114 Pages
50 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
114 Pages
50 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
114 Pages
50 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
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Superatoms are a growing topic of interest in nanoscience, bringing the physics of electronic structure together with the chemistry of atomically precise clusters. They offer the prospect of materials design based on the targeted tunability of nanoscale building blocks, creating electronic materials that can be used as everything from catalysts to computing hardware.
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Chapter 1. What Makes an Atom? Chapter 2. Electronic Shell Structure. Chapter 3. From the Jellium Model to Density Functional Theory. Chapter 4. From Density Functional Theory to Properties. Chapter 5. Real Metal Clusters. Chapter 6. Non-Metal Superatoms. Chapter 7. Ligand Protected Metal Clusters. Chapter 8. Beyond Simple Superatoms. Chapter 9. Superatomic Assemblies. Bibliography.
Biography
Nicola Gaston is a professor of physics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand where her research group conducts quantum-mechanical simulations of the electronic and thermodynamic behaviour of nanoscale materials, aiming to find new ways of making materials that address issues of sustainability – whether addressing issues of energy sustainability, or designing materials to be more sustainably synthesized or recycled. She is also the Co-Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence.
