How the fluorescent nanoclusters look like
The new research about metal nanoclusters performed by a team of authors from the Scientific Clinical Center for Physico-Chemical Medicine, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and IBCh RAS was recently published in Materials and Design journal. Metal nanoclusters, consisting of several tens of metal atoms and having a size of less than 2 nm, are a promising material due to their unique optical properties that appear due to the splitting of electron energy spectrum in metal into discrete energy levels as a result of quantum-size effects. The researchers of the Electron microscopy group of our institute carried out an important part of the work on direct visualization of the obtained structures, as well as on the measurement of energy dispersive X-ray spectra. Learn more
may 29, 2020