Met-Cars: A New Family of Metal - Carbon Clusters

摘要: Matter of nanoscale dimensions often displays properties unlike those isolated gas-phase molecules, liquids or solids. Sometimes this is due to their bonding, structure and morphology, while in other cases it because the small bring with new phenomena arising from quantum confinement. Work progress our group investigate changing matter at different degrees aggregation provide a physical basis for interpreting unique behavior such systems. Studying cluster materials comprised metals metal compounds particularly promising avenue approach ascertain when discrete molecular begin coalesce display collective characteristic