Surface segregation of bimetallic alloys in nanoscale confinement

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 15, 2010, Pages

  Hu, Ming ^a,c   Giapis, Konstantinos P ^b   Goicochea, Javier V ^c   Poulikakos, Dimos ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIMETALLIC ALLOYS; CONFINING WALLS; CORE-SHELL; INTERACTION STRENGTH; LIQUID BINARY ALLOYS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANO CHANNELS; NANOSCALE CONFINEMENT; OTHER APPLICATIONS; PT ALLOY; PT ATOMS; SURFACE DENSITY; SURFACE ENERGIES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; LIQUIDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANORODS; PLATINUM; PLATINUM ALLOYS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE SEGREGATION;

BINARY ALLOYS;

EID: 77958110472     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3500825     Document Type: Article

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