Are Nucleation Kinetics of Protein Crystals Similar to Those of Liquid Droplets?

2000 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleg Galkin ◽  
Peter G. Vekilov
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Libera

The liquid droplets produced by atomization processes are believed to undergo substantial supercooling during solidification, because the catalytic heterogeneities, for statistical reasons, tend to be isolated in the larger droplets. This supercooling can lead to the nucleation of metastable phases. As part of a study on the effect of liquid supercooling on nonequilibrium solidification, three binary Fe-Ni alloys have been produced by conventional argon atomization (Fe-20Ni, Fe-30Ni, and Fe-40Ni). The primary variables in these experiments are: i) the alloy composition; and ii) the powder particle diameter (inversely proportional to supercooling). Of particular interest in this system is the competitive nucleation kinetics between the stable fee and metastable bec phases. Bcc is expected to nucleate preferentially with decreasing %Ni and decreasing particle diameter.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meirong Zeng ◽  
Kevin Roger Wilson

A key challenge in predicting the multiphase chemistry of aerosols and droplets is connecting reaction probabilities, observed in an experiment, with the kinetics of individual elementary steps that control the...


Author(s):  
G Nicotra ◽  
S Lombardo ◽  
R Puglisi ◽  
C Spinella ◽  
G Ammendola ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 441 ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guangchao Du ◽  
Zhaohui Sun ◽  
Yong Xian ◽  
Han Jing ◽  
Haijun Chen ◽  
...  

The model considered in part I is generalized to include growth mechanisms in which the chemical reaction which proceeds at the particle-atm osphere interface is reversible, so that molecules may evaporate from a particle as well as condense upon it. The Becker-Döring-Zeldovich-Frenkel theory of homogeneous nucleation kinetics is then reviewed in the light of the known statistical problem of the birth -and -death process, and an improved approximation is introduced which significantly alters the calculated results. Both steady-state nucleation kinetics and the time lag problem are discussed.


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