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  • Nanoparticle Chemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Computational Chemistry

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  • Inter-cluster exchange reactions allow synthesis of heterometallic clusters.
  • Previous studies lacked explicit simulation of cluster-cluster collision dynamics.
  • Understanding these reactions is key to precise nanomaterial synthesis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To elucidate the mechanism of inter-cluster exchange reactions in nanoparticles.
  • To simulate nanoparticle collisions and track atom exchange in real time.
  • To demonstrate a general computational strategy for reactive nanomaterial collisions.

Main Methods:

  • Direct dynamics simulations.
  • Quantum-based semiempirical potentials.
  • Modeling collisions between silver-doped and undoped gold nanoparticles.

Main Results:

  • Restructuring at the core-monolayer interface initiates metal atom exposure.
  • Thiolate ligands mediate silver atom transfer via metal-sulfur interactions.
  • Real-time simulation captured the complete atom exchange process.

Conclusions:

  • The study provides the first real-time dynamics of inter-cluster atom exchange.
  • Thiolate ligand stabilization is critical for atom transfer during collisions.
  • The developed simulation strategy is applicable to broader nanomaterial dynamics.