Reactions of transition metal clusters with small molecules

MB Knickelbein - Annual review of physical chemistry, 1999‏ - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Atoms and small molecules react with transition metal clusters in ways that are
analogous to the physisorption and chemisorption reactions observed on the corresponding …

Global minima for transition metal clusters described by Sutton–Chen potentials

JPK Doye, DJ Wales - New journal of chemistry, 1998‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Using a Monte Carlo minimization approach we report the global minima for metal clusters
modelled by the Sutton–Chen family of potentials containing up to 80 atoms. The resulting …

Homonuclear 3d transition-metal diatomics: A systematic density functional theory study

CJ Barden, JC Rienstra-Kiracofe… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2000‏ - pubs.aip.org
The equilibrium bond lengths, harmonic vibrational frequencies, and dissociation energies
of the ground state homonuclear 3d transition-metal diatomics (scandium through copper) …

Global cluster geometry optimization by a phenotype algorithm with Niches: Location of elusive minima, and low‐order scaling with cluster size

B Hartke - Journal of computational chemistry, 1999‏ - Wiley Online Library
The problem of global geometry optimization of clusters is addressed with a phenotype
variant of the method of genetic algorithms, with several novel performance enhancements …

Structure of neutral aluminum clusters : Genetic algorithm tight-binding calculations

FC Chuang, CZ Wang, KH Ho - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2006‏ - APS
We performed global structural optimizations for neutral aluminum clusters Al n (n up to 23)
using a genetic algorithm (GA) coupled with a tight-binding interatomic potential. Structural …

A genetic algorithm for the structural optimization of Morse clusters

C Roberts, RL Johnston, NT Wilson - Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 2000‏ - Springer
This article describes the application of a genetic algorithm for the structural optimization of
19–50-atom clusters bound by medium-range and short-range Morse pair potentials. The …

Structural and energetic properties of nickel clusters: 

VG Grigoryan, M Springborg - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2004‏ - APS
The four most stable structures of Ni N clusters with N from 2 to 150 have been determined
using a combination of the embedded-atom method in the version of Daw, Baskes, and …

Genetic algorithms for the geometry optimization of atomic and molecular clusters

J Zhao, RH **e - Journal of Computational and Theoretical …, 2004‏ - ingentaconnect.com
Clusters, aggregates of a few to thousands of atoms or molecules, have been intensively
studied during the past 20 years due to their importance in physics, chemistry, biochemistry …

A molecular dynamics study on the formation of metallofullerene

Y Yamaguchi, S Maruyama - The European Physical Journal D-Atomic …, 1999‏ - Springer
The growth process of metallofullerene was studied by the use of the molecular dynamics
method. Based on density functional theory (DFT) calculations of various forms of small …

Computational strategies to address the catalytic activity of nanoclusters

AS Nair, B Pathak - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Metal nanoclusters have been emerged as imperative elements of heterogenous catalysis.
Remarkably different properties from the bulk at the atomic level asserts construction of …