An international team of scientists has used a new empirical model to explore how gold atoms bond to other atoms. Gold crystals (Alchemist-hp, www.pse-mendelejew.de / CC BY-SA 3.0) The study, published in the European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, is a first step toward better understanding how gold binds to other materials through strong, so-called covalent, bonds. What scientists need is an empirical model based on a...
