title: On the paradoxical relation between the melting temperature and forbidden energy gap of nanoparticles.
abstract: 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.
authors: Materials Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India. nanda@mrc.iisc.ernet.in
authors: K K
authors: KK
authors: Nanda
mesh_terms: D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry*; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D012666:Semiconductors; D013816:Thermodynamics; D044366:Transition Temperature
chemical_list: D008670:Metals