Ostwald ripening of clusters during protein crystallization

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 17, 2010, Pages

  Streets, Aaron M ^a   Quake, Stephen R ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL NUCLEATION THEORY; CRYSTAL PHASE; DENSE AMORPHOUS PHASE; MOLECULAR ARRANGEMENTS; POPULATION BALANCE MODELS; PROTEIN CRYSTAL; PROTEIN CRYSTALLIZATION; SOLID-PHASE; TWO-STEP PROCESS;

NUCLEATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OSTWALD RIPENING; PROTEINS;

GROWTH KINETICS;

EID: 77951545940     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.178102     Document Type: Article

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