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  1. Hybrid materials that combine organic polymers and biomacromolecules offer unique opportunities for precisely controlling 3D chemical environments. Although biological or organic templates have been separately used to control the growth of inorganic nanoclusters, hybrid structures represent a relatively unexplored approach to tailoring nanocluster properties. Here, we demonstrate that a molecularly defined lysozyme–polymer resin material acts as a structural scaffold for the synthesis of copper nanoclusters (CuNCs) with well controlled size distributions. The resulting CuNCs have significantly enhanced fluorescence compared with syntheses based on polymeric or biological templates alone. The synergistic approach described here is appealing for the synthesis of biocompatible fluorescent labels with improved photostability. 
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