Convergence of dissolving and melting at the nanoscale

Faraday Discuss., 2023, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3FD00095H, Paper
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C. Chen, X. Wang, K. Binder, U. Pöschl, H. Su, Y. Cheng
The structure of dissolved NaCl ions in an aqueous nanodroplet resembles the structure of a molten NaCl nanoparticle. With decreasing size, the similarity grows and the potential energy of NaCl in solution, the molten phase and the crystal phase converges.
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