Half-solidity of tetrahedral-like Al55 clusters

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1092-1098

  Kang, Joongoo ^a   Kim, Yong Hyun ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Aluminum clusters; DFT; Melting transition; Molecular Dynamics; Stability

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM CLUSTERS; COLLECTIVE MOTIONS; DFT; DYNAMIC MELTING; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; FLEXIBLE SOLIDS; LOW ENERGIES; MELTING TEMPERATURES; MELTING TRANSITION; MELTING TRANSITIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANO SCALE; PARITY CONVERSIONS; SOFT-PHONON MODE; STRUCTURAL ORDERS; SURFACE ATOMS; SURFACE RECONFIGURATION; THERMAL EXCITATION; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 77649108091     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn901536a     Document Type: Conference Paper

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