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Transient kinetics of nucleation and crystallization: Part I. Nucleation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

G. Shi  and
J.H. Seinfeld
G. Shi
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
J.H. Seinfeld
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
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Abstract

Analytical results obtained for the transient kinetics of nucleation enable one to interpret N(gd,t), the accumulated number concentration of clusters at the instrumentally detectable size, gd. The new results enable one to extract kinetic and thermodynamic parameters of nucleation from experimentally measured cluster concentrations and to test nucleation theories experimentally. An approach to estimate the mean time to form the first nucleated cluster in a given sample is also presented.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 6 , Issue 10 , October 1991 , pp. 2091 - 2096
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1991

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