Designing ionic solids from metallic clusters

✍ Scribed by S.N. Khanna; P. Jena

• Book ID: 103033565
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 482 KB
• Volume: 219
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(94)00097-2

✦ Synopsis

Using self-consistent quantum mechanical calculations it is shown that numerous metal clusters with varying size and composition can be designed to mimic the chemistry of atoms in the periodic table. Such clusters can, therefore, extend the limits of the current periodic table of elements, making it possible to envision a new class of materials whose building blocks are not atoms but atomic clusters. This process can lead even otherwise immiscible elements to form a very stable solid with unusual electronic properties.