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Luminescence color switching of supramolecular assemblies of discrete molecular decanuclear gold(I) sulfido complexes

Franky Ka-Wah Hau1, Terence Kwok-Ming Lee1, Eddie Chung-Chin Cheng1

  • 1Institute of Molecular Functional Materials [Areas of Excellence Scheme, University Grants Committee (Hong Kong)] and Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|November 2, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
color switchinggold clusterluminescencenanoaggregate

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