Discontinuous bubble nucleation due to a metastable condensation transition in polymer-CO2 mixtures

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1639-1643

  Xu, Xiaofei ^a   Cristancho, Diego E ^b   Costeux, Stéphane ^b   Wang, Zhen Gang ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

discontinuous nucleation; metastable phase transition; minimum free energy path; string method

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; CONDENSATION TRANSITION; CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; METASTABLE PHASE; MINIMUM FREE ENERGIES; NUCLEATION BARRIER; NUCLEATION MECHANISM; STRING METHODS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FREE ENERGY; LIQUIDS; METASTABLE PHASES; NUCLEATION; POLYMERS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84878069079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz4005575     Document Type: Article

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