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The chemical reactions of size selected silicon cluster ions (containing up to 70 atoms) have been studied with a number of different reagents using injected ion drift tube techniques. Both kinetic and equilibrium measurements have been performed as a function of temperature, and the influence of cluster annealing on chemical reactivity explored. Unlike metal clusters, where bulk behavior appears to be approached with around 30 atoms, large silicon clusters (n up to 70) are much less reactive than bulk silicon surfaces. These results suggest that the clusters in the size range examined here are not small crystals of bulk silicon, but have compact, high coordination number structures with few dangling bonds.
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Jarrold, M.F., Ray, U. & Ijiri, Y. Silicon clusters: chemistry and structure. Z Phys D - Atoms, Molecules and Clusters 19, 337–342 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01448324
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