Assembling crystals from clusters
- 14 September 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 69 (11) , 1664-1667
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.69.1664
Abstract
It is shown that the stability of a cluster can be substantially enhanced by changing its size and/or composition so as to take advantage of the electronic shell filling as well as close atomic packing. The interaction between two such clusters is found to be weak and can form the basis for synthesizing a new class of cluster-assembled crystals with uncommong properties.Keywords
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