Metal Clusters and Nanoalloys From Modeling to Applications /

• Main Authors: Mariscal, Marcelo Mario (Author), Oviedo, Oscar Alejandro (Author), Leiva, Ezequiel Pedro Marcos (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Nanostructure Science and Technology,
• Subjects: Materials science.; Energy storage.; Catalysis.; Nanotechnology.; Metals.; Materials Science.; Metallic Materials.; Energy Storage.

Metallic nanoparticles are promising materials due to their potential applications to a wide array of disciplines ranging from novel building materials to medicine. This book is the first of its kind, focusing solely on the most advanced theoretical techniques to model and simulate metallic clusters...

Table of Contents:

• Experimental and simulated electron microscopy in the study of metal nanostructures
• Density-functional theory of free and supported mtal nanoclusters and nanoalloys
• Closed-shell metal clusters
• Optical properties of metal nanoclusters from an atomistic point of view
• Spin-fluctuation theory of cluster magnetism
• Thermodynamics and kinetics using semi-empirical approaches
• Structure and chemical ordering in nanoalloys: Towards nanoalloys phase diagrams
• Modeling of Janus nanoparticles
• Modeling of protected nanoparticles
• Thermodynamic modeling of metallic nanoclusters.