Metal Clusters and Nanoalloys From Modeling to Applications /

Metallic nanoparticles are promising materials due to their potential applications to a wide array of disciplines ranging from novel building materials to medicine. This book is the first of its kind,�focusing�solely on the most advanced theoretical techniques to model and simulate metallic clusters...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mariscal, Marcelo Mario. (Author), Oviedo, Oscar Alejandro. (Author), Leiva, Ezequiel Pedro Marcos. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:Nanostructure Science and Technology,
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3643-0
Table of Contents:
  • Experimental and simulated electron microscopy in the study of metal nanostructures
  • Density-functional theory of free and supported mtal nanoclusters and nanoalloys
  • Closed-shell metal clusters
  • Optical properties of metal nanoclusters from an atomistic point of view
  • Spin-fluctuation theory of cluster magnetism
  • Thermodynamics and kinetics using semi-empirical approaches
  • Structure and chemical ordering in nanoalloys: Towards nanoalloys phase diagrams
  • Modeling of Janus nanoparticles
  • Modeling of protected nanoparticles
  • Thermodynamic modeling of metallic nanoclusters.