Theory of anisotropic metal nanostructures

KA Fichthorn - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
A significant challenge in the development of functional materials is understanding the
growth and transformations of anisotropic colloidal metal nanocrystals. Theory and …

Coinage metal clusters: From superatom chemistry to genetic materials

B Yin, Z Luo - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Building metal materials with well-defined components and the monomer-genetic property is
one of the foremost challenges in chemistry and materials science. In recent years, metal …

Plasma-assisted manipulation of vanadia nanoclusters for efficient selective catalytic reduction of NOx

Y Yin, B Luo, K Li, BM Moskowitz… - nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Supported nanoclusters (SNCs) with distinct geometric and electronic structures have
garnered significant attention in the field of heterogeneous catalysis. However, their directed …

Evolution of the structural, energetic, and electronic properties of the 3d, 4d, and 5d transition-metal clusters (30 TM n systems for n= 2–15): a density functional theory …

AS Chaves, MJ Piotrowski, JLF Da Silva - Physical chemistry chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Subnanometric transition-metal (TM) clusters have attracted great attention due to their
unexpected physical and chemical properties, leastwise compared to their bulk …

Theoretical Design of Core–Shell 3d-Metal Nanoclusters for Efficient Hydrogen-Evolving Reaction

H Xu, JZ Zhu, C Zou, F Zhang, D Ming, D Guan… - Energy & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Co-and Ni-based materials are promising catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction
(HER) but usually transform into active Co/Ni metal nanoclusters during reductive HER …

Theoretical and experimental progress of metal electrocatalysts for the nitrogen reduction reaction

S Zhang, X Zhang, C Liu, L Pan, C Shi… - Materials Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Ammonia (NH3) has extensive applications in various fields and is mainly produced under
high-temperature and high-pressure via the Haber–Bosch process, which leads to massive …

Structural properties of sub-nanometer metallic clusters

F Baletto - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
At the nanoscale, the investigation of structural features becomes fundamental as we can
establish relationships between cluster geometries and their physicochemical properties …

The Mackay‐Type Cluster [Cu43Al12](Cp*)12: Open‐Shell 67‐Electron Superatom with Emerging Metal‐Like Electronic Structure

J Wessing, C Ganesamoorthy, S Kahlal… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The paramagnetic cluster [Cu43Al12](Cp*) 12 was obtained from the reaction of
[CuMes] 5 and [AlCp*] 4 (Cp*= η5‐C5Me5; Mes= mesityl). This all‐hydrocarbon ligand …

Minimum Free-Energy Shapes of Ag Nanocrystals: Vacuum vs Solution

T Yan, H Zhang, KA Fichthorn - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
We use two variants of replica-exchange molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, parallel
tempering MD and partial replica exchange MD, to probe the minimum free-energy shapes …

Investigation of the Stability Mechanisms of Eight-Atom Binary Metal Clusters Using DFT Calculations and k-means Clustering Algorithm

F Orlando Morais, KF Andriani… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Here, we report density functional theory calculations combined with the k-means clustering
algorithm and the Spearman rank correlation analysis to investigate the stability …