Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Small symmetry-breaking triggering large chiroptical responses of Ag70 nanoclusters

  • Xi-Ming Luo,
  • Chun-Hua Gong,
  • Fangfang Pan,
  • Yubing Si,
  • Jia-Wang Yuan,
  • Muhammad Asad,
  • Xi-Yan Dong,
  • Shuang-Quan Zang,
  • Thomas C. W. Mak

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28893-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Having control over the chirality of metal nanoclusters is challenging. Here, the authors report the deracemization of silver nanoclusters and monitor the chiroptical responses.