Influence of Size on the Melting Temperature of Metallic Nanoparticle

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1 Faculty of Physics and Energy Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran

2 Department of Physics, Tehran Central Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran

3 Department of Solid State Physics, Faculty of Physics, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran

4 Department of Physics, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Shahed University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran

Abstract

   In This paper, the effect of size on melting temperature of metallic nanoparticles (Au, Pb and Bi) is theoretically simulated and explained. In this regard, the cause of difference in various experimental data is introduced, which is the difference between nanoparticles’ grain Gaussian distribution. This volume-depended model with the help of the Gaussian distribution can describe the relation between nanoparticle melting temperature and its size. The obtained results are interestingly consistent with reported experimental data.

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International Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Volume 13, Issue 1
February 2017
Pages 91-95

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