Charge-dependent hierarchical self-assembling of fluorinated gold nanoclusters

Yuki Saito; Duhong Sun; Hayato Kanai; Yasuhiro Ishida; Hideyuki Mitomo; Kuniharu Ijiro; Katsuaki Konishi

doi:10.1039/d4cc04786a

Charge-dependent hierarchical self-assembling of fluorinated gold nanoclusters

Chem Commun (Camb). 2024 Dec 20. doi: 10.1039/d4cc04786a. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Yuki Saito¹, Duhong Sun², Hayato Kanai³, Yasuhiro Ishida³, Hideyuki Mitomo⁴, Kuniharu Ijiro⁴, Katsuaki Konishi^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, North 10 West 5, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan. konishi@ees.hokudai.ac.jp.
² Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, North 10 West 5, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan.
³ RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
⁴ Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, North 21 West 10, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan.

PMID: 39704277
DOI: 10.1039/d4cc04786a

Abstract

Au₂₅(SR)₁₈ nanoclusters decorated with semifluorinated thiolate ligands (SFLs) self-assemble hierarchically depending on the charge state of the nanocluster component; the use of the anionic cluster ([Au₂₅]^-) resulted in the generation of nanofibers, whereas the neutral counterpart ([Au₂₅]⁰) gave micron-sized filaments as a result of the bundling/twisting of the nanofibers.