Protected Metal Clusters: From Fundamentals to Applications

Protected Metal Clusters: From Fundamentals to Applications surveys the fundamental concepts and potential applications of atomically precise metal clusters protected by organic ligands. As this class of materials is now emerging as a result of breakthroughs in synthesis and characterization that have taken place over the last few years, the book provides the first reference with a focus on these exciting novel nanomaterials, explaining their formation, and how, and why, they play an important role in the future of molecular electronics, catalysis, sensing, biological imaging, and medical diagnosis and therapy. Surveys the fundamental concepts and potential applications of atomically precise metal clusters protected by organic ligands.Provides well-organized, tutorial style chapters that are ideal for teaching and self-studyIn-depth descriptions by top scientists in the fieldPresents the state-of-the art of protected metal clusters and their future prospects INDICE: 1. Introduction, Tatsuya Tsukuda and Hannu Häkkinen 2. Controlled synthesis: size control, Shinjiro Takano and Tatsuya Tsukuda 3. Controlled synthesis: composition and interface control, Yuichi Negishi 4. Structural determination: single crystal XRD, Christopher Ackerson 5. Structural engineering of intermetallic clusters, Nanfeng Zheng 6. Structural characterization: electron microscopy, Richard Palmer and Zhiwei Wang 7. Structural search: theory and algorithms, De-en Jiang 8. Electronic structure: Development of the superatom concept, Hannu Häkkinen 9. Optical properties and chirality, Christine Aikens 10. Catalytic properties, Yuxiang Chen and Rongchao Jin 11. Functionalization & application, Jianping Xie

• ISBN: 978-0-08-100086-1
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 325
• Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés