title: Synthesis of fluorescent phenylethanethiolated gold nanoclusters via pseudo-AGR method.
abstract: It is well known that the fluorescence of metal nanoclusters is strongly dependent of the protecting ligand and reports of phenylethanethiolated metal nanoclusters with distinct fluorescence are rare. Herein, a fluorescent phenylethanethiolated gold nanocluster is synthesized using an unexpected pseudo-AGR method (AGR: anti-galvanic reduction). The cluster is precisely determined to be Au24(SC2H4Ph)20 by isotope-resolved mass spectroscopy in tandem with thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The fluorescence comparison between Au24(SC2H4Ph)20, Au25(SC2H4Ph)18, Au38(SC2H4Ph)24 and Au144(SC2H4Ph)60 is also presented. The finding of the fluorescent phenylethanethiolated gold nanocluster in this work has important implication for future study on the fluorescence of metal nanoclusters.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Anhui Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials and Nanostructures, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China. zkwu@issp.ac.cn.
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