Abstract
To design novel nanomaterials, it is important to precisely control the composition, determine the atomic structure, and manipulate the structure to tune the materials property. Here we present a comprehensive characterization of the material whose composition is Au329(SR)84 precisely, therefore referred to as a nanomolecule. The size homogeneity was shown by electron microscopy, solution X-ray scattering, and mass spectrometry. We proposed its atomic structure to contain the Au260 core using experiments and modeling of a total-scattering-based atomic-pair distribution functional analysis. HAADF-STEM images shows fcc-like 2.0 ± 0.1 nm diameter nanomolecules.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 11260-11266 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of Physical Chemistry C |
| Volume | 119 |
| Issue number | 20 |
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| State | Published - May 21 2015 |