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.
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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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