The nature of the melting transition for a system of hard disks with translational degrees of freedom in two spatial dimensions has been analyzed by a novel finite size scaling technique. The behavior of the system is consistent with the predictions of the KTHNY theory. Hard and soft disks in...

Structural and thermodynamics properties of boron–phosphorus (BP) are investigated using molecular dynamics simulation based on a modified form of Tersoff potential as reported in a recent paper of Conrad and Scheerschmidt (Phys. Rev. B 58 (1998) 4538). In such potential model, the angular...

High-quality nano-sized Ce0.8Dy0.2O2−δ powders were synthesized by the solution combustion method, using C4H7NO4 (aspartic acid) as the combustion fuel. The nano-sized Ce0.8Dy0.2O2−δ powders provided an ultra-fine grain size and high density even at low sintering temperatures...