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cond-mat.soft2007
A Limit of Stability in Supercooled Liquid Clusters
Eduardo Mendez-Villuendas Ivan Saika-Voivod Richard K. Bowles
We examine the metastable liquid phase of a supercooled gold nanocluster by studying the free energy landscape using the largest solid-like embryo as an order parameter. Just below…
cond-mat.soft2007
Surface Nucleation in the Freezing of Gold Nanoparticles
Eduardo Mendez-Villuendas Richard K. Bowles
We use molecular simulation to calculate the nucleation free energy barrier for the freezing of a 456 atom gold cluster over a range of temperatures. The results show that the embr…