Probing the structural evolution of medium-sized gold clusters: Au n- (n = 27-35)

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 132, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 6596-6605

  Shao, Nan ^a   Huang, Wei ^b   Gao, Yi ^a   Wang, Lei Ming ^b,c   Li, Xi ^b,d   Wang, Lai Sheng ^b   Zeng, Xiao Cheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN HOPPING; CATALYTIC EFFECTS; CHARGED GOLD CLUSTERS; CLUSTER ANIONS; CLUSTER SIZES; CORE SHELL STRUCTURE; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; GLOBAL MINIMA; GLOBAL MINIMUM STRUCTURE; GLOBAL SEARCH; GOLD CLUSTERS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; MEDIUM SIZE; RELATIVE ENERGIES; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; SIMULATED SPECTRA; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; SUPERSONIC BEAMS; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

CHEMISORPTION; COOLING SYSTEMS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GOLD; GOLD COMPOUNDS; ISOMERS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NEGATIVE IONS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ATOMS;

GOLD NANOPARTICLE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ISOMER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR SIZE; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ARGON; CATALYSIS; GOLD; HELIUM; ISOMERISM; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 77952047926     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja102145g     Document Type: Article

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