Hierarchy of bond stiffnesses within icosahedral-based gold clusters protected by thiolates

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Yamazoe, Seiji ^a,b   Takano, Shinjiro ^a   Kurashige, Wataru ^c   Yokoyama, Toshihiko ^d   Nitta, Kiyofumi ^e   Negishi, Yuichi ^c   Tsukuda, Tatsuya ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; GOLD; OLIGOMER; THIOLATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHEMICAL BONDING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GOLD; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; INTERFACE; STIFFNESS; THERMAL POWER; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; OSCILLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGIDITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84954507092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10414     Document Type: Article

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