Implementation of an alternative method to determine the critical cooling rate: Application in silver and copper nanoparticles

An alternative method to determine the critical cooling rate of materials has been developed by explaining the size and cooling rate dependences of physical properties of metallic nanoparticles through the scaling theory. This method has been applied to silver and copper nanoparticles which have bee...

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Autores: Medrano L.R., Landauro C.V., Rojas-Tapia J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Perú
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación
Repositorio:CONCYTEC-Institucional
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.concytec.gob.pe:20.500.12390/651
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12390/651
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2014.08.044
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Silver
Cooling
Metal nanoparticles
Molecular dynamics
Cooling rates
Copper nanoparticles
Critical cooling rate
Metallic nanoparticles
Molecular dynamics simulations
Physical quantities
Scaling theories
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Sumario:An alternative method to determine the critical cooling rate of materials has been developed by explaining the size and cooling rate dependences of physical properties of metallic nanoparticles through the scaling theory. This method has been applied to silver and copper nanoparticles which have been obtained by molecular dynamics simulations. The results reveal that our values for critical rate are close for each studied physical quantity. Thus, by taking the average among them, we obtain 6.2(8) × 1012 K/s for silver and 8.9(5) × 1012 K/s for copper. We have also found the threshold size of nanoparticle behavior is independent of the cooling rate.