Geometric structure of silver clusters with and without adsorbed Cl and Hg

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Volumn 1021, Issue , 2013, Pages 26-34

  Dhillon, Harneet ^a   Fournier, René ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cluster ligand interaction; Density functional theory; Geometric structure; Global optimization; Silver clusters

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884973380     PISSN: 2210271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2013.06.007     Document Type: Article

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