International Symposium on Small Particles and Inorganic Clusters (ISSPIC XVII)

Program

Sep. 8th | Sep. 9th | Sep. 10th | Sep. 11th | Sep. 12th

September 8^th, Monday

9:00	Opening Atsushi Nakajima / Sunao Yamada (Dean, School of Engineering, Kyushu University)
9:20	Resolving the atomic structure and meta-stability of size-selected gold clusters Richard Palmer (Invited)
10:00	Quantum chemical molecular dynamics (QM/MD) simulations of nucleation, growth and healing processes of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphenes Keiji Morokuma (Invited)
10:40	Coffee break
11:10	Total structures of atomically precise gold nanoclusters and beyond Rongchao Jin (Invited)
11:50	Nanoparticles by design: Fe₇₅Pt₇₂ Vijay Kumar
12:10	Gold-oxide nanoparticles - what is the oxidation state in gold? Maxim Tchaplyguine
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Water clusters: thermal behavior and electron solvation Bernd von Issendorff (Invited)
14:40	Nanoparticles and clusters from doped He nanodroplets Paul Scheier (Invited)
15:20	Observation of phase transitions between finite temperature polymorphs of gallium clusters: from β to γ to δ from first-principles Nicola Gaston
15:40	Unusual temperature-dependent structure in the ionization yield of an aluminum cluster: possible superconducting electron pairing at T>100 K Vitaly Kresin
16:00	Coffee break
16:30	Meteoric smoke nanoparticles and clouds in upper planetary atmospheres Thomas Leisner (Invited)
17:10	Infrared photodissociation spectroscopy of carbon species of astrophysical relevance E. Cristina Stanca-Kaposta
17:30	Vibrational and low-temperature thermal properties of metal nanoparticles Ignacio L. Garzón
17:50	Industry (National Instruments Japan and TOYAMA Co., Ltd.)

September 9^th, Tuesday

9:00	Cluster assemblies as novel nanoscale materials with tunable properties Shiv Khanna (Invited)
9:40	Mass spectrometric investigations of nanoparticles: from small liganded metal nanoclusters to large nanoparticles assemblies Rodolphe Antoine (Invited)
10:20	Far-infrared spectroscopy of clusters of the platinum metals: evidence for cubic structures of Ru and Ir clusters André Fielicke
10:40	Conference photo Coffee break
11:10	Professor Satoru Sugano Memorial
11:30	Energetics, edge geometries, and electronic properties of silicene Susumu Saito
11:50	One-dimensional uneven structured exotic-nanocarbon: geometric curvature effects at nanoscale Jun Onoe
12:10	The formation of supported carbon clusters during graphene chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth Feng Ding
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Effects of electronic and geometric structure on the activity of size-selected model catalysts and electrocatalysts Scott Anderson (Invited)
14:40	Plasmonic property of multidimensional self-assembled metallic nanoparticles Kaoru Tamada (Invited)
15:20	Surface plasmons in quantum-sized noble-metal clusters: quantum calculations and the classical picture of charge oscillations Hans-Christian Weissker
15:40	Clusters for photocatalysis Gunther Andersson
16:00	Coffee break
16:30	Poster Session A
18:30	Cultural event

September 10^th, Wednesday

9:00	Gold and silver in nanoscale, dispersed by ligands to molecular precision Hannu Häkkinen (Invited)
9:40	Density functional theory investigations of gold and silver nanoparticle properties Christine Aikens (Invited)
10:20	Electronic communication between metallic moiety and organic functionalities in ultrasmall organic-modified gold clusters Katsuaki Konishi
10:40	Coffee break
11:10	Motions of individual biomolecular motors probed by gold nanoparticle and nanorod Ryota Iino (Invited)
11:50	Tracking photo-emitted electrons from gold nanoparticles by femtosecond laser-driven confocal microscopy Marcel Di Vece
12:10	Functionalization of boron nitride nanosheets by a metal support for the oxygen reduction reaction Andrey Lyalin
12:30	Excursion
19:00	Conference dinner

September 11^th, Thursday

9:00	Metal-polymer nanocomposites produced by supersonic cluster beam implantation with tunable electrical, optical and mechanical properties Paolo Milani (Invited)
9:40	Switching, tunneling, and superconductivity in percolating cluster films Simon Brown (Invited)
10:20	Nanoisland formation of small Ag_N-clusters on HOPG as determined by inner-shell photoionization spectroscopy Matthias Neeb
10:40	Coffee break
11:10	Photophysical properties of supramolecular nanostructures in gas-phase Manfred Kappes (Invited)
11:50	Channeling vibrational energy to probe the electronic density of states in metal clusters Andrei Kirilyuk
12:10	Frontier orbital rule for electron transport in molecules Kazunari Yoshizawa
12:30	Lunch
14:00	The 3D-architecture of individual free silver nanoparticles captured by X-ray scattering Karl-Heinz Meiwes-Broer (Invited)
14:40	Hidden charge states in soft-X-ray laser-produced nanoplasmas revealed by fluorescence spectroscopy Tim Laarmann
15:00	The role of metal doping on the reversible adsorption and storage of hydrogen in nanoporous carbons Maria J. López
15:20	Photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory investigation of V_xSi₁₂- (x = 1-3) clusters: discovery of a silicon-based ferrimagnetic wheel structure Xiaoming Huang
15:40	CoAr⁺ complexes: the smallest and most exotic bar magnets with giant magnetic anisotropy energy Tobias Lau
16:00	Coffee break
16:30	Poster Session B
18:30	Cultural event

September 12^th, Friday

9:00	Tuning cluster functionality by size and composition Peter Lievens (Invited)
9:40	Clusters as model systems for catalysis Thorsten Bernhardt (Invited)
10:20	Stable stoichiometry and chemical reactivity of cluster ions revealed by high temperature TPD experiments Fumitaka Mafuné
10:40	Coffee break
11:10	Extending the sizes and charge states of polyanionic metal clusters Steffi Bandelow
11:30	Characterization of single-molecule magnets in isolation Gereon Niedner-Schatteburg
11:50	Spin orientation in isolated magnetic nanoalloys - topology, dielectric and magnetic properties of manganese doped tin-clusters Mn/Sn_N Urban Rohrmann
12:10	ISSPIC 18
12:20	Concluding remarks and perspectives Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký (Invited)
13:00	Closing Akira Terasaki