Abstract
Bin Shan et al. [Phys. Rev. B 80, 035404 (2009)] developed an embedded-atom-model potential for studying structural properties of Pd/Au alloy nanoparticles by means of Monte Carlo simulations. The parameters reported for the Pd-Au pairwise interaction appear to be erroneous as the Pd-Au interaction potential, Fig. 5(c) of that publication, cannot be reproduced with those parameters. In this Comment, we use the same procedure and reference systems for parametrization to provide a corrected set of parameters and we demonstrate, for selected results, that the previously published calculated properties of Pd/Au nanoparticles appear to be correct.
- Received 17 October 2013
- Revised 14 April 2014
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.89.157401
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