Large Clusters of Atoms and Molecules

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• I. Shells and Supershells.
• Semiclassical Methods for the Description of Large Metal Clusters.
• Effects of the Surface and Finite Temperature on the Electronic Structure of Metal Clusters.
• Electronic Shells and Supershells in Gallium and Aluminum Clusters.
• Electronic Shells in Large Quantum Dots.
• Electron Shell Structure and Cluster Abundances.
• Shell-Correction Methods for Clusters: Theory and Applications.
• Thermodynamics and Decay of Liquid Alkali Clusters.
• II. Structure and Dynamics.
• Convergence of Cluster Properties Towards Bulk Behavior: How Large is Large?.
• Theoretical Predictions of Structure and Thermodynamics in the Large Cluster Regime.
• Phases and Phase Changes of Clusters.
• Topographies and Dynamics of Many-Dimensional Potential Surfaces.
• Photofragmentation of Hot Clusters: Evaporation, Fission, and Photofragmentation Spectroscopy.
• Structure and Properties of Metal Clusters and Colloids in Ligand Shells.
• Dynamics of Cluster Reactions and Ionization: From Semiconductor to Hydrogen-Bonded/van der Waals Systems.
• III. Carbon Clusters.
• The Growth and the Death of Carbon Fullerenes and Nanotubes.
• Lessons of a Discovery: Fullerenes and Other Clusters in Chemistry.
• Carbon Nanotubes and Aligned Carbon Nanotube Films.
• IV. Experimental and Theoretical Techniques.
• Impacting Clusters.
• Manipulation of Atoms and Clusters by STM.
• Optical Properties of Free and Embedded Metal Clusters: Recent Results.
• Large Scale Simulations using Tight Binding Molecular Dynamics.
• Characterization of a Source of Large Clusters.