Hannu Häkkinen

Research interests

Publications

• Understanding ligand-protected noble metal nanoclusters at work

  Nature Reviews Materials · 2023 · 10.1038/s41578-023-00537-1

• N-heterocyclic carbene-functionalized magic-number gold nanoclusters

  Nature Chemistry · 2019 · 10.1038/s41557-019-0246-5

• Atomically Precise Alkynyl-Protected Metal Nanoclusters as a Model Catalyst: Observation of Promoting Effect of Surface Ligands on Catalysis by Metal Nanoparticles

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2016 · 10.1021/jacs.5b12730

• A Critical Size for Emergence of Nonbulk Electronic and Geometric Structures in Dodecanethiolate-Protected Au Clusters

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2014 · 10.1021/ja5109968

• All-thiol-stabilized Ag44 and Au12Ag32 nanoparticles with single-crystal structures

  Nature Communications · 2013 · 10.1038/ncomms3422

• The gold–sulfur interface at the nanoscale

  Nature Chemistry · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1352

• Electronic structure calculations with GPAW: a real-space implementation of the projector augmented-wave method

  Journal of Physics Condensed Matter · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/22/25/253202

• Quantum size effects in ambient CO oxidation catalysed by ligand-protected gold clusters

  Nature Chemistry · 2010 · 10.1038/nchem.589

• Chirality and Electronic Structure of the Thiolate-Protected Au 38 Nanocluster

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2010 · 10.1021/ja102934q

• Evidence for graphene edges beyond zigzag and armchair

  Physical Review B · 2009 · 10.1103/physrevb.80.073401

• Structure and Bonding in the Ubiquitous Icosahedral Metallic Gold Cluster Au144(SR)60

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry C · 2009 · 10.1021/jp8115098

• Atomic and electronic structure of gold clusters: understanding flakes, cages and superatoms from simple concepts

  Chemical Society Reviews · 2008 · 10.1039/b717686b

• Self-Passivating Edge Reconstructions of Graphene

  Physical Review Letters · 2008 · 10.1103/physrevlett.101.115502

• On the Structure of Thiolate-Protected Au25

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2008 · 10.1021/ja800594p

• A unified view of ligand-protected gold clusters as superatom complexes

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0801001105

• Divide and Protect: Capping Gold Nanoclusters with Molecular Gold−Thiolate Rings

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · 2006 · 10.1021/jp0619787

• Charging Effects on Bonding and Catalyzed Oxidation of CO on Au 8 Clusters on MgO

  Science · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1104168

• On the Electronic and Atomic Structures of Small AuN- (N = 4−14) Clusters: A Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Density-Functional Study

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry A · 2003 · 10.1021/jp035437i

• Catalytic CO Oxidation by Free Au2-: Experiment and Theory

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2003 · 10.1021/ja027926m

• Interaction of O2 with Gold Clusters: Molecular and Dissociative Adsorption

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry A · 2003 · 10.1021/jp027596s

• Structural, Electronic, and Impurity‐Doping Effects in Nanoscale Chemistry: Supported Gold Nanoclusters

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2003 · 10.1002/anie.200390334

• Bonding in Cu, Ag, and Au Clusters: Relativistic Effects, Trends, and Surprises

  Physical Review Letters · 2002 · 10.1103/physrevlett.89.033401

• Gold clusters (AuN, 2<~N<~10) and their anions

  Physical review. B, Condensed matter · 2000 · 10.1103/physrevb.62.r2287

• When Gold Is Not Noble: Nanoscale Gold Catalysts

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry A · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1021/jp9935992

• Photoelectron spectra of aluminum cluster anions: Temperature effects andab initiosimulations

  Physical review. B, Condensed matter · 1999 · 10.1103/physrevb.60.r11297

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