Faraday Discussion 138: Nanoalloys - From Theory to Applications

Topics: Nanotechnology, Supramolecular Chemistry, Keywords: see below

Date: /3/4/5/ September 2007, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Europe

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Nanoalloys have lately been of increasing interest for a number of reasons:

• their chemical and physical properties can be tuned by varying the composition and atomic ordering, as well as the size of the clusters
• they often display structures and properties which are distinct from those of the pure elemental clusters
• they may also display properties which are distinct from the corresponding bulk alloys, due to finite size effects.

In addition to experimental studies (synthesis, characterisation and property measurement), nanoalloys are attracting increasing attention from the point of view of theory and simulation.

Nanoalloys are also proving to be of interest in a number of scientific and technological applications, including:

* catalysis
* fuel cells
* magnetics
* optics
* electronics

This international discussion meeting will cover all aspects of nanoalloys: synthesis, characterisation, theory and simulation, property measurements and technological applications.