O. A. Alekseeva, A. A. Naberezhnov, R. Poprawsky, “Pecularities of melting and crystallization of low-melting metal nanoparticles”, SPbSPU Journal. Physics and Mathematics, 2014, Issue 2(194),Pages <nobr>30

Pecularities of melting and crystallization of low-melting metal nanoparticles

O. A. Alekseeva^a, A. A. Naberezhnov^b, R. Poprawsky^c

^a St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University
^b Ioffe Physical Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
^c Institute of Physics, Technical University of Wrocław

Abstract: The melting and crystallization processes of low-melting metals (gallium and indium) embedded into porous glasses with average pores diameters 2 and 7 nm have been studied by differential scanning calorimetry. The applicable T_{m} and T_{cr} temperatures and a thermal hysteresis between these processes were determined. The hysteresis values were found to increase with reducing the average pore diameter.