The importance of the selective activation of alkanes for science and technology in the
forthcoming decades does not need to be explicitly pointed out in this thematic issue of …

The laser vaporization cluster source has been used for the production of gas phase atomic
clusters and metal-molecular complexes for 30 years. Numerous experiments in the …

Understanding the energy it takes to build or break chemical bonds is essential for scientists
and engineers in a wide range of innovative fields, including catalysis, nanomaterials …

The physical and chemical properties of cluster systems at the subnano and nanoscale are
often found to differ from those of the bulk and display a unique dependence on size …

The concept of coupling a nanometer or subnanometer scale oxide phase to a metal surface
to form a metal–oxide hybrid material with novel properties is an attractive approach in the …

Recent work on the chemical reactivity of mass-selected small silver and gold, as well as
binary silver–gold cluster ions in a temperature controlled radio frequency ion trap …

Transition metal oxides are widely used as both catalysts and catalytic supports in industrial
processes. However, the mechanisms by which these materials function as catalysts and the …

A corner stone in the study of the size‐dependent properties of cluster ions in the gas phase
is their structural characterization. Over the last 10 years, significant progress has been in …

To many researchers outside the field of cluster science it may come as a surprise that much
can be learned of its relevance to catalysis, even restricting the discussion to ionized …

We present joint theoretical and experimental results which provide evidence for the
selectivity of V x O y+ clusters in reactions toward ethylene due to the charge and different …