Chameleon Metals: Autonomous Nano‐Texturing and Composition Inversion on Liquid Metals Surfaces

Freezing of simple liquid metals

Freezing of simple liquid metals and the relative stabilities of competing crystalline solids are investigated using thermodynamic perturbation theory, the interactions between ions being modeled by e€ective pair potentials derived from pseudopotential theory. The ionic free energy of the solid phase is calculated, to ®rst order in the perturbation potential, using classical density-functional ...

Methods to pattern liquid metals

Distribution Functions of Liquid Metals

The x-ray scattering from liquid copper, silver, tin, and mercury was measured at temperatures of 1125 °C, 1050 °C, 335 °C, and 28 °C, respectively, from the open surface of horizontal samples using a focusing theta-theta diffractometer, quartz crystal monochromator positioned in the dif­ fracted beam, scintillation detector, and pulse height discriminator. The effect on the measured intensitie...

Photoelectron Spectra of Liquid Metals

TR-PES: Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy aims to measure the electron distribution in a molecule as it is going through a transient process, such as dissociation. One ultra fast pulse excites the system under study, and a second ultra fast pulse probes the system at varying time delays by ionizing the molecule and collecting the electrons produced. Ejected photoelectrons reflect the ini...

Topological Nonsymmorphic Metals from Band Inversion

Lukas Muechler, A. Alexandradinata, Titus Neupert, and Roberto Car Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA a...