Physics – Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Scientific paper
2011-08-26
J Phys Chem Lett 2, 2316-2321 (2011)
Physics
Atomic and Molecular Clusters
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Scientific paper
10.1021/jz201059k
Atomically precise thiolate-stabilized gold nanoclusters are currently of interest for many cross-disciplinary applications in chemistry, physics and molecular biology. Very recently, synthesis and electronic properties of "nanoalloy" clusters Au_(144-x)Ag_x(SR)_60 were reported. Here, density functional theory is used for electronic structure and bonding in Au_(144-x)Ag_x(SR)_60 based on a structural model of the icosahedral Au_144(SR)_60 that features a 114-atom metal core with 60 symmetry-equivalent surface sites, and a protecting layer of 30 RSAuSR units. In the optimal configuration the 60 surface sites of the core are occupied by silver in Au_84Ag_60(SR)_60. Silver enhances the electron shell structure around the Fermi level in the metal core, which predicts a structured absorption spectrum around the onset (about 0.8 eV) of electronic metal-to-metal transitions. The calculations also imply element-dependent absorption edges for Au(5d) \rightarrow Au(6sp) and Ag(4d) \rightarrow Ag(5sp) interband transitions in the "plasmonic" region, with their relative intensities controlled by the Ag/Au mixing ratio.
Häkkinen Hannu
Malola Sami
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