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Magic Nuclearity Giant Clusters of Metal Nanocrystals Formed by Mesoscale Self-Assembly [Pg.442]

Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore-560 064, India [Pg.442]

Rao obtained his Ph.D. degree from Purdue University and D.Sc. degree from the University of Mysore. He is Linus Pauling Research Professor at the JNCASR and Honorary Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore India. He is a member of several academies including the Royal Society (London), U.S. National Academy of Sciences. French Academy of Sciences, and Japan Academy. His main research interests are in solid state and materials chemistry and nanomaterials. The most recent award received by him is the Hughes medal for physical sciences from the Royal Society. [Pg.445]

Giant clusters of Pd nanocrystals are obtained by the mesoscopic assembly of nanocrystals of uniform size. This observation provides an illustration of the principle of self-similarity. These clusters of metal nanocrystals are perhaps bound by the same laws that endow special stability to magic numbered nanocrystals. It would therefore appear that these laws are invariant under scaling. The giant clusters of Pdssi nanocrystals obtained by us are different from other types of ligand directed nanocrystal aggregates which are formed mostly due to the directional nature of the ligand shell. [Pg.444]

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