Gold tetrahedra coil up: Kekulé-like and double helical superstructures

Science Advances

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Zeng, Chenjie ^a   Chen, Yuxiang ^a   Liu, Chong ^b   Nobusada, Katsuyuki ^c,d   Rosi, Nathaniel L ^b   Jin, Rongchao ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GOLD; LIGANDS;

ANISOTROPIC GROWTH; FACE CENTERED CUBIC LATTICE; INTERMEDIATE STATE; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; SUPER MOLECULES; SUPER-MOLECULAR STRUCTURES; SURFACE LIGANDS; SURFACE SCIENCE;

X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 85028695926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500425     Document Type: Article

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