gold should have fairly similar properties to silver, with its 47 protons and electrons, and a lone electron in the outermost or "valence" shell. Yet silver (Ag) is more reactive than gold ...

A METHOD has been developed by Born by which the scattering of electrons by single atoms can be worked out on the wave mechanics. The method has been used to calculate the variation of elastic ...

A combination of theory and experiment is shedding new light on the structural and electronic properties of gold nanoclusters ... near the magic number of 18 valence electrons by filling the ...