- Title
- Shrinking kinetics by vacancy diffusion of hollow binary alloy nanospheres driven by the Gibbs-Thomson effect
- Creator
- Evteev, A. V.; Levchenko, E. V.; Belova, I. V.; Murch, G. E.
- Relation
- Philosophical Magazine Vol. 88, Issue 10, p. 1525-1541
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14786430802213413
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- The general treatment of the Gibbs–Thomson effect for a hollow nanosphere is presented. It allows for a vacancy composition profile across the nanoshell to be defined by a continuously decreasing function as well as by a continuous function with a minimum. The range for the controlling parameter of the vacancy motion within a binary alloy nanoshell is determined in terms of the phenomenological coefficients as well as the (measurable) tracer diffusion coefficients (D*A,D*B) of the atomic components. On the basis of a theoretical description and kinetic Monte Carlo simulations, it is demonstrated that for a hollow random binary alloy nanosphere with an equi-atomic (initially homogeneous) composition and neglecting the radial dependence of vacancy formation free energy, the controlling parameter of the shrinking rate in the limiting case D*A ≫ D*B can be estimated with reasonable accuracy as the geometric mean of the tracer diffusion coefficients of the atomic components.
- Subject
- diffusion; stability; vacancies; Monte Carlo; binary alloy; hollow nanospheres
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/41490
- Identifier
- uon:4829
- Identifier
- ISSN:1478-6435
- Language
- eng
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