Quantitative prediction of crystal-nucleation rates for spherical colloids: A computational approach

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 55, Issue , 2004, Pages 333-361

  Auer, Stefan ^a   Frenkel, Daan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Classical nucleation theory; Crystallization rates; Kinetic prefactor; Monte carlo; Nucleation barrier; Umbrella sampling

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISPERSIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CLASSICAL NUCLEATION THEORY; CRYSTALLIZATION RATES; KINETIC PREFACTORS; NUCLEATION BARRIERS; UMBRELLA SAMPLING;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 1842516321     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physchem.55.091602.094402     Document Type: Review

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