Surface Melting of an n-Alkane Crystallite
Abstract
Melting and recrystallization processes of surface chains of an n-alkane crystallite in the vacuum are simulated by molecular dynamics method at 230K far below the melting point. Co-operative inclination of chain axes in a surface layer is found to cause a loss of a degree of parallel contact with the neighbors followed by migrations of a chain from the corner.
- Publication:
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Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement
- Pub Date:
- 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1143/PTPS.138.414
- Bibcode:
- 2000PThPS.138..414T