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Smallest fullerene-like silicon cage stabilized by a V2 unit

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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 140, Issue 2, Pages -

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AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4861053

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  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences [KJCX2-EW-H01]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21103202]

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We conducted a combined anion photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory study on V2Si20 cluster. Our results show that the V2Si20 cluster has an elongated dodecahedron cage structure with a V-2 unit encapsulated inside the cage. It is the smallest fullerene-like silicon cage and can be used as building block to make cluster-assembled materials, such as pearl-chain style nanowires. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.

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