Structural properties of sub-nanometer metallic clusters

F Baletto - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
At the nanoscale, the investigation of structural features becomes fundamental as we can
establish relationships between cluster geometries and their physicochemical properties …

Genetic algorithms for computational materials discovery accelerated by machine learning

PC Jennings, S Lysgaard, JS Hummelshøj… - NPJ Computational …, 2019 - nature.com
Materials discovery is increasingly being impelled by machine learning methods that rely on
pre-existing datasets. Where datasets are lacking, unbiased data generation can be …

On machine learning force fields for metallic nanoparticles

C Zeni, K Rossi, A Glielmo, F Baletto - Advances in Physics: X, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Machine learning algorithms have recently emerged as a tool to generate force fields which
display accuracies approaching the ones of the ab-initio calculations they are trained on, but …

Experimental High-Resolution Observation of the Truncated Double-Icosahedron Structure: A Stable Twinned Shell in Alloyed Au–Ag Core@ Shell Nanoparticles

R Mendoza-Cruz, JP Palomares-Báez… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Given the binary nature of nanoalloy systems, their properties are dependent on their size,
shape, structure, composition, and chemical ordering. When energy and entropic factors for …

A universal signature in the melting of metallic nanoparticles

L Delgado-Callico, K Rossi, R Pinto-Miles… - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Predicting when phase changes occur in nanoparticles is fundamental for designing the
next generation of devices suitable for catalysis, biomedicine, optics, chemical sensing and …

[HTML][HTML] Building machine learning force fields for nanoclusters

C Zeni, K Rossi, A Glielmo, Á Fekete… - The Journal of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We assess Gaussian process (GP) regression as a technique to model interatomic forces in
metal nanoclusters by analyzing the performance of 2-body, 3-body, and many-body kernel …

[HTML][HTML] Impurity diffusion in magic-size icosahedral clusters

D Nelli, F Pietrucci, R Ferrando - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Atomic diffusion is at the basis of chemical ordering transformations in nanoalloys.
Understanding the diffusion mechanisms at the atomic level is therefore a key issue in the …

[HTML][HTML] Thermodynamics of CuPt nanoalloys

K Rossi, LB Pártay, G Csányi, F Baletto - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The control of structural and chemical transitions in bimetallic nanoalloys at finite
temperatures is one of the challenges for their use in advanced applications. Comparing …

Understanding chemical ordering in bimetallic nanoparticles from atomic-scale simulations: The competition between bulk, surface, and strain

JM Rahm, P Erhart - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2018 - ACS Publications
Bimetallic nanoparticles are highly relevant for applications in, eg, catalysis, sensing, and
energy harvesting. Their properties are determined by their shape, size, and, most notably …

Out-of-equilibrium polymorph selection in nanoparticle freezing

J Amodeo, F Pietrucci, J Lam - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The ability to design synthesis processes that are out of equilibrium has opened the
possibility of creating nanomaterials with remarkable physicochemical properties, choosing …