Appearance of bulk properties in small tungsten oxide clusters |
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Authors: | Sun Q Rao B K Jena P Stolcic D Kim Y D Gantefor Gerd Castleman A W |
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Institution: | Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23284-2000, USA. |
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Abstract: | Contrary to the conventional understanding that atomic clusters usually differ in properties and structure from the bulk constituents of which they are comprised, we show that even a dimer of tungsten oxide (WO(3))(2) possesses bulklike features and the geometry of a small cluster containing only 4 tungsten and 12 oxygen atoms bears the hallmarks of crystalline tungsten oxide, WO(3). This observation, based on a synergistic approach involving mass distributions under quasisteady state conditions, photoelectron spectroscopy, and first principles molecular orbital theory, not only illustrates the existence of a class of strongly covalent or ionic materials whose embryonic forms are tiny clusters but also lends the possibility that a fundamental understanding of complex processes such as catalytic reactions on surfaces may be achieved on an atomic scale with clusters as model systems. |
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