Recent developments allow heat capacities to be measured for size-selected clusters
isolated in the gas phase. For clusters with tens to hundreds of atoms, the heat capacities …

Metal nanoparticles have been widely used as functional materials in physics, chemistry,
and biology. Understanding their unique thermodynamic properties is essential both for …

Covering the key theories, tools, and techniques of this dynamic field, Handbook of
Nanophysics: Principles and Methods elucidates the general theoretical principles and …

We present an experimental study of the thermodynamics of free, size-selected water cluster
anions consisting of 48 and 118 molecules. The measured caloric curves of the clusters are …

Putative global minima of neutral (Al n) and singly charged (⁠ Al n+ and Al n−⁠) aluminum
clusters with n= 13–34 have been located from first-principles density functional theory …

The thermodynamic behaviour of clusters and nanoscale structures is both a challenge to
the statistical basis of the theory, and of paramount importance to experiment. In this review …

We calculate the surface energy, surface stress, and lattice contraction of Al nanoparticles
using ab initio density functional and empirical computational techniques. Ab initio …

In gas phase synthesis systems, clusters form and grow via condensation, in which a
monomer binds to an existing cluster. While a hard-sphere equation is frequently used to …

Melting-point depression by soluble impurities is an entropy-driven phenomenon. Studying
partially oxidized free sodium nanoparticles, we found an additional mechanism, which is …

The kinetic energy threshold for chemisorption of N2 on Al100+ has been measured as a
function of the nanocluster's temperature from 440 to 790 K. When the Al100+ cluster melts …