DOI: 10.1039/d6nr02508k ISSN: 2040-3364

Cation-controlled laser synthesis of surfactant-free gold nanoclusters with tuneable ion-specific electronic and photoemission properties

Wiebke L. M. Narz, Johannes S. Schäfer, Bo Zhou, Wolfgang J. Parak, Stephan Barcikowski, Christoph Rehbock

Ligand-free AuNCs by LFL with Al 3+ ions yield unique bimodal size distributions and charge inversion from negative to positive. Cation-specific changes in emission wavelength and intensity occur, with blue shifts for Al 3+ and red shifts for Ce 3+ .

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