer protected nanoparticles, etc., can be viewed and described as large molecules. 1 will give justihcation for this perspective in terms of stoichiometry, properties, their solutions, and their assembhes. 1 will not describe their electronic and optical properties, which are very fascinating and with which further support for their classification as molecules can be found. 

O. Kohlmann, W.E. Steimnetz, X.A. Mao, W.P. Wuelfing, A.C. Templeton, R.W. Murray, C.S. Johnson, NMR diffiision, relaxation, and spectroscopic studies of water soluble, monolayer-protected gold nanoclusters. J. Phys. Chem. B 105, 8801-8809 (2001)... 

Su, B., Girault, H. H. Absolute standard redox potential of monolayer-protected gold nanoclusters. J Phys Chem B 2005,109,11427-11431. 

The redox activity of the monolayer-protected Au nanoclusters at the ITIES was studied by SECM using either organic nanoclusters or the aqueous... 

Kell, A. J., Stringle, D. L. B., and Workentin, M. S., Norrish type II photochemical reaction of an aryl ketone on a monolayer-protected gold nanocluster development of a probe of conformational mobihty, Org. Lett., 2, 3381, 2000. 

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