Clusters and Small Particles: In Gases and Plasmas Book

Preface
List of notations
Introduction

1. Behavior of small particles in gases and plasmas.
--Collisional processes involving clusters.
--Motion of small particles in gases.
--Charging of small particles in plasma.
--Chemical processes involving clusters and small particles.
2. Interaction of small particles with electric and electromagnetic fields.
--Electric properties of small particles.
--Ionization equilibrium in plasma involving small particles and clusters.
--Clusters and small particles in radiative processes.
3. Bulk systems of bound atoms with pair interaction.
--Condensed systems of atoms with pair interaction.
--Surface properties of crystalline particles of fcc-structure.
4. Structures of cluster with pair interaction of atoms.
--Regular clusters of close packed structures.
--Icosahedral structure of clusters.
--Competition of cluster structures.
5. Processes and kinetics of cluster growth and decay .
--Processes of growth and evaporation of clusters in parent gas.
--Kinetics of cluster evolution in parent gas.
--Processes of association of two small particles.
--Kinetics of association of small particles.
--Growth processes in gases involving fractal systems.
6. Clusters at nonzero temperature.
--Excited clusters.
--Transitions from clusters to bulk particles.
--Phase transitions in bulk and clusters.
7. Plasma with small particles or clusters.
--Small particles in gas-discharge plasma.
--Aerosol plasma.
--Structures of small particles in dusty plasma.
--Charged clusters in arc plasma.

Conclusion
Subject index
Appendices