The structural properties of free nanoclusters are reviewed. Special attention is paid to the
interplay of energetic, thermodynamic, and kinetic factors in the explanation of cluster …

Water cluster formation and methane adsorption within a hydrophobic porous metal organic
framework is studied by in situ vibrational spectroscopy, adsorption isotherms, and first …

We report the experimental discovery of extremely stable metal-encapsulated superatom
clusters of a group IVA element: AlPb 10+ and AlPb 12+. Ab initio density functional …

Although Si or Ge is not known to form empty cage clusters such as the fullerenes, we
recently found a unique 12-atom icosahedral tin cluster, Sn122-(stannaspherene). Here we …

One of the major objectives of cluster science is to discover stable atomic clusters, which
may be used as building blocks for cluster-assembled nanomaterials. The discovery and …

The chemical and structural properties of atomically precise nanoclusters are of great
interest in numerous applications, but the structures of the clusters can be computationally …

The lowest-energy structures and electronic properties of the lead clusters are studied by
density-functional-theory calculations with Becke-Lee-Yang-Parr gradient correction. The …

We study the coalescence of nanoscale metal clusters in an inert-gas atmosphere using
constant-energy molecular dynamics. The coalescence proceeds via atomic diffusion with …

Ta films with tetragonal crystalline structure (β-phase), deposited by magnetron sputtering
on different substrates (steel, silicon, and silicon dioxide), have been studied. In all cases …

Zinc and cadmium clusters interacting with a Gupta potential have previously been identified
as prototypical metallic systems that exhibit disordered cluster structures. Here, putative …