The free atoms of the transition metals have an incomplete d shell in the ground state or in
excited states of small energy. The d electrons are responsible for the most interesting …

Palladium is a late transition metal element in the 4d row of the periodic table. Palladium
nanoparticles show efficient catalytic activity and selectivity in a number of chemical …

Atomic clusters are aggregates of atoms containing a few to several thousand atoms. Due to
the small size of these pieces of matter, the properties of atomic clusters in general are …

The geometrical characteristics of cubo-octahedral, icosahedral, body-centered cubic, and
simple cubic clusters are systematically studied and enumerated as a function of the number …

Bimetallic Ni–Pd alloy nanoparticles with high Ni to Pd atomic ratios (99: 1 or 95: 5) were
prepared, and the catalytic performances of these nanoparticle catalysts were explored for C …

The four most stable structures of Ni N clusters with N from 2 to 150 have been determined
using a combination of the embedded-atom method in the version of Daw, Baskes, and …

Melting behaviors of Pb clusters without free surfaces have been studied using molecular
dynamics and the Sutton-Chen (SC) potential. Two Pb clusters (Pb N, with N= 201 and 249) …

Abstract Using the Voter and Chen version of the embedded-atom model, we performed
molecular-dynamics simulations to determine the ground-state atomic configurations of Ni …

The embedded-atom method is used to study icosahedral Ni N clusters in the size range
from 13 to 147 atoms. Two mutually exclusive structures, corresponding to different ways of …

Operando time‐resolved X‐ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) was used to determine nickel
species supported on porous MgO during the ethanol steam reforming reaction. The …