Crystallization: Colloidal suspense

Abstract

According to classical nucleation theory, a crystal grows from a small nucleus that already bears the symmetry of its end phase - but experiments with colloids now reveal that, from an amorphous precursor, crystallites with different structures can develop.

References in corpus (6)

• Accurate determination of crystal structures based on averaged local bond order parameters
• Visualizing kinetic pathways of homogeneous nucleation in colloidal crystallization
• Theoretical evidence for a dense fluid precursor to crystallization
• Precursor-mediated crystallization process in suspensions of hard spheres
• Amorphous nucleation precursor in highly nonequilibrium fluids
• Liquid to solid nucleation via onion structure droplets

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