ABSTRACT
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The concept of monolayer-protected cluster (MPC) was born in the research published by Brust and Schiffrin1 in 1994. The authors had at that time become interested in preparing metal nanoparticles that, in the fashion of already-known self-assembled monolayers (SAMs),2,3 could be isolated, handled, and rationally manipulated.4-7 The Schiffrin contribution was an excellent synthetic pathnder and was adopted in the author’s lab with thanks to these pioneers.
