Structures of neutral Au7, Au19, and Au20 clusters in the gas phase

Science

Volumn 321, Issue 5889, 2008, Pages 674-676

  Gruene, Philipp ^a   Rayner, David M ^b   Redlich, Britta ^c   Van Der Meer, Alexander F G ^c   Lyon, Jonathan T ^a   Meijer, Gerard ^a   Fielicke, André ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c FOM INSTITUTE DIFFER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD;

CATALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; GOLD; SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GAS; GEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; VIBRATION;

EID: 48749131986     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1161166     Document Type: Article

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