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The field of cluster science is currently attracting considerable interest, not only from a fundamental standpoint, but also through its future applications to electronic, optical, magnetic, and other devices. Synthesizing specific clus­ ters as a unit of useful nanostructures or controlling them as an assembly of nanocomposites is one of the ultimate purposes in this field. In order to understand how to synthesize individual clusters and t_o investigate physical properties, chemical reactions, structural stability, response to external fields, aggregation, phase transition, and other aspects of clusters, a great deal of effort has gone into experiment, theory and computer simulation in this area. This is presumably motivated by the fact that a high level of collaboration between theoretical and experimental researchers is particularly important for progress in the field of cluster science. The present book aims to collect together recent advances in this rapidly growing field. The authors are all active researchers, collaborating both ex­ perimentally and theoretically in this field, and most of them have regularly participated in the IMR Workshop, held for three years starting from 1998 at the Institute for Materials Research in Tohoku University. This book is suitable for both theoretical and experimental researchers and also for re­ searchers and graduate students working in related subjects, who wish to overview recent advances in the field.
Brief Introduction
Brief Introduction
Metallic Clusters
Ab Initio Computer Simulations on Microclusters: Structures and Electronic Properties
Stability of Multiply Charged Transition Metal Clusters
Organic Molecules
Adsorption of Methanol Molecules on Nickel Cluster Ions
Cluster Investigations in Cyclodextrin Inclusion Compounds: Theory and Experiment
Fullerenes and Nanotubes
The Nanostructure of C60 Photopolymers
Formation of Foreign-Atom-Doped Fullerenes
Electronic, Transport and Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
Nanostructural Characterization of Inorganic Materials by High-Resolution Electron Microscopy
Theory and Computer Simulation
Phase Behavior in Systems of Large Molecules
Formation of Free Clusters and Their Structures: Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Extended Ensemble Monte Carlo Method
Molecular Dynamics Simulation for Deformation Dynamics of Ni/Ni3Al Composite with FGM or NFGM Type Interface
Size-Dependent Evolution of Conduction-Electron Excitations in Small Spherical Particles