Melting behavior of ultrathin titanium nanowires
Materials Science
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
The thermal stability and melting behavior of ultrathin titanium nanowires with multi-shell cylindrical structures are studied using molecular dynamic simulation. The melting temperatures of titanium nanowires show remarkable dependence on wire sizes and structures. For the nanowire thinner than 1.2 nm, there is no clear characteristic of first-order phase transition during the melting, implying a coexistence of solid and liquid phases due to finite size effect. An interesting structural transformation from helical multi-shell cylindrical to bulk-like rectangular is observed in the melting process of a thicker hexagonal nanowire with 1.7 nm diameter.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0202522,
title = {Melting behavior of ultrathin titanium nanowires},
author = {Baolin Wang and Guanghou Wang and Jijun Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0202522},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures