What determines if a ligand activates or passivates a superatom cluster?
Abstract
Quantum confinement in small metal clusters leads to a bunching of states into electronic shells reminiscent of shells in atoms, enabling the classification of clusters as superatoms.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2016
- Source ID
- 10.1039/c5sc04293c
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- A. W. Castleman
- Arthur C Reber
- Meiye Jia
- Shiv N Khanna
- William H. Blades
- Zhixun Luo
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Project
- Lone Star College System
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- Pennsylvania State University
- Royal Institute of Chemistry
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- Virginia Commonwealth University