Many-body tight-binding model for aluminum nanoparticles

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Staszewska, Grazyna ^a,d   Staszewski, Przemysław ^b,d   Schultz, Nathan E ^c   Truhlar, Donald G ^c  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY; IONIZATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NANOPARTICLE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 15744374288     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.045423     Document Type: Article

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