Competition between attraction and diffusion in nanoscale non-equilibrium aggregation

Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2237-2243

  Wang, Boyang ^a   Deng, Li ^a   Wang, Yanting ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

diffusion; interaction; molecular dynamics simulation; nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION PROCESS; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; INTERACTION; MEAN FIELD APPROXIMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS; SILVER NANOCLUSTERS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ATOMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPARTICLES; SILVER;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 84876869997     PISSN: 16747348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11433-012-4949-5     Document Type: Article

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