Properties of rotating nanoalloys formed by cluster collision:A computer simulation study

S.A. PAZ; E.P.M. LEIVA; J. JELLINEK; M. M. MARISCAL

AMER INST PHYSICS

Lugar: Melville; Año: 2011 vol. 134 p. 94701 - 94701

esults of dynamical simulations of collision-induced formation and properties of bimetallicnanoparticles are presented and analyzed. The analysis includes the effects of the collision energyand the impact parameter. For nonzero impact parameters, the formed (in many cases Janus-type)nanoparticles are rotating. The energy of the rotating nanoparticles is decomposed into the rotationaland vibrational components, and the structural effects of these components are analyzed.Comparison is made with the case of the corresponding homoatomic systems, formed by collisionof nanoparticles with the same elemental composition