2004/06/30 by J. Weissmüller, P. Bunzel, G. Wilde
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
published as J. Weissmüller, P.Bunzel, G. Wilde, Scripta Materialia 51 (2004) 813-818 · 6 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2004/08/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
The coexistence of two phases within a particle requires an interface with a significant capillary energy. We show that this entails changes in the nature of alloy phase equilibria at small size. Most notably, the eutectic points in alloy phase diagrams degenerate into intervals of composition where the alloy melts discontinuously.