Experimental and theoretical investigations of the thermodynamic stability of Ba-C60 and K-C60 compound clusters

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1000-1014

  Zurek, Eva ^a,d   Autschbach, Jochen ^b   Malinowski, Nikola ^a,e   Enders, Axel ^c   Kern, Klaus ^f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^e CENTRAL LABORATORY OF PHOTOPROCESSES   (Bulgaria)

^f EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chemical bonding; Cluster stability; Density functional calculations; Fullerenes; Magic clusters

Indexed keywords

BARIUM;

EXPERIMENTAL SET UPS;

THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

BARIUM; FULLERENE C60; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; NANOMATERIAL; POTASSIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BARIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FULLERENES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POTASSIUM; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 45749151117     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800022d     Document Type: Article

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