# Laboratoire Collisions Agrégats Réactivité - UMR5589

Université Paul Sabatier - Bat. 3R1b4 - 118 route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse Cedex 09, France

## Two-step melting of $Na_\left\{41\right\}^+$

The heat capacity of the mass selected cluster has been measured using a differential nanocalorimetry method. A two-peak structure appears in the heat capacity curve of , whereas Schmidt and co-workers [ M. Schmidt, J. Donges, Th. Hippler, and H. Haberland, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 103401 (2003) ] observed, within their experimental accuracy, a smooth caloric curve. They concluded from the absence of any structure that there is a second order melting transition in with no particular feature such as premelting. The observed difference with the latter results is attributed to the better accuracy of our method owing to its differential character. The two structures in the heat capacity are ascribed to melting and premelting of . The peak at lower temperature is likely due to an anti-Mackay to Mackay solid-solid transition.

doi:10.1063/1.3493375

Voir en ligne : J. Chem. Phys. 133, 154501 (2010)