Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Distance makes a difference in crystalline photoluminescence

  • Zibao Gan,
  • Yungui Liu,
  • Lin Wang,
  • Shuqing Jiang,
  • Nan Xia,
  • Zhipeng Yan,
  • Xiang Wu,
  • Junran Zhang,
  • Wanmiao Gu,
  • Lizhong He,
  • Jingwu Dong,
  • Xuedan Ma,
  • Jaeyong Kim,
  • Zhongyan Wu,
  • Yixuan Xu,
  • Yanchun Li,
  • Zhikun Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19377-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Crystallization-induced photoluminescence weakening in ultrasmall metal nanoparticles is not well understood. Here, the authors study conformational isomers of gold nanoclusters to examine the effect of interparticle distance on this phenomenon, and propose a model of distance-dependent non-radiative excitation electron transfer.