The present thesis systematically assesses the feasibility of using endohedrally doped silicon clusters to design novel cluster-assembled materials using state-of-the-art first-principles statistical mechanics methodology. Starting from a careful investigation of the nature of chemical bonding within the building blocks, we here suggest a way to conserve the intriguing magnetic and optical properties of transition metal dopants, and propose a novel potential synthetic polymerization route for building aggregates with engineered properties via controlled dehydrogenation.
«The present thesis systematically assesses the feasibility of using endohedrally doped silicon clusters to design novel cluster-assembled materials using state-of-the-art first-principles statistical mechanics methodology. Starting from a careful investigation of the nature of chemical bonding within the building blocks, we here suggest a way to conserve the intriguing magnetic and optical properties of transition metal dopants, and propose a novel potential synthetic polymerization route for bu...
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