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In similar cluster-assembled materials, these magnetic properties are related to the Transition Metal-Transition Metal (TM-TM) distances. At this point, endohedral doping presents a clear advantage over substitutional or exohedral doping, since in the cluster-assembled materials, these TM would occupy the well-fixed center of the cluster, providing in this way a better TM-TM distance control to experimentalists. In addition to endohedral compounds, surface structures and the TS\u2019s connecting both isomers have been characterized. In this way the kinetic and thermal stability of endohedral nanoclusters is predicted. We anticipate that silver and cadmium endohedrally doped nanoclusters have the longest life-times. This is due to the weak interaction of these metals with the cage, in contrast to the remaining cases where the TM covalently bond to a region of the cage. The open-shell electronic structure of Ag provides magnetic properties to Ag@ZniSi clusters. Therefore, we have further characterized (Ag@Zn12S12)2 and (Ag@Zn16S16)2 dimers both in the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic state, in order to calculate the corresponding magnetic exchange coupling constant, J.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/computation1030031","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,11,14]],"date-time":"2013-11-14T11:24:25Z","timestamp":1384428265000},"page":"31-45","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Second-Row Transition-Metal Doping of (ZniSi), i = 12, 16 Nanoclusters: Structural and Magnetic Properties"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"1","author":[{"given":"Elisa","family":"Jimenez-Izal","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of the Basque Country, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV\/EHU) and Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), P.K. 1072, Donostia, Euskadi 20018, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jon","family":"Matxain","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of the Basque Country, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV\/EHU) and Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), P.K. 1072, Donostia, Euskadi 20018, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mario","family":"Piris","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of the Basque Country, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV\/EHU) and Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), P.K. 1072, Donostia, Euskadi 20018, Spain"},{"name":"IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao 48011, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jesus","family":"Ugalde","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of the Basque Country, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV\/EHU) and Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), P.K. 1072, Donostia, Euskadi 20018, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,11,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1564","DOI":"10.1021\/jp0404908","article-title":"Small, nonstoichiometric zinc sulfide clusters","volume":"109","author":"Chuchev","year":"2005","journal-title":"J. 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