ERC Advanced Grant · 2023
Dynamic nanocluster – biomolecule interfaces
Metal nanoclusters (MNC) are atomically precise metal nanoparticles with definite mass, structure, and chemical composition. Their metal core of 1-3 nm in diameter exhibits quantized electronic structure, and they are chemically stabilized by a molecular surface layer which is modifiable for functionalization and optimized biocompatibility, making them promising materials for novel applications in bioimaging, biosensing and nanomedicine as fluorescent markers, sensors and targeting drug carriers, paving way to personalized medicine and therapeutics. Their ultrasmall size makes them amenable to atom-scale modeling which may greatly help experimental efforts to design their properties for…
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