The field of chiral inorganic nanostructures is rapidly expanding. It started from the
observation of strong circular dichroism during the synthesis of individual nanoparticles …

Metal, metal oxide, and metal chalcogenide materials have a wide variety of applications.
For example, many metal clusters and nanoparticles are used as catalysts for reactions …

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 …

Nanomaterials in the size range of 3–50 nm have received increased attention in the last
few decades because they exhibit physical properties that are intermediate to those of …

Gold is an element whose unique properties are strongly influenced by relativistic effects. A
large body of appropriate calculations now exists and its main conclusions are summarized …

We present a systematic study of the electronic properties and the geometric structure of
noble metal clusters X n ν (X= Cu, Ag, Au; ν=− 1, 0,+ 1; n⩽ 13 and n= 20), obtained from first …

We have investigated the lowest-energy structures and electronic properties of the Au n (n=
2–2 0) clusters based on density-functional theory with local density approximation. The …

A study has been made of the structures and stabilities of copper and gold clusters and
copper–gold nanoalloy clusters, with up to 56 atoms, modeled by the many-body Gupta …

A systematic search for global and energetically low-lying minimum structures of neutral
gold clusters Aun (n= 2–20) is performed within a seeded genetic algorithm technique using …

We present high resolution UV-photoelectron spectra of cold mass selected C un-, A gn-,
and A un-with n= 53–58. The observed electron density of states is not the expected simple …