Chemisorption-induced 2D-3D-2D structural transitions in gold heptamer: (CO)nAu7- (n = 1-4)

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 2288-2293

  Pal, Rhitankar ^a   Huang, Wei ^b,d   Wang, Yi Lei ^c   Hu, Han Shi ^c   Bulusu, Satya ^a,e   Xiong, Xiao Gen ^c   Li, Jun ^c   Wang, Lai Sheng ^b   Zeng, Xiao Cheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ANHUI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^e YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; CO CHEMISORPTION; HEPTAMERS; STABLE ISOMERS; STABLE STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; STRUCTURAL TRANSITIONS;

CALCULATIONS; CHEMISORPTION; GOLD COMPOUNDS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ISOMERS;

EID: 80052862258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz201023q     Document Type: Article

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