NDLI: New insights into the stability and structural evolution of some gold nanoclusters

Content Provider	Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Author	Yuan, Jinyun Liu, Liren Cheng, Longjiu Yang, Jinlong
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	Revealing the stability and structural patterns is important for precisely synthesizing or assembling ligand protected nanoclusters, and even their applications as functional nanomaterials. Investigations on structural evolutional patterns and structural stability are very challenging, because structures change with the nanocluster size and the structural stability depends on both the electron structures of cores and ligand type. Herein, we propose a hybrid superatom network (hSAN) model to understand the stability of some gold nanoclusters with different kinds of ligands. In this model, 4c-2e superatom Au4 can form conjugated superatom networks by vertex sharing, and ligands further connect the conjugated superatom networks together to form a bigger complex network, i.e. a hSAN. The stability of the clusters, including [Au24(CCPh)14(PPh3)4]2+, Au28(S-c-C6H11)20, Au36(SCH2Ph-tBu)8Cl20, Au40(O-MBT)24 and Au52(TBBT)32 can be explained uniformly by the hSAN model. Beyond that, a new heuristic structural pattern named the Au13 topological rule is proposed. In the light of this heuristic rule, every Au7 bi-tetrahedral kernel is included in an Au13 structure with quasi-Oh symmetry, i.e. as long as the Au7 bi-tetrahedral kernel is formed, it will be surrounded by six Au atoms to form an Au13 structure topologically. According to this understanding, a new nanocluster [Au44(CCH3)26(PCH3)4]2+ and a new nanowire with the structural evolutional formula [Au(20n+4)(CCH3)(12n+2)(PCH3)4]2+ (n = 1, 2, 3, 4, …) are predicted. Both the understanding of the stability and the structure rule are free from the type of ligand, and will be useful for the structural predictions and determinations of ligand protected gold nanoclusters.
Starting Page	856
Ending Page	861
Page Count	6
File Format	HTM / HTML PDF
ISSN	20403364
Volume Number	9
Issue Number	2
Journal	Nanoscale
DOI	10.1039/c6nr07878h
Language	English
Publisher	Royal Society of Chemistry
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Integral transform Ligand Nanowire Nanomaterials Superatom Heuristic
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

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