Trends and properties of 13-atom Ag-Au nanoalloys I: Structure and electronic properties

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 41, 2013, Pages 21450-21459

  Barron, Hector ^a   Fernández Seivane, Lucas ^a   Weissker, H Ch ^b,c   López Lozano, Xóchitl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; CHEMICAL CONFIGURATION; COMPOSITION RANGES; ELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; LOWEST ENERGY STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY CHANGES; STRUCTURAL DETAILS; SYSTEMATIC STUDY;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MIXING;

SILVER ALLOYS;

EID: 84886008030     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp403230t     Document Type: Article

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