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A Two-Dimensional Liquid Structure Explains the Elevated Melting Temperatures of Gallium Nanoclusters

scientific article published in December 2015

A balanced procedure for the treatment of cluster-ligand interactions on gold phosphine systems in catalysis

scientific article

Al20(+) does melt, albeit above the bulk melting temperature of aluminium ⬇️

scientific article published on 05 January 2015

Aluminum oxo-fluoride clusters: A first principle investigation of stability, synthetic considerations, and the interaction with water

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

Building machine learning force fields for nanoclusters

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Cluster assemblies as superatomic solids: a first principles study of bonding & electronic structure.

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Cluster melting: new, limiting, and liminal phenomena

article by Nicola Gaston published January 2018 in Advances in Physics: X

Design of superatomic systems: exploiting favourable conditions for the delocalisation of d-electron density in transition metal doped clusters

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

EXAFS Analysis of Electrocatalytic WC Materials

Electronic effects on the melting of small gallium clusters.

scientific article published in October 2012

Electronic shell structure in Ga12 icosahedra and the relation to the bulk forms of gallium ⬇️

scientific article published on June 19, 2012

Embedding procedure for ab initio correlation calculations in group II metals

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure and X-ray Diffraction Examination of Sputtered Nickel Carbon Binary Thin Films for Fuel Cell Applications

scholarly article by Bridget Ingham et al published 2 March 2012 in Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Fairness and Equality in Research

scientific article published in 2020

First-principles calculations of the electronic structure and bonding in metal cluster-fullerene materials considered within the superatomic framework

scientific article published in November 2016

First-principles melting of gallium clusters down to nine atoms: structural and electronic contributions to melting.

scientific article published in October 2013

From the Superatom Model to a Diverse Array of Super-Elements: A Systematic Study of Dopant Influence on the Electronic Structure of Thiolate-Protected Gold Clusters

scientific article

How a single aluminum atom makes a difference to gallium: First-principles simulations of bimetallic cluster melting.

scientific article published in September 2013

How robust is the metallicity of two dimensional gallium?

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Interaction of Boron Nitride Nanosheets with Model Cell Membranes

scientific article published on 15 March 2016

Ionization potentials of internal conversion electrons for the superheavy elements 112, 114, 116, and 118

scientific article

Is Eka-Mercury (Element 112) a Group 12 Metal?

scholarly article by Nicola Gaston et al published 26 February 2007 in Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Liquid metal synthesis solvents for metallic crystals

scientific article published on 9 December 2022

Mercury clusters from van der Waals to the metallic solid

2003 doctoral thesis by Nicola Gaston at Massey University

Method of increments for the halogen molecular crystals: Cl, Br, and I.

scientific article published in September 2014

Modified Lennard-Jones potentials for nanoscale atoms

scientific article published on 27 June 2020

Multiple minima on the energy landscape of elemental zinc: a wave function based ab initio study

scientific article published on 06 June 2008

N4Mg6M (M = Li, Na, K) superalkalis for CO2 activation

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

New Zealand: Free up systems for funding and advice.

scientific article

On the involvement of d-electrons in superatomic shells: the group 3 and 4 transition metals

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Oscillatory bifurcation patterns initiated by seeded surface solidification of liquid metals

scientific article published on 3 February 2022

Phosphine passivated gold clusters: how charge transfer affects electronic structure and stability

scientific article published on 9 September 2016

Quantum size effects in the size-temperature phase diagram of gallium: structural characterization of shape-shifting clusters

scientific article published on 22 December 2014

Synthesis and Comparison of the Magnetic Properties of Iron Sulfide Spinel and Iron Oxide Spinel Nanocrystals

scientific article published on 24 May 2011

The dimeric nature of bonding in gallium: from small clusters to the α-gallium phase

scientific article published on 01 November 2014

The frequency-dependent dipole polarizability of the mercury dimer from four-component relativistic density-functional theory

scientific article published on 28 January 2006

Thickness dependent thermal stability of 2D gallenene

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Throwing jellium at gallium—a systematic superatom analysis of metalloid gallium clusters ⬇️

scientific article published on October 20, 2011

Towards understanding the chemical environment effect on gold-containing clusters.

scientific article published on 11 March 2014

Two-dimensional aluminium, gallium, and indium metallic crystals by first-principles design

scientific article published on 15 December 2020

Ultra stable superatomic structure of doubly magic Ga13 and Ga13Li electrolyte

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

Understanding the hcp anisotropy in Cd and Zn: the role of electron correlation in determining the potential energy surface

scientific article published on 21 October 2009

Unique surface patterns emerging during solidification of liquid metal alloys

scientific article published on 18 January 2021

Weak interactions in Graphane/BN systems under static electric fields—A periodic ab-initio study

scientific article published in April 2015

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