Structural transformations in silver nanoparticles
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- 作者：D. L. Tytik ; D. K. Belashchenko and A. N. Sirenko
- 关键词：nanotechnologies ; metal clusters ; silver clusters ; molecular dynamics method ; embedded atom model
- 刊名：Journal of Structural Chemistry
- 出版年：2008
- 出版时间：January, 2008
- 年：2008
- 卷：49
- 期：1
- 页码：109-116
- 全文大小：350.1 KB
文摘
A molecular dynamics simulation was performed for silver clusters of 147, 309, and 561 atoms with the initial cuboctahedral habit in the temperature range 0–1000 K with an embedded atom potential for silver. Structural transitions of the silver clusters to complex twins (icosahedral habit) with coherent (111)/(111) boundaries over all edges of icosahedra were found, which started at temperatures of 50 K, 350 K, and 700 K, respectively. To analyze the structural transformations in nanoparticles, an algorithm is proposed based on a simplicial Delaunay decomposition (Delaunay triangulation). It was found that after the transition of silver nanoparticles to complex twins, the atomic motion becomes vibrational; the atoms vibrate around the sites that correspond to the vertices of the regular polyhedra. In the case of the 147-atom silver nanoparticle, the polyhedra are arranged in the following sequence, starting from the center of mass: icosahedron (12 atoms), icosododecahedron (30 atoms), icosahedron (12 atoms), dodecahedron (20 atoms), truncated icosahedron (60 atoms, isostructural with fullerene C60), icosahedron (12 atoms), and one atom at the center of mass.