Solid-liquid interfacial free energy of small colloidal hard-sphere crystals

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 119, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 7467-7470

  Cacciuto, A ^a   Auer, S ^a,b   Frenkel, D ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ESTIMATION; EXTRAPOLATION; FREE ENERGY; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; PHASE INTERFACES; SUPERSATURATION;

COLLOIDAL HARD SPHERE CRYSTALS; DEGREE OF SUPERSATURATION; EQUIMOLAR INTERFACE; INTERFACIAL FREE ENERGY DENSITY;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

EID: 0142242174     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1607307     Document Type: Article

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10. In this case, we do not determine the surface tension of the equimolar surface, but the one associated with the surface of tension.
11. Provided that the aspects ratio of the clusters does not depend on N.
12. 2/3, but obtained qualitatively the same results.