A model is developed to account for the size-dependent melting temperature of pure metallic and bimetallic nanowires, where the effects of the contributions of all surface atoms to the surface area, lattice and surface packing factors and the cross-sectional shape of the nanowires are considered. As the size decreases, the melting temperature functions of pure metallic and bimetallic nanowires decrease almost with the same size-dependent trend. Due to the inclusion of the above effects, the present model can also be applied to investigate the melting temperature depression rate of different low-dimensional system, accurately. The validity of the model is verified by the data of experiments and molecular dynamics simulations.
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