Effect of Metastable Liquid−Liquid Demixing on the Morphology of Nucleated Polymer Crystals
Effect of Metastable Liquid−Liquid Demixing on the Morphology of Nucleated Polymer Crystals
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DOI:
10.1021/ma049581t
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发表时间:
2004-05
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
Wenbing Hu;D. Frenkel
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作者:
Wenbing Hu;D. Frenkel
According to classical nucle-ation theory, the rate at which such nuclei form dependsexponentially on the free energy cost needed to form acritical nucleus of the new phase. This free energy costcan be influenced by the vicinity of another phasetransition through the presence of pretransitional fluc-tuations that occur near a critical point. In fact, simula-tions and theory suggest that the rate of crystalnucleation can be enhanced by the presence of densityfluctuations associated with the presence of a (meta-stable) critical point.