Crystallization of liquid Cu nanodroplets on single crystal Cu substrates prefers closest-packed planes regardless of the substrate orientations
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Han, Weizhong
Huang, Li
An, Qi
Chen, Hou-Tong
Luo, Sheng-Nian
Issue Date
2012
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Crystallization , Metals , Closest-packed plane , Computer simulation , Growth models , Nanodroplet
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We report molecular dynamics simulations of thermal spray coating of Cu nanodroplets on Cu substrates with different orientations, and show that the droplets crystallize by adding the closest-packed {111} planes regardless of the substrate orientations. Such preferential growth along the closest-packed planes may be common in a broad range of crystallization and melting processes.
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Elsevier
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0022-0248