Theoretical and experimental characterization of structures of MnAu nanoclusters in the size range of 1-3 nm

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 9966-9976

  Zhou, Rulong ^a,b   Wei, Xiaohui ^a   He, Kai ^c   Shield, Jeffrey E ^d   Sellmyer, David J ^a   Zeng, Xiao Cheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

antiferromagnetic; density functional theory; high resolution TEM measurements; L1 0 morphology; magic number clusters; MnAu nanoclusters

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC SPINS; ANTIFERROMAGNETICS; CORE-SHELL; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY METHODS; DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; HIGH-RESOLUTION TEM; MAGIC-NUMBER CLUSTERS; MAGNETIC STATE; MN ATOMS; RELATIVE STABILITIES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SIZE RANGES; SPIN ARRANGEMENT;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCLUSTERS; NANOPARTICLES;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

GOLD; MANGANESE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GOLD; MANGANESE; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84555169056     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203739d     Document Type: Article

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