Evolution of the Atomic Structure of Metal Clusters upon Heating and Cooling. Computer Simulation of FCC Metals

Physics of Metals and Metallography

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 135-144

  Gornostyrev, Yu N ^a   Kar'kin, I N ^a   Katsnel'son, M I ^a   Trefilov, A V ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF METAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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