Self-assembly of size-selected colloidal metal clusters: crystalline descriptions of non-close-packed arrangements

Authors
Aindow, M Williams, SN Palmer, RE Fink, J Kiely, CJ
Citation
M. Aindow et al., Self-assembly of size-selected colloidal metal clusters: crystalline descriptions of non-close-packed arrangements, PHIL MAG L, 79(8), 1999, pp. 569-574
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science
Journal title
PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE LETTERS
ISSN journal
09500839 → ACNP
Volume
79
Issue
8
Year of publication
1999
Pages
569 - 574
Database
ISI
SICI code
0950-0839(199908)79:8<569:SOSCMC>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
Close-packed superstructures in self-assembled colloidal metal clusters are usually described as analogues of the crystal structures exhibited by elem ental metals, but no such description has been developed for non-close-pack ed configurations. It is shown here that some of these arrangements can be described as disordered forms of the Glib, C40 and C54 structures exhibited by transition-metal disilicides.