Structural properties of nanoclusters: Energetic, thermodynamic, and kinetic effects

F Baletto, R Ferrando - Reviews of modern physics, 2005 - APS
The structural properties of free nanoclusters are reviewed. Special attention is paid to the
interplay of energetic, thermodynamic, and kinetic factors in the explanation of cluster …

Size dependent thermal vibrations and melting in nanocrystals

FG Shi - Journal of materials research, 1994 - Springer
A simple model for the size-dependent amplitude of the atomic thermal vibrations of a
nanocrystal is presented which leads to the development of a model for the size dependent …

Lowest energy structures of gold nanoclusters

IL Garzón, K Michaelian, MR Beltrán… - Physical review …, 1998 - APS
The lowest energy structures of Au n (n= 38, 5 5, 75) nanoclusters are obtained by
unconstrained dynamical and genetic-symbiotic optimization methods, using a Gupta n …

NinAlm alloy clusters: analysis of structural forms and their energy ordering

J Jellinek, EB Krissinel - Chemical physics letters, 1996 - Elsevier
Structural forms of model NinAlm, n+ m= 13, alloy clusters are studied for all stoichiometric
compositions using a many-body potential. These forms are distinguished by their …

[BOK][B] Molecular electronic structures of transition metal complexes II

DMP Mingos, P Day, JP Dahl - 2012 - books.google.com
T. Ziegler: A Chronicle About the Development of Electronic Structure Theories for Transition
Metal Complexes.-J. Linderberg: Orbital Models and Electronic Structure Theory.-JS and JE …

The structure of small nickel clusters. I. Ni3–Ni15

EK Parks, L Zhu, J Ho, SJ Riley - The Journal of chemical physics, 1994 - pubs.aip.org
The geometrical structure of small nickel clusters is probed via molecular adsorption of
nitrogen on their surfaces. Nitrogen uptake patterns can be rationalized with the proposed …

Mechanisms of phase transitions in sodium clusters: From molecular to bulk behavior

F Calvo, F Spiegelmann - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2000 - pubs.aip.org
The thermodynamics of sodium clusters is investigated by means of a classical empirical
potential and a simple quantal tight-binding model. Neutral and singly charged clusters of …

Structural and vibrational analysis of amorphous clusters

IL Garzon, A Posada-Amarillas - Physical Review B, 1996 - APS
We present a structural and vibrational analysis of several amorphous (disordered) and
ordered isomers of a 55-atom gold cluster. A Gupta n-body potential, with parameters fitted …

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 …

Physics of nickel clusters: energetics and equilibrium geometries

SK Nayak, SN Khanna, BK Rao… - The Journal of Physical …, 1997 - ACS Publications
The equilibrium geometries and the binding energies of Ni n clusters (n≤ 23) have been
calculated by using an empirical many-body potential and molecular dynamics (MD) …