Emerging disciplines based on superatoms: a perspective point of view

• 来源期刊: 科学通报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（7）
• 页码范围: 395-397
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

In 2016,a whole new organization for advanced science and technology was created in China [1],and even it is called China's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).Despite the appropriateness of this metaphor,the reference to DARPA Atoms to Product (A2P) Program reminds us a promising trend towards the atomic-level manufacture of functional materials and devices.This ensures functional units on the atomic level to play an important role.Superatomic clusters,whose properties can be controlled at the atomic level,obviously fit into this new trend and represent an opportunity for integrating different scientific disciplines.