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Spatial Separation of Molecular Conformers and Clusters
Published on: January 9, 2014
Controlled formation of mass-selected Cu-Au core-shell cluster beams
Feng Yin1, Zhi Wei Wang, Richard E Palmer
1Nanoscale Physics Research Laboratory, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
Abstract:
Synthesis of bimetallic clusters is a topic of accelerated interest; their physical and chemical properties are greatly dependent on their composition, size, and structure. The cluster beam technique is widely used for preparation of clusters. However, creating bimetallic clusters with well-controlled composition, size, and structure, especially for larger clusters (>100 atoms), is still a big challenge. Here we demonstrate that not only size and composition but also the structure of bimetallic clusters can be controlled by tuning aggregation parameters.
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