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Journal of Physical Studies 22(2), Article 2601 [5 pages] (2018)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30970/jps.22.2601 MELTING THERMODYNAMICS OF NANOCRYSTALSL. A. Bulavin, O. M. Alekseev, Yu. F. Zabashta, M. M. Lazarenko
Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Faculty of Physics, |
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It is shown that the classical theory of phase transitions cannot be used to describe the melting of a nanocrystal. This is due to the zero-dimensionality of the nanocrystal in terms of thermodynamics. This paper contains a new model of nanocrystal melting, which takes into account the zero-dimensionality characteristic. Based on the proposed model, we obtained the formulas that describe the size dependence of the nanocrystal melting temperature and nanocrystal melting heat.
PACS number(s): 65.80.-g, 64.70.D-