Two-phase equilibrium states in individual Cu–Ni nanoparticles: size, depletion and hysteresis effects

• Aram S. Shirinyan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1811–1820, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.185

• solubility curves; also intersection of nanoliquidus and nanosolidus is available. These findings lead to the necessity to reconsider such basic concepts in materials science as phase diagram and solubility diagram. Keywords: chemical depletion; nanomelting and nanosolidification loops; phase diagram of

• and line). Composition X is the molar fraction of Ni atoms. The nanomelting and nanosolidification loops in T–X phase diagram in two-phase region for an individual nanoparticle of fixed composition X0: (a) – the solid-to-liquid loop starts at point A of nanosolidus curve (blue) and ends at point B