Nucleation of a stable solid from melt in the presence of multiple metastable intermediate phases: Wetting, Ostwald's step rule, and vanishing polymorphs

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 117, Issue 42, 2013, Pages 13154-13163

  Santra, Mantu ^a   Singh, Rakesh S ^a   Bagchi, Biman ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENERGY BARRIERS; FREE ENERGY; LIQUIDS; NUCLEATION; PHASE INTERFACES; SURFACE TENSION; WETTING;

CLASSICAL NUCLEATION THEORY; FREE ENERGY SURFACE; METASTABLE INTERMEDIATE; ORDER-PARAMETER PROFILE; PHASE TRANSFORMATION KINETICS; STABLE SOLID PHASIS; THERMODYNAMIC CONDITIONS; THERMODYNAMIC FREE-ENERGY;

METASTABLE PHASES;

EID: 84886657275     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4031199     Document Type: Article

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