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 …

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 …

Putative global minima of neutral (Al n) and singly charged (⁠ Al n+ and Al n−⁠) aluminum
clusters with n= 13–34 have been located from first-principles density functional theory …

Photoelectron spectroscopy is combined with ab initio calculations to elucidate the structure
and chemical bonding of a series of MAl6-(M= Li, Na, K, Cu, and Au) bimetallic clusters. Well …

The geometries, stabilities, and electronic and magnetic properties of MAln (M= Cr, Mn, Fe,
Co, Ni; n= 1–7, 12) clusters have been investigated systematically within the framework of …

Photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) is combined with theoretical calculations to investigate
the electronic and atomic structures of three doped aluminum clusters, M Al 12−(⁠ M= Li⁠ …

We report a combined photoelectron spectroscopy and theoretical study of the structural
evolution of aluminum cluster anions doped with two gold atoms, Au2Al n–(n= 3–11). Well …

Aluminum and aluminum-doped clusters have gained much attention in cluster science due
to their potential applications in nanotechnology. Here, we report a combined photoelectron …

Structural information on free transition metal doped aluminum clusters, Al n TM+(TM= Ti, V,
Cr), was obtained by studying their ability for argon physisorption. Systematic size (n= 5–35) …

The static and dynamic polarizabilities for the lowest-energy structures of pure aluminum
clusters up to 31 atoms have been investigated systematically within the framework of …