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Nature Materials 3, 77 - 78 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nmat1066

Nanomaterials: Nanocluster magic

Gotthard Seifert1

  1. Gotthard Seifert is at the Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany. e-mail: Gotthard.Seifert@chemie.tu-dresden.de


The properties of nanoparticles usually differ significantly from those of the material from which they are formed. New evidence for the existence of ultrastable, size-selected CdSe nanoclusters opens new opportunities for taking advantage of these properties in the synthesis of 'cluster-assembled materials'.

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