On the relative stabilities of gold nanoparticles.
@article{Grochola2007OnTR,
title={On the relative stabilities of gold nanoparticles.},
author={Gregory Grochola and I. K. Snook and Salvy P. Russo},
journal={The Journal of chemical physics},
year={2007},
volume={127 22},
pages={
224704
}
}We calculate and compare the relative free energies of ideal/pristine gold nanoparticles for morphologies produced previously in vapor synthesis computer simulations. The results in conjunction with previous work provide a unique and direct quantitative comparison between ideal thermodynamics and kinetics in the synthesis of gold nanoparticles for an identical system. The ideal/pristine free energies suggest that the I(h) morphology was the most stable structure up to the 147(I(h)) followed by… CONTINUE READING