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NANOSCALE
Volume 7, Issue 22, Pages 10013-10020Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5nr00705d
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2013CB934302]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [21222301, 21171170]
- Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China
- CAS/SAFEA
- Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
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We report the high-yield (74%) synthesis of Ag-30(Capt)(18) (abbreviated as Ag-30) in a very time-saving fashion (half an hour). The cluster composition was determined by high-resolution mass spectrometry combined with TG analysis, and the structure was probed by 1D and 2D NMR. Interestingly, the nano-clusters can dissolve in water and methanol, as well as in most organic solvents such as ethanol, acetone, acetonitrile, dichloromethane and ethyl acetate with the assistance of acetic acid. Such a good solubility in a range of various polar solvents was not reported previously in nanoclusters' research and is important for applications. An important result from this work is that Ag-30 can sense a low concentration of Hg2+ in environmental samples (including lake water and soil solution), indicating that Ag-30 can be a potential colorimetric probe for Hg2+. The sensing mechanism was revealed to be related to the anti-galvanic reduction process.
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