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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 124, Issue 28, Pages 15440-15447Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c03397
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- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq)
- Fundacao de Amparo a Ciencia e Tecnologia do Estado de Pernambuco (FACEPE)
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Alagoas (FAPEAL)
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Ensino Superior (CAPES)
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We report the first-hyperpolarizability, beta(-2 omega;omega,omega), of gold nanoclusters Au-6(GSH)(2)(MPA)(2) having six gold atoms capped by 3-mercaptopropionic acid and glutathione (GSH) that is unprecedented. Here, we used the concentration of 2.1 X 10(16) nanoclusters/mL in experiments to determine beta(-2 omega;omega,omega), applying the hyper-Rayleigh scattering technique by using a 1064 nm laser and analyzing the scattered light at 532 nm. The measured hyperpolarizability is found to be beta(-2 omega;omega,omega) = 760 X 10(-30) esu. The static hyperpolarizability, beta(0) = 300 X 10(-30) esu, was determined by using a two-level model approximation. The large beta(-2 omega;omega,omega) is attributed to the quantum confinement effect and the geometry of the nanoclusters that have no inversion symmetry. Computer calculations based on the density functional theory method were performed, and the numerical results present the same order of magnitude than the experimental values.
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