Heterogeneous nucleation in droplet-based nucleation measurements

Crystal Growth and Design

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2107-2110

  Ildefonso, Manuel ^a   Candoni, Nadine ^a   Veesler, Stéphane ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL NATURE; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; NUCLEATION EXPERIMENTS; NUCLEATION RATE; PREEXPONENTIAL FACTOR; SET-UPS; THERMODYNAMIC FACTORS; WATER OIL INTERFACE;

DROPS;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 84877064506     PISSN: 15287483     EISSN: 15287505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cg4001686     Document Type: Article

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