Rising energy demands, depletion of fossil fuel reserves, and environmental pollution have
fueled the search for energy conversion devices with high efficiency and low emissions. Fuel …

Empty spaces are abhorred by nature, which immediately rushes in to fill the void. Humans
have learnt pretty well how to make ordered empty nanocontainers, and to get useful …

Ab initio calculations on Pt clusters having diameters of up to about 3 nm show planar,
layered, pyramidal, cage, simple cubic, and octahedral growth. Planar structures are …

Careful control of the size, shape, and composition allows the properties of various noble
metals, particularly palladium and platinum, to be varied, which leads to a wide range of …

Although they exist ubiquitously in human bodies and our surroundings, the impact of
nonbonding lone electrons and lone electron pairs has long been underestimated. Recent …

Transition metal telluride magnetic semiconductors were highly attractive because of their
wide range of applications in different technology. In continuance, Pt-doped CoTe magnetic …

The concept of nanocrystal conversion chemistry, which involves the use of pre-formed
nanoparticles as templates for chemical transformation into derivative solids, has emerged …

Pt is often considered to be an exchange-enhanced paramagnetic material, in which the
Stoner criterion for ferromagnetism is nearly satisfied and, thus, external stimuli may induce …

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

Atomic and molecular clusters can be considered to be a distinct form of matter, a “bridge”
between atoms on the one hand and solids on the other. Interest in clusters comes from …