Nucleation in aqueous NaCl solutions shifts from 1-step to 2-step mechanism on crossing the spinodal

Hao Jiang, Pablo G. Debenedetti, Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos

In this work, we use large-scale molecular dynamics simulations coupled to free energy calculations to identify for the first time a limit of stability (spinodal) and a change in t…