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Behind the quantum and size effects: broken-bond-induced local strain and skin-depth densified quantum trapping of charge and energy

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Shrinking the size of a solid down to nanometer scale is indeed fascinating, which makes all the otherwise constant physical quantities to be tunable such as the Young's modulus, dielectric constant, melting point, etc. The variation of size also generates novel properties that can hardly be seen in the bulk such as the conductor-insulator and nonmagnetic-magnetic transition of noble metals at the nanoscale. Although the physics of materials at the nanoscale has been extensively investigated, the laws governing the energetic and dynamic behavior of electrons at such a scale and their consequences on the tunable physical properties of nanostructures have not been well understood [C. Q. Sun, Prog Solid State Chem 35, 1-159 (2007); Prog Mater Sci 54, 179-307 (2009)]. The objective of the contribution is to update the recent progress in dealing with the coordination-resolved energetic and dynamic behavior of bonds in the low-dimensional systems with consideration of the joint effect of temperature and pressure. It is shown that the broken-bond-induced local strain and the associated charge and energy quantum trapping at the defect sites perturbs the atomic cohesive energy, electroaffinity, the Hamiltonian and the associated properties of entities ranging from point defects, surfaces, nanocavities and nanostructures. Application of the theories to observations has led to consistent understanding of the behavior of nanometer-sized materials and the interdependence of these entities as well as the means of determining the bond energy through the temperature-dependent measurements.

nanostructuresurfacechemical bondhamiltonianatomic cohesive energysize effectmechanical strengthphase transitionphotoluminecscencephtoabsorptionlattice dynamicsBOLS theory

Likun PAN、Mingxia GU、Gang OUYANG、Chang Q SUN

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Engineering Research Center for Nanophotonics & Advanced Instrument, Ministry of Education, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062 China

Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, 1 Fusionopolis Way, Singapore 138632, Singapore

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore Key Laborastory of Low-dimensional Materials and Application Technolgies, Institute of Quantum Enginering and Moicro-Nano Energy technology, and Faculity of Science, Xiangtan University, Changsha 411105, China

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2010

10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.444.17

Key engineering materials

Key engineering materials

ISSN：1013-9826
年,卷(期)：2010.444
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