Boiling water synthesis of ultrastable thiolated silver nanoclusters with aggregation-induced emission.
A facile boiling water synthesis protocol has been developed to synthesize thiolated Ag nanoclusters with a core-shell Ag(0)@Ag(i)-thiolate structure, which was formed through condensation of Ag(i)-thiolate complexes on the surface of an in situ formed Ag(0) core. The as-synthesized thiolated Ag nanoclusters feature strong luminescence via aggregation-induced-emission (AIE).
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 4, 117585, Singapore. chexiej@nus.edu.sg qingbozhangnano@gmail.com.
Kaiyuan
K
Zheng
Xun
X
Yuan
Kavan
K
Kuah
Zhentao
Z
Luo
Qiaofeng
Q
Yao
Qingbo
Q
Zhang
Jianping
J
Xie