Insight into the nucleation of urea crystals from the melt

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 121, Issue , 2015, Pages 51-59

  Giberti, Federico ^a,b   Salvalaglio, Matteo ^a,b   Mazzotti, Marco ^a   Parrinello, Michele ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Enhanced sampling; Free energy; Molecular dynamics; Nucleation; Urea; Well tempered metadynamics

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FREE ENERGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; UREA;

CLASSICAL MECHANISM; COLLECTIVE VARIABLES; CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; ENHANCED SAMPLINGS; FREE ENERGY SURFACE; METADYNAMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; SOLID-LIQUID PHASE TRANSITIONS;

NUCLEATION;

EID: 84921871282     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2014.08.032     Document Type: Article

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