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 ...

gold should have fairly similar properties to silver, with its 47 protons and electrons, and a lone electron in the outermost ...

Scientists observed record-breaking electron mobility — seven times higher than in conventional semiconductors — with a material made from the same elements as quartz and gold. When you ...