Homogeneous nucleation and microstructure evolution in million-atom molecular dynamics simulation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Shibuta, Yasushi ^a   Oguchi, Kanae ^a   Takaki, Tomohiro ^b   Ohno, Munekazu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84940473467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep13534     Document Type: Article

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