Simulation of Metal Clusters and Nanostructures

Mejía-Rosales, Sergio

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68053-8_8

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“…In the past decade, many specific reviews have been written with focuses ranging on various topics, addressing for example synthesis challenges (Lu and Chen 2012), spectroscopy and microscopy characterisation tools (Mino et al 2013, Wang and Palmer 2015a, Marks and Peng 2016, Gao et al 2017, Londono-Calderon et al 2017, Bootharaju et al 2018 with and a more critical approach presented by Billinge and Levin (2007); numerical methods for the prediction of energetically favourable mono and bimetallic clusters, sometimes also including thermodynamical considerations (Baletto and Ferrando 2005, Ferrando et al 2008, Barnard 2010, Heiles and Johnston 2013, Ferrando 2015, Heard and Johnston 2017, Ferrando 2018, Mejía-Rosales 2018, Wales 2018. Others focus on properties and applications of metallic nanoparticles (Viñes et al 2014, Tyo and Vajda 2015, Chakraborty and Pradeep 2017, Zhai and Alexandrova 2017, Jiang et al 2018, Kang et al 2018, Liu and Corma 2018, even proposing routes towards a new nanoparticle chemistry (Luo and Castleman 2014, Jena and Sun 2018, Wang et al 2018.…”

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Structural properties of sub-nanometer metallic clusters

Baletto

2019

J. Phys.: Condens. Matter

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At the nanoscale, the investigation of structural features becomes fundamental as we can establish relationships between cluster geometries and their physicochemical properties. The peculiarity lies in the variety of shapes often unusual and far from any geometrical and crystallographic intuition clusters can assume. In this respect, we should treat and consider nanoparticles as a new form of matter. Nanoparticle structures depend on their size, chemical composition, ordering, as well as external conditions e.g. synthesis method, pressure, temperature, support. On top of that, at finite temperatures nanoparticles can fluctuate among different structures, opening new and exciting horizons for the design of optimal nanoparticles for advanced applications. This article aims to overview geometrical features of transition metal clusters and of their various rearrangements.

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