March 19 2003


Coloring surface atoms of gold nanorod with 11076 atoms

Surface atoms of gold nanorod with 11076 atoms have been colored with 10 colors according to larger local parabolic curvatures ( -0.2 -- 0.6 ). There are totally 100 configurations saved from continuous heating of the gold nanorod from 5K to 1940K.

The onset temperature of shape transition is about 990K and that of melting transition is about 1280K.

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5K
124K
279K
506K
753K
892K
978K
1034K
1097K
1145K
1154K
1269K
1299K
1360K
1536K