title: Contribution of radiation chemistry to the study of metal clusters.
abstract: Radiation chemistry dates from the discovery of radioactivity one century ago by H. Becquerel and P. and M. Curie. The complex phenomena induced by ionizing radiation have been explained progressively. At present, the methodology of radiation chemistry, particularly in the pulsed mode, provides a powerful means to study not only the early processes after the energy absorption, but more generally a broad diversity of chemical and biochemical reaction mechanisms. Among them, the new area of metal cluster chemistry illustrates how radiation chemistry contributed to this field in suggesting fruitful original concepts, in guiding and controlling specific syntheses, and in the detailed elaboration of the mechanisms of complex and long-unsolved processes, such as the dynamics of nucleation, electron transfer catalysis and photographic development.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Rayonnements, associé au CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Belloni
mesh_terms: D002412:Cations; D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D011675:Pulse Radiolysis; D011827:Radiation
chemical_list: D002412:Cations; D008670:Metals