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Metal Clusters and Nanoalloys

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Metal clusters are studied for many reasons, including modeling heterogeneous catalysts, understanding how physical properties and chemical reactivity evolve in the intermediate size regime between molecular species and solids, and trying to create building blocks for new materials [1]. The latter requires clusters, and cluster assemblies, that are stable under normal conditions. This is challenging. Taking the viewpoint of the solid state, metal clusters represent the ultra finely divided form of a solid, with an extremely high surface area and very large surface energy. They are inherently unstable [2]. So, one may ask, why go through the trouble of trying to make materials out of clusters, and how?

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Fournier, R., Bulusu, S. (2013). Closed-Shell Metal Clusters. In: Metal Clusters and Nanoalloys. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3643-0_3

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