Crystal nucleation for a model of globular proteins

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 120, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 8318-8326

  Shiryayev, Andrey ^a   Gunton, James D ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MODEL; CRYSTAL DROPLETS; ENERGY BARRIERS; EULER-LAGRANGE EQUATION; METASTABLE CRITICAL POINT;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FLUID MECHANICS; FREE ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SURFACE TENSION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

PROTEINS;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BIOPHYSICS; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 2442471607     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1695321     Document Type: Review

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