Superheating and melting behaviors of Ag clusters with Ni coating studied by molecular dynamics and experiments

Science in China, Series E: Technological Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 432-440

  Xu, Fengting ^a   Zhong, Jian ^a   Jin, Zhaohui ^a   Lu, Ke ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous nucleation theory for melting; High temperature DSC; Molecular dynamics; Semi coherent interface; Superheating and melting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035416846     PISSN: 10069321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02916696     Document Type: Article

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