Structures and stabilities of platinum-gold nanoclusters

Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 857-866

  Logsdail, Andrew ^a   Paz Borbón, Lauro Oliver ^a   Johnston, Roy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Density Functional Theory; Nanoalloys; Potential energy functions; Segregation effects; Structural motifs

Indexed keywords

AU CLUSTERS; BIMETALLIC CLUSTERS; CLUSTER GEOMETRIES; DFT CALCULATION; GLOBAL MINIMA; GOLD NANOCLUSTER; LOCAL GEOMETRY; LOWEST ENERGY STRUCTURE; MANY-BODY POTENTIALS; NANOALLOYS; OPTIMISATIONS; SEGREGATION EFFECTS; SIZE RANGES; SMALL SIZE; STRUCTURAL MOTIFS; TYPE STRUCTURES;

BINDING ENERGY; GRANULAR MATERIALS; PLATINUM; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; POTENTIAL ENERGY FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); STABILITY CRITERIA; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 66249085520     PISSN: 15461955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jctn.2009.1118     Document Type: Article

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