Conspectus Conventional thermodynamics for bulk substances encounters challenges
when one considers materials on the nanometer scale. Quantities such as entropy, enthalpy …

Nanoalloys are bi-or multi-component metallic particles in the size range between 1 and 100
nm. Nanoalloys present a wide variety of structures and properties, which make them …

Chemically ordered bimetallic nanoparticles are promising candidates for magnetic-storage
applications. However, the use of sub-10 nm nanomagnets requires further study of possible …

Multi-metallic alloy nanoparticles (NPs) can enable the advanced applications in the energy,
biology, electronics, optics and catalysis due to their multi-functionality, wide tunable range …

Bimetallic nanoparticles (often known as nanoalloys) with core-shell arrangement are of
special interest in several applications, such as in optics, catalysis, magnetism, and …

Disclinations together with dislocations represent a class of linear defects in solids.
Disclinations are characterized by typical singularities and the property of multi-value of the …

The evolution towards equilibrium of AuCo, AgNi and AgCu nanoparticles is studied by
molecular dynamics simulations. Nanoparticle sizes of about 2.5 nm are considered, in the …

The growth of colloidal nanoparticles is simultaneously driven by kinetic and thermodynamic
effects that are difficult to distinguish. We have exploited in situ scanning transmission …

Recently, pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technology makes viable the epitaxial growth of
group III-nitrides on thermally active substrates at low temperature. The precursors …

The field of nanoscience has undergone tremendous growth in the past decade as the
number of applications of nanoparticles and nanostructured materials have proliferated …