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Determination of small copper clusters based on simulation of the process of gas phase condensation

A. E. Korenchenko^ab, A. G. Vorontsov^a, B. R. Gel'chinskiy^b, A. A. Zhukova<sup>c

a</sup> South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk
^b Institute of Metallurgy, Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg
^c I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

Abstract: A molecular dynamics study was carried out on the dependence of the radii of small metal clusters that form in the process of gas-phase copper condensation on the number of atoms in them. The radii are calculated with the molecular-kinetic theory formulas from molecular-dynamic simulating data on the number of collisions between clusters. It was found that the dependence of the radii on the number of particles has a form close to the classical $n^{1/3}$. However, the average cluster radii are about $40\%$ larger than the case in which the cluster is considered a drop of a bulk fluid.

UDC: 544.77

Received: 23.04.2018
Accepted: 10.10.2018

DOI: 10.1134/S0040364419020078

 English version: High Temperature, 2019, 57:2, 275–278

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