Predictive nucleation of crystals in small volumes and its consequences

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Grossier, Romain ^a   Hammadi, Zoubida ^a   Morin, Roger ^a   Veesler, Stéphane ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE VOLUME; METASTABLE SOLUTIONS; NUCLEATION EXPERIMENTS; NUCLEATION PROCESS; SHARP TIP;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 79961074076     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.025504     Document Type: Article

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