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The first reference on protected metal clusters explains their formation and important role in the future of molecular electronics, catalysis, sensing, biological imaging, and medical diagnosis and therapy

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Tatsuya Tsukuda and Hannu Häkkinen 2. Controlled Synthesis: Size Control, Shinjiro Takano and Tatsuya Tsukuda 3. Controlled Synthesis: Composition and Interface Control, Yuichi Negishi 4. Structural Engineering of Heterometallic Nanoclusters, Yu Wang, Huayan Yang and Nanfeng Zheng 5. Structure Determination by Single-Crystal X-Ray Crystallography, Christopher Ackerson 6. Atomic-scale Structure Analysis by Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy, Richard Palmer and Zhiwei Wang 7. Structure Prediction by Density Functional Theory Calculations, Qing Tang and De-en Jiang 8. Electronic Structure: Development of the Superatom Concept, Hannu Häkkinen 9. Optical Properties and Chirality, Christine Aikens 10. Catalytic Properties, Yuxiang Chen and Rongchao Jin 11. Functionalization and Application, Nirmal Goswami, Jingguo Li and Jianping Xie