Surface nucleation in the freezing of gold nanoparticles

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 18, 2007, Pages

  Mendez Villuendas, Eduardo ^a   Bowles, Richard K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BARRIERS; FREE ENERGY; GOLD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; PHASE INTERFACES;

LENS-SHAPED NUCLEUS; LIQUID-VAPOR INTERFACE; PARTIAL WETTING MODEL;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 34247867925     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.185503     Document Type: Article

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