A grand unified model for liganded gold clusters

There is no one theoretical model that can explain the stability of all known liganded gold clusters. Here, the authors present a grand unified model, inspired by the quark model of particle physics, which describes gold clusters as combinations of stable triangular Au3(2e) and tetragonal Au4(2e) ‘c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wen Wu Xu, Beien Zhu, Xiao Cheng Zeng, Yi Gao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13574