In this review, the recent advances of coinage metals such as Cu, Ag, Au, and their bimetallic nanostructures are summarized, including synthetic methodologies and bio-applications of antibacterial, SERS-based detection, and electrochemical sensing.
Clusters [(Et3PAg)3(PhSi)3S6] and [(Me3PCu)(PhSi)3S6]2+ yield from selective replacement of one {SiPh} group in [(PhSi)4S6] by coinage metal complex fragments, which affects the optical properties.