Electronic and structural shell closure in AgCu and AuCu nanoclusters

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 110, Issue 46, 2006, Pages 23197-23203

  Barcaro, Giovanni ^a   Fortunelli, Alessandro ^a   Rossi, Giulia ^b   Nita, Florin ^b,c   Ferrando, Riccardo ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; GOLD ALLOYS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUANTUM THEORY; SILVER ALLOYS;

CAPPED DECAHEDRA; CHEMICAL ORDERING; POLYICOSAHEDRAL STRUCTURES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 85013927067     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp064593x     Document Type: Article

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