Atomic Clusters
From Gas Phase to Deposited

Bringing together authoritative reviews of topics in both gas-phase and deposited clusters - covering the range of chemical, structural, electronic and magnetic properties

D. P. Woodruff (Volume editor)

9780444527561, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 18 April 2007

648 pages
24 x 16.5 x 3.5 cm, 1.33 kg

Atomic Clusters: From Gas Phase to Deposited brings together a series of chapters, prepared by acknowledged experts in their fields. Both fundamental and practical aspects are addressed of the physics and chemistry of a novel state of matter, namely clusters of small numbers of atoms of nanometre dimensions. This is a field of nanoscience that existed before the word was invented, but has particularly achieved major advances in the recent years.

Chapter 1, Size Effects in the Chemistry of Small Clusters ((M. Arenz et al.).
Chapter 2. Chemical reactivity and catalytic properties of size-selected gas phase metal clusters (S.M. Lang et al.).
Chapter 3. Probing the Unique Size-Dependent Properties of Small Au Clusters, Au Alloy Clusters, and CO Chemisorbed Au Clusters in the Gas Phase (H.-J. Zhai et al.).
Chapter 4. Aun and Agn (n=1–8) Nanocluster Catalysts: Gas Phase Reactivity to Deposited Structures (S.K. Buratto et al.).
Chapter 5. Oxide-supported metal clusters (M. Chen, D.W. Goodman).
Chapter 6. Magic numbers for shells of electrons and shells of atoms in binary clusters (S. Neukermans et al.).
Chapter 7. Computational electron spectroscopy of gas phase metal clusters (J. Jellinek, P.H. Acioli).
Chapter 8. Vibrational Spectroscopy of Gas-Phase Clusters and Complexes (K.R. Asmis et al.).
Chapter 9. Trapped ion electron diffraction: structural evolution of silver and gold clusters (J.H. Parks, X. Xing).
Chapter 10. Superatoms: Building blocks of new materials (A.W. Castleman, S. Khanna).
Chapter 11. Magnetic properties of 2D islands on single crystal metal surfaces (H. Brune, S. Rusponi).
Chapter 12. Electronic structure and magnetic properties of small deposited transition metal clusters (W. Wurth, M. Martins).
Chapter 13. Magnetic properties of deposited and embedded clusters (C. Binns).
Chapter 14. Theory of magnetic clusters and nanostructures at surfaces (G.M. Pastor, J.D. Dávilla).
Chapter 15. Modelling the structure and dynamics of metal nanoclusters deposited on
graphite (R. Smith et al.).

Subject Areas: Chemical engineering [TDCB], Biochemical engineering [TC], Physical chemistry [PNR], Nuclear physics [PHN], Atomic & molecular physics [PHM]