Substrate effect on the melting temperature of gold nanoparticles |
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Authors: | Wenhua Luo Kalin Su Kemin Li Gaohua Liao Nengwen Hu Ming Jia |
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Affiliation: | College of Physics and Electronics, Hunan Institute of Science and Technology, Yueyang 414000, People's Republic of China. wenhualuo@163.com |
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Abstract: | Previous experimental, molecular dynamics, and thermodynamic researches on the melting temperature of Au nanoparticles on tungsten substrate provide entirely different results. To account for the substrate effect upon the melting point of nanoparticles, three different substrates were tested by using a thermodynamic model: tungsten, amorphous carbon, and graphite. The results reveal that the melting point suppression of a substrate-supported Au nanoparticle is principally ruled by the free surface-to-volume ratio of the particle or the contact angle between the particle and the substrate. When the contact angle θ is less than 90°, a stronger size-dependent melting point depression compared with those for free nanoparticles is predicted; when the contact angle θ is greater than 90°, the melting temperature of the supported Au nanoparticles are somewhat higher than those for free nanoparticles. |
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