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Thermodynamic Properties of Supported and Embedded Metallic Nanocrystals: Gold on/in SiO2 (Articolo in rivista)

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Ruffino, F; Grimaldi, MG; Giannazzo, F; Roccaforte, F; Raineri, V (2008)
Thermodynamic Properties of Supported and Embedded Metallic Nanocrystals: Gold on/in SiO2
in Nanoscale research letters (Print); SPRINGER, 233 SPRING ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013 (Stati Uniti d'America)
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\"[Ruffino, F.; Grimaldi, M. G.] Univ Catania, Dipartimento Fis & Astron, I-95123 Catania, Italy; [Ruffino, F.; Grimaldi, M. G.] INFM, MATIS CNR, Catania, Italy; [Giannazzo, F.; Roccaforte, F.; Raineri, V.] CNR IMM, I-95121 Catania, Italy (literal)

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Thermodynamic Properties of Supported and Embedded Metallic Nanocrystals: Gold on/in SiO2 (literal)

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We report on the calculations of the cohesive energy, melting temperature and vacancy formation energy for Au nanocrystals with different size supported on and embedded in SiO2. The calculations are performed crossing our previous data on the surface free energy of the supported and embedded nanocrystals with the theoretical surface-area-difference model developed by W. H. Qi for the description of the size-dependent thermodynamics properties of low-dimensional solid-state systems. Such calculations are employed as a function of the nanocrystals size and surface energy. For nanocrystals supported on SiO2, as results of the calculations, we obtain, for a fixed nanocrystal size, an almost constant cohesive energy, melting temperature and vacancy formation energy as a function of their surface energy; instead, for those embedded in SiO2, they decreases when the nanocrystal surface free energy increases. Furthermore, the cohesive energy, melting temperature and vacancy formation energy increase when the nanocrystal size increases: for the nanocrystals on SiO2, they tend to the values of the bulk Au; for the nanocrystals in SiO2 in correspondence to sufficiently small values of their surface energy, they are greater than the bulk values. In the case of the melting temperature, this phenomenon corresponds to the experimentally well-known superheating process. (literal)

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