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Ionic bonding in free nanoscale NaCl clusters as seen by photoelectron spectroscopy

Zhang, Chaofan ; Andersson, Tomas ; Svensson, Svante ; Bjorneholm, Olle ; Huttula, Marko ; Mikkela, Mikko-Heikki ; Tchaplyguine, Maxim LU and Öhrwall, Gunnar LU orcid (2011) In Journal of Chemical Physics 134(12).
Abstract
The free neutral nanoscale NaCl clusters have been produced in a beam and studied with x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. High resolution spectra simultaneously containing cluster and molecular-monomer, featuring in both the valence and core-level Na 2p and Cl 2p regions, have been obtained. Cluster-level energy shifts of around 3 eV toward lower binding energy for Na 2p and approximate to 1 eV toward higher binding energy for Cl 2p relative to the monomer levels have been unambiguously established. To rationalize the core-level energy shifts of the nanoscale NaCl clusters, the ionic model taking into account all charge-charge and polarization interactions has been developed and implemented. A satisfactory agreement between the experimental... (More)
The free neutral nanoscale NaCl clusters have been produced in a beam and studied with x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. High resolution spectra simultaneously containing cluster and molecular-monomer, featuring in both the valence and core-level Na 2p and Cl 2p regions, have been obtained. Cluster-level energy shifts of around 3 eV toward lower binding energy for Na 2p and approximate to 1 eV toward higher binding energy for Cl 2p relative to the monomer levels have been unambiguously established. To rationalize the core-level energy shifts of the nanoscale NaCl clusters, the ionic model taking into account all charge-charge and polarization interactions has been developed and implemented. A satisfactory agreement between the experimental and model results has been obtained. The model calculations have also shed additional light on the size-and site-specific cluster responses. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3570576] (Less)
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  author       = {{Zhang, Chaofan and Andersson, Tomas and Svensson, Svante and Bjorneholm, Olle and Huttula, Marko and Mikkela, Mikko-Heikki and Tchaplyguine, Maxim and Öhrwall, Gunnar}},
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  publisher    = {{American Institute of Physics (AIP)}},
  series       = {{Journal of Chemical Physics}},
  title        = {{Ionic bonding in free nanoscale NaCl clusters as seen by photoelectron spectroscopy}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3570576}},
  doi          = {{10.1063/1.3570576}},
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