Melting of size-selected aluminum nanoclusters with 84-128 atoms

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Starace, Anne K ^a   Cao, Baopeng ^a   Judd, Oscar H ^a   Bhattacharyya, Indrani ^a   Jarrold, Martin F ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER SIZES; COHESIVE ENERGIES; HEAT CAPACITIES; MELTING TEMPERATURES; MELTING TRANSITIONS;

ATOMS; LATENT HEAT; MELTING POINT; METAL MELTING; NANOCLUSTERS; SPECIFIC HEAT;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 78651466199     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3285836     Document Type: Article

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