Homogeneous Bulk, Surface, and Edge Nucleation in Crystalline Nanodroplets
Abstract
The birth of a crystal is initiated by a nucleus from which the crystal grows--a dust grain in a snowflake is a familiar example. These nuclei can be heterogeneous defects, like the dust grain, or homogeneous nuclei which are intrinsic to the material. Here we study homogeneous nucleation in nanoscale polymer droplets on a substrate which itself can be crystalline or amorphous. We observe a large difference in the nucleating ability of the substrate. Furthermore, the scaling dependence of nucleation on the size of the droplets proves that the birth of the crystalline state can be directed to originate predominantly within the bulk, at the substrate surface, or at the droplets' edge, depending on how we tune the substrate.
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Low n values with first-order kinetics, other than in PEO/SiO2 and HDPE/CNT, were also observed in polymer droplets, AAO templates, and spherical microdomains of block copolymers.
“such low n values with a first-order kinetics, other than in PEO/SiO 2 and HDPE/CNT, were also observed in systems such as polymer droplets [315] , AAO templates [277] , and spherical microdomains of block copolymers [128] .”
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- Authors
- Carvalho, J. L., & Dalnoki-Veress, K.
- Affiliations
- Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research (CA)
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2010-12-01
- Volume
- 105
- Issue
- 23
- Pages
- 237801-237801
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2055311815
- Cited by
- 83
- References
- 4
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- FWCI
- 3.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Polymers and Plastics › Polymer crystallization and properties
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Crystallization and Solubility Studies
- Keywords
- homogeneous nucleation, polymer droplets, crystallization, substrate effects, surface nucleation, bulk nucleation, crystalline substrates, amorphous substrates
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