Melting in Clusters
- 12 September 1997
- journal article
- perspective
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 277 (5332) , 1619
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.277.5332.1619
Abstract
Recent experiments have shown that small particles with diameters in the nanometer range can melt at temperatures much lower than those for bulk matter. In his Perspective, Bertsch reviews the experimental and theoretical efforts to understand this phenomenon.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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