THE FEATURES OF BEHAVIOR OF THERMODYNAMIC AND STRUCTURAL CHARCTERISTICS OF COBALT NANOPARTICLES WITH «MAGIC» NUMBER OF ATOMS

Abstract

Investigations of thermodynamic and structural characteristics of cobalt nanoclusters in the process of phase transition melting/crystallization with the goal to identify characteristics of their behavior typical for the clusters with the «magic» number of atoms. The melting point of nanoclusters was determined using the temperature dependence of the specific internal energy of nanoclusters.

Keywords

• cobalt nanoclusters
• phase transition
• melting temperature
• «magic» numbers