Melting of core-shell Ag-Ni and Ag-Co nanoclusters studied via molecular dynamics simulations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Kuntova Z ^a,b   Rossi, G ^a   Ferrando, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

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EID: 44349137465     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.205431     Document Type: Article

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