Physics and Chemistry of Finite Systems: From Clusters to Crystals

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Clusters as a Key to the Understanding of Properties as a Function of Size and Dimensionality....Pages 1-17
Atomic Structure of Clusters through Chemical Reactions....Pages 19-28
Structure of Decagonal Quasicrystals....Pages 29-38
Atomic Structure of Quasicrystals with and without Phason Defects....Pages 39-48
Structure of Quasi Crystals in Terms of Atomic Clusters....Pages 49-59
STM Studies of Clusters....Pages 61-70
Structure and Transformation. Clusters as Models for Condensed Phases....Pages 71-76
Structure Model of the Al-Cu-Co Decagonal Quasicrystal....Pages 77-83
Infrared Spectroscopy of SF 6 Attached to Classical and Quantum Clusters (finite size particles attaining bulk-like properties)....Pages 85-91
Morphology and Structure of Ultrafine Gold Particles....Pages 93-98
Magic Numbers of Bimetallic Cluster Ions Consisting of Group-III Metals: The Icosahedric 13 Atom Clusters....Pages 99-104
Significant Structure Theory of Molecular Clusters....Pages 105-110
On the Origin of the Dendritic Shapes in Goethite Particles....Pages 111-118
Structural Fluctuation of Au 55 and Au 147 Clusters....Pages 119-124
A Face Centered Icosahedral Approximant Phase with Local Icosahedral Symmetry....Pages 125-129
Defect-Fcc Structural Models for Argon Clusters Ar N , N ≳ 500....Pages 131-137
Beyond the Icosahedral Glass Model, the Interpenetrating Pseudo — Icosahedral Clusters (IPIC) Model....Pages 139-145
The Geometric Shell Structure of Metal Clusters....Pages 147-156
Electronic Shell Structure in Icosahedral Metal Clusters....Pages 157-164
Evolutionary Patterns of Structure and Stability of Clusters....Pages 165-176
Chemistry of Stable Quasi-Crystals....Pages 177-187
Structure and Evolution of Nano- and Microcrystalline Grain Aggregates....Pages 189-198
Defects in Quasicrystals....Pages 199-210
A Computational Quantum Mechanical Study on Weakly Bonded Clusters of NH 3 with SO 2 and HNC....Pages 211-216
Structural Instability by Phason Softening in Icosahedral Quasicrystals....Pages 217-222
Positive and Negative Helium Cluster Ions Formed From Supercritical Expansions....Pages 223-228
Electronic Structure and Reactivity of Bimetallic Clusters Containing Sodium Atoms....Pages 229-234
Metal Clusters: How Many Atoms are Required for Thermionic Emission ?....Pages 235-240
Structural and Electronic Properties of Neutral and Charged Mg n Clusters (n ≤ 13 and n = 57, 69)....Pages 241-247
Intrinsic Stability of Quasicrystals under the Generation of Frenkel Defects....Pages 249-258
Determination of the Spin State for Carbon Clusters: Focusing Effect by Hexapole Magnetic Field....Pages 259-264
Cluster Relative-Stability Interchanges....Pages 265-270
Formation of Clusters in Charge Seeded Expansions of Rare Gas Mixtures....Pages 271-276
Phase Changes for Clusters and for Bulk Matter....Pages 277-286
Quantum Molecular Dynamics of Clusters....Pages 287-297
Random Cluster Model for Icosahedral Phase AlMnSi....Pages 299-308
Size-Dependent Thermodynamic and Electronic Properties of Individual Nanometer-Size Supported Gold Clusters....Pages 309-322
Inelastic Neutron Scattering from Single Grains of Icosahedral and Cubic Al-Li-Cu....Pages 323-332
Structural and Electronic Properties of Pure and Doped Fullerenes....Pages 333-338
Vibrational and Electronic Contributions to the Specific Heat of Pd 561 Phen 36 O 200 ....Pages 339-344
Vibrational States of Al Adsorbed on Ge Clusters....Pages 345-349
From Clusters to Liquids: Diffusion, Stokes-Einstein Behavior, and Solvation in Mixed Molecule-Rare Gas Clusters....Pages 351-356
Proton Spin Relaxation and Thermal History Effects in Organic Molecular Solids....Pages 357-362
A Molecular Dynamics Study of the Solid Phase Transition in Sulphur Hexafluoride Clusters....Pages 363-367
Observation of Electronic Shells in Large Lithium Clusters....Pages 369-374
Structure and Dynamics of Intermediate Size Aluminium Clusters....Pages 375-380
Molecular Dynamics Studies of the Melting and Freezing of CCl 4 Clusters....Pages 381-386
Melting and Solidification of Ultrafine Particles Investigated by Optical and Electron Microscopy Techniques....Pages 387-392
Monte Carlo Studies of Phase Transitions in Clusters of Tellurium Hexafluoride and Benzene....Pages 393-398
Vapor Phase Homogeneous Nucleation of Polar Molecules....Pages 399-404
Melting of Nickel Clusters....Pages 405-410
Phase Changes in Nickel Clusters from an Embedded-Atom Potential....Pages 411-416
Structure and Dynamics of Argon Cluster Ions....Pages 417-422
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Infrequent Events: Evaporation from Cold Metallic Clusters....Pages 423-427
Computer Simulation of Dynamics of Metal Cluster Impact with Crystal Surface....Pages 429-433
Space/Time spectroscopic Analysis of Laser Vaporization Process from Si Target under Gas Environment....Pages 435-440
Structural Transition from Small Clusters to Bulk-like Structures....Pages 441-446
Dynamics of the Cluster-Surface Interaction: Collisional Detachment of Size Selected Carbon Negative Cluster Ions....Pages 447-452
On the Spectra, Structure and Dynamics of Aniline-AR n Clusters: Simulation Studies Compared with the Results of R2P2CI Spectroscopy....Pages 453-458
Computer Simulation Study of the Evaporation Mechanisms in Lennard-Jones Clusters....Pages 459-464
Monte-Carlo Geometry Optimization of Sodium Clusters with a Distance-Dependent Monoelectronic Hamiltonian....Pages 465-470
Investigation of the Stable Structures of Ni x Fe x , Ni x−y P y , Ni x−y B y , Fe x−y P y , and Fe x−y B y (x =13,y<13) Microclusters....Pages 471-477
Computer Simulation of Freezing and Melting in Transition Metal Clusters....Pages 479-484
Superconductivity in M 3 C 60 ....Pages 485-491
Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Alkali Metal Cluster Anions....Pages 493-507
Electronic Mechanism for Stability of Quasicrystals....Pages 509-518
Superconductivity in Granular Films....Pages 519-525
Mössbauer Studies of Quasicrystals....Pages 527-536
Small Metal Particles Studied by NMR....Pages 537-547
Shape and Size Dependence of Energy Level Degeneracies....Pages 549-554
Measurements of Lithium Clusters Ionization Potentials....Pages 555-560
Double Zeta Basis Sets in Carbon Cluster Calculations....Pages 561-567
Electronic Structure of Deposited Mass-Selected Pt Clusters on Silver Films....Pages 569-573
Homonuclear Metallic Microclusters: Structure and Energetics....Pages 575-580
Ionization Energies of Large Sodium Clusters: Direct Evidence for Atomic Shell Structure....Pages 581-586
Structural and Electronic Properties of Icosahedral Quasicrystals....Pages 587-592
Hartree-Fock Investigations of Pure Antimony and Alkali-Antimony Clusters....Pages 593-598
Electronic Structures of Metal Clusters on Surface....Pages 599-604
A Study of Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation for the Hydrogen Cluster Ions....Pages 605-610
A Molecular Orbital Calculation Method Considering Crystal Fields....Pages 611-616
Cluster Resonances and Bound States and Crystal Band Spectrum....Pages 617-622
Calculation of the Electronic Structure and Magnetic Properties of Iron Microclusters....Pages 623-628
Ionization Potentials of Fe Microclusters....Pages 629-631
Measurement of Ionization Potentials for Al n and Fe n Clusters....Pages 633-638
On the Structures and Stabilities of Small Mixed Clusters....Pages 639-644
A Hartree-Fock Study of Small Carbon Cluster Anions....Pages 645-650
Electronic Structure and Adduct Geometries in the Chemisorption of Nitric Oxide in Small Gas-Phase Cobalt Clusters....Pages 651-656
Stability, Ionization Potential and Electronic Affinity of Small Silver Clusters calculated in the LSD approximation....Pages 657-662
Stability of Hydrogen Clusters Near a Transition Metal Surface....Pages 663-668
Theoretical Investigation of Locations of 19 F * and Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions in Silicon and Diamond....Pages 669-676
Simulation of Ionic Crystals for Electronic Properties Using the Hartree-Fock Cluster Procedure....Pages 677-682
The Electronic Structure of Icosahedral Boron Clusters....Pages 683-690
Investigation by the Gutzwiller Approach of the 3 He and 4 He Liquid Clusters....Pages 691-696
A Preliminary Study of Energy Bands of 2D Periodic Quantum Dot Arrays....Pages 697-702
Compound Versus Pure Metal Microclusters: How the Photoabsorption Profiles Relate to the Abundance Spectra....Pages 703-708
Magnetism of Finite Systems: From Clusters to Crystals....Pages 709-720
Magnetism of Free Transition Metal and Rare Earth Clusters....Pages 721-732
Band Structure Effects and Magnetism in Quasicrystals....Pages 733-742
Magnetism of Small Particles....Pages 743-752
Size Dependence of the Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Ultra-Small Chromium and Vanadium Particles Studied Using Synchrotron Radiation....Pages 753-758
Magnetic Properties of Free Metal Clusters....Pages 759-765
Onset of Magnetism in Bcc-Like Fe n Clusters....Pages 767-772
Theory for the Magnetization of an Ensemble of Transition Metal Clusters....Pages 773-778
Diamagnetic Susceptibility and Conductivity of Columnar Structures....Pages 779-784
Superparamagnetism in Ising Clusters....Pages 785-791
Magnetic Nanoparticles in a Metallo-Organic Polymer: Magnetic Properties and Structural and Chemical Characterization....Pages 793-798
Magnetism in Small Antiferromagnetic Clusters....Pages 799-805
Size Effects in Orbital Magnetism....Pages 807-812
Size and Shape Dependence of Small Spin Lattices Described by an Ising Hamiltonian....Pages 813-818
Transport Properties and Electronic Structure of Quasicrystals....Pages 819-828
Electronic Distributions of Quasicrystalline Phases....Pages 829-838
Metal Cluster Molecules: From Molecule to Metal....Pages 839-851
Collective Optical Excitation in Free Metal Clusters....Pages 853-860
A First Principles Investigation of Aluminum Clusters: Geometries, Reactivities, Stabilities and Polarizabilities....Pages 861-866
Optical Properties of Macroscopic Many-Cluster Matter....Pages 867-879
Dipole Resonance Systematics in Metal Particles and Atomic Nuclei....Pages 881-886
Observation of a Spin-Forbidden Optical Transition of Mo 2 in a Molybdenum Cluster Beam....Pages 887-892
Surface Plasmon Absorption in Cesium Cluster Ions (Cs n + , n=4−21)....Pages 893-898
Quantum Chemical Investigation of Absorption Spectra of Small Alkali Metal Clusters; Molecular Dimensionality Transition (2D–3D)....Pages 899-906
Raman Studies of Nanocrystalline AIO(OH) Prepared by Sol-Gel Techniques....Pages 907-912
Surface Induced Ionization of Water Clusters....Pages 913-918
Charge Separation Reactions of Doubly Charged Xe Clusters....Pages 919-924
Photoionization of Solvated Cs Atoms....Pages 925-930
Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of CuCl-Nanocrystallites: Evolution from Cluster-Like to Bulk-Like Behavior....Pages 931-936
Dipole Excitations of Closed-Shell Alkali-Metal Clusters....Pages 937-942
Optical Spectroscopy of Argon Cluster Ions....Pages 943-947
Observation of Cluster Specific Excitations in Rare Gas Clusters....Pages 949-955
Inelastic Collisions of Electrons with Small Metal Clusters....Pages 957-962
A “Giant Resonance” in Iron: Atom-Clusters-Crystal....Pages 963-967
Spectroscopy of Mass-Selected Zirconium Dimers in Argon....Pages 969-976
Phase Transitions and Coalescence Phenomena in Bi Clusters....Pages 977-982
Role of Self-Interaction Corrections in the Photoabsorption Cross Section of Small Metal Clusters....Pages 983-988
Nonlinear Optical Transmission of Nanometric Gold Colloids and Its Dependence on Particle Size....Pages 989-993
Dependence of the Plasmon Frequency of Cluster Embedded in a Matrix Versus the Cluster Size....Pages 995-999
Collective Excitations in Silver Cluster Ions....Pages 1001-1006
Observation of Wave Localization in Penrose Lattices....Pages 1007-1012
Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Weakly-Bound Electrons in Sodium Chloride Cluster Anions....Pages 1013-1018
The Unique Nature of Metal Cluster Oxidation....Pages 1019-1024
Energetics of Atomic and Cluster Processes on Surfaces....Pages 1025-1037
The D 2 +Ni 13 Reaction: Mode-Specific and Structure-Specific Features....Pages 1039-1045
Charge Transfer Involving Clusters....Pages 1047-1056
Interaction of Clusters with Substrates....Pages 1057-1064
Detection and Characterization of Silver Particles in Sodium Silicate Glasses by Means of High Resolution Electron Microscopy....Pages 1065-1070
Reactions and Thermochemistry of Mixed Cluster Ions....Pages 1071-1076
Ionic Polymerization Within Van der Waals Clusters....Pages 1077-1082
Metastable Fragmentation of Rare Gas Cluster Ions Initiated by Excimer Decay....Pages 1083-1088
Electronic States and H-Adsorption of Co and Co-V Microclusters....Pages 1089-1094
Chemistry within Van Der Waals Clusters of Unsaturated Molecules: Observation of Cationic Polymerization....Pages 1095-1100
Pulsed Laser Ablation and Cluster Ion Formation from Group VI Elements S, Se, Te, and Mixtures with Ni and Cu....Pages 1101-1107
Clusterdeposition and Clustererosion....Pages 1109-1114
Magic Numbers of Sodium/Antimony-Clusters Produced by Gas Aggregation and Subsequent Photoionization....Pages 1115-1120
Collision-Induced Reactions of Molecular Cluster Ions....Pages 1121-1124
Formation and Reactivity of Silicon Carbide Cluster Cations....Pages 1125-1130
Encagement of Alkali Metal Ions in Gas-Phase Water Clusters....Pages 1131-1136
Deposition of Lead Clusters on Cold Silver and Photoemission by Synchrotron Radiation....Pages 1137-1140
Intracluster Anionic Polymerization of (CH 2 =CXCN) m (X = H, D, CH 3 , and Cl) in collision with high-Rydberg rare gas atoms and electrons....Pages 1141-1146
Formation of Negative Cluster Ions by Electron Capture....Pages 1147-1152
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of the Interaction between Adsorbed Clusters and Graphite Substrates....Pages 1153-1158
Magic Numbers of Metal and Metal Alloy Clusters and their Chemical Reactivity....Pages 1159-1163
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Tris-(1,10-Phenanthroline) Ruthenium (II) Chloride on Graphite, Copper and Gallium Arsenide....Pages 1165-1169
Cluster Quantum-Chemical Study of Dihydrogen, Methane and Water Molecules: Interactions with Pure and Lithium Doped Magnesium Oxide....Pages 1171-1176
Nanostructure Fabrication Using Biomolecular Templates....Pages 1177-1182
Film Deposition with Cluster Beams: An Alternate Path to Epitaxial, Crystalline Films....Pages 1183-1191
Application of Ultra Fine Particles....Pages 1193-1202
Fullerene and Fulleride Films....Pages 1203-1212
Nanocrystalline and Icosahedral Amorphous RF Sputtered CrNi(65:35) Thin Films....Pages 1213-1220
Composite Clusters by Laser Vaporization....Pages 1221-1226
High Intensity Silver Cluster Beams....Pages 1227-1231
Optical Characteristics of Cu-Nanocluster Layers Assembled by Ion Implantation....Pages 1233-1238
The Structure and Properties of Nano-Size Crystalline Silicon Films....Pages 1239-1244
Fivefold Multiply-Twinned Crystallites in Vapour-Deposited Amorphous Thin Films of Germanium Studied by HREM....Pages 1245-1250
Dispersion of Ultrafine Nickel Particles on Alumina Films and Their Behaviour in Oxygen and Hydrogen Atmospheres....Pages 1251-1256
Metallization of Si(111) by Lead Cluster Deposition....Pages 1257-1262
Crystalline Nanometer-Scale III–V Clusters....Pages 1263-1268
Incandescent Radiation from 3500 K Hot Clusters....Pages 1269-1273
Nano-Structure Fabrication by Organic MBE Using Metalloid Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines Containing III, IV and V Elements....Pages 1275-1280
X-Ray Study of Alkoxide-Derived Amorphous TiO 2 Powder....Pages 1281-1286
Isomerization and Icosahedral Fullerenes....Pages 1287-1294
Formation of Muonium and A Muonic Radical in Fullerene....Pages 1295-1303
Magnetic Susceptibility of Pristine C 60 and K-Doped C 60 , and Heat Capacity of Solid C 60 ....Pages 1305-1309
Photoemission Spectra of C 60 Clusters in Metal and Nonmetal Systems....Pages 1311-1316
Electronic Structure of Fullerenes: Isolated Molecules and Metal-Doped Crystals....Pages 1317-1322
C 60 Rotational Dynamics in the Solid State....Pages 1323-1328
Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulation of C 60 ....Pages 1329-1334
Radial Distribution Function Studies of the Structure of C 60 ....Pages 1335-1340
Relative Energetics of C 44 Fullerene Isomers....Pages 1341-1346
Molecular-Dynamics Simulations of C 60 /He Collisions....Pages 1347-1351
Formation and Characterization of C 60 He + ....Pages 1353-1358
Electron Microscopy, Electron Energy Loss and X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy of Solid C60 and C70....Pages 1359-1364
Superconductivity in Alkali Intercalated C 60 ....Pages 1365-1370
Extraction and Characterization of Large All-Carbon Fullerenes....Pages 1371-1377
Carbon K-Edge XANES and EXAFS of C60, C70, and K 3 C60....Pages 1379-1384
Tight-Binding Molecular Dynamics Study of C 60 and Other Carbon Clusters....Pages 1385-1390
Virtual Symmetric Charge Transfer Superconducting Pairing Excitations in C 60 ....Pages 1391-1396
Back Matter....Pages 1397-1402
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