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SUBMITTER: Xu WW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5146290 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20161202
A grand unified model (GUM) is developed to achieve fundamental understanding of rich structures of all 71 liganded gold clusters reported to date. Inspired by the quark model by which composite particles (for example, protons and neutrons) are formed by combining three quarks (or flavours), here gold atoms are assigned three 'flavours' (namely, bottom, middle and top) to represent three possible valence states. The 'composite particles' in GUM are categorized into two groups: variants of triang ...[more]