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NATURE MATERIALS
卷 8, 期 9, 页码 726-730出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NMAT2508
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- DOE/BES [DE-FG02-06ER46262]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-06ER46262] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Surfaces have long been known to have an intricate role in solid-liquid phase transformations. Whereas melting is often observed to originate at surfaces, freezing usually starts in the bulk, and only a few systems have been reported to exhibit signatures of surface-induced crystallization(1). These include assembly of chain-like molecules(2), some liquid metals and alloys(3-5) and silicate glasses(6,7). Here, we report direct computational evidence of surface-induced nucleation in supercooled liquid silicon and germanium, and we illustrate the crucial role of free surfaces in the freezing process of tetrahedral liquids exhibiting a negative slope of their melting lines (dT/dP vertical bar(coexist) < 0). Our molecular dynamics simulations show that the presence of free surfaces may enhance the nucleation rates by several orders of magnitude with respect to those found in the bulk. Our findings provide insight, at the atomistic level, into the nucleation mechanism of widely used semiconductors, and support the hypothesis of surface-induced crystallization in other tetrahedrally coordinated systems, in particular water in the atmosphere.
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