ON THE THERMODYNAMIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS AND GLASSES. WOLF, D., WANG, J., PHILLPOT, S., & GLEITER, H. Physics Letters A, 205(4):274--280, September, 1995. WOS:A1995RV82400005
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Atomistic computer simulations are used to expose important parallels that exist in the dynamical properties of nanocrystalline materials and glasses. Both types of heavily disordered, metastable microstructures exhibit low- and high-frequency lattice-vibrational modes not seen in the perfect crystal, giving rise to similar thermodynamic properties at low temperatures, most notably a pronounced anomaly in their specific heats and a phase transition from the nanocrystalline state to the glass below a critical grain size. The possibility of a reversible, free-energy based transition between the two phases indicates that the two share a common configuration phase space below a certain critical grain size (of the order of 1.4 nm for the system studied in this paper). This result implies the existence of interesting kinetically-induced structural phenomena.
@article{ wolf_thermodynamic_1995,
  title = {{ON} {THE} {THERMODYNAMIC} {RELATIONSHIP} {BETWEEN} {NANOCRYSTALLINE} {MATERIALS} {AND} {GLASSES}},
  volume = {205},
  issn = {0375-9601},
  doi = {10.1016/0375-9601(95)00545-E},
  abstract = {Atomistic computer simulations are used to expose important parallels that exist in the dynamical properties of nanocrystalline materials and glasses. Both types of heavily disordered, metastable microstructures exhibit low- and high-frequency lattice-vibrational modes not seen in the perfect crystal, giving rise to similar thermodynamic properties at low temperatures, most notably a pronounced anomaly in their specific heats and a phase transition from the nanocrystalline state to the glass below a critical grain size. The possibility of a reversible, free-energy based transition between the two phases indicates that the two share a common configuration phase space below a certain critical grain size (of the order of 1.4 nm for the system studied in this paper). This result implies the existence of interesting kinetically-induced structural phenomena.},
  number = {4},
  journal = {Physics Letters A},
  author = {WOLF, D. and WANG, J. and PHILLPOT, SR and GLEITER, H.},
  month = {September},
  year = {1995},
  note = {{WOS}:A1995RV82400005},
  pages = {274--280}
}

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