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SUBMITTER: Taylor MG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5504301 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20170707
Despite the great advances in synthesis and structural determination of atomically precise, thiolate-protected metal nanoclusters, our understanding of the driving forces for their colloidal stabilization is very limited. Currently there is a lack of models able to describe the thermodynamic stability of these 'magic-number' colloidal nanoclusters as a function of their atomic-level structural characteristics. Herein, we introduce the thermodynamic stability theory, derived from first principles ...[more]