Nicola Gaston

Superatoms

An Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is designed to be an introduction to the field, covering the history of the concept and related theoretical models from cluster physics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 190g
• ISBN-13: 9781032417226
• ISBN-10: 1032417226
• Artikelnr.: 66746284

Autorenporträt

Nicola Gaston is a professor of physics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand where her research group conducts quantum-mechanical simulations of the electronic and thermodynamic behaviour of nanoscale materials, aiming to find new ways of making materials that address issues of sustainability - whether addressing issues of energy sustainability, or designing materials to be more sustainably synthesized or recycled. She is also the Co-Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. What Makes an Atom? Chapter 2. Electronic Shell Structure.
Chapter 3. From the Jellium Model to Density Functional Theory. Chapter
4. From Density Functional Theory to Properties. Chapter 5. Real Metal
Clusters. Chapter 6. Non-Metal Superatoms. Chapter 7. Ligand Protected
Metal Clusters. Chapter 8. Beyond Simple Superatoms. Chapter 9. Superatomic
Assemblies. Bibliography.