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Science 28 May 1993:
Vol. 260. no. 5112, pp. 1304 - 1307
DOI: 10.1126/science.260.5112.1304
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Controlled Deposition, Soft Landing, and Glass Formation in Nanocluster-Surface Collisions

Hai-Ping Cheng 1 and Uzi Landman 1

1 School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332

Molecular dynamics simulations have been used to investigate the dynamics and redistribution of energy during the impact of a nanocrystal with adsorbed liquid films. Although impact of a 32-molecule NaCl cluster on a solid surface at 3 kilometers per second leads to melting, disordering, fragmentation, and rebounding, the same size cluster colliding with a liquid neon film transfers its energy efficiently to the liquid for a controlled soft landing. Impact on a higher density film (argon) leads to rapid attenuation of the cluster velocity, accompanied by fast heating. Subsequent disordering, melting, and fast cooling by evaporation of argon quench the cluster to a glassy state. These results suggest a method for the controlled growth of nanophase materials.

Submitted on December 17, 1992
Accepted on March 23, 1993


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