Diverse melting modes and structural collapse of hollow bimetallic core-shell nanoparticles: A perspective from molecular dynamics simulations

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Huang, Rao ^a   Shao, Gui Fang ^a   Zeng, Xiang Ming ^a   Wen, Yu Hua ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84923273036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07051     Document Type: Review

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