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Ligand-Core NLO-Phores

Two-Photon Absorption and Two-Photon Excited Emission Properties of Atomically Precise Clusters of Gold and Silver

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Functional ligand-protected noble metal cluster nanomaterials with enhanced two-photon absorption and two-photon excited emission may lead to new technologies for bio-imaging applications. In this article, I review experimental and theoretical methodologies allowing detailed investigation of two-photon absorption/emission properties of ligand-protected silver and gold metal clusters. This includes femtosecond two-photon excited fluorescence experimental setups and quantum chemical methodologies based on time-dependent density functional theory . I thoroughly analyze physical phenomena and trends leading to large two-photon absorption/emission responses of model nanoclusters focusing on the effects of the relaxation pathways in the linear and nonlinear optical regime, as well as strategies aiming at enhancing their two-photon emission responses.

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Acknowledgements

Most of the work presented would not have been possible without the fruitful collaborations with Isabelle Russier-Antoine, Franck Bertorelle, Željka Sanader, Marjan Krstić, Philippe Dugourd, Pierre-François Brevet, and Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký. Therefore, I wish to express my deepest gratitude to them. Furthermore, I would like to acknowledge financial support of the French-Croatian project “International Laboratory for Nano Clusters and Biological Aging, LIA NCBA.”

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Antoine, R. (2019). Ligand-Core NLO-Phores. In: Koleżyński, A., Król, M. (eds) Molecular Spectroscopy—Experiment and Theory. Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics, vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01355-4_5

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