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Figure 10.4. (a) Schematic energy diagrams of clusters, nanoparticles, and bulk semiconductors. (b) Manifestation of the size quantization effect as a color change of aqueous colloidal solutions of CdSe nanoparticles (courtesy of A. Rogach). The particle size changes from left to right from -1.5 to -4.5 nm. (c) Bulk CdSe crystal. (See color insert.)... 

N. Uras Aytemiz, J. P. Devlin, J. Sadlej, and V. Buch, HC1 solvation at the surface and within methanol clusters/nanoparticles II Evidence for molecular wires. J. Phys. Chem. B 110, 21751 21763 (2006). 

K. Sattler, The Energy Gap of Clusters, Nanoparticles and Quantum Dots, in H. S. Nalwa (Ed.), Handbook of Thin Films Materials, Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 2002, p. 62. 

But it is also important to appreciate the fact that all rules have a limited domain in which they are valid. Compounds that do not follow the rules become objects of interest often because they are associated with properties of value, e.g., the Lewis acidity of six-electron BF3. But, as we will discover, very large clusters cannot follow the existing counting rules as they lie outside the domain of validity. Yet these large clusters, nanoparticles, must have a drummer to which they march. A shadowy outline of this presently unknown drummer appears in the context of the existing rules. That is, counting is a place to start ... 

A different approach to the stability of hydride nanoparticles is bottom-up, using computational techniques to construct equilibrium (lowest energy) configurations for the clusters, nanoparticles or thin films of the metal and corresponding hydride, and evaluate the difference in stability between the two as a function of particle size. Although the possibilities are rapidly increasing, these calculations are still limited to small cluster sizes due to computational restraints. As a relevant example we vhll only briefiy discuss various types of calculations for the case of the ionic hydrides MgH2 and NaH. 

Most of our discussion thus far has involved some rather extreme synthetic environments of laser, arc, or pyrolysis. However, a preferred route toward nano-clusters/nanoparticles of metals and their compounds is through use of relatively mild conditions - often taking place at room temperature on the benchtop. This is not possible for carbon nanoallotropes, since the precursor e.g., graphite) contains... 

For example Do nanoporous materials have similarities to clustered nanoparticles either structurally or energetically ... 

K. Sattler, in The Energy Gap of Cluster Nanoparticles, and Quantum Dots, ed. by H.S. Nalwa. Handbook of Thin Films Materials, vol. 5 Nanomaterials and Magnetic Thin Films. (Academic, New York, 2002), pp. 61-97... 

Nanomaterials represent today s cutting edge in the development of novel advanced materials, which promise tailor-made functionality for unique applications in all important industrial sectors. Nanomaterials can be clusters of atoms, grains 100 nm in size, fibers that are less than 100 nm in diameter, films that are less than 100 nm in thickness, nanoholes, and composites that are a combination of these. In other words, it implies that the microstructures (crystallites, crystal boundaries) are nanoscale [1]. Nanomaterials include atom clusters, nanoparticles, nanotubes, nanorods, nanowires, nanobelts, nanofilms, compact nanostructured bulk materials, and nanoporous materials [2]. Materials in nanosize range exhibit... 

Techniques for the preparation of metal cluster/nanoparticles can be classified into three primary categories condensed phase, gas phase, and vacuum methods. In condensed phase synthesis, metal and semiconductor nanoparticles are prepared by means of chemical synthesis, which is also known as wet chemical preparation. In gas phase synthesis, metal is vaporized, and the vaporized atoms are condensed in the presence or absence of an inert gas. In vacuum methods, the metal of interest is vaporized with high-energy Ar, Kr ions, or laser beams in a vacuum, and thus generated metal vapor is deposited on a support. 

Figure 6 Metal complex or metal cluster/nanoparticles incorporated into macromolecules...

Sattler Klaus. The energy gap of clusters nanoparticles, and quantum dots. In Handbook of thin films materials, H. S. Nalwa (ed.), pp. 61-97. Hawai Academic Press, 2002. 

We hope that the aromaticity, antiaromaticity, and conflicting aromaticity concepts would stimulate theoretical analysis of chemical bonding in other known and novel chemical compounds containing transition metal atoms in clusters, nanoparticles, solid compounds, and metallobiomolecules. 

Z. Q. (2011) Tailoring Au-core Pd-shell Pt-cluster nanoparticles for enhanced electrocatalytic activity, Chem. ScL, 2(3), 531-539. 

Prehydrolysis of the faster reacting component with a substoichiometric proportion of water leads to clusters/nanoparticles onto which the slower reacting component may condense. After addition of the latter, the rest of water is added. 

Nitrogen- and phosphine-binding ligands in interaction with gold atoms, clusters, nanoparticles and surfaces... 

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