Traveling through the desalting column spontaneously transforms thiolated Ag nanoclusters from nonluminescent to highly luminescent

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1811-1815

  Yuan, Xun ^a   Yao, Qiaofeng ^a   Yu, Yong ^a   Luo, Zhentao ^a   Dou, Xinyue ^a   Xie, Jianping ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

fast synthesis; luminescence; noble metal nanoclusters; size focusing; transformation

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; LUMINESCENCE; NANOCLUSTERS; PURIFICATION;

LARGE SCALE PRODUCTIONS; METAL NANOCLUSTERS; PHYSICAL SEPARATION; SEPARATION PROCESS; SEPARATION TECHNIQUES; SIZE FOCUSING; SYNTHESIS METHOD; TRANSFORMATION;

SILVER;

EID: 84879203918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz400807u     Document Type: Article

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