Stacking principle and magic sizes of transition metal nanoclusters based on generalized wulff construction

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Li, S F ^a,b,c,d   Zhao, X J ^a   Xu, X S ^d,e   Gao, Y F ^b,e   Zhang, Zhenyu ^d  

^a ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^e OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL FRAGMENTS; EXOTIC PROPERTIES; NANO-METER REGIMES; TOTAL SURFACE AREA; TOTAL SURFACE ENERGY; TRANSITION METAL NANOCLUSTERS; TRANSITION-METAL CLUSTERS; WULFF CONSTRUCTION;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; TRANSITION METALS;

NANOCLUSTERS;

EID: 84884266348     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.115501     Document Type: Article

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