Geometrical structures of gold clusters on Gupta and Sutton-Chen potentials

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Volumn 1002, Issue , 2012, Pages 43-48

  Wu, Xia ^a   Chen, Shanshan ^b   Sun, Yan ^c   Chen, Youcun ^a  

^a ANQING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c HEBEI UNITED UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dynamic lattice searching; Gold clusters; Gupta potential; Structural optimization; Sutton Chen potential

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868256847     PISSN: 2210271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

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