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Record W3044026916 · doi:10.1080/08927022.2020.1797020

Melting of alkane nanocrystals: towards a representation of polyethylene

2020· article· en· W3044026916 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueMolecular Simulation · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicMaterial Dynamics and Properties
Canadian institutionsUniversité LavalUniversité de Sherbrooke
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaFonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les TechnologiesUniversité de Sherbrooke
KeywordsMaterials scienceNanocrystalCrystallizationThermodynamicsEnthalpy of fusionMolecular dynamicsAlkaneAmorphous solidMelting pointCrystal (programming language)EnthalpyFusionChemical physicsNanotechnologyCrystallographyChemistryComputational chemistryPhysicsHydrocarbon

Abstract

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To simulate macroscopic properties at the molecular level, interfaces must be represented the most efficiently. In the study reported in this article, we use molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to reveal the impact of the environment around nanocrystals constituted of alkane chains on the melting temperature. The Gibbs-Thomson law was used to compare different simulated systems and experimental data. Based on thermodynamics argument, this law discloses the linear relationships between the melting, or crystallisation, temperature and the inverse of the crystal thickness. The crystal edges of simulated nanocrystals and the alkane chain length have been varied. For each nanocrystal, a simulated melting temperature (Tm) was obtained and reported with respect to the crystal thickness. The simulated enthalpy of fusion (Δhm), surface (σe) and lateral (σ) free energies were thus extracted. All these properties have been compared to experimental data, and to properties stemming from nanocrystals in empty space. It is shown that nanocrystals surrounded by amorphous chains lead to values that agree better experimental data showing the great improvement in the model.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.028
Threshold uncertainty score0.251

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.284
Teacher spread0.252 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it