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Amorphization mechanism of icosahedral metal nanoclusters (Articolo in rivista)
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- Amorphization mechanism of icosahedral metal nanoclusters (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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- 2004-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.065502 (literal)
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- Aprà E.; Baletto F.; Ferrando R.; A. Fortunelli (literal)
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- William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
ICTP, Strada Costiera 11, 34014, Trieste, Italy
INFM and IMEM-CNR, Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Genova, via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genova, Italy
Molecular Modeling Laboratory, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici (IPCF) del CNR, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy IPCF-CNR, Molecular Modeling Lab, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy (literal)
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- Amorphization mechanism of icosahedral metal nanoclusters (literal)
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- The amorphization mechanism of icosahedral Pt nanoclusters is investigated by a combination of molecular dynamics simulations and density functional calculations. A general mechanism for amorphization, involving rosettelike structural transformations at fivefold vertices, is proposed. In the rosette, a fivefold vertex is transformed into a hexagonal ring. We show that, for icosahedral Pt nanoclusters, this transformation is associated with an energy gain, so that their most favorable structures have a low symmetry even at icosahedral magic numbers, and that the same mechanism underlies the formation of amorphous structures in gold. (literal)
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