On the paradoxical relation between the melting temperature and forbidden energy gap of nanoparticles.
We comment on the paradox that seems to exist about a correlation between the size-dependent melting temperature and the forbidden energy gap of nanoparticles. By analyzing the reported expressions for the melting temperature and the band gap of nanoparticles, we conclude that there exists a relation between these two physical quantities. However, the variations of these two quantities with size for semiconductors are different from that of metals.
Nanda
K K
KK
Materials Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India. nanda@mrc.iisc.ernet.in
D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry*; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D012666:Semiconductors; D013816:Thermodynamics; D044366:Transition Temperature
D008670:Metals