Amorphization mechanism of icosahedral metal nanoclusters

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Apra E ^a   Baletto, F ^b   Ferrando, R ^c   Fortunelli, A ^d  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d AREA DELLA RICERCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAIN; NANOCLUSTERS; ROSETTE STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION;

AMORPHIZATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GOLD; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; OPTIMIZATION; PLATINUM; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUENCHING;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 69649108155     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.065502     Document Type: Article

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