A DFT study of linear gold-thiolate superclusters absorbing in the therapeutic NIR window

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1329-1334

  Malola, Sami ^a   Lehtovaara, Lauri ^a   Häkkinen, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

density functional theory; gold; monolayer protected clusters; optical absorption; structure prediction

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GOLD; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT ABSORPTION;

HETERO DIMERS; METAL CORE; MONOLAYER PROTECTED CLUSTERS; NEAR INFRARED REGION; SIZE DEPENDENT; STRUCTURAL MODELING; STRUCTURE PREDICTION; SUPERCLUSTERS;

GOLD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84899014370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz500449k     Document Type: Article

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