Visualizing kinetic pathways of homogeneous nucleation in colloidal crystallization

Nature Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 73-79

  Tan, Peng ^a   Xu, Ning ^b   Xu, Lei ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; KINETICS; NUCLEATION;

COLLOIDAL CRYSTALLIZATION; DENSITY VARIATIONS; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; INTERACTION POTENTIALS; INTERMEDIATE STRUCTURES; METASTABLE SOLIDS; SOLID PHASE TRANSITION;

SOLS;

EID: 84904344517     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2817     Document Type: Article

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