Chemical potential and symmetry properties for excess electrons on polymernanoparticles: quantum drops

Citation
K. Runge et al., Chemical potential and symmetry properties for excess electrons on polymernanoparticles: quantum drops, CHEM P LETT, 299(3-4), 1999, pp. 352-357
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Physical Chemistry/Chemical Physics
Journal title
CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS
ISSN journal
00092614 → ACNP
Volume
299
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
352 - 357
Database
ISI
SICI code
0009-2614(19990111)299:3-4<352:CPASPF>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
Quantum drops, polymer nanoparticles with excess electrons, can be produced in a monodispersed aerosol from solution. The electronic properties of exc ess charges on the polymer nanoparticles are predicted to be analogous to t hose of semiconductor quantum dots and hence these structures are referred to as quantum drops. Quantum drops have controllable physical properties in cluding radius, composition, chemical potential and magnetic properties and can be obtained in the gas phase. We consider the chemical potential and s ymmetry point groups of electrons confined on the surface of these spherica l polymer nanoparticles, using a model Hamiltonian and semiclassical quanti zation. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.