Thiol ligand-induced transformation of Au38(SC2H 4Ph)24 to Au36(SPh- t -Bu)24

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 6138-6145

  Zeng, Chenjie ^a   Liu, Chunyan ^b   Pei, Yong ^b   Jin, Rongchao ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b XIANGTAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

density functional theory; disproportionation mechanism; gold nanoclusters; ligand induced transformation

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION FEATURES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY SIMULATIONS; DISPROPORTIONATIONS; GOLD NANOCLUSTER; LIGAND-INDUCED TRANSFORMATION; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL DISTORTIONS; TETRAHEDRAL STRUCTURES;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOCLUSTERS; REACTION KINETICS;

LIGANDS;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOMATERIAL; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; PROCEDURES; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GOLD; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84880792010     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn401971g     Document Type: Article

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