Structural and thermal stabilities of Au@Ag core-shell nanoparticles and their arrays: A molecular dynamics simulation

Jia Hai-Hong^{1, 2}, Bao De-Liang^{1, 2}, Zhang Yu-Yang^{1, 2}, Du Shi-Xuan^{1, 2, †}

Schematic diagrams of the atomic arrangement of Ag NPs, Au@Ag CSNPs and Au NPs. To clearly see the size of the Au core, only bottom half of Ag atoms for Au@Ag CSNPs are shown here.