Homogeneous crystal nucleation near a metastable fluid-fluid phase transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Xu, Limei ^a   Buldyrev, Sergey V ^b   Stanley, H Eugene ^c   Franzese, Giancarlo ^d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL POINTS; CRYSTAL NUCLEATION; CRYSTALLIZATION MECHANISMS; CRYSTALLIZATION RATES; FLUID-FLUID PHASE SEPARATION; FLUID-FLUID PHASE TRANSITION; HOMOGENEOUS CRYSTALS; ISOTROPIC MODELS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; OSTWALD'S RULE OF STAGES; PROTEIN CRYSTALLIZATION; SPINODALS; SUBCRITICAL REGIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHASE SEPARATION;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 84865586620     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.095702     Document Type: Article

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