Thiol ligands produce different higher-order nanocluster structures (IMAGE)

Tsinghua University Press

Thiol ligands produce different higher-order nanocluster structures

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Two thiol ligands, SPhpOMe and SPhoMe, produce chiral, mirror-image gold-silver (Au9Ag6) nanocluster structures depending on the thiol ligand used during assembly. Clusters created using the SPhpOMe ligand form two variants that arrange in an ABAB higher-order superlattice pattern and clusters formed using the SPhoMe ligand form four variants that assemble in an ABCDABCD pattern.

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Polyoxometalates, Tsinghua University Press

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