Focus Session: Clusters, Cluster Assemblies, Nanoscale Materials II

Presentations

• From Superatoms to Cluster Assembled Materials

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 10, 2008, 1:30 PM – March 10, 2008, 2:06 PM

  Authors

  • A. Welford Castleman, Jr.

    • Pennsylvania State University
    • Penn State University

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• From Designer Clusters to Synthetic Crystalline Nano-Assemblies

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 2:06 PM – March 10, 2008, 2:18 PM

  Authors

  • Meichun Qian

    • Dept. of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA 23284
    • Virginia Commonwealth University
    • Dept. of Physics, Virginia Common. Univ.

  • S. Khanna

    • Dept. of Physics, Virginia Common. Univ.

  • A. Reber

    • Dept. of Physics, Virginia Common. Univ.

  • A. Castleman

    • Dept. of Chemistry and Physics, Penn. State Univ.

  • A. Sen

    • Dept. of Chemistry and Physics, Penn. State Univ.

  • A. Ugrinov

    • Dept. of Chemistry and Physics, Penn. State Univ.

  • K. Davis

    • Dept. of Chemistry and Physics, Penn. State Univ.

  • S. Peppernick

    • Dept. of Chemistry and Physics, Penn. State Univ.

  • M. Merritt

    • Dept. of Chemistry and Physics, Penn. State Univ.

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• Geometries and stabilities of Ag-doped Si$_{n}$ (n =1 - 13) clusters: a first-principles study

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 2:18 PM – March 10, 2008, 2:30 PM

  Authors

  • Feng-chuan Chuang

    • Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan

  • Yun-Yi Hsieh

    • Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan

  • Chih-Chiang Hsu

    • Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan

  • Marvin Albao

    • Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan

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• Transition Metal Doped and Encapsulated ZnO Cages

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 2:30 PM – March 10, 2008, 2:42 PM

  Authors

  • Marcela R. Beltran

    • Insituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

  • Arthur Reber

    • Physics Department, Virginia Commonwealth University

  • Shiv Khanna

    • Dept. of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA 23284
    • Virginia Commonwealth University
    • Dept. of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284
    • Physics Department, Virginia Commonwealth University
    • Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA, 23284, USA

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• DFT study of a carotenoid-porphyrin-C$_{60}$ light-harvesting molecular triad

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 10, 2008, 2:42 PM – March 10, 2008, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Tunna Baruah

    • University of Texas at El Paso

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• Spin Accommodation and Reactivity of Superatoms.

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 10, 2008, 3:18 PM – March 10, 2008, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Arthur Reber

    • Virginia Commonwealth University

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• Peierls distortion of endohedral atoms in clathrate I

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 3:54 PM – March 10, 2008, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Hidekazu Tomono

    • Meiji University
    • Meiji University, Japan

  • Kazuo Tsumuraya

    • Meiji University, Japan

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• [Te$_{2}$As$_{2}$]$^{2-}$: A Planar Motif with Potential for Ferromagnetism

  ORAL

  March 10, 2008, 4:06 PM – March 10, 2008, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Shiv Khanna

    • Dept. of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA 23284
    • Virginia Commonwealth University
    • Dept. of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284
    • Physics Department, Virginia Commonwealth University
    • Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA, 23284, USA

  • Arthur Reber

  • Meichun Qian

    • Virginia Commonwealth University

  • Angel Ugrinov

  • Ayusman Sen

    • Pennsylvania State University

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