All clusters articles
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ResearchHydrogen dimers finally detected at room temperature
Researchers revisit spectrum of fragile dimer with high-sensitivity spectroscopy
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ResearchBoron cluster family breaks electron counting rules
Rare structures have unusual deltahedral shapes
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ResearchFirst nanocluster that’s a superatom inside a superatom
Heterometal doping strategy used to make an unusual structure where one superatom is contained inside another
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ResearchMore metallomimetic chemistry from boron
One boron atom bonds like a transition metal in two different ways
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ResearchThree-centre single-electron bond caught in a cage
Fullerene cage stabilises bond never before seen in lanthanide chemistry
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ResearchBaird’s rule of aromaticity extended to all-metal systems
Aromaticity concept can help scientists understand the properties of metal clusters
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ResearchLight-harvesting clusters and titanium dioxide cooperate to fix nitrogen
Atomically precise metal clusters continue to gather momentum by catalysing the production of ammonia
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ResearchLarge gold nanoclusters are surprisingly stable paramagnets
An odd electron makes the magnetism
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ResearchNew rule predicts stabilising aromaticity in open-shell metal clusters
Magic numbers for jellium aromaticity could help researchers find stable high-spin molecules
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ResearchInorganic isomerism uncovered in cadmium sulfide clusters
CdS nanocrystals reversibly transition between ‘wurtzite-like’ and ‘zinc blende-like’ forms in a single step
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ResearchCluster fundamentals
Stefanie Dehnen discusses the exotic structures of inorganic chemistry’s middle ground
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ResearchNew rationale for 15-element wide f block
Scientists seek to settle periodic table layout debate
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ResearchChemists reinvent the wheel
Symmetrical gold and niobium cluster with unusually short Nb–Nb bond
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NewsNew German excellence strategy gets political go-ahead
Scheme will provide €500 million to bolster country’s best universities and fund best research
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ResearchGold cluster bends between two isomers
Unusual structural isomerism uncovered with photoelectron spectroscopy and theoretical calculations
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ResearchChemists zinc up ‘aromatic’ metal cubes
Metal-organic clusters share electrons between eight covalently linked metal atoms
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ResearchCluster structure promises acid advance
After a 40-year wait, new information on how water clusters around protons stands to benefit our understanding of acids.