COSYES SUMMER AND LIVE MEETING 2022
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The very recent development of highly selective techniques making possible the synthesis and experimental characterization of subnanometric (subnanometer-sized) metal clusters (even single atoms) is pushing our understanding far beyond the present knowledge in materials science, driving these clusters as a new generation of quantum materials at the lower bounds of nanotechnology. When the size of the metal cluster is reduced to a small number of atoms, the d-band of the metal splits into a subnanometric d-type molecular orbitals network in which all metal atoms are inter-connected, with the inter-connections having the length of a chemical bond. These molecular characteristics are at the very core of the high stability and novel properties of the smallest metal clusters, with their integration into colloidal materials interacting with the environment having the potential to further boost their performance in applications such as luminescence, sensing, bioimaging, theranostics, energy conversion, catalysis, and photocatalysis. The understanding at the most fundamental molecular-level of the special properties of surface-supported subanometric metal clusters is the main goal of the National Research Project "Confined Molecular Systems: The New Generation of Materials" (COSYES). Through the presentation of very recent case studies, the Summer and Live Meeting COSYES 2022 is aimed to bring together theoretical and experimental researchers who are currently working in this area as well as those who are interested in future collaborations.
DATES: 2-3 JUNE 2022
PLACE: CSIC (CENTRAL CAMPUS), MADRID, SPAIN
The meeting will take place in the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Central Campus.
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
María Pilar de Lara-Castells (AbinitSim Unit, IFF-CSIC)
Monica Valentín Rodríguez (IFF-CSIC)
Berta Fernández Rodríguez (University of Santiago de Compostela)
María de Lara García (Universidad de Comillas)
INVITED SPEAKERS - TITLES OF THE TALKS
Berta Fernández Rodriguez (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) - "Recent improvements in the evaluation of intermolecular potentials."
Lyudmila Moskaleva (Free University of South Africa) - "Ceria nanoparticle supported on Au surfaces as a model for inverse catalysts. An ab initio molecular dynamics study of the role of oxide-metal interface in catalytic reactions"
María J. López (University of Valladolid, Spain) - "Free and supported metal clusters for hydrogen adsorption and dissociation"
Cristina Puzzarini (University of Bologna, Italy) - "Accurate quantum-chemical composite schemes for interaction energies"
Paul Scheier (University of Innsbruck, Austria) - "Breeding of size selected clusters in multiply-charged helium droplets"
Piotr Zuchowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland) - "Recent developments in
symmetry adapted Perturbation theory and applications to metal clusters"
Alberto Hernando (KYDO DYNAMICS, Switzerland) - "The gripping potential of computational quantum physics in modelling collective human behaviour"
Florian Lackner (Graz University of Technology, Austria) - "Synthesis and spectroscopy of metal clusters and hybrid nanoparticles formed in helium droplets"
Alessandro Fortunelli (Italian National Research Council, Pisa) - "Geometric vs. electronic structure of nanometals into properties"
Sonja Grubisic (University of Belgrade, Serbia) - "Dynamics of small metallic clusters on metal-oxide surfaces. The Cun (n < 6) /TiO2 (110) cases"
María Pilar de Lara-Castells (AbinitSim Unit - IFF-CSIC) - "A journey towards a molecular-level understanding of fluxional metal atomic clusters. Recent case studies."
