Freezing in the bulk controlled by prefreezing at a surface

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Page, A J ^a   Sear, R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BULK CRYSTALS; BULK PHASIS; BULK TRANSITION; CRYSTAL PHASE; CRYSTAL PHASIS; FLAT SURFACES; LENNARD-JONES MODEL; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PRE-FREEZING; SURFACE CRYSTALS; SURFACE PHASE; SURFACE PHASE TRANSITIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 70349941417     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031605     Document Type: Article

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