W. Hunter Woodward

TL;DR: The size selectivity of aluminum cluster anion reactions with water, which can be attributed to the dissociative chemisorption of water at specific surface sites, is observed.

TL;DR: The role of charge in the reactivity is considered, which could account for the observed increase in reactivity at large sizes and a mechanism for transferring hydroxyl groups on the surface of the cluster is discussed.

TL;DR: The limits and useful modifications of the jellium model are of great interest in understanding the properties of metallic clusters, especially involving bimetallic systems as mentioned in this paper, where an odd-even alternation is observed that is in accordance with spin-dependant etching.

TL;DR: Theoretical investigations reveal that at small sizes, the location of reactive pairs occurs on specific active sites, but at larger sizes the reactive pairs begin to accumulate on the edges between facets, marking the transition from the nonscalable size-dependent regime to the scalable regime where the nanoparticles are universally reactive.

TL;DR: In this paper, a magnetron-sputtering (MagS) cluster source was used to produce metal clusters of different size distributions by varying individual source parameters, and a collision-dependent growing time domain was demonstrated.