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1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Mississippi, 352 Coulter Hall, University, Mississippi 38677, USA. amal@olemiss.edu
Nanoscale
|February 25, 2012
Abstract:
Thiolated gold nanomolecules show a power correlation between the number of gold atoms and the thiolate ligands with a 2/3 scaling similar to Platonic and Archimedean solids. Nanomolecule stability is influenced by a universal geometric factor that is foundational to its stability through the Euclidean surface rule, in addition to the electronic shell closing factor and staple motif requirements.
