Determination of complete melting and surface premelting points of silver nanoparticles by molecular dynamics simulation

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 12289-12298

  Alarifi, H A ^a   Atis M ^b   Ozdogan C ^c   Hu, A ^a   Yavuz, M ^a,c   Zhou, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b NEVSEHIR HACI BEKTAS VELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c CANKAYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED-ATOM METHOD; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MELTING KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; QUASILIQUID LAYERS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; THEORETICAL MODELS;

LIQUIDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NANOPARTICLES; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

SILVER;

EID: 84879111151     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp311541c     Document Type: Article

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