Effect of hydrostatic pressure on self-diffusion in metal nanoparticles

The thermodynamics approach has been developed to describe the self-diffusion in nano-sized solids. It has been established that identical homologous temperatures of metal nanoparticles with their fixed characteristic size give the identical coefficients of diffusion under different pressures. The dependence of the activation enthalpy of diffusion on pressure and on the characteristic size of nanoparticles is first obtained.