Chiral symmetry breaking yields the I-Au60 perfect golden shell of singular rigidity

Autor: S.-M. Mullins, H.-Ch. Weissker, R. Sinha-Roy, J. J. Pelayo, I. L. Garzón, R. L. Whetten, X. López-Lozano
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05215-3
Popis: Chiral-icosahedral symmetry is exceptionally rare in molecular systems. Here, the authors predict the spontaneous formation of a stable chiral-icosahedral gold shell, in which all 60 atoms are symmetrically equivalent.
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