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 …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the experimental and simulation evidence for
polytetrahedral order in small clusters, liquids, glasses, and periodic or quasiperiodic …

This overview of energy landscapes will focus on some rigorous properties of potential
energy surfaces (PES's), especially the symmetry properties of steepest-descent paths, and …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on measurements and theories pertaining to
homogeneous nucleation under cooled liquids and glasses that transform to phases of the …

A direct connection between the solid-liquid transition in atomic clusters and the
macroscopic phase transition is established through analysis of the size scaling of the latent …

Water is the most ubiquitous substance on Earth, and it is known to have anomalous
macroscopic and microscopic properties. 1'2 A decrease of viscosity with pressure, a large …

Classification of the fragments which are obtained by successive division of material is given
according to their sizes. The particles are called fine particles when they consist of the order …

A method is introduced that is easy to implement and greatly reduces the systematic error
resulting from quasi‐ergodicity, or incomplete sampling of configuration space, in Monte …

The location of stationary points on potential energysurfaces of polyatomic molecules is a
major problem in computational chemistry. A particularpowerful method for locating minima …

The discrete path sampling approach is applied to analyse the dynamics of several atomic
and molecular clusters. Permutational isomerization rates are first calculated for icosahedral …