Monte Carlo simulation of Gold and Silver nanoparticles in interaction with strongly surfactant media

Artículo

Autoría

REINAUDI, LUIS ; GIMENEZ, MARIA CECILIA

Fecha

2013

Editorial y Lugar de Edición

American Scientific Publishers

Revista

JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND THEORETICAL NANOSCIENCE, vol. 10 (pp. 2507-2519) American Scientific Publishers

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The melting and subsequent freezing of Ag and Au nanoclusters consisting of 55 and 147 atoms and interacting with a surfactant medium is studied by Monte Carlo simulations using the embeddedatom method. In our model, the interaction with the surfactant medium is represented by an additional energy term (Q) associated to a surface atom. We observe a decrease in the transition temperature (melting point) with the increase of the value of Q. In some of the systems, before the melting, a solid&ndas... The melting and subsequent freezing of Ag and Au nanoclusters consisting of 55 and 147 atoms and interacting with a surfactant medium is studied by Monte Carlo simulations using the embeddedatom method. In our model, the interaction with the surfactant medium is represented by an additional energy term (Q) associated to a surface atom. We observe a decrease in the transition temperature (melting point) with the increase of the value of Q. In some of the systems, before the melting, a solid–solid structural transition takes place as the temperature increases. For large values of the parameter Q, the structures obtained from the freezing tend to have morphologies that have a larger fraction of atoms at the surface and which would be otherwise unstable.

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METAL NANOPARTICLEMONTE CARLO SIMULATIONMELTING

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http://hdl.handle.net/11336/25807