Theoretical evidence for a dense fluid precursor to crystallization

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Lutsko, James F ^a   Nicolis, Grégoire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROTEINS;

ATOMIC FLUID; DENSE FLUID PRECURSOR; LENNARD-JONES INTERACTION;

FREE ENERGY;

EID: 33144468055     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.046102     Document Type: Article

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