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Yao, Chuanhao; Lin, Yue-jian; Yuan, Jinyun; Liao, Lingwen; Zhu, Min; Weng, Lin-hong; Yang, Jinlong; Wu, Zhikun
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 12/2015, Volume: 137, Issue: 49Journal Article
Controlling the dopant type, number, and position in doped metal nanoclusters (nanoparticles) is crucial but challenging. In the work described herein, we successfully achieved the mono-cadmium doping of Au25 nanoclusters, and revealed using X-ray crystallography in combination with theoretical calculations that one of the inner-shell gold atoms of Au25 was replaced by a Cd atom. The doping mode is distinctly different from that of mono-mercury doping, where one of the outer-shell Au atoms was replaced by a Hg atom. Au24Cd is readily transformed to Au24Hg, while the reverse (transformation from Au24Hg to Au24Cd) is forbidden under the investigated conditions.
