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Nanowire Melting Modes during the Solid-Liquid Phase Transition: Theory and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Kannan M. Ridings, Shaun C. Hendy
Molecular dynamics simulation have shown that after initial surface melting, nanowires can melt via two mechanisms: an interface front moves towards the wire centre; the growth of…
Surface Melting and Breakup of Metal Nanowires: Theory and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Kannan M. Ridings, Thomas S. Aldershof, Shaun C. Hendy
We consider the surface melting of metal nanowires by solving a phenomenological two-parabola Landau model and by conducting molecular dynamics simulations of nickel and aluminium…
A thermodynamic model for the melting of supported metal nanoparticles
S. C. Hendy
We construct a simple thermodynamic model to describe the melting of a supported metal nanoparticle with a spherically curved free surface both with and without surface melting. We…
Reentrant Adhesion Behavior in Nanocluster Deposition
A. Awasthi, S. C. Hendy, P. Zoontjens +1
We simulate the collision of atomic clusters with a weakly attractive surface using molecular dynamics in a regime between soft-landing and fragmentation, where the cluster undergo…
Superheating and solid-liquid phase coexistence in nanoparticles with non-melting surfaces
D. Schebarchov, S. C. Hendy
We present a phenomenological model of melting in nanoparticles with facets that are only partially wet by their liquid phase. We show that in this model, as the solid nanoparticle…
Transition from Icosahedral to Decahedral Structure in a Coexisting Solid-Liquid Nickel Cluster
D. Schebarchov, S. C. Hendy
We have used molecular dynamics simulations to construct a microcanonical caloric curve for a 1415-atom Ni icosahedron. Prior to melting the Ni cluster exhibits static solid-liquid…