Zhikun Wu is a Professor of Chemistry at the Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2004. His current research interests are the syntheses, structures, properties and applications of atomically precise metal nanoclusters.Rongchao Jin is a Professor of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his B.S. in Chemical Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1995, his M.S. in Catalysis from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in 1998, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Northwestern University in 2003. After three years of postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago, he joined the chemistry faculty of CMU in 2006 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012 and Full Professor in 2015. His current research interests are atomically precise metal nanoparticles, nano-optics, and catalysis.

• Introduction.- Synthesis of Atomically Precise Metal Nanoclusters.- Characterization of Atomically Precise Metal Nanoclusters.- Applications of Atomically Precise Metal Nanoclusters.- Summary and Outlook.- Authors' Biographies.