A grand unified model for liganded gold clusters

Wen Wu Xu; Beien Zhu; Xiao Cheng Zeng; Yi Gao

doi:10.1038/ncomms13574

Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

A grand unified model for liganded gold clusters

Wen Wu Xu,
Beien Zhu,
Xiao Cheng Zeng,
Yi Gao

Affiliations

Wen Wu Xu: Division of Interfacial Water and Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beien Zhu: Division of Interfacial Water and Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiao Cheng Zeng: Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Yi Gao: Division of Interfacial Water and Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13574
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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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) ‘composite particles’ built from gold atom ‘elementary particles’.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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