Kinetics Modeling of Nanoparticle Growth on and Evaporation off Nanotubes
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2017-01-04 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
A kinetic Monte Carlo approach is developed for studying growth and evaporation of nanoparticles on/off nanotubes. This study has been motivated by recent experimental advances in using nanoparticle evaporation (sublimation) off nanoparticle-decorated nanotubes for nanoscale "thermometry." We demonstrate that the considered kinetic Monte Carlo approach can reproduce features of the process that are not included in phenomenological thermodynamic modeling, as well as provide snapshots of the growth and evaporation process morphology.
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@article{arxiv.1612.08300,
title = {Kinetics Modeling of Nanoparticle Growth on and Evaporation off Nanotubes},
author = {Vladimir Privman and Vyacheslav Gorshkov and Yuval E. Yaish},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.08300},
year = {2017}
}
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