Clusters, dipolar

Rev. Lett. 56,1377,1986. Detection of hydrogen clustering in amorphous hydrogenated silicon by a special technique of dipolar spectroscopy, mul-dple-quantum NMR. 

This example shows that dipolar interactions can produce unexpected effects in systems containing polynuclear clusters, so that their complete quantitative description requires a model in which the dipolar interactions between all the paramagnetic sites of the system are explicitly taken into account. Local spin models of this kind can provide a description of the relative arrangement of the interacting centers at atomic resolution and have been worked out for systems containing [2Fe-2S] and [4Fe-4S] clusters (112, 192). In the latter case, an additional complication arises due to the delocalized character of the [Fe(III), Fe(II)] mixed-valence pair, so that the magnetic moments carried by the two sites A and B of Fig. 8B must be written... 

Figure 2-2. Left Association of two dipolar water molecules by a hydrogen bond (dotted line). Right Hydrogen-bonded cluster of four water molecules. Note that water can serve simultaneously both as a hydrogen donor and as a hydrogen acceptor.

We have found that dendrimers can be used to encapsulate active moieties, thereby preventing them from interacting. This passivation effect limits inter-molecular interactions such as self-aggregation and molecular clustering. We also found that dendrimers can be made dipolar. This asymmetry in molecular orientation enables dendrimers to be used in NLO. In this chapter we describe our application of dendrimers to lasers and NLO. 

In this Section we want to present one of the fingerprints of noble-metal cluster formation, that is the development of a well-defined absorption band in the visible or near UV spectrum which is called the surface plasma resonance (SPR) absorption. SPR is typical of s-type metals like noble and alkali metals and it is due to a collective excitation of the delocalized conduction electrons confined within the cluster volume [15]. The theory developed by G. Mie in 1908 [22], for spherical non-interacting nanoparticles of radius R embedded in a non-absorbing medium with dielectric constant s i (i.e. with a refractive index n = Sm ) gives the extinction cross-section a(o),R) in the dipolar approximation as ... 

C. Elsasser, M. Brecht and R. Bittl, Pulsed electron-electron double resonance on multinuclear metal clusters Assignment of spin projection factors bsed on the dipolar interaction, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2002, 124, 12606. 

Exchange Intramolecular dipolar Within metal clusters, for example,... 

Attaching a Ceo cluster to an [Ru(bpy)3] + core has been achieved by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azomethine ylides to the fullerene. The electrochemistry of the complex is complicated a one-electron reversible oxidation of the Ru center, five one-electron reversible reductions associated with the Ceo cage, and five more reversible reductions centered on the bpy ligands. The photophysical properties of the complex have been discussed. ... 

The dipolar nature of water molecules favors the formation of hydrogen bonds (see p. 6). Each molecule can act either as a donor or an acceptor of H bonds, and many molecules in liquid water are therefore connected by H bonds (1). The bonds are in a state of constant fluctuation. Tetrahedral networks of molecules, known as water clusters, often arise. As the temperature decreases, the proportion... 

Figure 11. The ion cluster size distribution obtained from computer simulations of the charged and dipolar hard sphere mixture at several states half charge 1 Molar (A) fully charged, 1 Molar (B) fully charged, 0.4 Molar (C) and half charge, 0.4 Molar (D).

Classical relaxors [22,23] are perovskite soUd solutions like PbMgi/3Nb2/303 (PMN), which exhibit both site and charge disorder resulting in random fields in addition to random bonds. In contrast to dipolar glasses where the elementary dipole moments exist on the atomic scale, the relaxor state is characterized by the presence of polar clusters of nanometric size. The dynamical properties of relaxor ferroelectrics are determined by the presence of these polar nanoclusters [24]. PMN remains cubic to the lowest temperatures measured. One expects that the disorder -type dynamics found in the cubic phase of BaTiOs, characterized by two timescales, is somehow translated into the... 

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