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Cover Picture: Hollow Gold Cages and Their Topological Relationship to Dual Fullerenes (Chem. Eur. J. 26/2016)
Author(s) -
Trombach Lukas,
Rampino Sergio,
Wang LaiSheng,
Schwerdtfeger Peter
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201602144
Subject(s) - fullerene , gold cluster , graphene , cluster (spacecraft) , materials science , euler's formula , nanotechnology , nanowire , carbon fibers , crystallography , chemical physics , topology (electrical circuits) , computational chemistry , chemistry , combinatorics , physics , mathematics , density functional theory , computer science , composite material , quantum mechanics , composite number , mathematical analysis , programming language
Golden dual fullerenes are hollow gold cages that are triangulations of a sphere and topologically isomorph to the well know fullerenes according to Euler's polyhedral formula. This also relates the (111) fcc gold layer to the graphene surface, the gold nanowires to the carbon nanotubes, and the Mackay icosahedra well known in cluster growth simulations to the halma transforms of the fullerene C 20 . In the picture C 60 and its golden dual Au 32 are shown with the background of Auckland's skyline. More information can be found in the Full Paper by P. Schwerdtfeger et al. on page 8823 ff.