Line Tension Controls Wall-Induced Crystal Nucleation in Hard-Sphere Colloids

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Auer, S ^a   Frenkel, D ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; FREE ENERGY; NUCLEATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

CRITICAL CRYSTAL NUCLEUS; HARD SPHERE COLLOIDS;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 0043210644     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.015703     Document Type: Article

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