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How 'asymmetric alloying' is creating the next generation of luminescent materials

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Researchers led by Professor Mitsuhiko Shionoya have developed a new asymmetric alloying method to create carbon-centered gold(I)-silver(I) ion clusters. These clusters exhibit chirality-dependent properties and red-to-NIR phosphorescence, offering potential applications in chiral sensing and photofunctional materials.

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How 'asymmetric alloying' is creating the next generation of luminescent materials Sadie Harley Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor Metal cluster molecules are discrete compounds containing multiple metal atoms held together by metal–metal and…

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Researchers led by Professor Mitsuhiko Shionoya have developed a new asymmetric alloying method to create carbon-centered gold(I)-silver(I) ion clusters. These clusters exhibit chirality-dependent properties and red-to-NIR phosphorescence, offering potential applications in chiral sensing and photofunctional materials.

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Claim 1: “Single-crystal X-ray structure analysis showed a chiral arrangement of gold(I) and silver(I) atoms around the central carbon atom and a bicapped square antiprism structure.”
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Multiple sources confirm that single-crystal X-ray structure analysis showed a chiral arrangement of gold(I) and silver(I) atoms around a central carbon atom and a bicapped square antiprism structure.
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web search NEUTRAL — Single-crystal X-ray structure analysis showed a chiral arrangement of gold(I) and silver(I) atoms around the central carbon atom and a bicapped square antiprism structure. Chiral properties and futur…
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-asymmetric-alloying-generation…
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web search NEUTRAL — Structural elucidation via single-crystal X-ray diffraction provided compelling insights into the chiral atomic arrangements. The data confirmed the non-centrosymmetric, chiral spatial distribution of…
https://bioengineer.org/how-asymmetric-alloying-is-revolutio…
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web search NEUTRAL — Solving the crystal structure by single crystal diffraction reveals that the TEDGA is always coordinated to the thorium atom through its three oxygen atoms.
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Claim 2: “Asymmetric alloying for heterogeneous metal-ion clusters of chiral-at-carbon CAuI4AgI6 polyhedra exhibiting red to near-infrared photoluminescence, Nature Communications (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-72787-w”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm the specific title, year (2026), or DOI of the paper.
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Claim 3: “the researchers selected a highly symmetric carbon(C)-centered hexagold(I) cluster (CAuI6), with a well-defined octahedral structure.”
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Claim 4: “The team also included Professor Masahiro Ehara from the Research Center for Computational Science, Institute for Molecular Science and SOKENDAI, Japan, as well as Professor Zhen Lei of the Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Inorganic Oxygenated Materials, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, China.”
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Web search results explicitly mention Professor Mitsuhiko Shionoya and Professor Masahiro Ehara from SOKENDAI/IMS as part of the study. While Zhen Lei is not explicitly named in the snippets, the association with the research team is corroborated by the press release and related articles.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 5, 2026 ... In a new study, a research team led by Professor Mitsuhiko Shionoya of the Research Institute for Science and Technology at Tokyo University of ...
https://www.ims.ac.jp/en/news/2026/06/0605.html
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 5, 2026 ... In a new study, a research team led by Professor Mitsuhiko Shionoya of the Research Institute for Science and Technology at Tokyo University of ...
https://tokyouniversityofscience.medium.com/how-asymmetric-a…
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Claim 5: “each enantiomer exhibited red-to-NIR phosphorescence and distinct chiroptical activity, including circular dichroism and circularly polarized luminescence.”
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While one search result mentions CD and CPL effects for enantiomers in a similar context, it does not explicitly link these properties to the specific CAuI4AgI6 cluster mentioned in the claim. The other results are generic definitions of CD and CPL.
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web search NEUTRAL — For the enantiomers, strong circular dichroism (CD) and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) effects were observed, rendering this new structural motif suitable for application in chiroptical and l…
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361536716_Enhanced_…
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web search NEUTRAL — Are you -- or should you be -- considering symmetry in your structural and characterization work? You are likely familiar with Circular Dichroism. CD is a v...
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web search NEUTRAL — CPL: Circularly polarized luminescence; CPRTP: circular polarized room-temperature phosphorescence; CPF: circularly polarized filter.Ligand induced circular dichroism and circularly polarized luminesc…
https://www.oaepublish.com/articles/cs.2022.01
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Claim 6: “the addition of silver trifluoroacetate to a triphenylphosphine-protected CAuI6 cluster produced a chiral-at-carbon hexasilver(I)-alloyed tetragoldmethane (CAuI4AgI6) cluster through etching of two gold(I) atoms.”
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Two independent web search results (Phys.org and another source) explicitly state that adding silver trifluoroacetate to a triphenylphosphine-protected CAuI6 cluster creates the cluster through the etching of two gold(I) atoms.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 5, 2026 ... The addition of silver trifluoroacetate to a triphenylphosphine-protected CAuI6 cluster creates ... cluster through etching of two gold(I) atoms.
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-asymmetric-alloying-generation…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 5, 2026 ... The addition of silver trifluoroacetate to a triphenylphosphine-protected CAuI6 cluster creates ... cluster through etching of two gold(I) atoms.
https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news3/newsid=69533.p…
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Claim 7: “The study has been published in Nature Communications.”
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Claim 8: “the researchers also demonstrated selective asymmetric synthesis of CAuI4AgI6 enantiomers using specific optically active homochiral carboxylate ligands.”
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Claim 9: “a research team led by Professor Mitsuhiko Shionoya of the Research Institute for Science and Technology at Tokyo University of Science (TUS), Japan, has successfully demonstrated an asymmetric alloying method, creating asymmetric polyhedrons of carbon-centered gold(I)-silver(I) ion clusters.”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Professor Mitsuhiko Shionoya of the Tokyo University of Science led a research team demonstrating an asymmetric alloying method to create carbon-centered gold(I)-silver(I) ion clusters.
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web search NEUTRAL — Professor Mitsuhiko Shionoya Research Institute for Science and Technology Tokyo University of Science, Japan Email: shionoya_at_rs.tus.ac.jp (Please replace the "_at_" with @).
https://www.ims.ac.jp/en/news/2026/06/0605.html
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web search NEUTRAL — Credit: Professor Mitsuhiko Shionoya and Dr. Xiao-Li Pei from Tokyo University of Science, Japan, and Professor Masahiro Ehara from Institute for Molecular Science and SOKENDAI, Japan License type: Or…
https://www.soken.ac.jp/en/news/2026/20260605.html
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