A Smoluchowski model of crystallization dynamics of small colloidal clusters

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 135, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Beltran Villegas, Daniel J ^a   Sehgal, Ray M ^b   Maroudas, Dimitrios ^b   Ford, David M ^b   Bevan, Michael A ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1-D MODELS; 2-D MODEL; ANALYTICAL PREDICTIONS; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BROWNIAN DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; COLLOIDAL CLUSTERS; COLLOIDAL CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTAL CONFIGURATION; CRYSTALLINITIES; CRYSTALLIZATION DYNAMICS; DEPLETION ATTRACTION; ENERGY MINIMA; ENSEMBLE-AVERAGED; FIRST-PASSAGE TIME; FREE ENERGY LANDSCAPE; MONTE CARLO; ORDER PARAMETER; RADIUS OF GYRATION; SMOLUCHOWSKI EQUATION; SOLID PHASIS; TRANSITION REGIONS; UMBRELLA SAMPLING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FORECASTING; FREE ENERGY; INFERENCE ENGINES; TRAJECTORIES;

DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 80155157426     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3652967     Document Type: Article

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