Universal Nucleation Behavior of Sheared Systems

Using molecular simulations and a modified Classical Nucleation Theory, we study the nucleation, under flow, of variety liquids: different water models, Lennard-Jones hard sphere colloids. Our approach enables us to analyze wide range shear rates inaccessible brute-force simulations. results reveal that variation nucleation rate with is universal. A simplified version theory successfully captures non-monotonic temperature dependence behavior, which shown originate from violation Stokes-Einstein relation.