Cluster-assembled materials: Toward nanomaterials with precise control over properties

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 235-240

  Qian, Meichun ^a   Reber, Arthur C ^a   Ugrinov, Angel ^b   Chaki, Nirmalya K ^b   Mandal, Sukhendu ^b   Saavedra, Héctor M ^b   Khanna, Shiv N ^a   Sen, Ayusman ^b   Weiss, Paul S ^b,c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Band gap; Cluster assembled materials; Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy; Nanomaterials; Zintl ions

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC CLUSTERS; BAND GAPS; BUILDING BLOCKES; CLUSTER ASSEMBLY; CLUSTER-ASSEMBLED MATERIALS; DEGREE OF CHARGE TRANSFER; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; NANO-ASSEMBLIES; NANO-MATERIALS; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; PRECISE CONTROL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRONEGATIVITY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; ION EXCHANGE; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; REFLECTION; SPECTROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

ALKALI METAL; NANOMATERIAL; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ELECTRONICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTRONICS; METALS, ALKALI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; TRANSITION ELEMENTS;

EID: 75749094785     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn9010297     Document Type: Article

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