中国物理B ›› 2009, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (5): 1843-1849.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/18/5/021

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Evolution of three-shell onion-like and core-shellstructures in (AgCo)201 bimetallic clusters

王强, 李国建, 李东刚, 吕逍, 赫冀成   

  1. Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Processing of Materials (Ministry of Education), Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China
  • 收稿日期:2008-09-15 修回日期:2008-10-13 出版日期:2009-05-20 发布日期:2009-05-20
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 50374027), the program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (Grant No NCET-06-0289), and the 111 project of China (Grant No B07015).

Evolution of three-shell onion-like and core-shell structures in (AgCo)201 bimetallic clusters

Wang Qiang(王强)† , Li Guo-Jian(李国建), Li Dong-Gang(李东刚), Lü Xiao(吕逍), and He Ji-Cheng(赫冀成)   

  1. Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Processing of Materials (Ministry of Education), Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China
  • Received:2008-09-15 Revised:2008-10-13 Online:2009-05-20 Published:2009-05-20
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 50374027), the program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (Grant No NCET-06-0289), and the 111 project of China (Grant No B07015).

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摘要： This paper studies the structural evolution of (AgCo)201 clusters with different Co concentrations under various temperature conditions by using molecular dynamics with the embedded atom method. The most stable position for Co atoms in the cluster is the subsurface layer at low temperature (lower than 200~K for the Ag200Co1 cluster). The position changes to the core layer with the increase of temperature, but there is an energy barrier in the middle layer. This makes the Ag--Co cluster form an Ag--Co--Ag three-shell onion-like configuration. When the temperature is high enough [higher than 800~K for (AgCo)201 clusters with 50% Co], Co atoms can obtain enough energy to overcome the energy barrier and the cluster forms an Ag--Co core-shell configuration. Amorphization for the onion-like and core-shell clusters is induced by the large lattice misfit at Ag--Co interfaces. The structural evolution in the Ag--Co cluster is related to the release of excess energy.

关键词: bimetallic cluster, structure, molecular dynamics

Abstract: This paper studies the structural evolution of (AgCo)201 clusters with different Co concentrations under various temperature conditions by using molecular dynamics with the embedded atom method. The most stable position for Co atoms in the cluster is the subsurface layer at low temperature (lower than 200 K for the Ag200Co1 cluster). The position changes to the core layer with the increase of temperature, but there is an energy barrier in the middle layer. This makes the Ag--Co cluster form an Ag--Co--Ag three-shell onion-like configuration. When the temperature is high enough [higher than 800 K for (AgCo)201 clusters with 50% Co], Co atoms can obtain enough energy to overcome the energy barrier and the cluster forms an Ag--Co core-shell configuration. Amorphization for the onion-like and core-shell clusters is induced by the large lattice misfit at Ag--Co interfaces. The structural evolution in the Ag--Co cluster is related to the release of excess energy.

Key words: bimetallic cluster, structure, molecular dynamics

中图分类号:  (Spectroscopy and geometrical structure of clusters)

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61.46.Bc (Structure of clusters (e.g., metcars; not fragments of crystals; free or loosely aggregated or loosely attached to a substrate))