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4. Jin R, Zeng C, Zhou M, Chen Y (2016) Atomically precise colloidal metal nanoclusters and
nanoparticles: fundamentals and opportunities. Chem Rev 116:10346–10413
5. Polavarapu L, Manna M, Xu Q-H (2011) Biocompatible glutathione capped gold clusters as
one- and two-photon excitation fluorescence contrast agents for live cells imaging. Nanoscale
3:429–434
6. Tu H, Liu Y, Marjanovic M, Chaney EJ, You S, Zhao Y, Boppart SA (2017) Concurrence of
extracellular vesicle enrichment and metabolic switch visualized label-free in the tumor
microenvironment. Sci Adv 3:e1600675
7. Yue S, Slipchenko MN, Cheng JX (2011) Multimodal nonlinear optical microscopy. Laser
Photonics Rev 5:496–512
8. Blanchard-Desce M (2002) Molecular engineering of NLO-phores for new NLO microscopies. CR Phys 3:439–448
9. Bertorelle F, Hamouda R, Rayane D, Broyer M, Antoine R, Dugourd P, Gell L, Kulesza A,
Mitric R, Bonacic-Koutecky V (2013) Synthesis, characterization and optical properties of
low nuclearity liganded silver clusters: Ag 31 (SG) 19 and Ag 15 (SG) 11 . Nanoscale 5:5637–5643
10. Bertorelle F, Russier-Antoine I, Calin N, Comby-Zerbino C, Bensalah-Ledoux A, Guy S,
Dugourd P, Brevet P-F, Sanader Ž, Krstić M, Bonačić-Koutecký V, Antoine R (2017)
Au 10 (SG) 10 : a chiral gold catenane nanocluster with zero confined electrons. Optical
properties and first-principles theoretical analysis. J Phys Chem Lett 8:1979–1985
11. Russier-Antoine I, Bertorelle F, Kulesza A, Soleilhac A, Bensalah-Ledoux A, Guy S,
Dugourd P, Brevet P-F, Antoine R (2016) Chiral supramolecular gold-cysteine nanoparticles:
Chiroptical and nonlinear optical properties. Prog Nat Sci-Mater Int 26:455–460
12. Russier-Antoine I, Bertorelle F, Hamouda R, Rayane D, Dugourd P, Sanader Z,
Bonacic-Koutecky V, Brevet P-F, Antoine R (2016) Tuning Ag 29 nanocluster light emission
from red to blue with one and two-photon excitation. Nanoscale 8:2892–2898
13. Bellina B, Compagnon I, Bertorelle F, Broyer M, Antoine R, Dugourd P, Gell L, Kulesza A,
Mitric R, Bonacic-Koutecky V (2011) Structural and optical properties of isolated noble
metal-glutathione complexes: insight into the chemistry of liganded nanoclusters. J Phys
Chem C 115:24549–24554
14. Bellina B, Antoine R, Broyer M, Gell L, Sanader Z, Mitric R, Bonacic-Koutecky V,
Dugourd P (2013) Formation and characterization of thioglycolic acid-silver cluster
complexes. Dalton T 42:8328–8333
15. Bonačić-Koutecký V, Kulesza A, Gell L, Mitric R, Antoine R, Bertorelle F, Hamouda R,
Rayane D, Broyer M, Tabarin T, Dugourd P (2012) Silver cluster-biomolecule hybrids: from
basics towards sensors/ perspective article. Phys Chem Chem Phys 14:9282–9290
16. Sanader Z, Mitric R, Bonacic-Koutecky V, Bellina B, Antoine R, Dugourd P (2014) Nature of
electronic excitations at the metal-bioorganic interface illustrated on histidine-silver hybrids.
Phys Chem Chem Phys 16:1257–1261
17. Sanader Z, Krstic M, Russier-Antoine I, Bertorelle F, Dugourd P, Brevet P-F, Antoine R,
Bonacic-Koutecky V (2016) Two-photon absorption of ligand-protected Ag15 nanoclusters.
Towards a new class of nonlinear optics nanomaterials. Phys Chem Chem Phys 18:12404–
12408
18. Russier-Antoine I, Bertorelle F, Calin N, Sanader Z, Krstic M, Comby-Zerbino C, Dugourd P,
Brevet P-F, Bonacic-Koutecky V, Antoine R (2017) Ligand-core NLO-phores: a combined
experimental and theoretical approach to the two-photon absorption and two-photon excited
emission properties of small-ligated silver nanoclusters. Nanoscale 9:1221–1228
19. Antoine R, Bonacic-Koutecky V (2018) Liganded silver and gold quantum clusters. Towards
a new class of nonlinear optical nanomaterials. Springer, Cham
20. Bonačić-Koutecký V (2017) Theoretical design of new class of optical materials based on
small noble metal nanocluster-biomolecule hybrids and its potential for medical applications.
Adv Phys X 2:695–716
5 Ligand-Core NLO-Phores
157