Thermodynamics of the Nano-Sized Particles

When a pure solid phase is selected as the reference state of Gibbs energy, the total Gibbs energies in liquid and solid phases, (Phase=Liq or Sol), of an A-B 

The Gibbs energy of the bulk of A-B binary alloy in liquid and solid phases, (jBuik, Liq aG - in Equation (1), which corresponds to (P=Liq 

On the surface tension of pure liquid metals at their melting points crj p, we use the following approximation  

In addition, the temperature coefficient of the surface tension of pure liquid has been reported to be about 0.0001 Nm Thus, we assumed the following equation for (Ta 

As shown in Equation (6), we need the value of the surface tension CTx of pure solid X, but the precise information on the value of cr nd its temperature dependence are insufficient.From the data reported in some references, the value of of pure solid at the melting point is found to be 25% larger than the surface tension of pure liquid on the average. Equation (10) is, therefore, assumed to express the sur- 

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