Abstract:Surface effect and crystal structure lead to formulating a theoretical model to study the influences of size on thermodynamic parameters, such as melting temperature, Debye temperature, melting entropy and specific heat capacity, of nanoparticles. The cohesive energy as a thermodynamic quantity was used to relate the ratio of surface area to volume of nanomaterial with thermodynamic properties which depend on size of the nanomaterial. In this contribution, Si and Au nanoparticles were considered to study due t… Show more
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