Classical nucleation theory has been used in models of dust nucleation in circumstellar outflows around oxygen-rich asymptotic giant branch stars. One objection to the application of classical nucleation theory (CNT) to astrophysical systems of this sort is that an equilibrium distribution of clusters (assumed by CNT) is unlikely to exist in such conditions due to a low collision rate of conden...

We develop a theoretical model to elucidate the nucleation of strained islands on patterned substrates. We show that island nucleation is directed to the preferred sites by a much lower energy barrier and smaller critical size. Strain relaxation directs island nucleation to the bottom of a pit rather than the top of a ridge as commonly perceived, while large surface energy anisotropy favors nuc...

The paper considers a particular family of set–valued stochastic processes modeling birth–and–growth processes. The proposed setting allows us to investigate the nucleation and the growth processes. A decomposition theorem is established to characterize the nucleation and the growth. As a consequence, different consistent set–valued estimators are studied for growth process. Moreover, the nucle...

Spatial and temporal control of crystal nucleation is demonstrated by nonphotochemical laser-induced nucleation of an aqueous agarose gel prepared with supersaturated potassium chloride. The location of nucleation was controlled by means of an optical mask; crystals were only observed in the area exposed to near-infrared laser radiation. The dependence of nucleation on laser power was measured,...

crystallization of aluminum fluoride at atmospheric pressure has been considered. structure, size and shape of crystals formed during the crystallization process have been investigated. by applying the direct analysis method for the existed aluminum in solution, the aluminum fluoride nucleation process has been detected as a concentration valley at the outset of crystallization process. the lin...

We report multi-site nucleation and growth of Ag islands on colloidal Au nanoparticles. By modifying a single factor, a range of products from Janus nanoparticles to satellite nanostructures are obtained. The identification of these key factors reveals the correlation between the concentration gradient and the choice of nucleation sites. In contrast to the inhibited homogeneous nucleation in th...

Factors affecting the ice nucleation temperature of plants and plant tissues were examined. The mass of a sample had a marked effect on ice nucleation temperature. Small tissue samples supercooled to -10 degrees C and were not accurate predictors of the nucleation temperature of intact plants in either laboratory or field experiments. This effect was not unique to plant tissues and was observed...

A phenomenological voidÐcrack nucleation model for ductile metals with second phases is described which is motivated from fracture mechanics and microscale physical observations[ The voidÐcrack nucleation model is a function of the fracture toughness of the aggregate material\ length scale parameter "taken to be the average size of the second phase particles in the examples shown in this writin...

Despite its widespread occurrence in nature and broad application in industrial practice, nucleation of crystalline materials remains largely unpredictable and therefore difficult to control. In this work, we demonstrate a new method to control nucleation with polymer microgels by tuning their microstructure to vary systematically the degree of nanoscopic confinement and its effects on nucleati...