Perspective: bonding and electronic origin of Au atomic-undercoordination-derivacy and nanoscale-size-dependency

• Main Author: Sun, Changqing
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Bond Relaxation; Catalysis
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159765
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Atomic undercoordination entitles the inert gold even more noble at sites pertained to adatoms, defects, kinks, and skins of bulk and sized crystals with unclear mechanism. Systematic analysis of the electron emission spectra of XPS and STM/S of the undercoordinated gold atoms revealed that the 4f a...