Fluorescent Thiol-Derivatized Gold Clusters Embedded in Polymers

Autor: G. Carotenuto, S. De Nicola, L. Nicolais
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, Vol 2013 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1687-8434
1687-8442
DOI: 10.1155/2013/548284
Popis: Owing to aurophilic interactions, linear and/or planar Au(I)-thiolate molecules spontaneously aggregate, leading to molecular gold clusters passivated by a thiolate monolayer coating. Differently from the thiolate precursors, such cluster compounds show very intensive visible fluorescence characteristics that can be tuned by alloying the gold clusters with silver atoms or by conjugating the electronic structure of the metallic core with unsaturated electronic structures in the organic ligand through the sulphur atom. Here, the photoluminescence features of some examples of these systems are shortly described.
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