Clusters or nanoparticles are aggregates of between a few and many millions of atoms or
molecules. They may consist of identical atoms, or molecules, or two or more different …

Over the past decade, there has been a significant growth in the development and
application of methods for performing global optimization (GO) of cluster and nanoparticle …

A study has been made of the structures and stabilities of copper and gold clusters and
copper–gold nanoalloy clusters, with up to 56 atoms, modeled by the many-body Gupta …

Recent advances in the potential energy landscapes approach are highlighted, including
both theoretical and computational contributions. Treating the high dimensionality of …

A new family of magic cluster structures is found by genetic global optimization, whose
results are confirmed by density functional calculations. These clusters are Ag-Ni and Ag-Cu …

A genetic algorithm approach is applied to the optimization of the potential energy of a wide
range of binary metallic nanoclusters, Ag–Cu, Ag–Ni, Au–Cu, Ag–Pd, Ag–Au, and Pd–Pt …

Nanoalloys are bi-or multi-component metallic particles in the size range between 1 and 100
nm. Nanoalloys present a wide variety of structures and properties, which make them …

This article reviews recent advances in our understanding of how temperature affects the
structure and the phase of multimetallic nanoparticles. Focusing on bimetallic systems, we …

Recent advances in computational methods for searching for the most stable structures of
alloy nanoparticles are reviewed. A methodology based on extensive global optimization …

Structure and Properties of Nanoalloys is devoted to the topic of alloy nanoparticles, the bi-
or multicomponent metallic nanoparticles that are often called nanoalloys. The interest in …