MEMSDUKEPRATT School of engineering


publications by Stefano Curtarolo.


Papers Published

  1. K. Bolton and F. Ding and A. Borjesson and W. M. Zhu and H. M. Duan and A. Rosen and A. R. Harutyunyan and S. Curtarolo, Computational Studies of Catalytic Particles for Carbon Nanotube Growth, Journal Of Computational And Theoretical Nanoscience, vol. 6 no. 1 (January, 2009), pp. 1 -- 15 .
    (last updated on 2009/08/04)

    Abstract:
    We review our computational studies of the melting temperatures and mechanisms of iron and iron-carbide clusters. Both isolated and supported clusters have been considered, and substrates with different shapes or pores have been simulated. It has been seen, for example, that the surface curvature-or local surface curvature-of the particle plays a dominant role in the melting mechanism and temperature. It has also been observed that the melting mechanism for small clusters is different to that of larger clusters.

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