Local structure of liquid carbon controls diamond nucleation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Ghiringhelli, L M ^a,c   Valeriani, C ^b   Meijer, E J ^a   Frenkel, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREE ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); SUPERSATURATION;

LIQUID CARBON CONTROLS; LOCAL COORDINATION;

DIAMONDS;

EID: 34547653524     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.055702     Document Type: Article

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