Correlation between the Melting Point of a Nanosolid and the Cohesive Energy of a Surface Atom

By Chang Q. Sun, and Yongqiang Wang, B. Tay, Sean Li, A. H. Huang, Yingxi Zhang. 2002

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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In Atmospheric Science

1. Zhuping Huang
2. D. Sundaram
3. B. Karihaloo
4. Jianxiang Wang
5. Vigor Yang
6. Chang Q. Sun
7. Huiling Duan
8. V. Zarko

In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Zhuping Huang
2. B. Karihaloo
3. Jianxiang Wang
4. Chang Q. Sun
5. Huiling Duan
6. Harold S. Park
7. Patrick A. Klein

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. Chang Q. Sun

Citations in the corpus

• Combustion of nano aluminum particles (Review) (2015, background): “There is a strong correlation between the melting temperature and the cohesive energy [17], which is the energy required to break a solid into a set of neutral free atoms.”
• Oxidation electronics: bond–band–barrier correlation and its applications (2003, background): “) nano-solids [412] to be consistently formulated, which agrees with experimental observations.”
• Size dependence of nanostructures: Impact of bond order deficiency (2007, background): “(i) Tm,i being the local melting point is proportional to the atomic cohesive energy, ziEi(0) [113], per atom with zi coordinate [114].”
• A scaling law for properties of nano-structured materials (2006, methodology): “In physics and chemistry, the effect of particle size on melting and evaporation temperatures has been discussed since 1900s, and this effect is not restricted to any particular material; rather, it is observed in a variety of materials from metals and alloys to semiconductors and semi-crystalline l”
• Thermo-mechanical behavior of low-dimensional systems: The local bond average approach (2009, background): “This surface pre-melting was in the ‘liquid skin nucleation and growth’ mode [394–396], and follow the ‘liquid drop’ [175] and the ‘surface phonon instability’ [397] and the current BOLS models [159], as well as other outstanding models [398].”