Crystal nucleation in binary hard-sphere mixtures: The effect of order parameter on the cluster composition

Molecular Physics

Volumn 109, Issue 7-10, 2011, Pages 1213-1227

  Niy, Ran ^a   Smallenburgy, Frank ^a   Filion, Laura ^a   Dijkstra, Marjolein ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Binary mixtures; Colloids; Computer simulation; Hard spheres; Nucleation

Indexed keywords

BINARY HARD SPHERES; CLASSICAL NUCLEATION THEORY; CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; CRITICAL CLUSTER; CRYSTAL NUCLEATION; CRYSTAL PHASE; DIAMETER RATIO; FLUID-PHASE; FREE-ENERGY LANDSCAPE; GEOMETRICAL PROPERTY; HARD SPHERES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; ORDER PARAMETER; SADDLE POINT; SOLID-PHASE; TOY MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FREE ENERGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEATION; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PARAMETERIZATION; SOLID SOLUTIONS; SOLIDIFICATION; SPHERES;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 79957789745     PISSN: 00268976     EISSN: 13623028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2011.554333     Document Type: Article

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