Growth Mechanism and chemical bonding in scandium-doped copper clusters: Experimental and theoretical study in concert

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 3970-3982

  Höltzl, Tibor ^a,c   Veldeman, Nele ^b   Haeck, Jorg De ^b   Veszprémi, Tamás ^c   Lievens, Peter ^b   Nguyen, Minh Tho ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Bimetallic clusters; Copper; Density functional calculations; Scandium

Indexed keywords

BIMETALLIC CLUSTERS; CATIONIC CLUSTERS; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; CHEMICAL BONDINGS; CLUSTER PROPERTIES; COPPER CLUSTERS; CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; DEPENDENT STABILITIES; DISSOCIATION ENERGIES; ELECTRON COUNTS; GROWTH MECHANISMS; GROWTH PATTERNS; LASER VAPORIZATIONS; NEUTRAL CLUSTERS; NEUTRAL SPECIES; NOBLE GAS; ORBITALS; QUANTUM-CHEMICAL COMPUTATIONS; REACTION PATHS; STABLE CLUSTERS; THEORETICAL STUDIES;

CHEMICAL BONDS; COPPER; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FARM BUILDINGS; INERT GASES; LASER THEORY; POSITIVE IONS; SCANDIUM;

SCANDIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 65349083742     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200802372     Document Type: Article

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