Research Highlights

Cluster versus coordination: the chemistry of cyclopentadienyl titanium and vanadium complexes with B- and C-functionalized carborane-thiols, [C2B10H12−n(SH)n] (n = 2 or 3)

Bairagi, S.; Patel, D. Kumar; Chatterjee, D.; Kucerakova, M.; Machacek, J.; Base, T.; Pradeep, T.; Ghosh, S. Chemical Science 2025.

A Silver-Chalcogenide Nanomaterial Enveloped with a Carborane-Thiolate Shell for the Electroreduction of CO2 to CO

Jana, A.; Li, Z.; Kini, A. Ramachandr; Yadav, V.; Nair, A. S.; Mata, A. Campos; Wu, J.; Machacek, J.; Base, T.; Pathak, B.; Roy, S.; Pradeep, T. ACS Applied Nano Materials 2025.

Mechanochromic luminescence in copper nanoclusters: resolving structural transitions through microcrystal electron diffraction

Nagar, H.; Duary, S.; Yadav, V.; Kini, A. Ramachandr; Antharjanam, S.; Base, T.; Som, A.; Nannenga, B. L.; Pradeep, T. Chemical Communications 2025.

Carborane Nanomembranes

Frey, M.; Picker, J.; Neumann, C.; Višňák, J.; Macháček, J.; Tok, O. L.; Bábor, P.; Base, T.; Turchanin, A. ACS Nano 2025, 19, 8131-8141.

Site-specific substitution in atomically precise carboranethiol-protected nanoclusters and concomitant changes in electronic properties

Yadav, V.; Jana, A.; Acharya, S.; Malola, S.; Nagar, H.; Sharma, A.; Kini, A. Ramachandr; Antharjanam, S.; Machacek, J.; Adarsh, K. Nair Valsa; Base, T.; Häkkinen, H.; Pradeep, T. Nature Communications 2025, 16.

Nanomechanical Investigations of Crystals of Copper Nanocluster Isomorphs: Enhanced Hardness of the Low-Density Analogue

Kini, A. R.; Debta, S.; Jana, A.; Aparna, C.; Yadav, V.; Kusiak, N.; Base, T.; Waghmare, U. V.; Ghosh, P.; Pradeep, T. Chemistry of Materials 2025.

Multicolor photoluminescence of Cu14 clusters modulated using surface ligands

Jana, A.; Duary, S.; Das, A.; Kini, A. Ramachandr; Acharya, S.; Machacek, J.; Pathak, B.; Base, T.; Pradeep, T. Chemical Science 2024.

Competing Intermolecular and Molecule–Surface Interactions: Dipole–Dipole-Driven Patterns in Mixed Carborane Self-Assembled Monolayers

White, K. E.; Avery, E. M.; Cummings, E.; Hong, Z.; Langecker, J.; Vetushka, A.; Dusek, M.; Machacek, J.; Višnák, J.; Endres, J.; Bastl, Z.; Mete, E.; Alexandrova, A. N.; Base, T.; Weiss, P. S. Chemistry of Materials 2024, 36, 2085-2095.

Macropolyhedral syn-B18H22, the “Forgotten” Isomer

Patel, D. Kumar; Sooraj, B. S.; Kirakci, K.; Machacek, J.; Kucerakova, M.; Bould, J.; Dusek, M.; Frey, M.; Neumann, C.; Ghosh, S.; Turchanin, A.; Pradeep, T.; Base, T. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023, 145, 17975−17986.

A Luminescent Cu4 Cluster Film Grown by Electrospray Deposition: A Nitroaromatic Vapour Sensor

Jana, A.; Spoorthi, B. K.; Nair, A. S.; Pathak, B.; Base, T.; Pradeep, T. Nanoscale 2023, 15, 8141-8147.

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