PHYSICAL THERMODYNAMICS APPLIED TO NANO SYSTEMS. A SHORT REVIEW

Over the last decades, transition metal nanomaterials have been the subject of numerous investigations for their products due to their wide range of applications. The applicability of thermodynamics to small systems can be investigated by various research methods. In the present work, the Gibbs surface phase method, which can be applied to nanoparticles if the effective surface tension is interpreted as a function of the particle radius, and the Swift heavy-ion irradiation (SHII) method for the shape transformation of induced metal nanoparticles will be analyzed.