Role of ligand type on the geometric and electronic properties of Ag-Au bimetallic clusters

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Volumn 1045, Issue , 2014, Pages 35-40

  Chang, Le ^a   Xu, Haoxiang ^a   Cheng, Daojian ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Ag Au bimetallic clusters; DFT calculations; Geometric and electronic properties; Ligand

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904500429     PISSN: 2210271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2014.06.023     Document Type: Article

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