Abundance distributions and ionization potentials of neutral cadmium clusters Cdx (x≲50)

Ionization potentials and charge localization in small charged group 12 clusters

“…The clusters built up with the 12 group elements (Hg, Cd and Zn) have drawn attention to the nature of the chemical bonding. As the cluster size is increasing, a transition from van der Waals interaction to covalent and finally metallic behavior has been predicted and studied experimentally for mercury [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] and for cadmium [12,19,20]. Numerous amount of theoretical works [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] have been devoted to reveal the phase transitions in mercury clusters.…”

Identifying structural patterns in disordered metal clusters

“…Experiments on these clusters have focussed on their electronic shell structure, 49,50 rather than their geometries, and their are only a few theoretical studies to go beyond very small sizes. For cadmium clusters electronic structure calculations have been performed up to 20 atoms.…”

Correlations between the energetics of ZnCd nanoparticles and some of their corresponding bulk properties: molecular-dynamics simulations

“…Therefore, probing the transition from van der Waals to metallic bonding in divalent metal clusters has been an interesting topic in cluster physics and/or chemistry. Among the divalent metal clusters zinc [4][5][6][7][8][9][10] and cadmium [4,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] elemental clusters have been studied, but their mixture, namely zinc-cadmium alloy clusters have not been studied much, except our recent works [8][9][10].…”