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Anisotropic Assembly of Ag52 and Ag76 Nanoclusters
Jia-Wei Liu1, Lei Feng1, Hai-Feng Su2
1Key Lab of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University , Jinan 250100, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Although there has been an upsurge of interest in anisotropic assembly of inorganic nanoparticles, atomically precise self-assembly of anisotropic metal clusters is extremely rare. Herein, we presented two novel silver nanoclusters, Ag52 (SD/Ag23) and Ag76 (SD/Ag24), which are interiorly templated by five MoO42- and a pair of Mo6O228- anions, respectively, and coprotected by bridging RSH and terminal diphosphine ligands exteriorly. Regiospecific distribution diphosphine ligands on the surface and the arrangement of multiple molybdate templates within the nanoclusters synergetically tailor their shapes to anisotropic oblate spheroid and elongated rod, respectively. This work not only open up new avenues for the synthesis of silver nanoclusters with novel metal skeleton shapes and anisotropic surface structures but also give important insights for the anisotropic growth of silver nanoclusters through surface modifications or/and template organizations.
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