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Research paper thumbnail of Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Sintering and Surface Premelting of Silver Nanoparticles

MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS, 2013

ABSTRACT Sintering of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) is increasingly being used as a driving mechanism fo... more ABSTRACT Sintering of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) is increasingly being used as a driving mechanism for joining in the microelectronics industry. We therefore performed molecular dynamics simulations based on the embedded atom method (EAM) to study pressureless sintering kinetics of two Ag NPs in the size range of (4 to 20 nm), and sintering of three and four Ag NPs of 4 nm diameter. We found that the sintering process passed through three main stages. The first was the neck formation followed by a rapid increase of the neck radius at 50 K for 20 nm particles and at 10 K for smaller NPs. The second was characterized by a gradual linear increase of the neck radius to particle radius ratio as the temperature of the sintered structure was increased to the surface premelting point. Different than previous sintering studies, a twin boundary was formed during the second stage that relaxed the sintered structure and decreased the average potential energy (PE). The third stage of sintering was a rapid shrinkage during surface premelting of the sintered structure. Based on pore geometry, densification occurred during the first stage for three 4 nm particles and during the second stage for four 4 nm particles. Sintering rates obtained by our simulation were higher than those obtained by theoretical models generally used for predicting sintering rates of microparticles.

Research paper thumbnail of Determination of Complete Melting and Surface Premelting Points of Silver Nanoparticles by Molecular Dynamics Simulation

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2013

ABSTRACT A molecular dynamics simulation based on the embedded-atom method was conducted at diffe... more ABSTRACT A molecular dynamics simulation based on the embedded-atom method was conducted at different sizes of single-crystal Ag nanoparticles (NPs) with diameters of 4 to 20 nm to find complete melting and surface premelting points. Unlike the previous theoretical models, our model can predict both complete melting and surface premelting points for a wider size range of NPs. Programmed heating at an equal rate was applied to all sizes of NPs. Melting kinetics showed three different trends that are, respectively, associated with NPs in the size ranges of 4 to 7 nm, 8 to 10 nm, and 12 to 20 nm. NPs in the first range melted at a single temperature without passing through a surface premelting stage. Melting of the second range started by forming a quasi-liquid layer that expanded to the core, followed by the formation of a liquid layer of 1.8 nm thickness that also subsequently expanded to the core with increasing temperature and completed the melting process. For particles in the third range, the 1.8 nm liquid layer was formed once the thickness of the quasi-liquid layer reached 5 nm. The liquid layer expanded to the core and formed thicker stable liquid layers as the temperature increased toward the complete melting point. The ratio of the quasi-liquid layer thickness to the NP radius showed a linear relationship with temperature.

Research paper thumbnail of Molecular-dynamics simulation of the structural stability, energetics, and melting of <span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi><msub><mi>u</mi><mi>n</mi></msub><mtext> </mtext><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>13</mn><mo>−</mo><mn>135</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">Cu_{n}\ (n=13-135)</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.1514em;"><span style="top:-2.55em;margin-left:0em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight">n</span></span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s">​</span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.15em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mspace"> </span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal">n</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.7278em;vertical-align:-0.0833em;"></span><span class="mord">13</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">−</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord">135</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span></span> clusters

Zeitschrift f�r Physik D Atoms, Molecules and Clusters, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of Hydrogen hosting of nanoscale boron cluster

Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology

Research paper thumbnail of The Unusually Stable B100 Fullerene, Structural Transitions in Boron Nanostructures, and a Comparative Study of a-and γ-Boron and Sheets

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Research paper thumbnail of O(N) algorithms in tight-binding molecular-dynamics simulations of the electronic structure of carbon nanotubes

Physical review. B, Condensed matter

The O(N) and parallelization techniques have been successfully applied in tight-binding molecular... more The O(N) and parallelization techniques have been successfully applied in tight-binding molecular-dynamics simulations of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) of various chiralities. The accuracy of the O(N) description is found to be enhanced by the use of basis functions of neighboring atoms (buffer). The importance of buffer size in evaluating the simulation time, total energy, and force values together with electronic temperature has been shown. Finally, through the local density of state results, the metallic and semiconducting behavior of (10x10) armchair and (17x0) zigzag SWNT s, respectively, has been demonstrated. Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures

Research paper thumbnail of Synthesis, Molecular Structure and DFT Study of 2-( N -Benzoylbenzamido)pyridine-3-yl benzoate

Journal of Chemical Crystallography

Abstract The biologically important 2-amino-3-hydroxypyridine reacts with benzoyl chloride to giv... more Abstract The biologically important 2-amino-3-hydroxypyridine reacts with benzoyl chloride to give 2-(N-benzoylbenzamido)pyridine-3-yl benzoate. This synthesized compound has been studied by elemental analysis, X-ray crystallography and also theoretically by density functional theory (DFT) framework with B3LYP/6-311++G(d, p) level of theory. The molecules of this compound crystallize in the orthorhombic space group of P212121 and the crystal packing involves both hydrogen-bonding and C–H⋯π interaction. The vibrational normal modes of the molecular structure are investigated by ab initio method for both infrared intensities (IR) and for Raman activities. Furthermore, the corresponding assignments are discussed. Hydrogen and carbon atoms of the benzene rings are found to be highly active. Also, experimentally obtained IR spectrum is presented and compared with the available theoretical data. Experimentally and theoretically obtained IR spectrum are in good agreement. Graphical Abstrac...

Research paper thumbnail of Parallel Data Reduction Techniques for Big Datasets

ABSTRACT Data reduction is perhaps the most critical component in retrieving information from big... more ABSTRACT Data reduction is perhaps the most critical component in retrieving information from big data (i.e., petascale-sized data) in many data-mining processes. The central issue of these data reduction techniques is to save time and bandwidth in enabling the user to deal with larger datasets even in minimal resource environments, such as in desktop or small cluster systems. In this chapter, the authors examine the motivations behind why these reduction techniques are important in the analysis of big datasets. Then they present several basic reduction techniques in detail, stressing the advantages and disadvantages of each. The authors also consider signal processing techniques for mining big data by the use of discrete wavelet transformation and server-side data reduction techniques. Lastly, they include a general discussion on parallel algorithms for data reduction, with special emphasis given to parallel wavelet-based multi-resolution data reduction techniques on distributed memory systems using MPI and shared memory architectures on GPUs along with a demonstration of the improvement of performance and scalability for one case study.

Research paper thumbnail of Structural stability and energetics of single-walled carbon nanotubes under uniaxial strain

Research paper thumbnail of Parallelization of a molecular dynamics simulation of an ion-surface collision system: Ar-Ni(100)

International Journal of Modern Physics C, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of An investigation of hydrogen bonded neutral B4Hn (n = 1-11) and anionic B4 H11 (- 1) clusters: Density functional study

Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of About nanometer sized analogues of basic electronic and optical components

ICTON-MW 2008 - International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks "Mediterranean Winter" 2008 - Conference Proceedings, 2008

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Density Functional Study of Physical and Chemical Properties of Nano Size Boron Clusters: B-n (n=13-20)

Research paper thumbnail of The Unusually Stable B-100 Fullerene, Structural Transitions in Boron Nanostructures, and a Comparative Study of alpha- and gamma-Boron and Sheets

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Fragmentation and Coulomb explosion of multicharged small boron clusters

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Molecular dynamics simulation of sintering and surface premelting of silver nanoparticles

Materials Transactions, 2013

ABSTRACT Sintering of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) is increasingly being used as a driving mechanism fo... more ABSTRACT Sintering of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) is increasingly being used as a driving mechanism for joining in the microelectronics industry. We therefore performed molecular dynamics simulations based on the embedded atom method (EAM) to study pressureless sintering kinetics of two Ag NPs in the size range of (4 to 20 nm), and sintering of three and four Ag NPs of 4 nm diameter. We found that the sintering process passed through three main stages. The first was the neck formation followed by a rapid increase of the neck radius at 50 K for 20 nm particles and at 10 K for smaller NPs. The second was characterized by a gradual linear increase of the neck radius to particle radius ratio as the temperature of the sintered structure was increased to the surface premelting point. Different than previous sintering studies, a twin boundary was formed during the second stage that relaxed the sintered structure and decreased the average potential energy (PE). The third stage of sintering was a rapid shrinkage during surface premelting of the sintered structure. Based on pore geometry, densification occurred during the first stage for three 4 nm particles and during the second stage for four 4 nm particles. Sintering rates obtained by our simulation were higher than those obtained by theoretical models generally used for predicting sintering rates of microparticles.

Research paper thumbnail of Determination of complete melting and surface premelting points of silver nanoparticles by molecular dynamics simulation

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2013

ABSTRACT A molecular dynamics simulation based on the embedded-atom method was conducted at diffe... more ABSTRACT A molecular dynamics simulation based on the embedded-atom method was conducted at different sizes of single-crystal Ag nanoparticles (NPs) with diameters of 4 to 20 nm to find complete melting and surface premelting points. Unlike the previous theoretical models, our model can predict both complete melting and surface premelting points for a wider size range of NPs. Programmed heating at an equal rate was applied to all sizes of NPs. Melting kinetics showed three different trends that are, respectively, associated with NPs in the size ranges of 4 to 7 nm, 8 to 10 nm, and 12 to 20 nm. NPs in the first range melted at a single temperature without passing through a surface premelting stage. Melting of the second range started by forming a quasi-liquid layer that expanded to the core, followed by the formation of a liquid layer of 1.8 nm thickness that also subsequently expanded to the core with increasing temperature and completed the melting process. For particles in the third range, the 1.8 nm liquid layer was formed once the thickness of the quasi-liquid layer reached 5 nm. The liquid layer expanded to the core and formed thicker stable liquid layers as the temperature increased toward the complete melting point. The ratio of the quasi-liquid layer thickness to the NP radius showed a linear relationship with temperature.

Research paper thumbnail of Determination of Complete Melting and Surface Premelting Points of Silver Nanoparticles by Molecular Dynamics Simulation

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2013

ABSTRACT A molecular dynamics simulation based on the embedded-atom method was conducted at diffe... more ABSTRACT A molecular dynamics simulation based on the embedded-atom method was conducted at different sizes of single-crystal Ag nanoparticles (NPs) with diameters of 4 to 20 nm to find complete melting and surface premelting points. Unlike the previous theoretical models, our model can predict both complete melting and surface premelting points for a wider size range of NPs. Programmed heating at an equal rate was applied to all sizes of NPs. Melting kinetics showed three different trends that are, respectively, associated with NPs in the size ranges of 4 to 7 nm, 8 to 10 nm, and 12 to 20 nm. NPs in the first range melted at a single temperature without passing through a surface premelting stage. Melting of the second range started by forming a quasi-liquid layer that expanded to the core, followed by the formation of a liquid layer of 1.8 nm thickness that also subsequently expanded to the core with increasing temperature and completed the melting process. For particles in the third range, the 1.8 nm liquid layer was formed once the thickness of the quasi-liquid layer reached 5 nm. The liquid layer expanded to the core and formed thicker stable liquid layers as the temperature increased toward the complete melting point. The ratio of the quasi-liquid layer thickness to the NP radius showed a linear relationship with temperature.

Research paper thumbnail of Parallel wavelet-based clustering algorithm on GPUs using CUDA

Procedia Computer Science, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Stability of edge states and edge magnetism in graphene nanoribbons

Research paper thumbnail of Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Sintering and Surface Premelting of Silver Nanoparticles

MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS, 2013

ABSTRACT Sintering of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) is increasingly being used as a driving mechanism fo... more ABSTRACT Sintering of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) is increasingly being used as a driving mechanism for joining in the microelectronics industry. We therefore performed molecular dynamics simulations based on the embedded atom method (EAM) to study pressureless sintering kinetics of two Ag NPs in the size range of (4 to 20 nm), and sintering of three and four Ag NPs of 4 nm diameter. We found that the sintering process passed through three main stages. The first was the neck formation followed by a rapid increase of the neck radius at 50 K for 20 nm particles and at 10 K for smaller NPs. The second was characterized by a gradual linear increase of the neck radius to particle radius ratio as the temperature of the sintered structure was increased to the surface premelting point. Different than previous sintering studies, a twin boundary was formed during the second stage that relaxed the sintered structure and decreased the average potential energy (PE). The third stage of sintering was a rapid shrinkage during surface premelting of the sintered structure. Based on pore geometry, densification occurred during the first stage for three 4 nm particles and during the second stage for four 4 nm particles. Sintering rates obtained by our simulation were higher than those obtained by theoretical models generally used for predicting sintering rates of microparticles.

Research paper thumbnail of Determination of Complete Melting and Surface Premelting Points of Silver Nanoparticles by Molecular Dynamics Simulation

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2013

ABSTRACT A molecular dynamics simulation based on the embedded-atom method was conducted at diffe... more ABSTRACT A molecular dynamics simulation based on the embedded-atom method was conducted at different sizes of single-crystal Ag nanoparticles (NPs) with diameters of 4 to 20 nm to find complete melting and surface premelting points. Unlike the previous theoretical models, our model can predict both complete melting and surface premelting points for a wider size range of NPs. Programmed heating at an equal rate was applied to all sizes of NPs. Melting kinetics showed three different trends that are, respectively, associated with NPs in the size ranges of 4 to 7 nm, 8 to 10 nm, and 12 to 20 nm. NPs in the first range melted at a single temperature without passing through a surface premelting stage. Melting of the second range started by forming a quasi-liquid layer that expanded to the core, followed by the formation of a liquid layer of 1.8 nm thickness that also subsequently expanded to the core with increasing temperature and completed the melting process. For particles in the third range, the 1.8 nm liquid layer was formed once the thickness of the quasi-liquid layer reached 5 nm. The liquid layer expanded to the core and formed thicker stable liquid layers as the temperature increased toward the complete melting point. The ratio of the quasi-liquid layer thickness to the NP radius showed a linear relationship with temperature.

Research paper thumbnail of Molecular-dynamics simulation of the structural stability, energetics, and melting of <span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi><msub><mi>u</mi><mi>n</mi></msub><mtext> </mtext><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>13</mn><mo>−</mo><mn>135</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">Cu_{n}\ (n=13-135)</annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.07153em;">C</span><span class="mord"><span class="mord mathnormal">u</span><span class="msupsub"><span class="vlist-t vlist-t2"><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.1514em;"><span style="top:-2.55em;margin-left:0em;margin-right:0.05em;"><span class="pstrut" style="height:2.7em;"></span><span class="sizing reset-size6 size3 mtight"><span class="mord mtight"><span class="mord mathnormal mtight">n</span></span></span></span></span><span class="vlist-s">​</span></span><span class="vlist-r"><span class="vlist" style="height:0.15em;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="mspace"> </span><span class="mopen">(</span><span class="mord mathnormal">n</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span><span class="mrel">=</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2778em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.7278em;vertical-align:-0.0833em;"></span><span class="mord">13</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span><span class="mbin">−</span><span class="mspace" style="margin-right:0.2222em;"></span></span><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:1em;vertical-align:-0.25em;"></span><span class="mord">135</span><span class="mclose">)</span></span></span></span> clusters

Zeitschrift f�r Physik D Atoms, Molecules and Clusters, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of Hydrogen hosting of nanoscale boron cluster

Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology

Research paper thumbnail of The Unusually Stable B100 Fullerene, Structural Transitions in Boron Nanostructures, and a Comparative Study of a-and γ-Boron and Sheets

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Research paper thumbnail of O(N) algorithms in tight-binding molecular-dynamics simulations of the electronic structure of carbon nanotubes

Physical review. B, Condensed matter

The O(N) and parallelization techniques have been successfully applied in tight-binding molecular... more The O(N) and parallelization techniques have been successfully applied in tight-binding molecular-dynamics simulations of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) of various chiralities. The accuracy of the O(N) description is found to be enhanced by the use of basis functions of neighboring atoms (buffer). The importance of buffer size in evaluating the simulation time, total energy, and force values together with electronic temperature has been shown. Finally, through the local density of state results, the metallic and semiconducting behavior of (10x10) armchair and (17x0) zigzag SWNT s, respectively, has been demonstrated. Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures

Research paper thumbnail of Synthesis, Molecular Structure and DFT Study of 2-( N -Benzoylbenzamido)pyridine-3-yl benzoate

Journal of Chemical Crystallography

Abstract The biologically important 2-amino-3-hydroxypyridine reacts with benzoyl chloride to giv... more Abstract The biologically important 2-amino-3-hydroxypyridine reacts with benzoyl chloride to give 2-(N-benzoylbenzamido)pyridine-3-yl benzoate. This synthesized compound has been studied by elemental analysis, X-ray crystallography and also theoretically by density functional theory (DFT) framework with B3LYP/6-311++G(d, p) level of theory. The molecules of this compound crystallize in the orthorhombic space group of P212121 and the crystal packing involves both hydrogen-bonding and C–H⋯π interaction. The vibrational normal modes of the molecular structure are investigated by ab initio method for both infrared intensities (IR) and for Raman activities. Furthermore, the corresponding assignments are discussed. Hydrogen and carbon atoms of the benzene rings are found to be highly active. Also, experimentally obtained IR spectrum is presented and compared with the available theoretical data. Experimentally and theoretically obtained IR spectrum are in good agreement. Graphical Abstrac...

Research paper thumbnail of Parallel Data Reduction Techniques for Big Datasets

ABSTRACT Data reduction is perhaps the most critical component in retrieving information from big... more ABSTRACT Data reduction is perhaps the most critical component in retrieving information from big data (i.e., petascale-sized data) in many data-mining processes. The central issue of these data reduction techniques is to save time and bandwidth in enabling the user to deal with larger datasets even in minimal resource environments, such as in desktop or small cluster systems. In this chapter, the authors examine the motivations behind why these reduction techniques are important in the analysis of big datasets. Then they present several basic reduction techniques in detail, stressing the advantages and disadvantages of each. The authors also consider signal processing techniques for mining big data by the use of discrete wavelet transformation and server-side data reduction techniques. Lastly, they include a general discussion on parallel algorithms for data reduction, with special emphasis given to parallel wavelet-based multi-resolution data reduction techniques on distributed memory systems using MPI and shared memory architectures on GPUs along with a demonstration of the improvement of performance and scalability for one case study.

Research paper thumbnail of Structural stability and energetics of single-walled carbon nanotubes under uniaxial strain

Research paper thumbnail of Parallelization of a molecular dynamics simulation of an ion-surface collision system: Ar-Ni(100)

International Journal of Modern Physics C, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of An investigation of hydrogen bonded neutral B4Hn (n = 1-11) and anionic B4 H11 (- 1) clusters: Density functional study

Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of About nanometer sized analogues of basic electronic and optical components

ICTON-MW 2008 - International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks "Mediterranean Winter" 2008 - Conference Proceedings, 2008

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Density Functional Study of Physical and Chemical Properties of Nano Size Boron Clusters: B-n (n=13-20)

Research paper thumbnail of The Unusually Stable B-100 Fullerene, Structural Transitions in Boron Nanostructures, and a Comparative Study of alpha- and gamma-Boron and Sheets

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Fragmentation and Coulomb explosion of multicharged small boron clusters

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Molecular dynamics simulation of sintering and surface premelting of silver nanoparticles

Materials Transactions, 2013

ABSTRACT Sintering of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) is increasingly being used as a driving mechanism fo... more ABSTRACT Sintering of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) is increasingly being used as a driving mechanism for joining in the microelectronics industry. We therefore performed molecular dynamics simulations based on the embedded atom method (EAM) to study pressureless sintering kinetics of two Ag NPs in the size range of (4 to 20 nm), and sintering of three and four Ag NPs of 4 nm diameter. We found that the sintering process passed through three main stages. The first was the neck formation followed by a rapid increase of the neck radius at 50 K for 20 nm particles and at 10 K for smaller NPs. The second was characterized by a gradual linear increase of the neck radius to particle radius ratio as the temperature of the sintered structure was increased to the surface premelting point. Different than previous sintering studies, a twin boundary was formed during the second stage that relaxed the sintered structure and decreased the average potential energy (PE). The third stage of sintering was a rapid shrinkage during surface premelting of the sintered structure. Based on pore geometry, densification occurred during the first stage for three 4 nm particles and during the second stage for four 4 nm particles. Sintering rates obtained by our simulation were higher than those obtained by theoretical models generally used for predicting sintering rates of microparticles.

Research paper thumbnail of Determination of complete melting and surface premelting points of silver nanoparticles by molecular dynamics simulation

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2013

ABSTRACT A molecular dynamics simulation based on the embedded-atom method was conducted at diffe... more ABSTRACT A molecular dynamics simulation based on the embedded-atom method was conducted at different sizes of single-crystal Ag nanoparticles (NPs) with diameters of 4 to 20 nm to find complete melting and surface premelting points. Unlike the previous theoretical models, our model can predict both complete melting and surface premelting points for a wider size range of NPs. Programmed heating at an equal rate was applied to all sizes of NPs. Melting kinetics showed three different trends that are, respectively, associated with NPs in the size ranges of 4 to 7 nm, 8 to 10 nm, and 12 to 20 nm. NPs in the first range melted at a single temperature without passing through a surface premelting stage. Melting of the second range started by forming a quasi-liquid layer that expanded to the core, followed by the formation of a liquid layer of 1.8 nm thickness that also subsequently expanded to the core with increasing temperature and completed the melting process. For particles in the third range, the 1.8 nm liquid layer was formed once the thickness of the quasi-liquid layer reached 5 nm. The liquid layer expanded to the core and formed thicker stable liquid layers as the temperature increased toward the complete melting point. The ratio of the quasi-liquid layer thickness to the NP radius showed a linear relationship with temperature.

Research paper thumbnail of Determination of Complete Melting and Surface Premelting Points of Silver Nanoparticles by Molecular Dynamics Simulation

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2013

ABSTRACT A molecular dynamics simulation based on the embedded-atom method was conducted at diffe... more ABSTRACT A molecular dynamics simulation based on the embedded-atom method was conducted at different sizes of single-crystal Ag nanoparticles (NPs) with diameters of 4 to 20 nm to find complete melting and surface premelting points. Unlike the previous theoretical models, our model can predict both complete melting and surface premelting points for a wider size range of NPs. Programmed heating at an equal rate was applied to all sizes of NPs. Melting kinetics showed three different trends that are, respectively, associated with NPs in the size ranges of 4 to 7 nm, 8 to 10 nm, and 12 to 20 nm. NPs in the first range melted at a single temperature without passing through a surface premelting stage. Melting of the second range started by forming a quasi-liquid layer that expanded to the core, followed by the formation of a liquid layer of 1.8 nm thickness that also subsequently expanded to the core with increasing temperature and completed the melting process. For particles in the third range, the 1.8 nm liquid layer was formed once the thickness of the quasi-liquid layer reached 5 nm. The liquid layer expanded to the core and formed thicker stable liquid layers as the temperature increased toward the complete melting point. The ratio of the quasi-liquid layer thickness to the NP radius showed a linear relationship with temperature.

Research paper thumbnail of Parallel wavelet-based clustering algorithm on GPUs using CUDA

Procedia Computer Science, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Stability of edge states and edge magnetism in graphene nanoribbons