Communication: Striking dependence of diffusion kinetics in Ag-Cu nanoalloys upon composition and quantum effects

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Asgari, Mehdi ^a,b   Negreiros, Fabio R ^a   Sementa, Luca ^a   Barcaro, Giovanni ^a   Behnejad, Hassan ^b   Fortunelli, Alessandro ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

DIFFUSION KINETICS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; MAGIC CLUSTERS; NANO-ALLOYS; QUANTUM EFFECTS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TIME OF FLIGHT;

SILVER ALLOYS;

EID: 84905638844     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4891564     Document Type: Article

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