Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2002-01-08
J. Physics: Condensed Matter 14, 3693-3703 (2002)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
11 pages including 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-8984/14/14/302
Phase transformations such as freezing typically start with heterogeneous nucleation. Heterogeneous nucleation near a wetting transition, of a crystalline phase is studied. The wetting transition occurs at or near a vapour-liquid transition which occurs in a metastable fluid. The fluid is metastable with respect to crystallisation, and it is the crystallisation of this fluid phase that we are interested in. At a wetting transition a thick layer of a liquid phase forms at a surface in contact with the vapour phase. The crystalline nucleus is then immersed in this liquid layer, which reduces the free energy barrier to nucleation and so dramatically increases the nucleation rate. The variation in the rate of heterogeneous nucleation close to wetting transitions is calculated for systems in which the longest-range forces are dispersion forces.
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