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Staple Fitness: A Concept To Understand and Predict the Structures of Thiolated Gold Nanoclusters
Author(s) -
Jiang Deen
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201102391
Subject(s) - nanoclusters , survival of the fittest , connection (principal bundle) , pairing , bridge (graph theory) , outcome (game theory) , computer science , materials science , nanotechnology , mathematics , evolutionary biology , physics , biology , engineering , structural engineering , condensed matter physics , mathematical economics , anatomy , superconductivity
Survival of the fittest : A profound connection has been found between the structures of thiolated gold clusters and the combinatorial problem of pairing up dots on a surface. The bridge is the concept of staple fitness: the fittest combination corresponds to the experimental structure. This connection has been demonstrated for both Au 25 (SR) 18 and Au 38 (SR) 24 (‐SR being a thiolate group) and applied to predict a promising structure for the recently synthesized Au 19 (SR) 13 .