Structural fluctuations in nanoparticles
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Standard methods of thermodynamics are used to investigate fluctuation conditions for individual nanoparticles. This analysis leads to a theorem on fluctuations of nanoparticles in the vicinity of the phase transformation temperature stating that fluctuations are possible only between an equilibrium and a non-equilibrium phase. The basic conditions used to describe fluctuations are well suited to calculate the limits for fluctuations as function of temperature and particle size.
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OpenAlex topics: nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions · Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics · Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
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