Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2008-11-12
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
7 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
We present and discuss an algorithm to identify and characterize the long icosahedral structures (staggered pentagonal nanowires with 1-5-1-5 atomic structure) that appear in Molecular Dynamics simulations of metallic nanowires of different species subjected to stretching. The use of the algorithm allows the identification of pentagonal rings forming the icosahedral structure as well as the determination of its number, and the maximum length of the pentagonal nanowire. The algorithm is tested with some ideal structures to show its ability to discriminate between pentagonal rings and other ring structures. We applied the algorithm to Ni nanowires with temperatures ranging between 4K and 865K, stretched along the [100] direction. We studied statistically the formation of pentagonal nanowires obtaining the distributions of the maximum length and number of rings as function of the temperature. The pentagonal nanowire maximum length distribution presents a peaked shape, with peaks locate at fixes distances whose separa-tion corresponds to the distance between two consecutive pentagonal rings.
Garcia-Mochales Pedro
Guerrero Carlo
Paredes Ricardo
Peláez Samuel
Serena Pedro A.
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