Molecular cluster decay viewed as escape from a potential of mean force

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 4428-4440

  Ford, Ian J ^a   Harris, Sarah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPORATION; FRICTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOMERS; NUCLEATION; PROBABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

MOLECULAR CLUSTER DECAY; SUPERSATURATED VAPORS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 1842527489     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1644533     Document Type: Article

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