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Reply to “Comment on ‘A simplified model to calculate the higher surface energy of free‐standing nanocrystals’” [phys. stat. sol. (b) 242 , No. 15, R129–R130 (2005)]
Author(s) -
Xie Dan,
Wang Mingpu,
Cao Lingfei
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.200541340
Subject(s) - nanocrystal , surface (topology) , surface energy , energy (signal processing) , enthalpy , thermodynamics , chemistry , physics , materials science , quantum mechanics , atomic physics , condensed matter physics , mathematics , geometry
Some potential problems in our recent letter [D. Xie et al., phys. stat. sol. (b) 242 , R76 (2005)], which have been pointed out by a comment [W. H. Qi, phys. stat. sol. (b) 242 , R129 (2005)] are discussed in detail. Furthermore, the formation enthalpies of nanocrystals are calculated by using the equation of surface energies established in the mentioned letter, and the fact that the predicted formation enthalpy values are consonant with the corresponding experimental results of Mo and W nanocrystals verifies the appearance of the higher surface energy of nanocrystals in return. (© 2005 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)