Au279(SR)84: The Smallest Gold Thiolate Nanocrystal That Is Metallic and the Birth of Plasmon

• Published in: The journal of physical chemistry letters Vol. 9; no. 6; pp. 1295 - 1300
• Main Authors: Sakthivel, Naga Arjun, Stener, Mauro, Sementa, Luca, Fortunelli, Alessandro, Ramakrishna, Guda, Dass, Amala
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Chemical Society 15.03.2018

We report a detailed study on the optical properties of Au279(SR)84 using steady-state and transient absorption measurements to probe its metallic nature, time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) studies to correlate the optical spectra, and density of states (DOS) to reveal the factors gove...