Structural and electronic properties of uranium-encapsulated Au14 cage
The structural properties of the uranium-encapsulated nano-cage U@Au 14 are predicted using density functional theory. The presence of the uranium atom makes the Au 14 structure more stable than the empty Au 14 -cage, with a triplet ground electronic state for U@Au 14 . Analysis of the electronic st...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Scientific reports 2014-07, Vol.4 (1), p.5862-5862, Article 5862 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The structural properties of the uranium-encapsulated nano-cage U@Au
14
are predicted using density functional theory. The presence of the uranium atom makes the Au
14
structure more stable than the empty Au
14
-cage, with a triplet ground electronic state for U@Au
14
. Analysis of the electronic structure shows that the two frontier single-occupied molecular orbital electrons of U@Au
14
mainly originate from the 5f shell of the U atom after charge transfer. Meanwhile, the bonding orbitals and charge population indicate that the designed U@Au
14
nano-cage structure is stabilized by ionocovalent interactions. The current findings provide theoretical basis for future syntheses and further study of actinide doped gold nanoclusters, which might subsequently facilitate applications of such structure in radio-labeling, nanodrug carrier and other biomedical applications. |
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ISSN: | 2045-2322 2045-2322 |
DOI: | 10.1038/srep05862 |