Article | REF: NM200 V1

Inorganic nanoparticles

Author: Michel WAUTELET

Publication date: October 10, 2004

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2. Atomic structure

2.1 Atom to cluster

When several atoms interact attractively, they generally start to form molecules. At what dimension can we say that we're moving from a molecule to a nanoparticle? Let's consider assemblies made up of a single type of atom, interacting via a Lennard-Jones potential:

VLJ(r)=2r6+1r12( 1 )
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