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; phasediagramof
isolatednanoparticle; surface-induced size effect; thermodynamic approach; Introduction
One of the key questions in nanoscience is related to the problem of equilibrium phase diagrams variation for multicomponent finite systems with size decreasing. One of the most extensively studied size effects (first
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Surface-induced size effect on the shift of equilibrium states and solubility limits when the metas...