Atomic clusters, consisting of a few to a few thousand atoms, have emerged over the past 40
years as the ultimate nanoparticles, whose structure and properties can be controlled one …

The discovery of carbon fullerene cages and their solids opened a new avenue to build
materials from stable cage clusters as “artificial atoms” or “superatoms” instead of atoms …

For a long time, Zintl ions of Group 14 and 15 elements were considered to be remarkable
species domiciled in solid‐state chemistry that have unexpected stoichiometries and …

The physical and chemical properties of cluster systems at the subnano and nanoscale are
often found to differ from those of the bulk and display a unique dependence on size …

Atomic clusters composed of homo or heteroatomic species constitute an intermediate
phase of matter where every atom counts and whose properties depend on their size …

Clusters that mimic elemental atoms in the periodic table are known as superatoms which
open up a new window to design functional materials and catalysts by atomic construction …

The quantum states in metal clusters are grouped into bunches of close-lying eigenvalues,
termed electronic shells, similar to those of atoms. Filling of the electronic shells with paired …

We recently demonstrated that, in gas phase clusters containing aluminum and iodine
atoms, an Al13 cluster behaves like a halogen atom, whereas an Al14 cluster exhibits …

Ethylenediamine (en) solutions of K4Pb9 react with toluene solutions of ML4 (M= Pt, Pd, L=
PPh3; M= Ni, L2= COD) and 2, 2, 2-crypt to give M@ Pb122-cluster anions (M= Pt (1), Pd (2) …

The quantum states in small, compact metal clusters are bunched into electronic shells with
electronic orbitals resembling those in atoms, enabling classification of stable clusters as …