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TOP STORY... August 7, 2008

'Superatoms' Open Window
to Nanoparticle Chemistry
A team of university researchers has discovered that nano­clusters of gold and sulfur behave like "superatoms" and exhibit a "divide and protect" bonding structure, which promotes stability. Gold and sulfur atoms aggregate in specific numbers and extremely symmetrical geometries, and can mimic the chemistry of single atoms of a different element, according to researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of Jyväskylä and Chalmers University of Technology.
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