A computer simulation study of the interaction between passivated and Bare gold nanoclusters

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 467, Issue 2131, 2011, Pages 1986-2003

  Lal, Moti ^a   Plummer, Martin ^b   Purton, John ^b   Smith, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Molecular simulation; Nanoclusters; Solvation

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL DENSITY; GOLD NANOCLUSTER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; NANO-CORES; NANOCORE; NANOPARTICLE AGGREGATION; SOLVENT DENSITY; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; SUPERCRITICAL ETHANE;

ETHANE; GOLD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOCLUSTERS; NANOPARTICLES; PASSIVATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 79959948466     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2010.0513     Document Type: Conference Paper

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