Supersaturation rates and schedules: Nucleation kinetics from isothermal metastable zone widths

Journal of Crystal Growth

Volumn 317, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-83

  Peters, Baron ^a,b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

A1. Metastability limit; A1. Metastable zone; A1. Nucleation; A1. Supersaturated solutions

Indexed keywords

A1. METASTABLE ZONE; A1. NUCLEATION; A1. SUPERSATURATED SOLUTIONS; CLASSICAL NUCLEATION THEORY; CRITICAL SUPERSATURATION; DAMKOHLER NUMBER; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; EQUILIBRIUM BOUNDARIES; FUNCTION OF TIME; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; ISOTHERMAL CONDITIONS; METASTABILITY LIMIT; METASTABLE ZONE; METASTABLE ZONE WIDTH; NUCLEATION KINETICS; PREFACTORS; QUASI-STEADY; SIMPLE LINEAR REGRESSION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ENERGY BARRIERS; EXPERIMENTS; FREE ENERGY; NUCLEATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

SUPERSATURATION;

EID: 79952037050     PISSN: 00220248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2011.01.017     Document Type: Article

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