Melting of metallic nanoclusters: Alloying and support effects

Annales de Chimie: Science des Materiaux

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 303-313

  Mottet, Christine ^a   Goniakowski, Jacek ^b   Rossi, Gullia ^c   Ferrando, Riccardo ^c   Baletto, Francesca ^d  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOYING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MELTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BIMETALLIC CLUSTERS; MELTING PROPERTIES; MELTING TEMPERATURE; METALLIC NANOCLUSTERS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 22144466579     PISSN: 01519107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3166/acsm.30.303-313     Document Type: Article

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