Journal
COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 82, Issue -, Pages 372-377Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2013.10.015
Keywords
Nanomaterials; Surface energy density; Surface relaxation parameter; Lagrangian configuration; Eulerian configuration
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- NSFC [11125211, 11021262, 2012CB937500]
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The surface energy density of nano-sized structural elements exhibits an obvious size-dependent feature. To study this interesting phenomenon, atomistic calculations are carried out in the present paper for different face-centered-cubic (fcc) metallic nano-slabs. Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions are adopted, respectively, in order to find the varying trends of surface energy densities in an initially un-deformed configuration and a current one. It is found that the Lagrangian surface energy density increases monotonically with an increase of the nano-slab's thickness in the former no matter what the surface orientation is; while the variation of the Eulerian one is indefinite. The surface relaxation parameters are further simulated for differently oriented surfaces, which gives a very good explanation for the differences between the Lagrangian and Eulerian surface energy densities. The results in this paper should be a useful supplement to theoretical studies on the surface/interface effect of nanomaterials. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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