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Annotation This work is devoted to the topic of alloy nanoparticles, the bi-or multicomponent metallic nanoparticles that are often called nanoalloys. The interest in nanoalloys stems from the wide spectrum of their possible applications in the fields of catalysis, magnetism, and optics.
Front Cover; Structure and Properties of Nanoalloys; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Scalable and Nonscalable Regimes in Metal Clusters and Nanoparticles; 1.2 Bulk Alloys: Composition-dependent Properties; 1.3 Marrying Nano and Alloys: the Nanoalloys; Chapter 2: Geometric structures and chemical ordering in nanoalloys; 2.1 Geometric Structures; 2.1.1 Crystalline Structures; Face-centered cubic (fcc) nanoparticles; Body-centered cubic (bcc) nanoparticles; Hexagonal close-packed (hcp) nanoparticles; 2.1.2 Twinned Structures; 2.1.3 Decahedra.
2.1.4 Mackay Icosahedra2.1.5 Other Structures: Anti-Mackay Icosahedra, Pentadodecahedra, Polyicosahedra, Leary Tetrahedra and Hybrid Structures; 2.1.6 Energetic Stability of the Different Motifs in Elemental Metallic Nanoparticles; 2.1.7 Supported Nanoparticles; 2.2 Chemical Ordering; 2.2.1 Mixing Patterns; 2.2.2 Nonmixing Patterns; 2.3 Order Parameters for Characterizing Nanoalloy Structure and Chemical Ordering; Chapter 3: Synthesis and characterization of nanoalloy structures; 3.1 Growth and Synthesis of Nanoalloys; 3.1.1 Formation in the Gas Phase; Seeded supersonic nozzle sources.
Gas-aggregation sourcesLaser vaporization sources; Pulsed arc cluster ion sources; Ion sputtering and magnetron sputtering sources; 3.1.2 Growth on a Solid Substrate; 3.1.3 Ion Implantation; 3.1.4 Mechanical Alloying Methods; 3.1.5 Wet Chemical Methods; Chemical reduction; Phase transfer synthesis; Thermal decomposition of transition-metal complexes; Electrochemical synthesis; Synthesis in inverse micelles; 3.1.6 Other Methods; Radiolysis; Sonochemical synthesis; Scanning probe block copolymer lithography; Atomic layer deposition; Biosynthesis; 3.2 Techniques for Structural Characterization.
3.2.1 Electron MicroscopyTransmission electron microscopy; Scanning electron microscopy; 3.2.2 X-ray Techniques; X-ray scattering; X-ray absorption; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; 3.2.3 Optical Probes; Surface plasmon resonance; Raman spectroscopy; 3.2.4 Other Techniques; Low-energy ion scattering; Infrared spectroscopy; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Chapter 4: Theoretical and computational methods for nanoalloy structure and thermodynamics; 4.1 The Energy Landscape and the Global Optimization Problem; 4.1.1 Density Functional Theory; 4.1.2 Tight-Binding Model; 4.1.3 Atomistic Approaches.
4.1.4 Exploring the Energy Landscape4.2 Global Optimization Algorithms for Nanoalloys; 4.2.1 Basin Hopping Algorithm; 4.2.2 Genetic Algorithms; 4.2.3 Elementary Moves in Global Optimization Searches; Shake move; Brownian move; Twist move; Angular, ball, and shell moves; Occasional jump move; Cut-and-splice crossover; Exchange move; 4.2.4 Optimizing Chemical Ordering in Nanoalloys; 4.2.5 Optimizing Geometry and Chemical Ordering Together; 4.3 Computational Methods for Nanoalloy Equilibrium Properties and Growth; 4.3.1 Molecular Dynamics; 4.3.2 Monte Carlo Simulations.
4.3.3 Superposition Approximation to the Partition Function.
Includes bibliographical references and index.