Information on quantum states pervades the visible spectrum of the ubiquitous Au144(SR)60 gold nanocluster

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Weissker, H Ch ^a,b   Escobar, H Barron ^c   Thanthirige, V D ^d   Kwak, K ^e   Lee, D ^e   Ramakrishna, G ^e   Whetten, R L ^d   Lopez Lozano X ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility ETSF   (France)

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

^d WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; CYCLOHEXANE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPENTANE DERIVATIVE; METHYLCYCLOHEXANE; METHYLCYCLOPENTANE; NANOPARTICLE; ORGANOGOLD COMPOUND; SULFUR DERIVATIVE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LOW TEMPERATURE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SPECTRUM; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THEORY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROCEDURES; QUANTUM THEORY;

CYCLOHEXANES; CYCLOPENTANES; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANOGOLD COMPOUNDS; QUANTUM THEORY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84899830122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4785     Document Type: Article

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