The 6th International Symposium on Monolayer Protected Clusters

08:00-08:20

Opening Remark

Nan-Feng Zheng

08:20-09:00

E = MC²:   A Perspective (Opening Keynote)

Boon K. Teo, Xiamen University

Hannu   Häkkinen

09:00-09:35

Vibrational   Properties of Thiolate-Protected Metal Clusters (Invited)

Thomas Bürgi, University   of Geneva

09:35-10:10  

Advance   Fundamental Understandings of Nano-Physiology with Gold Clusters (Invited)

Jie Zheng, The University of Texas at Dallas

10:10-10:40

Coffee   Break/Group Photo

10:40-11:15

Ligand   Engineering toward Structural and Functional Control of Metal Nanoclusters   (Invited)

Quan-Ming Wang,   Tsinghua University

De-en Jiang

11:15-11:50

Cations   Controlling the Chiral Assembly of Luminescent Atomically Precise Copper(I)   Clusters (Invited)

Shuang-Quan Zang,   Zhengzhou University

11:50-12:10

Atomistic Insight   into Stability of Gold Nanocluster Superstructures (Oral)

Emmi Pohjolainen, University of Jyväskylä

12:10-14:00

Lunch   & Poster

14:00-14:35

Toward   Total Synthesis of Thiolate-Protected Metal Nanoclusters (Invited)

Jianping Xie, National University of Singapore

Quan-Ming   Wang

14:35-15:10

Controllable   Synthesis and Reactivity Studies of Organometallic Clusters (Invited)

Liang Zhao,   Tsinghua University

15:10-15:30

N-Heterocyclic   Carbene-Stabilized Metal Nanoclusters (Oral)

Hui   Shen, Xiamen University

15:30-15:50

Deracemization   of Au₃₈ Clusters: Breaking the Equal Status and Dynamic Inversion   of Enantiomers (Oral)

Yanan Wang, University of Geneva

15:50-16:20

Coffee   Break

16:20-16:55

Luminescence   and Electron Dynamics in Thiolate-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles (Invited)

Christine Aikens,   Kansas State University

Thomas   Bürgi

16:55-17:30

Superatom   under Pressure (Invited)

De-en Jiang,   University of California, Riverside

17:30-17:50

Surface-Regulated   Ultrasmall Luminescent Metal Nanoparticles for Bioimaging (Oral)

Jinbin Liu, South China University of Technology

18:30-21:00

Banquet

08:00-08:35

Cluster Aggregation   Events Causing Optical Perturbations (Invited)

Katsuaki Konishi, Hokkaido   University

Tatsuya   Tsukuda

08:35-09:10

Coherent Electron   Dynamics in Monolayer-Protected Clusters (Invited)

Kenneth L. Knappenberger, Jr. The Pennsylvania State University

09:10-09:30

Insights into   Nanocluster-Surface Interaction and Reactivity (Oral)

Noelia Barrabés, Technische Universität   Wien

09:30-09:50

Atomically Precise Metal   Nanoclusters as Photosensitizers for Light-harvesting and Energy Conversion (Oral)

Yu Wang, Humboldt-Universität zu   Berlin

09:50-10:20

Coffee Break

10:20-10:55

Dichalcogenolates-Protected   Superatomic Nanoclusters and Their Alloys (Invited)

Chen-Wei   Liu, National Dong Hwa University

Chris   Ackerson

10:55-11:30

Application of Alloy and Platinum   Clusters (Invited)

Yuichi   Negishi, Tokyo University of Science

11:30-11:50

Toward Understanding Growth and   Functionalization Pathways of Metal Nanoclusters at the Molecular and Atomic   Levels (Oral)

Qiaofeng   Yao, National University of Singapore

11:50-12:10

Computational Investigation of the   atomic structure of DNA-silver clusters (Oral)

Xi   Chen, Aalto University

12:10-14:00

Lunch & Poster

14:00-14:35

Recent Advances in Ligand Exchange on MPCs (Invited)

Christopher   J. Ackerson, Colorado State University

Katsuaki Konishi

14:35-15:10

Structural Analysis of Metal   Nanoclusters by X-ray Spectroscopy (Invited)

Peng   Zhang, Dalhousie University

15:10-15:45

Characterization of Ligand-Protected Gold and Silver Clusters in   Gas Phase (Invited)

Tatsuya Tsukuda, The University of Tokyo

15:45-16:05

Ligated Coinage Metal (Cu/Ag)   Hydride Nanoclusters (Oral)

Cunfa Sun, Xiamen University

16:05-16:30

Coffee Break and Poster

16:30-17:05

On the Anti-galvanic   Reduction (Invited)

Zhikun Wu, Institute of Solid State   Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Peng Zhang

17:05-17:25

Atomically Precise,   Thiolated Copper-hydride Nanoclusters as Single-site Hydrogenation Catalysts   for Ketones in Mild Conditions (Oral)

Nisha Mammen, University of Jyväskylä

17:25-17:45

Gold Nanoclusters   as Novel Fluorescence   Probes for Biological Applications   (Oral)

Li Shang, Northwestern Polytechnical University

17:45-

Dinner

08:00-08:35

3-MBA Protected   Gold Nanoparticles as Cellular Markers (Invited)

Maia Azubel, Stanford Medical School, Stanford

Chen-Wei Liu

08:35-09:10

[Ag₄₈(C≡CtBu)₂₀(CrO₄)₇]:   An Atomically Precise Silver Nanocluster Co-Protected by Inorganic and   Organic Ligands (Invited)

Di Sun,   Shandong University

09:10-09:30

Unraveling   the Formation Mechanism of Alkynyl Protected Gold Clusters: A Case Study of   Phenylacetylene Stabilized Au₁₃₃ Molecules (Invited)

Zhenghua Tang,   South China University of Technology

09:30-09:50

“Non-Conservation   of Parity” in Chiral Nanoclusters (Oral)

Huayan Yang,   University of Geneva

09:50-10:20

Coffee Break

10:20-10:40

Influence of Ligand Type on the Optical   Properties of Au₁₄₄(SR)₆₀ (Oral)

Hans-Christian Weisske,   Aix-Marseille University

Boon K. Teo

10:40-11:20

Closing   Keynote

Hannu Häkkinen, University of Jyväskylä

12:00-18:00

Box Lunch   and Excursion