Structural and electronic properties of micellar Au nanoparticles: Size and ligand effects

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 6671-6681

  Behafarid, Farzad ^a   Matos, Jeronimo ^a   Hong, Sampyo ^a   Zhang, Lihua ^b   Rahman, Talat Shahnaz ^a   Roldan Cuenya, Beatriz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

AFM; Au nanoparticle; DFT; EXAFS; FEFF simulation; size effects; strain; TEM; XAFS; XANES

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GOLD ALLOYS; LIGANDS; NANOPARTICLES; STRAIN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AFM; AU NANOPARTICLE; DFT; EXAFS; FEFF SIMULATION; SIZE EFFECTS; XAFS; XANES;

GOLD;

EID: 84904768342     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn406568b     Document Type: Article

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