Investigations of variations of physical and chemical properties of clusters as a function of size allow systematic explorations of evolutionary patterns of materials properties from the molecular scale to the condensed phase regimes. Using classical and quantum molecular dynamics simulations we discuss the dynamics of cluster collisions with surfaces leading to shock formation, dielectrons and sodium solvation in water clusters, size-evolutionary patterns of metallization of sodium-fluoride clusters, and the energetics of metal alloy clusters.
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