Issue 9, 2008

Atomic and electronic structure of goldclusters: understanding flakes, cages and superatoms from simple concepts

Abstract

Atomic structure and electronic structure are intimately interrelated properties of nanoclusters and nanoparticles, defining their stability, electronic, optical and chemical properties, in other words, their usability as potential components for nanoscale devices. This tutorial review attempts to describe the development in understanding the structures of bare and ligand-protected gold clusters over the past decade, based on selected density-functional-theory calculations. This review should be of interest both to newcomers in the field and to an interdisciplinary community of researchers working in synthesis, characterization and utilization of ligand-protected gold clusters.

Graphical abstract: Atomic and electronic structure of gold clusters: understanding flakes, cages and superatoms from simple concepts

Article information

Article type
Tutorial Review
Submitted
19 May 2008
First published
08 Jul 2008

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2008,37, 1847-1859

Atomic and electronic structure of gold clusters: understanding flakes, cages and superatoms from simple concepts

H. Häkkinen, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2008, 37, 1847 DOI: 10.1039/B717686B

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