Mass Spectrometric and Spectroscopic Studies on Gold and Silver Clusters Protected by Ligands

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Monolayer-protected gold and silver clusters synthesized by wet-chemical methods have attracted growing interests as promising building units of functional materials. Mass spectrometric and spectroscopic studies on these clusters isolated in vacuum will reveal novel and complementary information on their intrinsic geometric and electronic structures that cannot be obtained by conventional characterization methods. This Perspective surveys the recent progress and outlook of gas-phase studies on chemically synthesized Au/Ag clusters.

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