We summarize here the research advances on the reactivity of metal clusters. After a simple
introduction of apparatuses used for gas-phase cluster reactions, we focus on the reactivity …

Metal, metal oxide, and metal chalcogenide materials have a wide variety of applications.
For example, many metal clusters and nanoparticles are used as catalysts for reactions …

Conspectus The relative role of electronic and geometric effects on the stability of clusters
has been a contentious topic for quite some time, with the focus on electronic structure …

Clusters that mimic elemental atoms in the periodic table are known as superatoms which
open up a new window to design functional materials and catalysts by atomic construction …

Spin accommodation is demonstrated to play a determining role in the reactivity of silver
cluster anions with oxygen. Odd-electron silver clusters are found to be especially reactive …

The quantum states in metal clusters bunch into supershells with associated orbitals having
shapes resembling those in atoms, giving rise to the concept that selected clusters could …

The stability of metal clusters is often associated with relatively low energy, highly symmetric
structure, electronic shell closure and chemical reaction inertness, which is tunable by …

We report a joint experimental and theoretical investigation into the geometry, stability, and
reactivity with oxygen of alloy metal clusters Al n Mg m–(4≤ n+ m≤ 15; 0≤ m≤ 3) …

The global minimum structures of pure and boron doped silver clusters up to 16 atoms are
determined through ab initio calculations and unbiased structure searching methods. The …

Quantum confinement in small metal clusters leads to a bunching of states into electronic
shells reminiscent of shells in atoms, enabling the classification of clusters as superatoms …