Experimental evidence for fluctuating, chiral-type Au55 clusters by direct atomic imaging

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 5510-5514

  Wang, Z W ^a   Palmer, R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aberration corrected; chiral; clusters; gold; Size selected; STEM

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION-CORRECTED; CHIRAL; CLUSTERS; SIZE-SELECTED; STEM;

GOLD; ISOMERS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GOLD COMPOUNDS;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

CATALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84869195447     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl303429z     Document Type: Article

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