Abstract
We investigate the effect of Mie-type potential range on the cohesive energy of metallic nanoparticles using the size-dependent potential parameters method. The predicted cohesive energy for different cubic structures is observed to decrease with decreasing the particle size, and increase with decreasing the range of the interatomic potential, a result which is in the right direction at least to predict the experimental values of Molybdenum and Tungsten nanoparticles.