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Cell Signaling

ISSN: 2837-8253

Commentary Open Access
Volume 3 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/signaling.3.063

Engineered Ag135Cu60 nanoclusters with buckminsterfullerene topology: Structure and optical dynamics

QiKai Han1, #, Li Tang1, #, Shuxin Wang1,*
  • #These authors contributed equally to this work
  • 1Key Laboratory of Optic-Electric Sensing and Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, MOE, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China
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Corresponding Author

Shuxin Wang, shuxin_wang@qust.edu.cn

Received Date: February 24, 2025

Accepted Date: March 12, 2025

Citation:

Han Q, Tang L, Wang S. Engineered Ag135Cu60 nanoclusters with buckminsterfullerene topology: Structure and optical dynamics. Cell Signal. 2025;3(1):85-89.


Copyright: © 2025 Han Q, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

Buckminsterfullerene has inspired new research directions and potential applications in materials science, due to its spherical shape and unique physical and chemical properties. However, synthesizing all-metallic fullerene-like nanostructures remains challenging, given the complexities of the synthesis process and the discrepancies between experimental and theoretical predictions. Recently, Professor Wang Shuxin’s team from Qingdao University of Science and Technology and Professor Wu Zhennan’s team from Jilin University disclosed in Nature Synthesis the synthesis, structure, and optical properties of Ag135Cu60(S(CH2)2Ph)60Cl42 (abbreviated as Ag135Cu60), the first metal nanocluster to incorporate a buckminsterfullerene-like topology moiety. This bimetallic nanocluster exhibits unique optical absorption and hybrid molecular-metallic characteristics, providing a new platform for investigating topological structure and atomic-scale  assembly of metal nanoclusters.

Keywords

Metal nanoclusters, Buckminsterfullerene-like topology, Metallic and molecular states

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