Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 58, Issue 8, Pages 3059-3067Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2010.01.040
Keywords
Nickel Nanocrystalline materials; Melting point; Surface; Grain boundaries
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50531060, 10772157]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars [10525211]
- Ministry of Education of China [076044]
- Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Hunan [2008GK2001]
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The effects of wire diameter and grain size on the melting point of Ni nanowires with and without oxide capping were systematically examined It was found that, for uncapped Ni nanowires, the melting point drops monotonically with grain size and also with the nanowire diameter, for oxide-capped Ni nanowires, the melting point rises when the nanowire diameter is decreased Findins indicate that (i) the reduced cohesive energy of under-coordinated atoms at the surface skin or grain boundaries and the fraction of such under-coordinated atoms dominate the undercooling of pure Ni nanowires, (n) bond nature alteration by oxidation strengthens the surface bonds and hence results in the observed ovei heating. (iii) the bonds in the core interior retain their bulk nature, making contribution to neither the observed undercoolin2 nor (Wel heating All these findings are very consistent with the bond order length strength theoretical predictions (C) 2010 Acta Materialia Inc Published by Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved
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