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Nucleation and the Solid–Liquid Interfacial Free Energy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

David T. Wu ,
László Gránásy  and
Frans Spaepen
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Abstract

This article reviews the current understanding of the fundamentals of nucleation theory and its use to extract values for the solid–liquid interfacial free energy from experimental and simulation data.

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clustersdensity functional theoryfield theoretic modelsinterfacesinterfacial free energymolecular dynamicsnucleation kinetics.
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MRS Bulletin , Volume 29 , Issue 12: Solid–Liquid Interfaces: Molecular Structure, Thermodynamics, and Crystallization , December 2004 , pp. 945 - 950
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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