Issue 31, 2016

The electronic structure of Au25 clusters: between discrete and continuous

Abstract

Here, an approach based on synchrotron resonant photoemission is employed to explore the transition between quantization and hybridization of the electronic structure in atomically precise ligand-stabilized nanoparticles. While the presence of ligands maintains quantization in Au25 clusters, their removal renders increased hybridization of the electronic states in the vicinity of the Fermi level. These observations are supported by DFT studies.

Graphical abstract: The electronic structure of Au25 clusters: between discrete and continuous

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 Mar 2016
Accepted
14 Jul 2016
First published
15 Jul 2016

Nanoscale, 2016,8, 14711-14715

The electronic structure of Au25 clusters: between discrete and continuous

K. Katsiev, N. Lozova, L. Wang, K. Sai Krishna, R. Li, W. Mei, S. E. Skrabalak, C. S. S. R. Kumar and Y. Losovyj, Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 14711 DOI: 10.1039/C6NR02374F

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